RVA
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So no magnet is necessary for a hum cancelling coil? And aren't the pole pieces magnitized on a strat pickup, or did you use the base plate type?
Also, what did you use to cut the PG?
Confessions of a gear mod whore
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Also, what did you use to cut the PG?
OP
No magnet is needed, I just pop the magnet off the bottom of a cheapo ceramic singlecoil.
The slugs are not magnetized on these cheapos.
Either type of these will work. The ones with the two magnets seem easier to rip apart.
The hum canceling is polarity sensitive. Without the magnets that just means flipping the wires to get reverse wind on the dummy coil.
Bucks hum one way, does nothing the other way.
The dummy coil can't "pickup" the string without the magnet, it just cancles the hum.
Pure witchcraft & black magic. Voodoo even.
The Pickguard was drawn off of the old one. Cut on a bench mounted scroll saw and beveled on a beltsander.
It's great fun having all the bits of plastic sticking to sweaty arms as you get the bevel even.
I'll get some better pics tomorrow in the daylight.
RVA
Ambassador
Thank you. I feel whole again!No magnet is needed, I just pop the magnet off the bottom of a cheapo ceramic singlecoil.
The slugs are not magnetized on these cheapos.
Either type of these will work. The ones with the two magnets seem easier to rip apart.
The hum canceling is polarity sensitive. Without the magnets that just means flipping the wires to get reverse wind on the dummy coil.
Bucks hum one way, does nothing the other way.
The dummy coil can't "pickup" the string without the magnet, it just cancles the hum.
Pure witchcraft & black magic. Voodoo even.
The Pickguard was drawn off of the old one. Cut on a bench mounted scroll saw and beveled on a beltsander.
It's great fun having all the bits of plastic sticking to sweaty arms as you get the bevel even.
I'll get some better pics tomorrow in the daylight.
No magnet is needed, I just pop the magnet off the bottom of a cheapo ceramic singlecoil.
The slugs are not magnetized on these cheapos.
Either type of these will work. The ones with the two magnets seem easier to rip apart.
Cheap or not, the one on the right is fundamentally very much like a P-90 in that it is built with pole pieces flanked by two bar magnets.
Interesting...
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ChasFred
Ambassador of Smooth Operations
All most enough to entice me to move back to the Land of Gators and Humidity.
OP
We're all looking forward to your future visit.
We'll have us a big ol' shindig.
OP
If anyone wasn't quite digging how this dummy coil thing is connected...
The round thing in the middle is the virtual volume pot.
That's pretty much it.
The round thing in the middle is the virtual volume pot.
That's pretty much it.
Goldmember
Ambassador of Golden Yoo-Hoos
Hack, we, your devoted followers, demand even more gear mod confessions! CONFESS!!!
BlackSG91
Ambassador of Anarchy
OP
OK, I confess, I confess. I like GOLD!He must confess that he likes GOLD and if he doesn't I would find it VEERD!
;>)/
I've always loved gold. The golder the better.
Always wanted a gold 77 Trans Am.
It's a secret obsession of mine.
My golden desires in life won't be complete until I get a beautiful golden SG.
The Trans Am can come later.
Refinishing one wouldn't be the same. It must be born as a golden child.
So I wait, and ponder upon "what if"...
BlackSG91
Ambassador of Anarchy
OK, I confess, I confess. I like GOLD!
I've always loved gold. The golder the better.
Always wanted a gold 77 Trans Am.
It's a secret obsession of mine.
My golden desires in life won't be complete until I get a beautiful golden SG.
The Trans Am can come later.
Refinishing one wouldn't be the same. It must be born as a golden child.
So I wait, and ponder upon "what if"...
Wow! That guitar sure looks shexy!!! And with 3 GOLD pick ups...now that's a guitar for sure.
;>)/
OP
Yeah baby! That's the ticket.WHo in their right mind WOULDNT!!!!!--- they where/are friggin GORGEOUS!
1977, I was a senior in high school. Who wouldn't have wanted one.
What was I driving???
Yep... One of these.
My uncle was an AMC dealer. Red 1976 Gremlin X.
What a $#it box of a car.
OP
Free was all they were worth.
I endured it for a year, then it got traded for a 70 Monte Carlo.
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
Im such a loser I wanted one of these ........(I thought they where so cool ---HELL it was OHIO come on) -- wanted to get one and puit a LIFT KIT ON IT-- o.k. for the record this PROVES I have been a redneck since --- well .........since I HAD A NECK ....
AMC EAGLE---
Im sorry -- thats just kewl.................
AMC EAGLE---
Im sorry -- thats just kewl.................
OP
Hahaha, my mom had that same car, but a rwd version. It was called a Concord Wagon.Im such a loser I wanted one of these ........(I thought they where so cool ---HELL it was OHIO come on) -- wanted to get one and puit a LIFT KIT ON IT-- o.k. for the record this PROVES I have been a redneck since --- well .........since I HAD A NECK ....
AMC EAGLE---
Im sorry -- thats just kewl.................