User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

[Mr 9finger]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

how does this work? you get enough people interested and they do a custom run of our choosing at a discount?

how many people/orders does it take?

what's the pricebreak?

I don't think the number of people needed to order has been set....yet. Price break will depend on what all goes into the pickup. In the past they've been right around $100+/-. Which is a good bit off a regular priced custom shop piece.

 

[Mr 9finger]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

Were we able to vote on more than one part of the pole? If so, this needs to go to a revote because I don't think everyone realized you could vote on the pickup and the position in this poll. Either that or do a separate poll for the position.

Also, just throwing this out there, has anyone talked to Evan to see if the CS was willing to do a matched set? If that option is there, there's no sense in voting on a position.

 

[pinto79]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

Were we able to vote on more than one part of the pole? If so, this needs to go to a revote because I don't think everyone realized you could vote on the pickup and the position in this poll. Either that or do a separate poll for the position.

Also, just throwing this out there, has anyone talked to Evan to see if the CS was willing to do a matched set? If that option is there, there's no sense in voting on a position.

It was a multiple choice poll. I indicated such in my first post.

A number of people voted in 2 or more places...

I can run the position poll again if needed.

 

[Mr 9finger]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

My bad, must have misread the first post. Oh well.

 

[GilmourD]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

Still hoping for some kind of hb blade pup, maybe with a less common magnet like a8, a4, or a3...

Maybe we'll finally get the Dimebucker neck?

:scratchch

 

[lazyfinger]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

Just gimme the damn El Diablo lite. :chairshot

:joke:

 

[orpheo]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

jazz/59 hybrid is a great neckpickup and really fills that gap in the lineup.

 

[jimman]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

I will likely be interested in whatever is made since I could always use another good humbucker, but a humbucker sized p90 for the neck would make me really really interested. But, I have been conteplating getting a '78 so any kind of neck pickup that would compliment it would get me interested.

 

[BachToRock]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

If the 59/Custom Hybrid sells well, I imagine they will market a 59/Jazz Neck Hybrid... it is a fantastic pickup!

I would love to hear a 78' Model/Custom Hybrid made as a Parallel Axis Bucker!

 

[Mr 9finger]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

If the 59/Custom Hybrid sells well, I imagine they will market a 59/Jazz Neck Hybrid... it is a fantastic pickup!

I would love to hear a 78' Model/Custom Hybrid made as a Parallel Axis Bucker!

That sounds interesting. I don't see why the SD company doesn't have more Parallel Axis humbuckers. The 3 regular production models sound freaking awesome and work well in any guitar I've tried them in. Maybe another topic for another thread.

 

[KeeperOS]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

Ah, don't get me started. I love all three of my 8's but what I loved the most in the Crazy 8 is how little the string pull is in comparison to the Custom 8 I have in my MG-100.

Curiously, the Alt 8 in my MG-104 doesn't even come close in that regard and both guitars are surface mount and very similar in build (they're both from the same line of guitars)

 

[pinto79]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

Looks like Neck position Dual Coil Humbucker has won.

I will post the next poll on 7/19/2012 as soon as I get home from work.

 

[Guston7]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

What do you guys think about this?:

Schizo-Bucker. 5-conductor humbucker, still just 2 coils. 1 coil an average wind, like a Jazz. The other coil hotter/overwound maybe in the range of somewhere between Demon & Custom, but a coil tap that takes this coil to underwound. With the flick of a switch, or pull of a tone pot, the resonant peak and output would change. Plus, the dominant coil would now be in a slightly different position relative to strings. Overall, there would be a dramatic change in character, or personality...hence, the schizophrenia reference.

This would be a highly versatile pickup, could be used in neck or bridge, and is not something we pickup tinkerers could easily do ourselves.

 

[King IzzO)))]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

Sounds kinda like Zhangs splat tap. The Demon is underwound in relation to a Jazz, they use different sizes of wire. Tapping a Demon even further would not be appealing. BUT, tapping a Custom coil as such that it would drop down to a Demon-ish range might be a neato idea.

 

[DarkMatter]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

I do like that tapped coil idea, very versatile.

 

[Guston7]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

I was suggesting "between Demon & Custom". A unique coil, not one or the other of existing coils. I think many will have good suggestions on winds. Hopefully, Pinto will include the concept in the next poll.
I was not aware of the splat tap, I'll check it out. Thanks

 

[lazyfinger]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

I was suggesting "between Demon & Custom". A unique coil, not one or the other of existing coils. I think many will have good suggestions on winds. Hopefully, Pinto will include the concept in the next poll.
I was not aware of the splat tap, I'll check it out. Thanks

Duncan Distortion neck is between Demon and a Custom, it's wound with 43 ga wire and wound to about 12.7k.

 

[Guston7]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

^That sounds like a cool combo

 

[pinto79]

Re: User Group Pickup Specs Poll #2

Poll #3 coming up!