JZ-6 Build No 7

[Simon Barden]

You were doing so well until you got to 'sea foam green'.

Just a bit concerned that 4 pickups might provide a lot of magnetic pull on the stings and cut down on sustain. It may also increase the tendency to get wolf notes unless the pickups are dropped down quite low (which will then give thinner and quieter sounds). All big 'mays' and you'll probably be fine. But if it does happen, and the singles are stock kit ones, then there's always the option of having one as a dummy pickup, not wiring it in and removing the magnet that's stuck on to the back of it, so it still looks the same. Or if its a RWRP pickup, leave it so that it's connected up when either of the other single coils (only) are selected, so you get a degree of hum cancelling. Even if it's not RWRP, as you've removed the magnet, you could just swap the coils output wire connections over.

[stansby40]

You were doing so well until you got to 'sea foam green'.

Just a bit concerned that 4 pickups might provide a lot of magnetic pull on the stings and cut down on sustain. It may also increase the tendency to get wolf notes unless the pickups are dropped down quite low (which will then give thinner and quieter sounds). All big 'mays' and you'll probably be fine. But if it does happen, and the singles are stock kit ones, then there's always the option of having one as a dummy pickup, not wiring it in and removing the magnet that's stuck on to the back of it, so it still looks the same. Or if its a RWRP pickup, leave it so that it's connected up when either of the other single coils (only) are selected, so you get a degree of hum cancelling. Even if it's not RWRP, as you've removed the magnet, you could just swap the coils output wire connections over.

Thanks Simon all good points. I had originally thought to keep one of the pickups as a dummy one. How did they get the position of the pickups so wrong? Even if I keep one as a dummy which one, the one nearest the bridge or the middle of the three?