How about a PBG kit based on my HotRod Strat build?

[DrNomis_44]

Good to know, Dave, thanks for that.

Whilst we are still in the design phase, has anyone got any comments about the size of the standard control cavity (having no experience with the kit)? Big enough to fit a 5-way super switch with extra caps and resistors, or a battery if anyone wants to go active? Or would a little more space be appreciated by some?

Personally, I can't see why you couldn't do something radical, like installing a set of Active EMG pickups, I think that this would have been a popular mod back in the 80's, which reminds me, I have a Guitar Handbook that has a project in it for a simple preamp that can be installed in a Strat, under the scratchplate, it uses a single TLO71 IC and a few resistors and caps, looks relatively easy to make on a piece of Vero/stripboard, in fact, i seem to remember making one and it did work pretty well too.

Maybe that's a good project for the DIY section?

[Simon Barden]

Personally, I can't see why you couldn't do something radical, like installing a set of Active EMG pickups, I think that this would have been a popular mod back in the 80's.

It was, some of the most famous ones being Dave Gilmour's red Strats fitted with EMGs which he used as his main guitars from '85 through most of the '90s and still uses for some of the songs .



Even I succumbed - here's my 1987 white Chandler custom super-Strat (with Kahler trem split coil EMG 89 + 2 x EMG SA, and SPC presence boost) being played in 1994. Chandlers was a great guitar shop in Kew, London (sadly it shut down a few months ago due to the landlord doubling the rent) used by a lot of pro guitarists to maintain or modify their guitars (one of the DG red Strats came from Chandlers).