Recent content by Floyd_Argus

You said in your first post that you are already familiar with what a higher output humbucker sounds like wired in parallel in an Ibanez. Now go listen to demos of Filtertron pickups on Youtube and/or goto your local guitar store and try some guitars that have Filtertron pickups in them, like...

Sounds like you really want the sound of a Filtertron pickup, but you don't think there's a way to get a Filtertron pickup to fit into a Les Paul style of guitar's humbucker sized pickup routes? Well, TV Jones makes pickup adaptor rings for this. Should work as long as it's a TV Jones brand of...

No. Referencing my earlier reply: not all humbucker are PAF voiced. Some are higher output Higher output humbuckers handle parallel wiring better. Like the Steve Morse Dimarzio that member Hodgo just mentioned. Its got 9.4 DC resistance - higher than a PAF type humbucker.

No, a PAF type humbucker wired in parallel will not sound like a Filtertron type pickup. Like TBurst Std wrote.

The Ibanez guitars that have the neck humbucker in parallel mode, like position 4 of this RG421EX: https://www.ibanez.com/usa/products/detail/rg421ex_1p_05.html), feature neck humbuckers that are higher output than a typical neck position PAF. The Quantum humbucker in the neck position of this...

Ok, thanks for letting me know.

Aaron, Which Wilde Noiseless pickups did you try in the Tele prior? And what did you think of them? Is there a thread somewhere in UWF where this is discussed? Link? Thanks

Hey Aaron, I get you. I have never considered a 7.25" radiused neck in the past, but got intrigued recently when i actually tried one for the first time. Actually, not just one, but two different Fender strat models that each had a 7.25" radius fretboard. I was sort of shocked that i was...

Is there any custom option(s) to allow me to get a Strat neck w modern or vintage/modern Construction and also compound radius starting at 7.25"?

Locking tuners generally weigh more than non-locking tuners, so maybe reconsider if you really need locking tuners For the body, skip painting it which adds at least a pound of weight and instead seal it w something like Tru Oil. There are sealant oils that have stain color options so you can...

Anyone ever remove a 25" scale length PRS bolt-on neck and see if the end of heel dimensions match those of Fender-licensed necks? i.e. could a PRS bolt-on neck fit into the pocket of a non-PRS S-style body (Squier, Fender, Warmoth, etc.)? BTW, in advance of the likelihood that the following...

And regarding an underappreciated benefit to non-**locking** tuners, is if you are swapping out pickups in your guitar as frequently as I am to try different tones/find the right set for that guitar, locking tuners are a pain because the locking mechanism bites deeply into the part of the string...

Re: tuning stability/avoiding use of string trees, I assumed it was commonly understood that if one is using non-staggered tuners, then yes you would definitely be using string trees, at least on a non-tiltback neck design.

The first two years i learned to play in the mid 1980s, my Dad let me use his Eagle brand dreadnought style acoustic and his mid-1980s Telecaster that featured a hideous looking finish color: metallic flake, rust-magenta type color hue. Anybody remember these? Both guitars were fine as far as...

The underappreciated benefit of non-staggered tuners is that when one of the tuners breaks and you need to replace that one tuner, (yes, tuners do occasionally break), it is much easier to source a single non-staggered tuner that matches the other tuners you have installed, than it is to source...