Warmoth Carved Top Tele Build...................................
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I loves me a carved-top Tele.
Looks like you had some trouble with the neck joint though. The plate is clearly crooked, it has straight-slot screws in it and I don't recognize any of Dangerous Doug's work. What's up with that? Too much or too little beer? Arthritis? Fatal attack of the stupids? I'm not judging; I'm guilty of all those things from time to time. I'm just asking. I'm also curious about putting a Bill Lawrence 500XL in the middle position. Seems like the last place you'd choose for such a pickup.
Looks like you had some trouble with the neck joint though. The plate is clearly crooked, it has straight-slot screws in it and I don't recognize any of Dangerous Doug's work. What's up with that? Too much or too little beer? Arthritis? Fatal attack of the stupids? I'm not judging; I'm guilty of all those things from time to time. I'm just asking. I'm also curious about putting a Bill Lawrence 500XL in the middle position. Seems like the last place you'd choose for such a pickup.
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The holes for the plate are dead on from Warmoth, not sure what you are seeing. The slot screws are of vintage broadcaster in nature and the Warmoth neck is vintage custom in nature. The Bill Lawrence 500XL coils are wired in parallel, reverse-wound (wired in reverse) reverse-polarity (pickup spun 180 degrees). One of the P90s was also spun 180 degrees for the strat switch position 2 and 4. The Antiquities are Alnico II magnets and the Lawrence is Ceramic. I like to mix magnet types in both my guitar pickups and amp speakers. This guitar sounds amazing and I wouldn't change a thing.
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The neckplate does look slightly off square but it could just be a trick of the light in the photo. It certainly isn't one of Doug's though.
Not sure you've quite sussed the RWRP thing. The only way you could change the magnetic polarity by physically moving the pickup would be to turn it upside-down - not a great look. But... if they're reverse wound, they probably are reverse polarity anyway.
Not sure you've quite sussed the RWRP thing. The only way you could change the magnetic polarity by physically moving the pickup would be to turn it upside-down - not a great look. But... if they're reverse wound, they probably are reverse polarity anyway.
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If you are dealing with Strat or Tele pickups you would be correct. These pickups use bar magnets and to verify all that I have done, I used my Guass meter which does in fact differentiate north from south polarity. My guitar is correct for RWRP and it sounds excellent.Fat Pete said:
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Fat Pete said:
Hehe! Yeah. If the voltage is too high, reverse the leads on your voltmeter. That'll fix it <grin>
People have different tolerance levels for noise. Some are so insensitive to it that all you have to do is tell 'em is "It's not noisy" and it's fixed.
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