After 30 Years, I'm Back To A 1987 Stratocaster:
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Funny they still sound like a Stratocaster without overdrive.
ivan H
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Many years ago I had a strat type Ibanez that had a stacked humbucker. Being Ibanez it was tapped & had a phase switch but yes, tapped it sounded like a typical low output single coil & humbucking it sounds like a higher output single coil. IIRC, the phase switch put the middle pickup out of phase, but I'm not 100% on that. Cheers
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This is how I am wiring up the Von Herndon TripleBucker setups.
Last night, I dug out the old 2009 H-S-S pickguard for my 1987 Squirecaster. This has the 14k GFS double slug bridge humbucker I picked up years ago. Pretty hot, but not "nice" without a tone control.
Thanks to Don P for helping me sort out the wiring nightmare on that old pickguard...and convert it to full tone control over all three pickups.
Really like the Olympic White with a black pickguard. I'm going to swap on this new pickguard I've had laying around...
I don't often use the single coils. These were given to me by GFS back around 2009. They are their first generation, 4 conductor "Tru-Coils" hum cancelling single coil appearing pickups.
My hope is, the non-staggered magnets of the GFS Tru Coils will kill the horrendous "Wolftones" I get with this guitar on the 1995 DiMarzio YJM in the neck position.
Hopefully I can eliminate this annoying sonic anomaly from the old 1987 Squirecaster.....
Last night, I dug out the old 2009 H-S-S pickguard for my 1987 Squirecaster. This has the 14k GFS double slug bridge humbucker I picked up years ago. Pretty hot, but not "nice" without a tone control.
Thanks to Don P for helping me sort out the wiring nightmare on that old pickguard...and convert it to full tone control over all three pickups.
Really like the Olympic White with a black pickguard. I'm going to swap on this new pickguard I've had laying around...
I don't often use the single coils. These were given to me by GFS back around 2009. They are their first generation, 4 conductor "Tru-Coils" hum cancelling single coil appearing pickups.
My hope is, the non-staggered magnets of the GFS Tru Coils will kill the horrendous "Wolftones" I get with this guitar on the 1995 DiMarzio YJM in the neck position.
Hopefully I can eliminate this annoying sonic anomaly from the old 1987 Squirecaster.....
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2009 Pics of the 1987 Squire Stratocaster.....with the 14k GFS 'Double-Slug' and Tru-Coils....
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Ok...yet another version of the old Squirecaster takes shape.
When I was finished with the soldering, I put a piece of black tape between every point where a "hot" was close to a ground....Quiet!
When I was finished with the soldering, I put a piece of black tape between every point where a "hot" was close to a ground....Quiet!
OP
Still getting dramatic Wolftones on the 'G' string at frets 15,17 & 19.
DonP
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Do they go away if you rest the headstock against a solid wall?
OP
Nope...but they go away if I switch to middle pickup. However, even dropping the neck pickup doesn't get rid of them.
OP
I have heard its good to press the strings down against the magnets to perform some sort of polarization.
Thoughts???
OP
I literally just used stuff I had laying around to put this version together.... spare black knobs, new pickguard from a recent custom build...not matching, but looks o.k. I think...