bluesky636
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Anybody know the carbon content (1010, 1018, or 1022) of the Skinnerburst polepiece screws?
nope. the custom shop might tell you, or they might wanna keep that secret
OK, I'm a hard-headed, somewhat intolerant, OCD old man, but one of my pet peeves is lazy people who come onto the forum to ask questions that they could very easily look up themselves. In fact it would be just as easy, much more convenient, and 100 times quicker to get the answer from a google search.
But anyway, here's your answer...
1010 = approximately 10% (8-12%),
1018 = (coincidently) ~18% (15-20%),
1022 = (strangely enough) ~ 22%
The higher the carbon content of the polepieces the brighter the tone of the pup.
right, i think he was asking what they use on the skinnerburst pups from the custom shop and i dont know that answer
Duncan is pretty purist about doing things like the originals. Throbak has determined most of the P.A.F.s they've evaluated were 1006-1018, with 1010 being the median. I have the Skinnerburst set, but there's no information about the materials with it. I would posit a guess that Duncan is using 1010, or maybe 1018 at the extreme.
If it were me, I'd just go with 1010 then. My Skinnerburst sound a bit dark.
ill take those 1008's if ya dont want em![]()
Could be the ticket to tame a snappy/harsh PAF type.
Oh great, now we are going to have threads where people go to argue the merits of 1018 versus 1010 on their Epiphone Trad Pro instead of practicing.
Only if you start it. Besides, why do you care? No one forced you to read this thread. As far as I'm concerned I got the information I needed. The moderator can lock this thread or delete it. I don't really care. It's people like you and GuitarDoc that send threads down the toilet.
Well, I hope nobody deletes the thread. I don't use these particular pickups but this kind of info is why I started to come to the forum.
I am wondering (without trying to send anything down the toilet), is the tonal difference between lower and higher carbon alloys similar to the difference between longer and shorter pole screws?