RoccoRiggs
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Hi Folks;
Just ordered a chambered strat body from our friends here at Warmoth- it's a s-s-h basswood body, maple cap-pairing it with a birds eye maple & fretboard 21 fret Warhead neck,6150's, black tusq, modern construction. Gonna do 1 vol, 1 tone. Looking for the VH bucker tone as well as Knoplfer stratty cleans...ps, it's a recessed tune-o-matic- ordered the Gotoh for it- psyched..
I have the pickups already- pulling them out of a Charvel USA HT (don't really dig the neck shape, too flat on the back side-and I always liked to rest my palm on a Gibson style bridge vs the 6 saddle fender style on the Charvel) The Charvel has a one volume, 500k, no tone pot. Sounds great, but I cant get a jazz tone without a tone pot.
Pickups are: (neck) DiMarzio Injector (middle) is a custom duncan rw/rp alnico ii, and the bucker is a EVH frankenstein relic I bought years ago- my tech went into that pickup on a previous build and turned it into a 4 wire- so it's now splittable- i didn't ask him to do that, but he did.. the results have been favorable though- he did hurt the value of the signed relic pickup, but, I'll never sell it as it gives up the goods in spades..
So, how would you guys approach the wiring? Right now its a superswitch- pos 1 is neck, pos 2 is typical strat, pos 3 is neck + bucker- 4 is typical strat, split bucker, and 5 is full bucker.. I like the ability to split the bucker in position 4, but on the new build I'd like to tap it in full bucker mode to tame the gain and output at times when i don't want the full bucker sound...tone pot with a push pull?
Would u go 500k pots? or 500 and a 250 for the tone? I've heard of this but have no experience.
The VH pickup sounds best with no load..
How about cap values?
Looks like I have a lot of time to think about this as the ship time is long from Warmoth now under the circumstances..
Any thought would be grateful!
Stay Healthy!
Just ordered a chambered strat body from our friends here at Warmoth- it's a s-s-h basswood body, maple cap-pairing it with a birds eye maple & fretboard 21 fret Warhead neck,6150's, black tusq, modern construction. Gonna do 1 vol, 1 tone. Looking for the VH bucker tone as well as Knoplfer stratty cleans...ps, it's a recessed tune-o-matic- ordered the Gotoh for it- psyched..
I have the pickups already- pulling them out of a Charvel USA HT (don't really dig the neck shape, too flat on the back side-and I always liked to rest my palm on a Gibson style bridge vs the 6 saddle fender style on the Charvel) The Charvel has a one volume, 500k, no tone pot. Sounds great, but I cant get a jazz tone without a tone pot.
Pickups are: (neck) DiMarzio Injector (middle) is a custom duncan rw/rp alnico ii, and the bucker is a EVH frankenstein relic I bought years ago- my tech went into that pickup on a previous build and turned it into a 4 wire- so it's now splittable- i didn't ask him to do that, but he did.. the results have been favorable though- he did hurt the value of the signed relic pickup, but, I'll never sell it as it gives up the goods in spades..
So, how would you guys approach the wiring? Right now its a superswitch- pos 1 is neck, pos 2 is typical strat, pos 3 is neck + bucker- 4 is typical strat, split bucker, and 5 is full bucker.. I like the ability to split the bucker in position 4, but on the new build I'd like to tap it in full bucker mode to tame the gain and output at times when i don't want the full bucker sound...tone pot with a push pull?
Would u go 500k pots? or 500 and a 250 for the tone? I've heard of this but have no experience.
The VH pickup sounds best with no load..
How about cap values?
Looks like I have a lot of time to think about this as the ship time is long from Warmoth now under the circumstances..
Any thought would be grateful!
Stay Healthy!