Ditto! That looks great! I love the tort PG too!
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Ditto! That looks great! I love the tort PG too!
That turned out great! If it sounds half as good as it looks, you did quite well, even for a mad scientist.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5xHhfW50Z_...+scientist.jpg
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Thanks for the new avatar, Tig! :thumbsup
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Originally Posted by duhvoodooman
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These pesky CV Tele's are getting in the way of my wife's guitar embargo!
Good work. Looks sweet! :thumbsup
If anyone's interested, I posted a clip recorded using the new neck mini-'bucker HERE.
I listened and think it sounds great! Nice neck sound. This guitar and mod is on my "one of these days" list. Thanks for sharing your idea and experience/clips.
Day-um!!! Those b*stards at Seymour Duncan stole my idea! ;)
http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazin...ge_System.aspx
Cool! When I finish paying off my CV Tele, I was thinking I might do your mod. This looks like it makes it that much easier. The part you used looks smaller though, and I bet is cheaper.
Vood, having looked at this, your thoughts please on getting their deal vs. going and getting the parts your way?
Cool!
I'm lazy though. Would never have the patience for all that wiring work. I did it the simple way.
One Tele with 2 singles and '50's wiring:
http://static.flickr.com/33/64187960_82afefb188.jpg
One Tele with full size splittable neckbucker and 5-way switching:
http://static.flickr.com/25/64208937_f659426fdf.jpg
And one Tele with a Seymour Duncan mini in the neck and 3-way switching:
http://static.flickr.com/43/90598563_113a47e647.jpg
Lot less work this way.
;)
It's been over two years since I posted this, and I have been running this CV '50s Tele with the neck mini-humbucker all that time. But I think it's time to check out something new, namely ONE OF THESE. I have my eye on an eBay auction now that will save me a few $$ if I win it. These P-Rails pickups will function in 3 separate modes--as a rail-style single coil, as a P90, and as a hybrid bumbucker with the two connected in series. Because you want to be able to split & use either coil of the P-Rails, the usual 2-position/on-on push-pull pot will not work for this purpose--it requires a 3-position on-off-on switch to give all three pickup configurations. I have never seen a 3-position push-pull pot, so I'm looking at using an on-off-on SPDT mini-toggle mounted through the pickguard. They're small, so I'm sure I can find a place to mount it where it will be out of the way. I'll also need to get a Tele pickguard that's cut for a full-size humbucker in the neck position, but that's NOT A PROBLEM.
The one problem I see is that the way the switching for the P-Rails works, I can't come up with a way to wire it that avoids losing the bridge pickup signal for one of the three bridge-neck-in-series combos. Whichever coil is split by shunting its output to ground will take the bridge signal with it, since the both-in-series setting on the 4-way pickup selector switch is wired so that the bridge pickup signal feeds into the humbucker. I'm pretty sure I could get around that by using a second switch or by completely rewiring the 4-way, but I really don't want to do either. No big deal--9 different pickup combinations instead of 10!
Will update this thread as the project unfolds....
I've always been curious about P-Rails.
Me, too, obviously! I've yet to read a bad review. Everybody who tries them seems to love their tonal versatility.
i spend a lot of time on the Heritage Forum. There are a fair amount of corksniffers, as well as some very demanding but pragmatic journeyman musicians. Without exception everyone who's tried them loves them. I think it sounds pretty cool.
Sounds cool! One of those in a jazzmaster could be cool.
Sounds way cool.......like slide guitar heaven being able to go 'bucker.....to SC.......to P90......all in the flip of a mini-toggle. I'm DROOLING at the prospects.