There has never been a pickup wound just for a Baritone, you dont want the pickup too dark, better to have some top end with a Baritone or it turns to soup.Originally Posted by wokkaboy
There has never been a pickup wound just for a Baritone, you dont want the pickup too dark, better to have some top end with a Baritone or it turns to soup.
The Fender VI had Jazzmaster pups and mine sounded bloody wonderful
Dave in the second gen they had the Jaguar pickups, 1st gen a strat like from memory? the 1st gen were connected to a base plate and gave a lively telecaster type sound, they only had them for 12 months. I will have to look at one of my pickup books tomorrow, i am over tired so i could be completely wrong.
But yes the Bass VI is on my to do sheet, 30" scale dropped an octave with the 4 postion switch in it.
The SGB-34 is 30"... hmm, with a few tweaks and a bit of routing you could have a SGB-VI (with a DP3T switch per pup giving you Off/In/Out Phase and an extra one for combined bass strangle and Eldred mod option). That could be nice.
Scott.
Mine was a gen 2 VI, picked it up in 1969 for $180 in the same pawn shop ( Elliot's in Elizabeth St between the now long gone Thooeys brewery and Chippy's Golf Shop at Central Station ) I got my L Series PBass for the same price, both guitars sadly long gone.
It had the four switches from the bridge end forward the switches were bass strangle, bridge, middle & neck pups.
It had Strat style pups with the metal snaggle tooth stuff down the sides of the pups ( I stuffed up here they are Jag pups not the JM P90s ) and the JM/Jazz floating Trem Bridge
Last edited by dave.king1; 01-04-2016 at 07:44 PM.
Thats what i like about guitars, they are as good as your imagination, the strangle switch was a good idea by Fender in the second gen but there's so much more you could do to it.
I will be using the Eldred mod in my next Esquire build.
Yeh thats the one Dave with the Jag pups with the claws, had to do with Leo and his magnetic field theories, it actually made the pickup brighter. I also believe it was costing too much to make the version 1, they had pretty intricate plates and cost a bomb.
I have had 2 Jaguars to work on and both had the claws around the wrong way, obviously done by tinkering guitar players, some jags came out of fender with the claws the wrong way around. The theory Leo used was to "amplify the magnetic field by use of the claw. It was designed for the treble strings, not so much for the bass strings, so you will notice the E&A strings have a shorter claw than the top 4.
Hot off the winder Wok
between 1951-1964 they scatterwound tele bridge pickup to 9200 winds, today they machine wind to about 7800.
Heres a good look at your new Pup Wok, bit more to do on this yet, solder the wires solder the plate and pot it oh and wind the neck in thin thin 43AWG when i get a chance. I call this place wire snap city using that stuff.you can hear me calling it names all the way to WA
haha
Now we are unravelling, my phone goes, grab for it, catch multi meter prong on the lead in wire and snap close to the winding, no saving it.
Why couldnt it have been the lead out wire grrrrr one wind back and you can save it...
Oh well time to go again tomorrow.
heres your pickup, dont think it will work lol
Oh dear, just as well you are a semi patient man Tony.
I used to do hot rewinds of slotcar motors back in the mid 60s, never fun when one went pear shaped as yours just did
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