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DanDoulogos wrote: The other one is another one I have thought of putting together - at least with regards to the pickups. I don't have a twelve string anymore, the one I had was an old Ibanez double-neck 12/6 sg style. It was early on in my experience - about 35 years ago - and I didn't have the hand strength to play it properly, and hadn't yet developed the ethic of overcoming such difficulties by practice, practice, practice. Nevertheless, now that I am older if I had one, I'd probably play it a lot just to strengthen my hands, but I don't really the same GAS for 12 strings as I do for 6 strings. But I will say this - THAT is pretty sweet looking finished product. I bet it is a tone monster!! I picked up a raspberry burst "Inspired by Gibson" Epiphone 335 about a year ago, and I love playing it. At first it felt huge, but now it feels "just right". I love the tone I get out of it, but have seriously thought of dropping in jumbo MFDs, which are frankly, my favorite pickups.
Thanks for sharing those!
sam wrote:I really like the ASAT design for obvious reasons, but a “Signature” ASAT-Esquire type Z Coil is the cat daddy. Post clips of both when ya can.
Rodney Hamblen wrote:Nice job on the Z to S conversion. The worst part of Z Coil mods for me is getting the cover off w/o breaking a coil wire.
As an amp nut I couldn't help but notice the ampware in the background of the S Coil guitar. Yum!
I'm slowly getting started on my S-500 Alt Mag guitar. I'm removing the base plates, magnets and adjusters on the S-500 pickups and instead I'm using 1/8" diameter neodyium magnets with NSNSNS orientation (SNSNSN for the hum canceling middle pickup). Switching will be complicated - 3 DPDT switches which allow any combination of the 3 pickups on or off in phase or out of phase. I also am installing a 4P5T Strat Superswitch to give any two pickups in series with 1 position with the Neck/Center series pair being out of phase, all with the pull switch option to add the third pickup in series.
The pull switch can also be used to provide a series option with the 3 DPDT switches. So there's some redundancy in the switching design at this point. I maybe able to redesign the switching to have a bit less redundancy but the 3 DPDT switches and the Superswitch are already purchased.