Lace Sensor freak.

[kevinpaul]

NnI put Lace Sensors on my now favorite Stratocaster. I like it the best of the four I have because it is all my ideas stupid and brilliant on the one guitar. The other reason is it has Lace Sensor pickups. Having said that I needed to put a pickup on my Fender Resonator. I use it for one stinking song, Traveling Riverside blues. The Zeppelin version of course and most pickups miss the boat on Dobros and Resonator type guitars. They just don't give that ratty ass tin sound we all love. I first loved that sound from the American Automobiles I had. I miced this tin can guitar but it was weak. I found a real Lace Sensor for only these kind of slide guitars.
It is a bit too high but with mashing the adhesive back stickey thing to death it is fine. That pup really does get every sound out and it still sounds like a Resonator. No slides today but photos. The screw for the tail button was so long that I thought a China men might be hanging on the end of the bastard! No foo you lol. I got the thing on with some laughs and it works ok.

 

[Walks Backward]

Lace sensors are the best in my opinion. Of the two dozen custom one of a kind builds I made when in the business, 5 had Lace pickups in them. My customers were very picky (and loaded too) and those that bought the instruments I made for them with the Lace aboard, were equally convinced that Lace was beyond great.

Very impressed with your choice sir. Displays a genuine eye for performance and perfection. Bravo!

 

[kevinpaul]

Lace sensors are the best in my opinion. Of the two dozen custom one of a kind builds I made when in the business, 5 had Lace pickups in them. My customers were very picky (and loaded too) and those that bought the instruments I made for them with the Lace aboard, were equally convinced that Lace was beyond great.

Very impressed with your choice sir. Displays a genuine eye for performance and perfection. Bravo!

I do thank you for the compliment. I first ran into Lace pickups on an old Fender Stratocaster in the mid 1970's. They came stock on the Elite I think and they were stock on a some Strats. I put a set on my 1968 Standard and that guitar has been been a player for years.

 

[Mr Grumpy]

That pup really does get every sound out and it still sounds like a Resonator.

Making the guitar your own to get the sounds you need/want, has to be the right way forward.

 

[Walks Backward]

When I had a bench in a shop, I'd acquire tons of spare stuff after loads of repairs and modifications. I'd have customers with lace equipped instruments that simply couldn't handle it. They had to have the latest fad in pickups. I had quite a selection of Lace goodies stockpiled. Often, I'd take a mediocre instrument and trick it out for sale using just reclaimed parts. Those with "leftover Lace" pickups sold rather well to the more discriminating players in the area. The gear hacks who could only play garbage, naturally, went right past to the 19K humbucker shred machines. Fine.. No accounting for taste.

 

[kevinpaul]

Making the guitar your own to get the sounds you need/want, has to be the right way forward.

Making it yours is like your tone. It should stand out of the pack and not just one of thousands in that model. No one wants a common or just a guitar. Little things from strap locks to a complete pickup change does it. I have 20 some guitars each one has a special mod done to it. Great point.

 

[kevinpaul]

When I had a bench in a shop, I'd acquire tons of spare stuff after loads of repairs and modifications. I'd have customers with lace equipped instruments that simply couldn't handle it. They had to have the latest fad in pickups. I had quite a selection of Lace goodies stockpiled. Often, I'd take a mediocre instrument and trick it out for sale using just reclaimed parts. Those with "leftover Lace" pickups sold rather well to the more discriminating players in the area. The gear hacks who could only play garbage, naturally, went right past to the 19K humbucker shred machines. Fine.. No accounting for taste.

When I got here from Ireland I was a crazy kid, not a stupid kid. I went through a bunch of pickups but when I found good ones I knew it. Be it an amp, guitar or a set of pickups when you catch a good one just stay with it. A good one has no definition but you know when you hit on one. A Telecaster that has that snaps back, the girl you marry or that amp that is miles above the others.
Lace pups continue to fall in that place.