MichaelW
Well-known member
Yes folks, it's that time again......
It's been a while since I messed with any of my builds.
But with the couple of hours of "feeling good enough to do something" I have on any given day, I replaced the pickups on my gold Strat.
The original build is documented here.
It's had a couple of pickup swaps since that thread, and this is the latest.
I decided to do an H-S-S configuration with spare pickups and parts I had on hand.
The neck and middle are Lollar Special S pickups, which are his "hotter" Strat single coils.
The bridge Humbucker is a Wolftone Marshallhead that was originally in my SG. Mine is an A2 magnet and clocks in a tad over 9.2k.
Which is a bit hotter than my usual tastes but it seems to work well on some guitars.
This was mostly a "keeping busy" project and since the body was already routed for a HB it was just a matter of ordering a pickguard.
I'm actually very surprised how much I like it! The pickups seem to work very well together. No fancy switching or coil splitting, just straight up 5 way Strat switching.
As with all my Strats I have the bridge wired to a dedicated tone control and the middle pickup bypasses the tone stack and goes straight to the jack.
I'm sure this guitar will make an appearance in a demo at some point...stay tuned
It's been a while since I messed with any of my builds.
But with the couple of hours of "feeling good enough to do something" I have on any given day, I replaced the pickups on my gold Strat.
The original build is documented here.
It's had a couple of pickup swaps since that thread, and this is the latest.
I decided to do an H-S-S configuration with spare pickups and parts I had on hand.
The neck and middle are Lollar Special S pickups, which are his "hotter" Strat single coils.
The bridge Humbucker is a Wolftone Marshallhead that was originally in my SG. Mine is an A2 magnet and clocks in a tad over 9.2k.
Which is a bit hotter than my usual tastes but it seems to work well on some guitars.
This was mostly a "keeping busy" project and since the body was already routed for a HB it was just a matter of ordering a pickguard.
I'm actually very surprised how much I like it! The pickups seem to work very well together. No fancy switching or coil splitting, just straight up 5 way Strat switching.
As with all my Strats I have the bridge wired to a dedicated tone control and the middle pickup bypasses the tone stack and goes straight to the jack.
I'm sure this guitar will make an appearance in a demo at some point...stay tuned
