The illusion

Hackmaster said:
I did a double neck a while back. But still have only two hands.
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Four pairs of strings in octaves with chromatic fretting on the top neck. Three pairs in octaves with diatonic fretting on the bottom neck.
Undersaddle rod piezo pickups. I sold it at a music fair.

Not sure if Junior Brown would approve, but the dog liked it.
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Way cool DBL neck
 
I love buds ivan H ;)
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Yargnad said:
Is it going to be a triple dogear Patriot? How can you not now that I've tainted your mind with such an exquisitely splendored idea?
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Well, that is a splendid idea, but I'm forced to harvest from my magic pickup box, and It's down to one soapbar P90.
But chock full of humbuckers.
Now this Patriot was already a triple pickup perversion.
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Loaded with a trio of hot rail pickups with Duncan Triple Shot rings.
But the sounds were all too similar. No spice, no variety.
Several combinations of pickups came & went.
The control cavity area of the front was starting to look like Swiss cheese due to moving knobs around and mounting micro switches.
I had a plan. It involved a 21 tone Jimmy Page wiring harness that I had laying around.
I didn't want to refinish the guitar, but it was looking sad.
So I took inspiration from a 70's SG that I had.
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Notice the front, where the knobs are.
No more Swiss cheese and extra holes.
Also the middle pickup is missing, but there is no hole.
No refinishing was involved, even though drastic measures were taken...

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As you can see. I opened up the front of the cavity. This got rid of the mess.
It also made a fine monkey grip.
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Then made plates for the front of the control cavity and to replace the pickup rings, covering the middle pickup route in the process.
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So here's the wiring & functioning.
Yes, soldering was involved.
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According to Jersey Shore Guitar Garage, the functions are as follows.

All volumes and tones remain the same as a standard LPBridge Vol Switch: Turns bridge pickup into a single coil Neck Vol Switch: Turns neck pickup into a single coil Bridge Tone Switch: Puts bridge pick up out of phase (effect heard only when both pickups on) Neck Tone Switch: Puts bridge and neck pickups in series (effect heard only when both pickups on)

Yet from these simple functions they claim...

Break down of Jimmy Page switching

PUP SELECTOR SWITCH IN BRIDGE POSITION


* 1. Bridge Humbucker
2. Bridge Shunt (Screw Coil On)
3. Bridge Shunt (Slug Coil On)




** PUP SELECTOR SWITCH IN MIDDLE POSITION



* 4. Neck & Bridge Humbucker Parallel in Phase
5. Neck & Bridge Humbucker Parallel Out Phase

6. Neck Humbucker & Bridge Shunt (Screw Coil On) Parallel In Phase

7. Neck Humbucker & Bridge Shunt (Slug Coil On) Parallel Out Phase
8. Neck Shunt (Screw Coil On) & Bridge Humbucker Parallel In Phase
9. Neck Shunt (Screw Coil On) & Bridge Humbucker Parallel Out Phase
10. Neck Shunt (Screw Coil On) & Bridge Shunt (Screw Coil On) Parallel In Phase
11. Neck Shunt (Screw Coil On) & Bridge Shunt (Slug Coil On) Parallel Out Phase



PUP SELECTOR SWITCH IN NECK POSITION
* 12. Neck Humbucker
13. Neck Shunt (Screw Coil On)
14. Neck & Bridge Humbucker Series In Phase
15. Neck & Bridge Humbucker Series Out Phase
16. Neck Humbucker & Bridge Shunt (Screw Coil On) Series in Phase
17. Neck Humbucker & Bridge Shunt (Slug Coil On) Series Out Phase
18. Neck Shunt (Screw Coil On) & Bridge Humbucker Series In Phase
19. Neck Shunt (Screw Coil On) & Bridge Humbucker Series Out Phase
20. Neck Shunt (Screw Coil On) & Bridge Shunt (Screw Coil On) Series In Phase

21. Neck Shunt (Screw Coil On) & Bridge Shunt (Slug Coil On) Series Out Phase


Just got it all together & working a little while ago.
Tomorrow It gets some strings and a set up.

It's becoming a modular guitar.
 
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