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Re: The Guitar Topic - B
BlahBlah:
Here's a picture of that guitar I put together:
ledhendrix:
That looks nice. What do all the switches do?
BlahBlah:
The three in the middle turn each pickup on or off. The one on the far right switches from in phase to out of phase, and the other end switch changes from series to parallel circuits. Like this: http://www.1728.com/guitar2.htm
However, I only discovered after building it that I missed out a capacitor, so the switching is really messed up. The tone knobs now function as volume knobs, but depending on whether you're in series or parallel mode they have to be turned in different directions. It sounds pretty awesome/strange/horrible. I think Patrick would cream himself over it, based on his comments about single-coil guitars and the Jaguar he already has.
zerobar:
Cool, how's the intonation on it? I kinda figured you had bought a kit, but this looks like it probably would work better. I love putting together old "parts" guitars, they usually end up sounding really cool, and they always look interesting. Kramer, among other companies, did a similar style pickup switching on their guitars in the mid to late 80's by having an on/off switch for each pickup, and then a coil splitting switch for the bridge humbucker. They used it primarily on their Pacer series and the Focus 6000's, which were japanese made Pacer copies (great deals, if you find one.) The Focus' were all made by ESP, who ended up making all of Kramer's necks from about 86' on (which are AMAZING).
Patrick:
--- Quote from: BlahBlah on 14 May 2009, 12:43 ---I think Patrick would cream himself over it, based on his comments about single-coil guitars and the Jaguar he already has.
--- End quote ---
I just saw this thread for the first time in several days (been busy) but yeah, if you ever let me chill at your place or something, you will probably never see this guitar in person ever again.
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