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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:10 pm
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Nice job on the strat! I did a black on black strat and put the EMG's in it, kind of a Gilmourish hybrid.

I didn't get the EXG and SPC units though, I wonder if they make a huge difference in the sound. I really love the pickups as they are.


Those two pots are really the icing on the cake with respect to tone shaping the SA's. The history of those in the Gilmour guitars begins with Dave's need for a pickup which would not be effected by increasing RF inteference that his sound system was having on his existing single coils. This according to Phil Taylor, in his book The Black Strat. What was installed was the circuit in the DG-20. I had one on a natural finish '97 American Standard. I found that lifting the 'tail' of that pickguard was an annoyance, thus I put the battery in the trem rout after removing the center spring, in that I preferred a 'stopped' trem a la Clapton, but I don't see that arrangement hampering the action of a floating bridge. My first thought was to modifiy the trem rout cutting a pocket for the battery as the Clapton has, but in that the '97 guitars had a swimming pool rout, there would have been no back wall for the routing. Yes, there is a difference!! I don't know that I really appreciated that guitar as much as I should have. I swapped it out for an Artist Series Clapton. As a mate for my NOS Gilmour, this mod, using the CAR Vaughan guitar would be more my liking, because I have a preference for the V-neck. I might consider using a white finish against the moto guard. My Strat had a rosewood board. The combination of the mojo guard with the cream colored pups, natural finish, rosewood board was excellent but made way for the Clapton. GAS will out!!


I may look into trying those pots if I come across a bargain. I really do love the pickups either way. I put the battery in the trem-cavity and blocked the trem as well. I don't really use the trem on any of my guitars, but I'm looking forward to trying it out on the MIJ I just bought.

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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:14 pm
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Kong wrote:
ZZDoc wrote:
Kong wrote:
Nice job on the strat! I did a black on black strat and put the EMG's in it, kind of a Gilmourish hybrid.

I didn't get the EXG and SPC units though, I wonder if they make a huge difference in the sound. I really love the pickups as they are.


Those two pots are really the icing on the cake with respect to tone shaping the SA's. The history of those in the Gilmour guitars begins with Dave's need for a pickup which would not be effected by increasing RF inteference that his sound system was having on his existing single coils. This according to Phil Taylor, in his book The Black Strat. What was installed was the circuit in the DG-20. I had one on a natural finish '97 American Standard. I found that lifting the 'tail' of that pickguard was an annoyance, thus I put the battery in the trem rout after removing the center spring, in that I preferred a 'stopped' trem a la Clapton, but I don't see that arrangement hampering the action of a floating bridge. My first thought was to modifiy the trem rout cutting a pocket for the battery as the Clapton has, but in that the '97 guitars had a swimming pool rout, there would have been no back wall for the routing. Yes, there is a difference!! I don't know that I really appreciated that guitar as much as I should have. I swapped it out for an Artist Series Clapton. As a mate for my NOS Gilmour, this mod, using the CAR Vaughan guitar would be more my liking, because I have a preference for the V-neck. I might consider using a white finish against the moto guard. My Strat had a rosewood board. The combination of the mojo guard with the cream colored pups, natural finish, rosewood board was excellent but made way for the Clapton. GAS will out!!


I may look into trying those pots if I come across a bargain. I really do love the pickups either way. I put the battery in the trem-cavity and blocked the trem as well. I don't really use the trem on any of my guitars, but I'm looking forward to trying it out on the MIJ I just bought.


If you can get the set-up for the pots, i would try them out, seem to be a big difference from the reg. tone pots

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