can i put one on my guitar?
humbuckers on strat?
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you can. its called a "fat strat"
you'll need a new pickguard though. other than that, its the same as just normal pickup changing i believe.
you'll need a new pickguard though. other than that, its the same as just normal pickup changing i believe.
# 2
If its a fairly new Strat, the area under the pickguard is routed out from the bridge to the neck. This allows you to install any pickup combination that you can find (or make) a pickguard for.
# 3
alternatively you can get humbuckers that are the same size as single coils, perhaps easier then buying a new pickguard.
# 4
Well, you can, as they said, get a fat strat, or buy a minibucker, a humbucker the size of a single coil, as they also mentioned...
"When you want to rock hard children, lean of F#."
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Originally Posted by: rightturnonlyWhy? :confused:
Why not do it?
"When you want to rock hard children, lean of F#."
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Originally Posted by: armGETaTITonhmmm...
can i put one on my guitar?
Yes, but you will have to get one with the proper pole piece alignment. The classic PAF humbucker measures 1.90 inches from the center of the high E pole to the center of the low E pole. You will need to get an F spaced humbucker that measures 2.01 inches (same as a strat single coil) from the center of the high E pole to the center of the low E pole.
If you don't get an f spaced humbucker, you will be in the same unfortunate situation I was in when I found a broken Gibson Flying V in the early eighties. I carved a hole in the pickguard, and the wood underneath and screwed that pickup down. I was real proud of myself until I strung it up and realized that the high E string was way out over the pole piece and you could barely hear it, especially on a clean channel.
Hope this helps
McD
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I did it... I changed one of my strats over from a SSS to a dual Humbucker axe... Since I already had a Strat that got all the single coil tones that I needed... I wanted something with a little more bite and a little different tone... Pickguards are only going to cost around 12-25 bucks maybe more if you get a designer or custom one... If you're going to get a humbucker... get a humbucker. Minibuckers are convenient... but I'd rather have a standard bucker than a mini if I were installing them... My friend has a '57 reissue Strat with 3 minibuckers in it. It sounds pretty good.
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Originally Posted by: rightturnonlyWhy? :confused:
Why, indeed?
I have a Guild S-70, that I have nicknamed "The Psycho-caster". It looked like this when it was new
but by the time I got it, it was beat up.I bought it because I used to have a PRS Custom when I was in a working band, and I crashed it a few times playing on stages that were too small, so I found this Guild in a pawn shop for $190. The pickups were horrible. They buzzed like crazy, way worse than even a Squier strat, so on the very same day, I bought some Lace Sensor Gold pickups and put them in.
Well, just a few days ago, after playing nothing but acoustic for nearly ten years, I decided to pull out the old electric guitars and get them going again (they all needed at least a little work). I bought a 6 position, 4 pole rotary switch ( www.allparts.com part number EP_0920-000) and installed a Seymour Duncan Custom Trembucker in the bridge position.
The SD humbucker is controlled by the rotary switch, which I have wired thus:
1) Both poles in series out-of-phase (humbucking)
2) The north pole with the start to ground
3) Both poles in parallel out-of-phase (also humbucking but with a more mellow -- some say single coil -- sound).
4) The south pole with the finish to ground
5) Both poles in series in phase (very thin sound with no bass whatsoever)
6) Both poles in parallel in phase
The middle and neck pickups (the lace sensor golds) are controlled by on/off switches which enable me to get some wonderful combinations of tones, many that are remarkably similar to off the shelf guitars and many that aren't even close, and yet are intoxicating to behold.
Had this guitar been a fender strat, I would have wired it up in the same way -- unless, of course, it was a pre-CBS strat, so the answer to your question of "why", for me anyway, is because adding a humbucker to a strat and wiring it up in the way I described would allow one to get the thick, in-your-face sound of a humbucker, the twang of a Tele, any sound a standard Strat can make and about 25 other tones that no off the shelf guitar makes.
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