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Don

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Hi guys
I'm trying to figure out how to build my guitar here http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=18800.0
Since I'm not getting much help there i guess i can be more topic-specific about the issues that trouble me in the various section of the forum.
So there it goes  :)
I want to build a three pickup mustang, much like the Fender Cyclone. My dream though is to have a guitar that has both the clean and rockish (alternative and redhotchilipepperish much) fender sound and the classic greasy, rumbling sound a Es-335  gives you when playing the blues.
So i thought i could place an humbucker somewhere, no idea where since i don't no anything about pickups and how they react to position and wiring and phase and all that stuff.
I guess that since i want to keep the  fender clean and distorted sound, bridge and neck must be single coils. The only choice left is middle.
So my question is: How is this going to sound? A pickup like Bare Knucle's "Stormy Monday" or even "Blue Note" (even though that's a P90) placed in the middle pickup position is going to give me the same (mostly) sound on a mustang body than on a Gibson?
How should i angle the pickups?
Bye
 
If you route the guitar yourself then you may consider putting two singles side by side in the bridge position. This is known as a dually setup. This woud give you the tones you want.

Search "dually guitar pickup".
 
If i understood right, they are splittable humbuckers, so they offer both fender and gibson sound. Could be a solution if they reproduce faithfully both Gibson and fender sound mounted on a Mustang body. I have the fear though that i'll end up playing a fat strat, which is something i really wouldn't like. I'm aiming for something really different than an Ibanez Metalapocalypseshreddomatic thing.
If they are indeed what i expect i could even pass to a HSH design, with both the humbuckers splittable, to emulate completely both Gibson and Fender configurations.
I'll need two more switches (look at the other topic if you want to know about the other three) to split the coils, one for the bridge and one for the neck. I could use a Mustang switchplate with two-way switches instead of three-way. Or maybe just a mustang classic switch with single/humbucker/out of phase humbucker function. That could be even more useful to create more tones.
What about that?
 
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