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Miles Lang
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Venturaloha
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Liam Tyner
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 2 Aug 2021 12:23 pm |
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If you wire in a blend pot you can turn both pickups all the way on and you get the humbucker sound but still have the option of dialing in the thinner single coil sound.
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2021 12:46 pm
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I acquired a junker Ultratone body and installed a pair of Sentell Stringmaster-style single-coil pickups:
I wired it according to the Seymour Duncan diagram:
As Liam stated, with the blend control full-on, both pickups are in a humbucking mode, and it's almost as quiet as a church mouse peeing on a cottonball. Not much of a looker, but it's a great-sounding instrument. Doesn't sound much like my Bakelite Ric, though. At least not to my ears. |
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Harry Sheppard
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Kalispell, MT USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2021 1:15 pm
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"with the blend control full-on, both pickups are in a humbucking mode"
Make sure the pickups are reverse wound, reverse polarity. Otherwise they are just in series, not Humbucking. |
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2021 2:33 pm
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| Make sure the pickups are reverse wound, reverse polarity. Otherwise they are just in series, not Humbucking. |
That's an important point. Mr. Sentell will in fact, wind his Stringmaster pairs reverse polarity by request. |
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John Sims
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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Posted 13 Aug 2021 12:55 pm
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| I don't know if you can do it on that kit, but I just finished making a lap steel and used a 3 pole, 4 position switch to connect my two pickups. Maybe that might work for you if you want to try both pickups in different configs. I can tell you that wired in series, they sound way better than wired in parallel. https://youtu.be/_4wT47G_hi0 |
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Bill Groner
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QUAKERTOWN, PA
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Posted 18 Aug 2021 9:14 am
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| Jack Hanson wrote: |
I acquired a junker Ultratone body and installed a pair of Sentell Stringmaster-style single-coil pickups:
I wired it according to the Seymour Duncan diagram:
As Liam stated, with the blend control full-on, both pickups are in a humbucking mode, and it's almost as quiet as a church mouse peeing on a cottonball. Not much of a looker, but it's a great-sounding instrument. Doesn't sound much like my Bakelite Ric, though. At least not to my ears. |
Love your choice of words Jack!
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Currently own, 6 Groner-tone lap steels, one 1953 Alamo Lap steel, Roland Cube, Fender Champion 40 |
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