Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Brow on May 03, 2008, 06:55:52 PM
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Hey guys.
Just thought I'd post a few pics of a guitar I picked up today:
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/Browsif/Guitars/SP_A0088.jpg)
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/Browsif/Guitars/SP_A0089.jpg)
It's a 1993/1994 Japanese made Squier Strat that I got with a gig bag for £249 from a local shop. I bought it with money I got from when my Grandma died a few months ago as something to remember her by (I did the same thing when my Granded died a few years ago and I got my Gordon Smith).
I tried out a new-ish Jap Tokai Strat, a Fender Lite Ash Strat (I liked the playability and tone of of the guitar, but it had a narrow V shaped neck that I couldn't get on with), a Fender Mexi Closet Classic 60s Sonic Blue Strat and then this Japanese Squier. I preferred the Squier to all of them and it came home with me :)
Now comes the time for pickups, but let me explain my predicament:
I have a Jap strat copy that I pieced together myself from bits that has a Mahogany/Ash sandwich body and a maple neck/fretboard with no skunk stripe (routed SSS), a guitar I bought from Tom that has an Ash body (HSS) and a Mexi Fender neck with a rose wood fretboard, and then now this guitar (unknown routing)
The 1st Strat copy currently has Mothers Milks in it, and I have a Cold Sweat bridge (will be the only pickup on it's guitar) and a set of Apaches ready to load into guitars. The Japanese copy can only have the Mothers Milks or Apaches due to it's SSS routing, the Ash bodied 1 could have any pickups and I'm not sure of this new 1s routing underneath the scratchplate.
If it were you, which pickups of the 3 sets mentioned above would you put in each of the 3 Strats and why?
Thanks.
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first things first - take the bloody scratcplate off and see what you got.. cant remember for sure what it will be on a jap squire of that age buti would place bets on it already having room for a humbucker in the bridge
i think it would look cooler with a nice humbucker in the bridge
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I'm gonna put a Crawler-Irish-Tour set in my Custom blue strat soon anyway.
Unless you already have Crawlers in something else?
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first things first - take the bloody scratcplate off and see what you got.. cant remember for sure what it will be on a jap squire of that age buti would place bets on it already having room for a humbucker in the bridge
i think it would look cooler with a nice humbucker in the bridge
Yeah, I realise I need to have a look underneath to see if it would take a bucker' in the bridge before I can make any decisions, but was asking hypothetically :lol:
I'm gonna put a Crawler-Irish-Tour set in my Custom blue strat soon anyway.
Unless you already have Crawlers in something else?
Yeah, I already have a Crawler/Irish Tour/Irish Tour set in a 93 USA Strat. A VERY versatile pickup selection :)
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first things first - take the bloody scratcplate off and see what you got.. cant remember for sure what it will be on a jap squire of that age buti would place bets on it already having room for a humbucker in the bridge
i think it would look cooler with a nice humbucker in the bridge
Yeah, I realise I need to have a look underneath to see if it would take a bucker' in the bridge before I can make any decisions, but was asking hypothetically :lol:
I'm gonna put a Crawler-Irish-Tour set in my Custom blue strat soon anyway.
Unless you already have Crawlers in something else?
Yeah, I already have a Crawler/Irish Tour/Irish Tour set in a 93 USA Strat. A VERY versatile pickup selection :)
That's good stuff. Is there any pup combination you don't have :P
Moody Marsden to Sykes on the Beach then PDT_042
Got a guitar with a set of Apaches or Sinners?
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That's good stuff. Is there any pup combination you don't have :P
Moody Marsden to Sykes on the Beach then PDT_042
Got a guitar with a set of Apaches or Sinners?
LOL. Yeah, I don't have anything with any of the 'more metal' pickups in. Although, I am looking for a set to go in my Ibanez, so I may branch out from the vintage/hot vintage stuff I currently have.
I have no Sinners, but do have a set of Apaches I'm waiting to put in 1 of 3 Strats as mentioned in the 1st post :)