kidsmoke
July 23rd, 2010, 11:44 AM
I'm looking at taking a 30 year old Matsumoku set neck gem and turning it into a superstrat type guitar.
It was orginally built and wired in a standard strat manner. I'd like to preserve the original pickguard and use a single coil sized humbucker in the bridge.
Questions:
1) what is the typical control layout for HSS configuration?
Seems that 1 tone knob for neck and middle, and the other, with coil split, for the bridge, makes a lot of sense to me.
2) Anyone have experience with the narrow humbuckers?
3) What would be your dream pickup combo in a project like this?
Now, don't laugh. These are string through sustain monsters.
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l58/tiokimo/A20/A-15.jpg
The plan is to give a classic natural tele look, but with superstrat electronics
Like this
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l58/tiokimo/a15_2x2.jpg
It was orginally built and wired in a standard strat manner. I'd like to preserve the original pickguard and use a single coil sized humbucker in the bridge.
Questions:
1) what is the typical control layout for HSS configuration?
Seems that 1 tone knob for neck and middle, and the other, with coil split, for the bridge, makes a lot of sense to me.
2) Anyone have experience with the narrow humbuckers?
3) What would be your dream pickup combo in a project like this?
Now, don't laugh. These are string through sustain monsters.
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l58/tiokimo/A20/A-15.jpg
The plan is to give a classic natural tele look, but with superstrat electronics
Like this
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l58/tiokimo/a15_2x2.jpg