It wont effect the greasebucket unless your on that particular pickup. The baseplate is going to add bass and middle to a bridge pickup so when you roll off the greasebucket its going to not increase the bass of that pickup, just tame the treble. I think it sounds a good mod for a weaker pickup. If you added a no load pot you'd get the best of all worlds. A slightly thicker sounding pickup on 9 of the tone pot, on 10 its like its wired without the tone pot in its circuit, on 8 and below you tame the treble without losing clarity.

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No no and no

Like a Delta Tone pot.

That explains why my American Standard sounds so good when I roll the tone off on my bridge pickup.

Nice guitar but I am not a fan of the big frets. Not a bad shred tone though.

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I got a H1 because of the thinner neck and larger frets - I was also a bit doubtful about the H1's nitro finish when I first saw it, but once I played one I was in no doubt that it was the right choice for me.

Having a tone control on the bridge pup was weird, too (still kind of getting used to that), but the main thing for me was the neck/fret combo, and that it just felt "right" in my hands. I never worry too much about pups, since they can be changed without too much fuss, but I've become really attached to the alnico 3's.

I've played 'normal' strats for years - MIJ and MIA - and this is my favourite to date. Whether or not it's a "real" strat according to someone else's definition never really entered my thoughts - I just liked the neck more than the neck on the USA Standards I played.

I'd gone to the shop with an open mind that day, and played all sorts of different things, but the H1 just grabbed me immediately, and I was kind of mentally comparing the rest of the guitars I played afterwards to that one - so I figured that's the one I ought to buy.

lol, you got me figured out!
Nah, just not the average instrument. I started with a Korean squire and loved the feel of the neck and the build quality was supurb, still use it today with a hex pickup. I like that a lot better than a friends MIJ Fender which does nothing well but hank marvin stuff. I also knew someone with a USA model and while I found that OK there was no lust value whatsoever.
The instruments that influenced me most were the CBS era pigs that the older musicians in my small country town had. Awful to play but somehow managed a vibe that was impossible to match. One was put together from pieces in the bin, another was stumbled upon in the dark parking lot after the band had left. The 'normal' strat just don't excite me no more.
The H1 gives me some of that vibe without the manhandling or quality issues.

I bought my H1 HSS on the 2nd of this month. At first I wasn't exactly happy with the matte finish. But after constant playing since she came home she's starting to shine as brightly as any other nitro finish I have. Just playing and cleaning these past almost three weeks has buffed her out. based on this I have no doubt that high contact surfaces will wear off quickly. Maybe even as short as a few months. But that's one of the selling points of the H1. Why pay extra bucks to have someone pre-trash a guitar for you? The H1 sounds gnarly and it's made to look gnarly after some lovin'.

My main reasons for getting this H1 was because I wanted an HSS. I really love the two hot single-coils as well as the very distortion friendly Atomic humbucking pickup. No complicated switches or knobs. Just the straight 5 position switch and a very cool Grease Bucket Circuitry. This has to be the sleeping giant in this axe. Rolling off highs without muddy lows! The guitar just shines in low volume with some gain on the amp. Then just roll up the volume knob brutalize. She's built for it.

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