Time to freak out the strat boys

3Cords · Post by **3Cords** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 11:30 pm

OK. I know this is going to annoy a few pursuits but stick with me.

Picked up a old squire strat copy from a local car boot sale.
Basically it is dead but the body and neck is good.
everything going to be rebuilt.
Bridge is missing spring and is rusted, pickguard is cracked and everything else was given to me in plastic bag. Lets say only a idiot would buy this thing.
But for me, this idiot just got him a $10 project. It worth a punt.

Was going the standard SSH pickup options till I found a little suprise
Anyway in the bags of junk I found a mini humbucker that seems to be in good condition. From what I can see it is a neck from a epiphone but no idea what model.

Anyway going to see whay I can do with this but have no idea what other pickups will work with this.

So let your imagination go wild guys, this is going to be a bit of a Frankenstein so no ideas will laughed at but maybe stolen.

So far I come up with getting another 2 mini humbuckers and standard five way switching ala strat.
Getting full sized humbucker for the bridge and going like a tele switching
Or go totally weird and get two singles for top and middle and put the mini in the bridge.

Any chuck up your ideas
3cords

kdawg2a · Post by **kdawg2a** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 5:21 am

A Strat with humbuckers? INSANE! You're crazy man!

Single coil · Post by **Single coil** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 5:40 am

Completely rout out the swimming pool and fill it with pickups.
Have it wired so there is an option for "all on".

StrummersOfThunder · Post by **StrummersOfThunder** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 6:28 am

Sounds like a great project.
I have two mini humbuckers (GFS mini crunchies) worthy of such a project.

jeremyb · Post by **jeremyb** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:06 am

kdawg2a wrote:A Strat with humbuckers? INSANE! You're crazy man!

Danger Mouse · Post by **Danger Mouse** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:40 am

Humbucker in the bridge, single coil in the neck, cut a big chunk out of the pick guard and paint it red with some black and white stripes badly masked and painted.

Get the feeling that may have been done before though...

3Cords · Post by **3Cords** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:52 am

StrummersOfThunder wrote:Sounds like a great project.
I have two mini humbuckers (GFS mini crunchies) worthy of such a project.

Would be great but I'm over in oz so postage could be a bit of a bugger

Danger Mouse wrote:Humbucker in the bridge, single coil in the neck, cut a big chunk out of the pick guard and paint it red with some black and white stripes badly masked and painted.

Get the feeling that may have been done before though...

Yep, no Floyd on this one though. Would not be right without that

Single coil wrote:Completely rout out the swimming pool and fill it with pickups.
Have it wired so there is an option for "all on".

Interesting, will have to look into that one. Sounds like a Job for a push pull knob maybe

Post by **Slowy** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:17 am

My vote goes to 3 mini Humbuckers. Nothing exceeds like excess!

Have always wanted to hear a Strat with Lipsticks too.

BTW, you will probably find the mini HB has a different string spacing to the Strat.

3Cords · Post by **3Cords** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:23 am

slowfingers wrote:My vote goes to 3 mini Humbuckers. Nothing exceeds like excess!

Have always wanted to hear a Strat with Lipsticks too.

BTW, you will probably find the mini HB has a different string spacing to the Strat.

Oh boy, didn't Think about that. Will have to pull the ruler and check

handlefras · Post by **handlefras** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:59 am

If you get a rail minihumbucker (firebird-style) I'm pretty sure the string spacing becomes irrelevant. If you get a mini with the visible screw poles then the string spacing would be more of an issue.

Vince · Post by **Vince** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:10 am

slowfingers wrote:Have always wanted to hear a Strat with Lipsticks too.

I think you can still get them, Strat size, from Seymour Duncan.

philbit · Post by **philbit** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:53 am

Its a start....http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instrume ... 233868.htm

calling card · Post by **calling card** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:12 am

Only way you'll freak me with a strat is to play something really impressive.

Miza · Post by **Miza** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:26 am

I'd put the mini HB in the neck for creamy/bluesy neck tones with a bit more bite, a full HB in the bridge for rockin' out, and a SC in the middle with a 5-way switch so you can blend it in with the HB's and get the traditional strat 'quack' tones in positions 2 and 4. Of course the bridge HB would need to be split-coiled for that to work effectively.

Then I'd paint it surf green.

Danger Mouse · Post by **Danger Mouse** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 12:22 pm

I played a bastardised Squire strat (Japanese) in a gutar shop in the UK a long time ago, it had a neck and bridge P90. It played and sounded so great I took it straight to the counter to buy. The guy at the counter then informed me it was his personal guitar and not for sale, it was just in for a set-up. I was gutted.

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