GPOTD Guitar Pic of the Day - 12.16.10

I was thinking that's the worst-looking Tele I've ever seen,
but Mr. Mark Weins' presentation says it best.
I always thought Antigua was the cheesiest (tres fromage) finish I ever saw.
Seeing the two levels of pickup screws just makes it seem ridiculous.
 
John Watt said:
I was thinking that's the worst-looking Tele I've ever seen,
but Mr. Mark Weins' presentation says it best.
I always thought Antigua was the cheesiest (tres fromage) finish I ever saw.
Seeing the two levels of pickup screws just makes it seem ridiculous.
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the pickup screws are fine. what's wrong with them?
 
aaah.... are you old enough to have partaken of the great debate about the angled slant of Strat single coils,
and whether Jimi reversing his strings made them work differently, maybe being the magic secret of his sound?
You know, those six inline poles of differently calculated height that defines Stratocaster pickups?
Especially since Jimi was saying he liked to use the middle and bridge pickup together for a softer, phasey sound,
when Fender didn't wire them that way?
I built left-hand bodies and pickguards with them slanted like Jimi and stock, finding no real difference, I'm that serious.

This also means I think it's silly that Gibson installs pickups with poles reversed on two humbucker models.
I think magnetic alignment allows more predictable, and definable, electronic travel than just creating opposing fields.
My floor and loop effects through my stereo preamp agree with me.
This whole new world of digital means Gibson should defragment their design.
 
John Watt said:
aaah.... are you old enough to have partaken of the great debate about the angled slant of Strat single coils,
and whether Jimi reversing his strings made them work differently, maybe being the magic secret of his sound?
You know, those six inline poles of differently calculated height that defines Stratocaster pickups?
Especially since Jimi was saying he liked to use the middle and bridge pickup together for a softer, phasey sound,
when Fender didn't wire them that way?
I built left-hand bodies and pickguards with them slanted like Jimi and stock, finding no real difference, I'm that serious.

This also means I think it's silly that Gibson installs pickups with poles reversed on two humbucker models.
I think magnetic alignment allows more predictable, and definable, electronic travel than just creating opposing fields.
My floor and loop effects through my stereo preamp agree with me.
This whole new world of digital means Gibson should defragment their design.
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old enough? people are still having that stupid argument. and it's still stupid 40 years later.

so how is your neck humbucker wired then?
 
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