interesting humbucker-shaped objects?

[marqueemoon]

Now that I think about it the amps I will play the most have a single tone control. Same with dirt pedals. I don't see any issues with extended high end, but extra bass could be a problem.

[Embenny]

Now that I think about it the amps I will play the most have a single tone control. Same with dirt pedals. I don't see any issues with extended high end, but extra bass could be a problem.

Jumboyogi makes an excellent point. A PTB tone circuit would almost certainly fix that issue. It can be done with a concentric pot if you don't have any extra pots to "spare" on the guitar, so you can replace an existing tone control with a PTB circuit. The bass control is essentially just a variable form of a jaguar's strangle switch.

Just something to think about.

[FightingPlankton]

I was thinking humbucker-sized P-90's or maybe some of the strange fare from Jerry Sentell. He makes unique and cool stuff. His "Ricky style" looks interesting:
http://www.sentellpickups.net/humbuckers.html

I SECOND SENTELL. I bought my custom wound tele bridge pickup from him. he did it to my specs with clear bobbin and gold coloured pole pieces.
I'd shoot him an email and see what you come up with.

[marqueemoon]

Now that I think about it the amps I will play the most have a single tone control. Same with dirt pedals. I don't see any issues with extended high end, but extra bass could be a problem.

Jumboyogi makes an excellent point. A PTB tone circuit would almost certainly fix that issue. It can be done with a concentric pot if you don't have any extra pots to "spare" on the guitar, so you can replace an existing tone control with a PTB circuit. The bass control is essentially just a variable form of a jaguar's strangle switch.

Just something to think about.

I despise concentric pots. I think I'd rather have a switchable fixed high pass filter at about 80 Hz in the guitar and use a standard tone control for treble rolloff if needed. I play solo with an electric guitar sometimes, and when I do extra bass can be a good thing. I just don't like it in a band mix.

[Embenny]

Now that I think about it the amps I will play the most have a single tone control. Same with dirt pedals. I don't see any issues with extended high end, but extra bass could be a problem.

Jumboyogi makes an excellent point. A PTB tone circuit would almost certainly fix that issue. It can be done with a concentric pot if you don't have any extra pots to "spare" on the guitar, so you can replace an existing tone control with a PTB circuit. The bass control is essentially just a variable form of a jaguar's strangle switch.

Just something to think about.

I despise concentric pots. I think I'd rather have a switchable fixed high pass filter at about 80 Hz in the guitar and use a standard tone control for treble rolloff if needed. I play solo with an electric guitar sometimes, and when I do extra bass can be a good thing. I just don't like it in a band mix.

Ah, I have a thing for concentrics, but I get it.

What kind of guitar is this for, anyway? Are you ok with push/pull, push/push, or S1 switches? You can just put a simple high-pass cap on any sort of switch you desire, and use it when you're in a full mix. Really easy and cheap to tweak the rolloff frequency by changing caps until you find the value that sounds good to you.

I know some metal guys do this to tighten up palm muting on drop-tuned guitars, where the bass frequencies can really start to get out of hand.

[dylanafghjkl]

the PH90!

Ok, I thought I had seen everything (single-coil-sounding HBs were an absolute obsession of mine for several years), but that is freaking awesome. Design-wise, it's basically a G&L Z-coil (split-coil using a bar magnet and screw polepieces) but with the weirdest polepiece arrangement I've ever seen! The G string would theoretically sound much warmer than the D string...

woah, this is super interesting

[marqueemoon]

Ended up going with Fralin Big Singles. The Waterslide Guitars demos totally sold me on them. Plus 20% off on Reverb today. Will probably be a while before I have them in, but I'm still super excited.

They're going in this thing.

[Embenny]

Nice! I love that guitar and I'm excited to hear what you think of the Big Singles.

I've been debating Big Singles vs Twangmaster for an HH jag...thinking of the Twangmaster, since it's a warmer sounding guitar to begin with, but I'll be interested to see/hear your impressions!