Well, y'all know about my E4xxxxx Strat with the swimming pool routing, at least if you recognized my previous thread, where I asked about the routing.

I received it without a saddle (the previous owner didn't know and simply put the strings on without saddle, ha ha ha).
So I put in a graphite saddle, since the guitar is black as well. There wasn't a white one available in the shop anyway and I didn't want plastic and the bone saddles weren't slotted yet.

Allright, get the machine going with my Cyber Twin ...... EEEEK!!
The sound was pretty bright and twangy, even though it has an elder body and rosewood fb. Sounded more like a maple neck strat with low output SCs.

Hmmm....I've got my oly white 1986 "Moby" for warm and smooth clean tones, I've got my 2002 Texas Special equipped "Pearl" for slide and/or Bluesrock, I've got my 1996 Buddy Guy Signature with maple neck for sparkling clean, burning bluesrock and even pretty hot high gain stuff (TBX + 25db mid boost).
I decided that I don't need another sparkling clean Strat or Tele-like bluesrock machine (even though it sounded pretty good with Status Quo stuff), so I decided to do what I always wanted to do: a DOUBLE FAT STRAT.

I had this pickguard laying around in my drawer. I got it loaded off the *bay a while ago and never tested it nore had I ever heard the sound of the pickups yet. I read a couple of reviews about those pickups and simply bought them. I even hadn't ever HEARD about these pickups before.
Since the Strat has a swimming pool routing and there's no body work necessary to install the HBs, I simply did it!

Wow, guys 'n' gals, if you ever get a hold of Tonerider Generator pickups, go check' em out.
My axe sounds smokin' hot with these HBs, I just couldn't believe what escaped my speakers!!! If you are into blues and bluesrock, even hard rock maybe, then these PUs are quite what you might be looking for!!
With the coil split toggle switch I get everything from clean over SRV tone to really smokin' hot blues rock in the style of ZZ Top, 70s Status Quo, Fastway, up to harder stuff like AC DC & Co.

Some of you might smile, because this is not REALLY a PROJECT, but I thought I'd like to share it with you guys. No stunning body work or finishes, just plain pickup swapping and exchanging knobs. (I plan to install amp knobs though, in the style of "The Ventures". Looks cool, I think)

Here's the pics:

BEFORE



AFTER

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STRATS ROCK!!! but Teles and Firebirds, too!

Wow that really changed the looks. I know what you mean about the sound. There are just difference between a single coil and a humbucker. As much as I like pickups like a Blue Lace or small stacked single coil humbucker, the full sized real mccoy is just that—the real mccoy. For jazz/blues/fusion man I just love the full sized humbucker in the neck.

When I looked at the guitar I wondered what it would look like with the pickups flipped around—I mean, to keep them in the same position but just turn them around. To have the black be closest to the body and the white being a transition into the white pickguard? Just a thought that came to my head while looking at it.

Did you do the coil splitting on this? There was a wiring diagram that was done by Steve Ahola that I wanted to try with this configuration. It is not as cool as the Gibson L6 wiring using the 5-way rotary switch but for a 5-way blade it does some cool sounds. One has to use a dual wafer, 4-lug Fender Super switch to get this setup. It gives you #1 Neck humbucker, #2 Inside coils parallel, #3 inside coils series, #4 outside coils parallel, and #5 Bridge humbucker

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Yes, it's got a coil split toggle switch between the knobs, splitting both HBs at the same time.

With the switch in split-position, I have bridge -- bridge/neck -- neck as single coil combinations.

With the switch in non-split-position, I'm not sure yet, what the middle position does. The sound is different (fatter) like the middle position in split-position but it doesn't sound like 2 Humbuckers in series. Maybe both HBs in parallel????

I'll probably find out and will tell you......

BTW, in case you haven't noticed my other thread, it looks like this now:

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Kindest regards from Germany, Dee
My recordings --> http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_mu ... dID=564337
STRATS ROCK!!! but Teles and Firebirds, too!