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Post subject: New pic on robbie robinson
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:23 am
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Here you can see the pickup arrangement as robbie is plugged in at the CRossroads Concert.
BTW He's about to play "Who Do You Love"
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Post subject: Re: New pic on robbie robinson
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:31 am
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Here you can see the pickup arrangement as robbie is plugged in at the CRossroads Concert.
BTW He's about to play "Who Do You Love"
RIP BO!!


Excellent, thank you. Though that still doesn't quite settle whether it's a humbucker or two singles - though the screws at either end make it look like single coils, would you say? Wiser heads than mine (Jim, Doc) seem to feel it's singles.

Now, I've never claimed to be anything other than a dunce at the electronic stuff. So can you tell me, if you place two single coil pickups hard up side-by-side and connect them in series, doesn't that amount to a humbucker? I'm thinking of the PRS 513, for example. But this stuff always makes my head hurt: I just want to be told, please.

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Post subject: Re: New pic on robbie robinson
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:59 am
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Ceri wrote:
dna9656 wrote:
Here you can see the pickup arrangement as robbie is plugged in at the CRossroads Concert.
BTW He's about to play "Who Do You Love"
RIP BO!!


Excellent, thank you. Though that still doesn't quite settle whether it's a humbucker or two singles - though the screws at either end make it look like single coils, would you say? Wiser heads than mine (Jim, Doc) seem to feel it's singles.

Now, I've never claimed to be anything other than a dunce at the electronic stuff. So can you tell me, if you place two single coil pickups hard up side-by-side and connect them in series, doesn't that amount to a humbucker? I'm thinking of the PRS 513, for example. But this stuff always makes my head hurt: I just want to be told, please.

I think so; the $28.00 dollar (a fantastic amount in the early '70s) PAFs I bought at Lay's Guitar Repair in Akron were just as you describe; 2 coils wired together....

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Post subject: Re: New pic on robbie robinson
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:40 pm
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So can you tell me, if you place two single coil pickups hard up side-by-side and connect them in series, doesn't that amount to a humbucker?


One of the pickups would have to be RWRP from the other to make them humbuckers.

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Post subject: Re: New pic on robbie robinson
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:00 pm
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dna9656 wrote:
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Here you can see the pickup arrangement as robbie is plugged in at the CRossroads Concert.
BTW He's about to play "Who Do You Love"

RIP BO!!


AMEN: Had the pleasure of meeting him one afternoon about 15 years ago in "Manny's" on W 48th Street in Manhattan. Very congenial gentleman was Mr. McDaniels. Had a great chat. One of my fond memories of happenstance in the music district.

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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:10 pm
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Ceri wrote:
dna9656 wrote:
Here you can see the pickup arrangement as robbie is plugged in at the CRossroads Concert.
BTW He's about to play "Who Do You Love"
RIP BO!!


Excellent, thank you. Though that still doesn't quite settle whether it's a humbucker or two singles - though the screws at either end make it look like single coils, would you say? Wiser heads than mine (Jim, Doc) seem to feel it's singles.

Now, I've never claimed to be anything other than a dunce at the electronic stuff. So can you tell me, if you place two single coil pickups hard up side-by-side and connect them in series, doesn't that amount to a humbucker? I'm thinking of the PRS 513, for example. But this stuff always makes my head hurt: I just want to be told, please.

Cheers



What Fender did with the Tele Plus I owned was as follows:

The neck pup was a single Blue Lace Sensor; the neck a Red Dually; They were wired to the standard Tele three-way selector and tone and volume pots. There was a mini-toggle coil splitter.

In the neck position you had the neck pickup; in the middle position you had the neck and bridge; (you could toggle the rear dual or the front dual out;) in the bridge position you could have both duals, the rear or the front.

The guitar's bridge and saddles were the same as presently still on that James Burton over there on the right of this edit page. Same neck and fret ware with a natural finish body and a white pickguard (scratchplate for you Brits.)
The person who got their hands on THAT guitar has one helluva rocker. But I don't particularly care for Tele's so I swapped it for a '93 Clapton. Do I miss it....esthetically....absolutely. I expect that Fender's done something of that sort with the S-1 system, but that Tele circuit would be a kicker on a Robbie Robertson Stratocaster. :idea:

Of course, we now can begin to debate which pups should be in that guitar. That will busy the masses for a time.

It's late.....or early depending on where you are. :?

Haste manana, dudes


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Post subject: Re: New pic on robbie robinson
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:13 am
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... ... ... Same neck and fret ware with a natural finish body and a white pickguard (scratchplate for you Brits.) ... ... ...
Doc


No, no: we have pickguards too. But what are these "tubes" whereof our trans-marine cousins speak? To us that's the middle cardboard bit if a toilet roll.

(For our more literal-minded colleagues: yes, I am being flippant...)


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Post subject: Re: New pic on robbie robinson
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:23 am
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Ceri wrote:
zzdoc wrote:
... ... ... Same neck and fret ware with a natural finish body and a white pickguard (scratchplate for you Brits.) ... ... ...
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No, no: we have pickguards too. But what are these "tubes" whereof our trans-marine cousins speak? To us that's the middle cardboard bit if a toilet roll.

(For our more literal-minded colleagues: yes, I am being flippant...)



I'm familiar with EC referring to the device as a 'scratchplate'. However, if we are going to embark on a voyage into pseudosymanticism I can certainly begin a most creative discourse on "valves" beginning precisely where you left off.

Doc :P


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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:29 am
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Ceri wrote:
zzdoc wrote:
... ... ... Same neck and fret ware with a natural finish body and a white pickguard (scratchplate for you Brits.) ... ... ...
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No, no: we have pickguards too. But what are these "tubes" whereof our trans-marine cousins speak? To us that's the middle cardboard bit if a toilet roll.

(For our more literal-minded colleagues: yes, I am being flippant...)



I'm familiar with EC referring to the device as a 'scratchplate'. However, if we are going to embark on a voyage into pseudosymanticism I can certainly begin a most creative discourse on "valves" beginning precisely where you left off.

Doc :P


Go!!!


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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:31 pm
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Ceri wrote:
zzdoc wrote:
Ceri wrote:
zzdoc wrote:
... ... ... Same neck and fret ware with a natural finish body and a white pickguard (scratchplate for you Brits.) ... ... ...
Doc


No, no: we have pickguards too. But what are these "tubes" whereof our trans-marine cousins speak? To us that's the middle cardboard bit if a toilet roll.

(For our more literal-minded colleagues: yes, I am being flippant...)



I'm familiar with EC referring to the device as a 'scratchplate'. However, if we are going to embark on a voyage into pseudosymanticism I can certainly begin a most creative discourse on "valves" beginning precisely where you left off.

Doc :P


Go!!!



T'would be a creative endeavor full of levity but methinks we'll save Brad the 'agita' and reserve this forum for the traditional business at hand.

".....and so we yet but turn another page."

Next victim!

Doc :arrow:


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Post subject: Re: New pic on robbie robinson
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:59 pm
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T'would be a creative endeavor full of levity but methinks we'll save Brad the 'agita' and reserve this forum for the traditional business at hand.

".....and so we yet but turn another page."

Next victim!

Doc :arrow:


Hm! Promises, promises.

"I had over-prepared the event,
that much was ominous.
With middle-aging care
I had laid out just the right books.
I had almost turned down the pages."

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