A video about Warmoth's humbucker pickguard options.

[aarontunes]

Humbuckers rule!

[youtube]https://youtu.be/tOPBwQuwiBs[/youtube]

 

[PhilHill]

Another quality production.


. You do realize that your not gonna get any royalties off these, right. I mean I'm just sayin'.  :dontknow:

 

[Verne Bunsen]

Good stuff! Out of curiosity, why was this naming convention employed rather than something more self-explanitory, like “covered humbucker” or “uncovered humbucker”?

Also, no love for the WRHB?

 

[rgand]

Well done again. :icon_thumright:

One thing I would like to mention. If you're going to put a Bill lawrence L-500 series pickup in a PG and don't want to cut your own opening, the 'fat humbucker' rout is close. All you need to do is file (or sand) it a few thousandths wider to fit the L-500 in there. That is true of either Wilde or USA pickups.

 

[TheGreatRedDragon]

Is it possible to do an angled uncovered humbucker rout or is that not an option for a specific reason?

 

[Strat Avenger]

'Wish I had known this years ago when I first bought the wrong pickguards (Trembucker) before buying the right ones (Fat Trembucker). Now I have a couple extra pickguards that I have no use for.

 

[Logrinn]

... Now I have a couple extra pickguards that I have no use for.

There's no such thing. You just need to build some guitars around these pickguards :icon_jokercolor:

 

[BroccoliRob]

at work so I can't watch this vid, but does it 'splain why they call the Wide Range rout a 'Fender Humbucker' rout instead of the more common, you know, 'wide range' verbiage for that specific model of p'up. Fender uses Gibson-style humbuckers on a ton of models but not errbody gonna know their first time around (lol, me) that 'FEnder Humbucker' doesn't just mean a regular 'bucker on a Fender guitar. it wasn't worth returning the pickguard i got a few years ago, i just bought another. i'm just thinking using Wide Range would be less confuzzling, but you know what they say 'heavy is the head that eats the crayons'

 

[aarontunes]

Regarding all the verbiage questions:

It is MY OPINION that some of the terminology and methodology that Warmoth uses was created before their was a standard, and now that there is one we can't/won't change because we have become institutionalized to the old way. It's something I've brought up many times over the years I've worked here.

Examples:

Fat Humbucker
Fender Humbucker

- or, the one that truly boggles my brain -

Listing pickup choices starting with the neck pickup, (S/S/H, e.g.) which is backwards from how the rest of the universe does it.

On the new website, rumored to be released in the year 2099, the "Fat Humbucker" thing is finally dropped in favor of Covered and Uncovered. Other things will remain as they are. I'll keep fighting the fight.

 

[BroccoliRob]

Fat Humbucker makes sense since it came from the Fender 'fat strat' (had a humbucker). it makes sense W would adopt that.

the wide range pickups were released and named in, like what, 1971? that's gotta be at least a couple years (decades?) before Biggie Dubs (warmoth) termed 'Fender Humbucker' for their pickguards. jus' sayin'. i'm not following your "before there was a standard" logic on this one, holmie.

 

[Verne Bunsen]

Fat Humbucker makes sense since it came from the Fender 'fat strat' (had a humbucker). it makes sense W would adopt that.

the wide range pickups were released and named in, like what, 1971? that's gotta be at least a couple years (decades?) before Biggie Dubs (warmoth) termed 'Fender Humbucker' for their pickguards. jus' sayin'. i'm not following your 'before there was a standard' logic on this one, holmie.

In Warmoth parlance, “Fat Humbucker” doesn’t mean WRHB or a Gibson humbucker in a Fender, it just means an uncovered Gibson humbucker. As opposed to “Humbucker” which just means the same pickup with a cover on it. Aaron recently did a video on this terminology:

[youtube]tOPBwQuwiBs[/youtube]

 

[Rick]

Good luck with getting what you want in a website.  I'm involved in another website development and there's always the committee and someone bigger, I'll call him an owner, it's very wearying convincing them to make decisions that help them.  Ugh.

 

[PhilHill]

Good luck with getting what you want in a website.  I'm involved in another website development and there's always the committee and someone bigger, I'll call him an owner, it's very wearying convincing them to make decisions that help them.  Ugh.

The same thing held true in many a business, headstrong people don't like to be told their wrong. Even by folks they've hired to advise them. :dontknow: