badash
Joined: Aug 18, 2006
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Posted on Mar 28 2007 04:29 PM
TooSteep
Thanks for the info. I will check out the Boosta Grande. Is that a surfcaster? I thought they had much more offset cutaways?
Nope it's an Chandler avenger. Yeah, the Surfcaster is basically a semihollow jazzmaster shape. Much more offset. The Avenger is more of a Moserite thing.
But back to the pedal. If you are at all concerned just find a used cheap Graphic EQ pedal. You can get maybe half the boost a boosta will give you, but you can shape it. Plus if it isn't for you, you can turn it over with NO financial loss as long as you didn't pay too much for it.
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90
Joined: May 16, 2006
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Florianopolis SC Brazil
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Posted on Mar 28 2007 10:12 PM
Not totally off-topic: the lipstick pickups sold by guitarfetish seem to have a wee bit more output, has anyone tried those? I don´t know how they´d work for a surf style guitar, but I´m thinking of buying a pair for a custom 12 string project...
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badash
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Posted on Mar 28 2007 11:20 PM
90
Not totally off-topic: the lipstick pickups sold by guitarfetish seem to have a wee bit more output, has anyone tried those? I don´t know how they´d work for a surf style guitar, but I´m thinking of buying a pair for a custom 12 string project...
Yeah, the GFS ones. They claim 8k on their hot one and Alnico II magnets. Sounds like a great pickup! Of course the only thing it has in common with original lipsticks is the chrome... Not intending to be mean, and if I was building a strat style guitar from the ground up I would probably go with a set of their matched, reversed middle lipsticks, but I wouldn't expect lipstick tones of them. Just cool looks and a classic strat sound. Kinda like the complaints about japanese Fender Jazzmaster pups...
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90
Joined: May 16, 2006
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Florianopolis SC Brazil
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Posted on Mar 29 2007 03:08 PM
badash
90
Not totally off-topic: the lipstick pickups sold by guitarfetish seem to have a wee bit more output, has anyone tried those? I don´t know how they´d work for a surf style guitar, but I´m thinking of buying a pair for a custom 12 string project...
Yeah, the GFS ones. They claim 8k on their hot one and Alnico II magnets. Sounds like a great pickup! Of course the only thing it has in common with original lipsticks is the chrome... Not intending to be mean, and if I was building a strat style guitar from the ground up I would probably go with a set of their matched, reversed middle lipsticks, but I wouldn't expect lipstick tones of them. Just cool looks and a classic strat sound. Kinda like the complaints about japanese Fender Jazzmaster pups...
Interesting. Should still work well for the 12 string though, so I´ll keep it as the pick up of choice for this project. 
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badash
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Posted on Mar 29 2007 03:19 PM
I'm with you! Like I said, if I was building a strat I'd get them. The price is even right! Just not for a Dano project. Did you look at the splitable humbucker model? Those look sweet...
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abdul_tom
Joined: Dec 04, 2006
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Posted on Mar 29 2007 05:47 PM
Syd Barrett also played a Dano 59. I really like his tone. Have another listen to Piper At The Gates of Dawn - there's a lot of spy & surf influence on that record
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90
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Florianopolis SC Brazil
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Posted on Mar 29 2007 09:22 PM
abdultom_
Syd Barrett also played a Dano 59. I really like his tone. Have another listen to Piper At The Gates of Dawn - there's a lot of spy & surf influence on that record
Lucifer Sam, totally.
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dkreidler
Joined: Mar 14, 2020
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Posted on Mar 14 2020 05:23 PM
Extremely late to this party. I have an original Hodad from 2001, and the pickups have become unreasonably microphonic... I was going to remove them to try to repot them in wax, but got scared off by the wiring on each pickup. Anyone know of a resource that discusses dealing with pickups like this? Thanks!
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LHR
Joined: Aug 23, 2006
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The jungle
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Posted on Mar 21 2020 12:04 PM
Wow, this is an old thread. Totally forgot about this one.
I have not heard of anyone potting these pickups. I can't imagine it would be that difficult, though.
FWIW, I ended up selling the Hodad. I kinda miss it in some ways. It would be fun for recording. The thing for me was that the neck or neck joint was so weak that I could cause the whole guitar to go out of tune just by playing chords, even rather gently. No amount of fiddling with it helped.
Likewise, the Bigsby arrangement did not hold a candle to the Jazzmaster and Jaguar vibrato.
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