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Permalink Reply by Mike Bingham on September 30, 2010 at 12:59pm

Hey Manic
Here are my thoughts. If your overall goal is to actually use STR-52 pups, there are a couple of ways to approach it. You could do the build for two pickups and only install one in order to get it playable. You could make a cover of some type to hide the other cavity until you get the funds to buy the second pickup and then upgrade at that point. A possibly better way is to build your guitar with cheaper pickups. You might be pleasantly surprised and leave them in. If not, you could upgrade by replacing one cheap pickup at a time with an STR-52 and then you could use the cheaper ones in future projects. If you aren't already hooked you will likely find that building these things is highly addictive. I've installed "cheap" pickups in all my builds to date and have to admit I haven't been at all disappointed in the tones I've been getting. There is so much variability in woods, placement, setup, strings, and such that the most expensive pickups in the book could sound terrible. I hope this helps... See Ya!

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Permalink Reply by Shawn on September 30, 2010 at 1:21pm

One word "Guitarfetish". Cheap and good sound look in the blowout section.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Gajeski on September 30, 2010 at 1:51pm

I'll second that. There is cheap hardware all over that site.

Shawn said:

One word "Guitarfetish". Cheap and good sound look in the blowout section.

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Permalink Reply by Reverend Hellgood on September 30, 2010 at 2:10pm

Guitar Fetish makes some seriously good pickups at seriously low prices.

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Permalink Reply by Gadsden Guitars on October 1, 2010 at 4:55pm

I think that's where I got my crome vintage humbuckers for a six string I made. I think I paid $40 for the set.

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Permalink Reply by Bluesdog on October 2, 2010 at 2:30am

Onley one pickup will work fine, there are various guitars wich have onley one pick-up like Hamony and Kay's. They sometimes have toneciquits (a switch with capacitators) built in for mutiple sound options like lead and rythem but if you place the pickup around the place where a middle pup would be on a strat you can do a whole lot with just a tonecontrole and a vollume.

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Permalink Reply by Manic8-Ball on October 2, 2010 at 3:54pm

I like that idea: using cheep pickups and upgrading later
I've been looking at guitar fetish, like alot of you said, and those look pritty good. Thanks to all 8)


Mike Bingham said:

Hey Manic
Here are my thoughts. If your overall goal is to actually use STR-52 pups, there are a couple of ways to approach it. You could do the build for two pickups and only install one in order to get it playable. You could make a cover of some type to hide the other cavity until you get the funds to buy the second pickup and then upgrade at that point. A possibly better way is to build your guitar with cheaper pickups. You might be pleasantly surprised and leave them in. If not, you could upgrade by replacing one cheap pickup at a time with an STR-52 and then you could use the cheaper ones in future projects. If you aren't already hooked you will likely find that building these things is highly addictive. I've installed "cheap" pickups in all my builds to date and have to admit I haven't been at all disappointed in the tones I've been getting. There is so much variability in woods, placement, setup, strings, and such that the most expensive pickups in the book could sound terrible. I hope this helps... See Ya!

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