Skinnerburst Polepiece Screw Carbon Content

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
 
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.

I'm a hard-headed, somewhat intolerant, OCD old man too (almost 70 years old), and one of my pet peeves is stupid people who can't read and understand the question that is being asked.

I am well aware of the meaning of 1010, 1018, and 1022 as far as the carbon content of a polescrew means. My question is what is used in the Skinnerburst pickups. Is that easy enough for your to understand or do I need to simplify it for you? Maybe next time you decide to respond with a rude, smarta$$ answer, you think twice and try to understand what is actually being asked instead of what you think is being asked.
 
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.
 
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.

I emailed the Custom Shop and just got a response. They claim the Skinnerburst pole screws are 1008. The lowest I have found is 1010 from Philadelphia Luthiers and a British pickup company. ThroBak won't sell their pole screws. The Custom Shop said they don't either. Mine are pretty tarnished so I asked if I could get replacements if I provided the serial number or whatever is on the box.

I replaced the SD covers with unaged ThroBak covers as I didn't like the SD aging. I tried cleaning the SD pole screws without much success, hence my desire for new ones. I have 1018s in the pickups now and find them too harsh.
 
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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.
 
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?
 
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.

See this is what happens when I forget to include a smiley face emoji in my posts
 
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?

It actually does make a substantial difference that is quite highly overlooked. I only have 2nd hand experience with it though. A friend of mine put higher carbon content screws under his low strings to wake them up in the neck position after cutting them shorter didn't do what he wanted, and he swears by it now.

I wouldn't be surprised if the reason a Full Shred sounds so different from a Custom 5 is less the length of the polepieces and more the composition of them.
 
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