Author Topic: Will single coils hang in HB rings? (experimental project) (Read 2128 times)

msplines · « **on:** January 23, 2006, 06:05:31 PM »

While I'm still waiting for a luthier quote (actually, it's not THAT long, it just SEEMS that long!) I have a question that I'm not currently equipped to answer.
Tim advised me on pickups to get a single coil sound in HB size routs, (MQs) but said (wisely) that if yer wants single coils, then that's what yer needs.
While I'm waiting, it occurred to me that I could try an experiment with, say Irish Tours to listen to the "offset" in a couple of my guitars with whose characteristics I am very familiar. (No smutty jokes please).
Can you suspend a strat type single coil from a standard HB ring or is it dimensionally impossible?
Sorry if everyone laughs me to scorn, but I ain't not got none ter try.

willo · « **Reply #1 on:** January 23, 2006, 07:06:14 PM »

Hi, is this the kind of thing you would be after?

If so, you can find them here (you just need to scroll down a bit):

http://www.allparts.uk.com/acatalog/PickupRingsSurrounds.html

msplines · « **Reply #2 on:** January 23, 2006, 08:45:04 PM »

Fantastic!
Ta lots
Mik

HTH AMPS · « **Reply #3 on:** January 23, 2006, 10:07:05 PM »

I've mounted a single coil in a HB ring befoe - you'll get a slightly different tone because the pickup is angled differently than if you used the standard slanted position.

Try both ways and see which you like best.

:twisted:

msplines · « **Reply #4 on:** January 23, 2006, 10:15:41 PM »

Yes, the angle was a consideration, but you are right, with both options available I should get a good idea of what the pickups are capable of without committing myself to a specific set up before the router starts gouging precious wood out.
Ta fer that;
mik