Roosje Urbach
New member
Hi, I am in the proces of making a "twisted" Jazzmaster. The body is made out of a piece of dark brown tropical hardwood (I don't know what it is), But it has previously been in use an armrest for a staircase in an old hospital.
I made a 24 fret neck using a stewmac neckblank and compound radius rosewood fretboard. It has a bighead.
I haven't routed the pickup holes yet, as I want to use modified pickups a la jaguar. I have two second hand SSL-1 pickups in my shop and I wondered if I could make a Jaguar style keeper for them. The pups will later be fitted inside a soapbarlike wooden cover I still have to make.
I was wondering, would bending a piece of "grain oriented silicon steel" (thickness 0,3 mm) in an L-shape to fit under and around the pickup as a keeper make for a fuller sound? I will of course fill the cover afterwards with a parrafin/beeswax mixture to suppress microphonics.
The samples of grain oriented silicon steel I have have amazing magnetic conductivity. Will bending it in a sharp 90 degree angle change the magnetic properties? Is the material too thin? Will this change the resonance peak of the pickup? Should I ground It (I think so) What about barkhausen noise in this, or any pickup related material??
Is there a better material?? Is this whole plan just nuts???
I like to experiment a little with this guitar, but any shared experience and ideas would be more than welcome!
Roosje Urbach (=overtime guitartech/luthier who has just finished (phew..) a releveling of a fretboard/refret job on a cheap import guitar I sold but warped so it's for free as a guarantee...just to give you some idea of what I also do for a living)
I made a 24 fret neck using a stewmac neckblank and compound radius rosewood fretboard. It has a bighead.
I haven't routed the pickup holes yet, as I want to use modified pickups a la jaguar. I have two second hand SSL-1 pickups in my shop and I wondered if I could make a Jaguar style keeper for them. The pups will later be fitted inside a soapbarlike wooden cover I still have to make.
I was wondering, would bending a piece of "grain oriented silicon steel" (thickness 0,3 mm) in an L-shape to fit under and around the pickup as a keeper make for a fuller sound? I will of course fill the cover afterwards with a parrafin/beeswax mixture to suppress microphonics.
The samples of grain oriented silicon steel I have have amazing magnetic conductivity. Will bending it in a sharp 90 degree angle change the magnetic properties? Is the material too thin? Will this change the resonance peak of the pickup? Should I ground It (I think so) What about barkhausen noise in this, or any pickup related material??
Is there a better material?? Is this whole plan just nuts???
I like to experiment a little with this guitar, but any shared experience and ideas would be more than welcome!
Roosje Urbach (=overtime guitartech/luthier who has just finished (phew..) a releveling of a fretboard/refret job on a cheap import guitar I sold but warped so it's for free as a guarantee...just to give you some idea of what I also do for a living)