Interesting! I would never have guessed that the Les Paul had split coils.
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Thunderbird Club
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My boyhood hero. He along with Frank Shorter. Two of the greatest distance runners ever.
Famoso is just up the road from here. Haven’t been in way too long.
Yep. He should have never been on the road. Different time back then.
I’m guessing pickup selector since it started life as a II?
Fun post.
Speaking of magnets. I spent some hours yesterday with the Silverburst and TV Silver Epi Custom Shops. I am wondering if the magnets in them are Alnico. They sound closer to the Gibson Reissues and the DeColas than the standard Epi IV pickups do. At least to my ears.
Since we were doing cars...surprise. This is an exact version of my first car except I had velour seats.
All that plastic fake chrome.
Wait....that was real chrome on a real bumper back then.
Interesting! Thank goodness mother nature gave us electromagnetic forces or we wouldn't enjoy our basses!
Or planning for multiple rolls.
And darn lucky too. I rented one in Monroe, LA while waiting for my stuff to arrive from Huntington Beach, CA. I was on a frontage road off I20 bringing some burgers, fries, and shakes back to the Holiday Inn Holidome when a lady from Tennessee driving a van crossed the center divider. I flashed lights, laid on the horn but she kept coming. My choice was hit her or drive into a drainage ditch and risk ending up on I20 going the wrong way. So, I pulled as far right as I could and as she hit me, threw the car into a spin to pivot around the impact point. Since it was dark and the cops demanded I get checked out at the hospital, I didn't see the condition of the car.
The next day I took the wife to the rental lot to look at the car. It was cracked in half like an egg right at the landau roof line and the support pillar from just behind the driver's seat was driven through the back seat. The rear axle was missing...the real fun part is you can imagine what dried chocolate milkshake looked like all over the inside of the car after sitting out in 100 degree Louisiana weather. All that chrome and steel likely saved me from looking like those milkshakes.
Mine looks like that except it has a smaller pocket atop the larger pocket. It came one of the basses I bought used - either the CP or the VP, and has no mfr info on it that I can find. It works for all my birds, including the VP.
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Awesome. I was thinking about the smaller sheet; it should do for bass (and guitar) pickups in general.
Watched a little Sat night. I have a hard time getting into drag racing.
But I did watch every NASCAR race (finishing the Cup race tonight).
Oh, and Rugby that wasn't played too far from Geoff. He was even there. His team unfortunately lost. The camera did catch him a few times. Once when they lost the lead he threw his beer towards the field. The second time when they got scored on after the pounding was underway. He was so mad that time he grabbed the guy's beer next to him that tossed that one on the field.
OK, he was actually there. The rest of that I can't confirm.
The third time he grabbed the guy next to him and chucked him onto the field.
Given you were staring at someone coming head on--we all know that wan't chocolate milkshake all over the inside of the car. Unless that's what the kids are calling it these days. You're among friends. We all understand.
Most importantly, all of us are glad you survived.
Yeah, so you saw it too! I was unsure.
Thx, was a lot of fun. I still have dozens of other basses to check but thought these would interest most people here.
A previous owner must have had a second pickup professionally installed and as opposed to wiring it VVT like a traditional IV he wired it master volume, master tone and added a three way pickup selector switch for neck/both/bridge. It works surprisingly good and really would be a neat layout for a gigging artist (vs a homebound hack like me). Max volume and tone and flip to neck for nice crisp well defined lows, flip to bridge for bell clear highs, or flip to both for a nicely scooped sound with deep lows and glassy highs. Very gig friendly layout.
I’ve never measured my 2007 SG Mudbucker to see what the resistance is but I gotta believe it’s higher than my Goth pups which are around 15K IIRC.
Just takin one for the team.
Was fun, can’t wait to do some of my more obscure basses and pups.
Split Coils in a six string configuration no less. I’m not a guitar guru, but off the top of my head, I don’t recall any Gibson guitar pups with exposed poles in a 3/3 split.
Next time we get together be sure to have one of your custom shops with the “guitar” pickups in it available and we’ll use the magic film to see what’s inside.
I think Mother Nature only gave us magnetic forces. William Sturgeon seems to be credited with inventing the electromagnet. But heck, I’ll raise a pint to each of them!
The 4x6 sheet comes in handy if you want to span multiple pickups at the same time. Actually, a 6x8 sheet would be even better. 12” might be too long to fit between the bridge and fretboard of some basses. Also, there are different suppliers of this film. Some come with a foam backing or frame, those won’t work very well when it comes to getting between the strings and pups.
This is the one I bought and I very pleased with the quality and use ability of it…
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098MMNK52?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
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That's how my BC Rich is wired. I have nothing else to compare it with on that particular bass, but I'm a set-it-and-forget-it type person.
EM forces are all around us. Visible light and lightning are two common sources of electromagnetic fields we're all familiar with.
