Do an Yngwie and put 3 single coils on it
Then it'd be a cross between your two fave guitars
funny you should say that jonathan! the plan is definitely to make it more strat-like. i've thought alot about this, as I'm sure you can imagine. the single coils in that strat-V of his surely sound good, but I don't like the look of them particularly:
(especially not with the way he has the controls and jacks)
in my opinion double humbuckers look best in Vs. i thought about the H-S setup in the Jackson Wolf Hoffmann signature, since that would be ideal sound wise, but I'm not convinced on the look still:
On the other hand, his HSS Hamer, i think, looks totally fine:
would it work with black pickups in an SSS set up - with no angle on the bridge - hard to say.
now, the experiment i did on the Johnny Winter V with a parallel wound neck was entirely successful - the neck position is now nice, bright and stratty - perfect for live use. i have a spare set of dirty fingers that i might swap with the jury rigged set in the Johnny Winter, or i might modified the spare set.
then there is the controls, since i do like some uli jon roth violining effects as you know! but the concern again is spoiling the classic look. i think it would be fine on a rear-routed V though, but not sure about one with a 60s type scratchplate. i saw this picture of Wolf Hoffmann from the late 80s:
hes modified his V with a single volume control. even if the volume control is in the wrong place, it does work with the look. i think that is something i might have to 'suck and see'.
any thoughts anyone?
