BKP Mother's Milk - a lefty's error

[frankus]

Hi chaps,

I recently purchased some mother's milk strat pickups from another forum (musicradar) and of course being a lefty the stagger is not good for me.

So. Do I whip out the slugs in a scientific manner or do BKP have a service for stupid people like me?

BTW - I put a country boy in my tele to go with the Lollar CC pickup in the neck - it sounds awesome :D (those two I bought new :D )

Any advice would be welcomed, ta.

[Gibson 1964]

Wouldn't simply flipping the pickup work?

[frankus]

Thanks for getting back :)

It might, the problem is the routing is the correct way around, so I'd need to change the shape of the routing or the pickup in order to fix it.

I've done a load of tinkering with the string heights and it sounds pretty good now - sounds better than the v60lps in my Suhr (to my ears). So I might just keep em stock.

[roland_rat]

I had a set of Sultans that I bought off ebay going back a little while. Turned out they were staggered for a right hander ( I am a lefty). Anyway guitar tech I use managed to sort them out. He did somthing with the pole peices. They sound superb now. 

The Charlie Christian pickup with a country boy is intresting. I recently got a tele with one in it (Should arrive today from Johnathan at Feline guitars) Was thinking of what Bare Knuckle for the bridge. In the end I was worried I would not get a good match with the output of the CC pickup. How do you find it with the Country boy  bridge works with the CC pickup?

[frankus]

I find the country boy works a treat.

The Lollar is at about scratchplate level and I had some trouble with the base as the screws provided threaded it :( I cooked up some bits of pick to keep it in place.

The Country boy is really close to the strings and I've a 5way pickup that works like this:

"50s wiring" so the tone isn't in parallel with the volume (which is how I remember it so forgive me if that's the wrong term)

Neck (0.47uF on the tone control)
Neck and Bridge (0.47uf  and 0.015uf on the Tone Control)
Bridge (0.015uF on the tone control)
Bridge (0.015uF on the tone control)
Bridge (no tone)

A 1meg volume pot and a 250k reverse audio pot for tone.

Neck is great - I kinda miss the bright tone of the tele neck pickup, but it's good for blues, jazz and the like.
Both is a great acoustic sound - the lollar does a good bassy boomy sound with the treble being provided by the country boy
Bridge with tone - with the neck and bridge having different capacitor values the switching provides disappointingly similar levels of blanket :( odd to want difference, but I'm odd like that  so similar volume output too.
Bridge with no tone has a slight volume boost.

Writing about it in a boring way that perhaps only I'll read anyway :D I think a 500k pot would be in order to brighten up the neck pickup a little more.

All this was tried on a Cornell Romany v1 with and without a Fulldrive2 and occasionally with a Zendrive acting as a clean boost... I find pedals do weird things to the volume knob :)

[roland_rat]

Cheers for the reply very intresting.  I had Jonathan install a lollar CC pickup in the neck of a tele and a lollar BS tele bridge pickup. Was going to have a bare knuckle in the bridge but in the end could not decide what would be a suitable match so opted on the safe side.  Initial impression I like the pickups. Something different sounding to my other guitars. That said Bare knuckle are still the pickups I look at first when shoping for pickups.

The five way switch and the different tone controls sounds intresting too!

[frankus]

That said Bare knuckle are still the pickups I look at first when shoping for pickups.

Yep, I agree with that. I'm fidgetting about changing the pickups in my Tokai 335 copy ... the neck is a SD Jazz with a triple shot and the bridge is a phat-cat - which I put in before I had a tele - so now it can come out and I can get a thicker bridge sound again.

First things first I'm adding a push-pull tone pot to add a choke and 0.1uF capacitor (kinda gives me a BB King honk thing on the neck pickup) - a single go varitone :)

yup, I'm a bit of a fiddler ;)