Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

[zero element]

So? I mainly use the neck pick up and right now one of my guitar's only has 1 volume and a bridge pick up. I was thinking of throwing a pick up in the nick and calling it good without replacing the bridge pick up. Would there be anything wrong with that beside the fact it might look a little goofy?

 

[Fender_Punk]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

Not at all. And there are TONS of guitars with just bridge pickups. Including the first mass-produced solid-body electric: Fender Esquire.

 

[zero element]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

Wait sorry, flip everything I said. I don't see many guitars with just neck pick ups. and could I just have a guitar with only a neck pick up?

 

[Pierre]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

Loads of jazz archtop with floating pickups have it in neck position.

 

[danglybanger]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

Fender Musicmaster.

though I don't see why you wouldn't just add a bridge pickup.

Removing pickups confuses me. Even if you "never" use the bridge, you might on another amp, or eventually, or something.

 

[3th3r]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

Gibson ES-125

Guild Starfire

 

[cream123]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

+1 to what dangles said....it's not like you are never going to have the use for the extra pickup.

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

Not to mention all the sweet no-neck pickup guitars out there.

 

[Pete Galati]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

It might be interesting to throw together a Tele, with just a neck humbucker some time.

It'd probably need to be a bright PU. Or maybe use a treble bleed cap to brighten the sound as you roll off the volume. Might be a fun Jazz Tele to stick together.

 

[cream123]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

jazz tele....there's an oxymoron. haha, j/k. it's possible....you just don't hear about it very often.

 

[Fender_Punk]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

I want a Musicmaster, as well as a Duo-Sonic and a Mustang. That way I have the three brothers (or sisters, w/e).

 

[zero element]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

Fender Musicmaster.

though I don't see why you wouldn't just add a bridge pickup.

Removing pickups confuses me. Even if you "never" use the bridge, you might on another amp, or eventually, or something.

Oh, Ill most likely throw a pick up in the bridge, its just the one in there now doesn't work worth a. I'm 17 so I'm on some what of a budget, and I just want to put a bridge in so I can use it at the time being.

 

[tc]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

wow that last musicmaster is beautiful

 

[theodie]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

Wait sorry, flip everything I said. I don't see many guitars with just neck pick ups. and could I just have a guitar with only a neck pick up?

My buddy has an older Ibanez Pat Methany sig. model with only a neck bucker.

Nope, no bridge bucker at all.

This is me back in the day playing it,

 

[Robert Delahunt]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

There are some guitars with just bridge pickups. Where have you been?

 

[Pete Galati]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

jazz tele....there's an oxymoron. haha, j/k. it's possible....you just don't hear about it very often.

Jazz Tele just doesn't seem right doesn't it? Scotty Anderson uses a somewhat modded Tele (aren't they all?) and plays mostly Jazz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QV6B88JjLs

He sounds almost like he's playing a full hollow Jazz guitar. I'm kind of curious about what he has in his Tele. Doesn't really sound like he's using the bridge pickup.

Pete

Edit: This prototype hollow Tele built by Rice Custom Guitars kind of slipped my mind:

http://ricecustomguitars.20m.com/instruments/hollowCTSpro.html

I don't have the skills to build something like that.

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

Oh, Ill most likely throw a pick up in the bridge, its just the one in there now doesn't work worth a. I'm 17 so I'm on some what of a budget, and I just want to put a bridge in so I can use it at the time being.

I don't wanna sound like a jerk or anything, but what's the point of seeking out a guitar that only has a neck pickup, and then putting a bridge pickup in it? There are millions of guitars readily-available with both...

 

[BlueSky]

Re: Why are there no guitars with just bridge pick ups?

My esp m-I has a bridge only.