AGP #180 - “Limited Use Only’’
(3 String Licence Plate Guitar)
Scale: 622.3mm / 24½ inches
Strings : .038NW / .028NW / .018NW /
Tuning : GDG
The neck is recycled Cypress Pine, the box sides are recycled Treated Pine , the back is Luan Ply, Tailpiece is a piece of home hammered tin, the Licence Plate was rescued from a dumpster by my son at his work place.
The build was trouble free, until I plugged it in and discovered the bloody! Pickup didn’t work, after checking soldered joints etc; and the wiring of the pickup itself, I couldn’t find anything wrong, it was then that I done something I should have done ages ago and purchased a cheap ‘Digital Electric Multimeter’, and come up with result that one of the coils must have a broken coil wire, after a few wiring changes the end result was that I eventually ended up with essentially a working Single Coil Pickup, which has a reading of 4.34k, compared with a fully working Humbucker of the exact same type used in a previous build (AGP #163) which has a reading of 8.16k.
The revamped Single Coil works well, and has a good bright sound to it, whether this is due to the Pickup, the lighter than normal strings I use, or the structure of the box, I don’t know, maybe a combination of the three???, anyway happy with the fact that I rescued a Pickup, and in future will check “all” Pups before installing.