Zhangliqun
Questionologist
Anyone ever played around with this idea? I had a Strat 20 years ago that was a true Test Bed X-Guitar if ever there was one. Did all kinds of crazy things with it:
1) Had a luthier make me a 27" scale neck for it for an even brighter tone. (This was long before the baritone guitar concept, so I kept it tuned standard.)
2) Hacked into it in the most mercilessly ham-handed fashion with a chisel to make room for various pickup experiments, not the least of which was...
3) Found the super long scale was a little too bright as was so I decided to experiment with a triple coil pu in the bridge spot to see what sort of tone I would get with 3 coils balanced by the longer scale.
I had a DiMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge position and after hacking a big hole in the thing to make room for the 3rd coil, I put an Invader right smack next to it (no space between them) and wired it up so I could have the DiMarzio by itself or the DiMarzio in series with the closest Invader coil with the flip of a switch. I also replaced the massive Invader polepieces with DiMarzio-style hex screws.
I used the outer Invader coil as a conventional middle pickup, but it was a little too hot, so I opened it up and unwound a lot of coil off of it. I don't know to this day how much of the coil I took off but I bet it was about 2k ohm worth. It then sounded great for classic Strat cluck.
This insanity actually had pretty good results. It sounded really good -- the long scale in combo with the triple coil sounded wonderful.
I did other awful things to the guitar that DIDN'T work out so well, but I'm a little too embarrassed to reveal them.
Any weird experiments you guys tried that got interesting results?
1) Had a luthier make me a 27" scale neck for it for an even brighter tone. (This was long before the baritone guitar concept, so I kept it tuned standard.)
2) Hacked into it in the most mercilessly ham-handed fashion with a chisel to make room for various pickup experiments, not the least of which was...
3) Found the super long scale was a little too bright as was so I decided to experiment with a triple coil pu in the bridge spot to see what sort of tone I would get with 3 coils balanced by the longer scale.
I had a DiMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge position and after hacking a big hole in the thing to make room for the 3rd coil, I put an Invader right smack next to it (no space between them) and wired it up so I could have the DiMarzio by itself or the DiMarzio in series with the closest Invader coil with the flip of a switch. I also replaced the massive Invader polepieces with DiMarzio-style hex screws.
I used the outer Invader coil as a conventional middle pickup, but it was a little too hot, so I opened it up and unwound a lot of coil off of it. I don't know to this day how much of the coil I took off but I bet it was about 2k ohm worth. It then sounded great for classic Strat cluck.
This insanity actually had pretty good results. It sounded really good -- the long scale in combo with the triple coil sounded wonderful.
I did other awful things to the guitar that DIDN'T work out so well, but I'm a little too embarrassed to reveal them.
Any weird experiments you guys tried that got interesting results?
