I’ve started planning building a guitar that will hopefully become my main guitar. I played a Les Paul for years, but I love my Strat….so….I’ve decided to make a Strat. I want to go with a humbucker-single-humbucker set up so I can get my favorite Les Paul sounds(all 3 positions) and my favorite Strat sounds(2 and 4 positions). I’ve downloaded some schematics for the JEMs because they seem to have this set up. That will give me one tone knob as well which will set up my desire for a piezo system in the bridge. From what I’ve read, the Graphtech system sounds good.
Now for my question…I need pickups that will sound good as humbuckers but also sound good single coil for my 2 and 4 sounds. I’ve been leaning towards DiMarzio from what I’ve researched so far. I tend to play pretty clean a lot of the time but of course use some drive and distortion. I play funk, blues, old R&B, and some darker stuff as well.
So far on woods, I’m leaning towards swamp ash body, maple neck, Pau Ferro fretboard. I’m thinking about using a Wilkinson tremolo with the graphtech saddles and a graphtech nut and string trees.
I’ve been researching a lot..but there are so many combinations…it’s overwhelming.
Thanks for any assistance
Now for my question…I need pickups that will sound good as humbuckers but also sound good single coil for my 2 and 4 sounds. I’ve been leaning towards DiMarzio from what I’ve researched so far. I tend to play pretty clean a lot of the time but of course use some drive and distortion. I play funk, blues, old R&B, and some darker stuff as well.
So far on woods, I’m leaning towards swamp ash body, maple neck, Pau Ferro fretboard. I’m thinking about using a Wilkinson tremolo with the graphtech saddles and a graphtech nut and string trees.
I’ve been researching a lot..but there are so many combinations…it’s overwhelming.
Thanks for any assistance