So Anyway...

I'm more of a used guitar guy but since I started playing maybe 20 new guitars in my life.
I'm loving my new 7 string hydra wide thick neck. The jumbo stainless frets are killer.
On my Parker Fly Deluxe SS frets went 13 years on a string change no fret ware or string ware.
I have a 1960 Fender Strat D neck that needs new frets thinking jumbo SS frets.

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67plexi said:
I'm more of a used guitar guy but since I started playing maybe 20 new guitars in my life.
I'm loving my new 7 string hydra wide thick neck. The jumbo stainless frets are killer.
On my Parker Fly Deluxe SS frets went 13 years on a string change no fret ware or string ware.
I have a 1960 Fender Strat D neck that needs new frets thinking jumbo SS frets.

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How do you use the extra B string? Can you chord with it???
 
No full chords just two note wonders on the low B so far. I have tuned it up to D that is interesting.
For Metal riff's the low B is cool. The truth I play it as a 6 string most of the time. The massive neck is like it was made for my hand.
I started guitar playing classical music. So my fetish for wide neck's makes sense.
 
67plexi said:
No full chords just two note wonders on the low B so far. I have tuned it up to D that is interesting.
For Metal riff's the low B is cool. The truth I play it as a 6 string most of the time. The massive neck is like it was made for my hand.
I started guitar playing classical music. So my fetish for wide neck's makes sense.
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Yes! I used to string Mom's 12 string with six strings for the neck feel...
 
WIDE NECK FETISH????? well o.k.
here ya go Plexi
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Metal89 said:
Ok! You have my attention! What are you arming that Paul with?
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A local music chum and I were texting while I was in Central America a few weeks back. I asked if he thought we could take a bunch of pickup parts and create a pickup that was a cross between a Gibson Dirty Fingers and Suhr Doug Aldrich pickups.

We conspired when I got back and the result is a 17k bridge, 10.5k neck with two rows of adjustable pole pieces.

I'm sure this isnt new, but we used junk bobbins and baseplates to do it. Some bobbins he wound from scratch. But on a few, we even wrapped some of the existing strands with black tape and added windings to that, even mixing wire gauges.

It uses triple magnets like a 500T, but we mixed all those up too. The main magnets are aftermarket A4's from an E-Bay supplier with ceramic outboard take outs from old 500T's.

The extra wide fabric tape is from Michael's and secured with hot glue gun.

Like weird science!
 
Now that’s wild and I’m really curious how that will sound, something like a roaring chainsaw (I mean that in a good way) if I had to guess.
 
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