FuseG4
Our Neighbor Totoro
My yamaha strat-o-copy from the "sideline'd guitars" thread... I decided tonight I'd get some stuff for it!
Taking cues from a few fender instruments here.
For the "blacktop" look, I'm going with Muddy Waters knobs on solid shaft pots, and I think eventually a chrome humbucker cover. We'll see how open coils look first. The black pickguard should go well with the whole thing I think.
For a Hwy 1 HSS strat kind of theme, I'm going with hotter pickups. The neck and middle on that guitar are "hot A3" and the bridge is a 16.6K A5 "atomic" humbucker.
my take on that is that the neck pickup will be a black SSL-6 , bridge will be a JB. no middle pickup this time, just a hole in the pickguard for now.
The wiring scheme will be that of a Hwy 1 Telecaster. 3 way switch (neck, neck/bridge, bridge), 250K master volume, and a 250K master tone. I picked up .1 µfd and .022 µfd disk caps and a 4.64 kΩ resistor for making the "greasebucket" tone control which rolls off highs without adding bass.
I'm thinking the 250K pots and the warm basswood body/rosewood board should keep the JB from going too crazy in this guitar. I can always try A2 (or 8!) and try and save it if I find A5 to do the upper-mid spike thing I've read about. Never tried a JB before, but I've always wanted to, and this seemed like the right project.
I got the idea of going in a highway 1 kinda direction when I remembered I spent all that time putting a thin, matte nitro finish on this axe. I figured, what the heck, hot pickups can be cool sometimes!
I'll post another pic after I throw this junk in there, and you guys can tell me if I need anything else. Here's how she looks now, before the new stuff.
thanks for looking!
lol I just realized my switch tip is white and I don't think I ordered a black one. Well, thankfully i've got a black tele-style one laying around.
Taking cues from a few fender instruments here.
For the "blacktop" look, I'm going with Muddy Waters knobs on solid shaft pots, and I think eventually a chrome humbucker cover. We'll see how open coils look first. The black pickguard should go well with the whole thing I think.
For a Hwy 1 HSS strat kind of theme, I'm going with hotter pickups. The neck and middle on that guitar are "hot A3" and the bridge is a 16.6K A5 "atomic" humbucker.
my take on that is that the neck pickup will be a black SSL-6 , bridge will be a JB. no middle pickup this time, just a hole in the pickguard for now.
The wiring scheme will be that of a Hwy 1 Telecaster. 3 way switch (neck, neck/bridge, bridge), 250K master volume, and a 250K master tone. I picked up .1 µfd and .022 µfd disk caps and a 4.64 kΩ resistor for making the "greasebucket" tone control which rolls off highs without adding bass.
I'm thinking the 250K pots and the warm basswood body/rosewood board should keep the JB from going too crazy in this guitar. I can always try A2 (or 8!) and try and save it if I find A5 to do the upper-mid spike thing I've read about. Never tried a JB before, but I've always wanted to, and this seemed like the right project.
I got the idea of going in a highway 1 kinda direction when I remembered I spent all that time putting a thin, matte nitro finish on this axe. I figured, what the heck, hot pickups can be cool sometimes!
I'll post another pic after I throw this junk in there, and you guys can tell me if I need anything else. Here's how she looks now, before the new stuff.
thanks for looking!
lol I just realized my switch tip is white and I don't think I ordered a black one. Well, thankfully i've got a black tele-style one laying around.
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