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Keep in mind thus guitar is the prototype for my Gibson Scale Length Stratocaster. But that guitar will have 2 tones, one volume, 5 way switch and push-pull coils split capabilities. N
After 30 Years, I'm Back To A 1987 Stratocaster:
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I don't know all the ins and outs of the resistance modification. I can't take credit for it. Semie Moseley showed it to me many years ago and it was said to have been first done on Buck Owens Telecaster, and later on Mosrites...
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Say goodbye single coils....
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Need to rout a little bit....The covered PAF's are bigger than the open bobbin style humbucker I had been using in the bridge, so the bridge has to be re-routed a little too...
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My goal was to remove just enough for the twin humbuckers to fit. I just traced this and cut it free hand with a 1/2" burr in a 3/8" drill.....
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There are a lot of cracks in the cap....
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Dang, Robert playin with Edgar Winter. Sweet gig bro.
That dude is like 6'7" tall....
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lol camera flash or spotlight tricks in Robert's pic= Edgar Winter's doppleganger
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It's a still from an old VHS video taken in 1987
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Makes sense, Robert, Hope u liked my joke about your bandmate being the Albino Mr Winter.
BTW, I think you might prefer operating on your guitar over the operation I have been involved in since the weekend. A malfunctioning gas furnace. I got error codes pointing to a bad pressure switch, yet the main PS is not typically known to fail easily but in turn it meant to shut the system down in the event of another part of the system that failed or has a cause for trouble.
In my case, I believe I narrowed the culprit down to another pressure switch that gets activated to permit current to flow to continue the chain of events which make heat, or else opens up ig things gets too hot in the system causing just the blower fan to blow cold air to cool the condition and shut down the equipment from making flame and heating things up properly.
Fun stuff for a carpenter who is not an HVAC expert.
BTW, I think you might prefer operating on your guitar over the operation I have been involved in since the weekend. A malfunctioning gas furnace. I got error codes pointing to a bad pressure switch, yet the main PS is not typically known to fail easily but in turn it meant to shut the system down in the event of another part of the system that failed or has a cause for trouble.
In my case, I believe I narrowed the culprit down to another pressure switch that gets activated to permit current to flow to continue the chain of events which make heat, or else opens up ig things gets too hot in the system causing just the blower fan to blow cold air to cool the condition and shut down the equipment from making flame and heating things up properly.
Fun stuff for a carpenter who is not an HVAC expert.
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That doesn't sound fun at all.... :-(
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At least temps here in Md have only been in the upper 30's and 40's over the weekend instead of below freezing like when things usually want to break on ya.
Glad for that batch of warmth.
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44 degrees in Socal...been raining the past 48 hours. Streets are flooded..potholes that would swallow a Honda....
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So the dual humbucker conversion is now complete.....Nice tone, very smooth, at my usual amp settings of 1/2 gain it almost sounds clean.... 
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The old Stratocaster has been through a lot in 30 years!!!
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