Nice results. That turned out quite well, indeed.

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IceratzSurf wrote:

synchro wrote:

Nice results. That turned out quite well, indeed. <<

Thanks Synchro!

I found out an important revelation, lesson to share.

The decision to use a top layer of strat pickguard 'ring' over the stock Jaguar pickguard turned out to be a necessary method of mounting the strat pickup.
I had cut up an old strat pickguard to fabricate rings and then glued them to the stock jag pickguard.

For the bridge, the only way to achieve the correct PU height adjustment up to the strings was to lift the PU to the point where the PU screw shoulders were above the stock Jsg pickguard height.
So, I effectively raised the PU using the strat pickguard mounting method to the top pickguard layer ring.

Normally a stratocaster setup is more level through the bridge, thus the PU is set lower, but still up close to the strings.
But the Jaguar bridge and break angle is more raised and creates a new issue.

So, what turned out to be an unknown factor in deciding how to mount these strat PUs turned out to be a serendipity!

Meanwhile, the neck PU height adjustment was no issue, and according to Fender spec is set lower to strings anyway.

I can't think of an alternative way to have mounted strat PUs otherwise.

I’m dealing with the inverse issue, because of that strange pickguard which came from Warmoth for the Jaguar I just built. I ended up mounting Jaguar pickups under Strat covers and using Strat style height adjustments. I can’t get the adjustment range necessary to balance the pickups, so the neck pickup overwhelms the bridge, when both are selected.

Not having a router, I have farmed out the work to a trusted luthier in the area, and when I get the pickguard back, I will remount the Jaguar pickups as they were intended to be mounted.

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When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

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Tqi wrote:

Here's updates on 2/4 of the current projects - pedalboards are waiting assembly and a few spares, no rush on that - and I've been clocking some long hours at work so no hackerspace time for amp work.

So, first up - one small part for the Jag-Stang:

Still using an old white Mustang pickguard as a placeholder for the inevitable Dark Vintage Tortoiseshell. But the Jaguar control plate was a must purchase to give me a sense of scale - it's not an original Fender part, but it's the same specs and I'm honestly not that fussy, £3.50 Chinese part is fine. Looking at this, I think the three-pickup layout is workable.

Even with the white pickguard, those three pickups look great, and lend a sense of power.

Tqi wrote:

Now, more importantly the Jazzmaster - pickguard attempt 2 is somewhee between Glasgow and my office, so still waiting on that - but I did get a new 3-way with white tip today, as well as a few very important parts for the v3 prototype pickup bobbins.

They're held together entirely friction fit with the 12mm magnets right now - the plan is to join the two halves with a loop of 4mm tape around the core and exposed bits of magnets - note to self - buy tape. One flaw in my genius I've found is that the light bracing ramps I used on the back to strengthen the mounting lugs makes them a little too narrow to sit deep in the trenches. As it stands, the surface of the pickups are at about "top of pickguard" height anyway, so I'm not sure it needs fixing, but I might revisit once the pickguard is here to see if there's margin for a slightly different bracing design. There's also the problem of not including a mounting hole for winding the pickup, and I think a slightly larger set of magnet holes may be in order as it required some rough finagling to open them up enough for the magnets. V4 is probably going to happen.

Apart from the inner and outer tapes there's a couple important parts still missing for the pickups. First, pickup wire. Second, a pickup winder. There are reasonably priced electric and manual options on eBay, Electric seems infinitely more sensible but is pretty westcountry and 3x the price. Wire - found a source of affordable enamel 42awg, just not buying it till I have a winder. Gonna get a whole kg up front, since these are my first pickups and they're entirely experimental. I may have mentioned this already but not having a good feel for turns to resistance to inductance, this is probably going to be a challenge with a few failures.

This should be an interesting project. Pickups are a bit more difficult to predict, because there are so many variables. An electrical engineer might be able to quantify all of the factors, but it couldn’t be done on the back of an envelope.

The artist formerly known as: Synchro

When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

Tqi wrote:

Here's updates on 2/4 of the current projects - pedalboards are waiting assembly and a few spares, no rush on that - and I've been clocking some long hours at work so no hackerspace time for amp work.

So, first up - one small part for the Jag-Stang:

Still using an old white Mustang pickguard as a placeholder for the inevitable Dark Vintage Tortoiseshell. But the Jaguar control plate was a must purchase to give me a sense of scale - it's not an original Fender part, but it's the same specs and I'm honestly not that fussy, £3.50 Chinese part is fine. Looking at this, I think the three-pickup layout is workable.

Now, more importantly the Jazzmaster - pickguard attempt 2 is somewhee between Glasgow and my office, so still waiting on that - but I did get a new 3-way with white tip today, as well as a few very important parts for the v3 prototype pickup bobbins.

They're held together entirely friction fit with the 12mm magnets right now - the plan is to join the two halves with a loop of 4mm tape around the core and exposed bits of magnets - note to self - buy tape. One flaw in my genius I've found is that the light bracing ramps I used on the back to strengthen the mounting lugs makes them a little too narrow to sit deep in the trenches. As it stands, the surface of the pickups are at about "top of pickguard" height anyway, so I'm not sure it needs fixing, but I might revisit once the pickguard is here to see if there's margin for a slightly different bracing design. There's also the problem of not including a mounting hole for winding the pickup, and I think a slightly larger set of magnet holes may be in order as it required some rough finagling to open them up enough for the magnets. V4 is probably going to happen.

Apart from the inner and outer tapes there's a couple important parts still missing for the pickups. First, pickup wire. Second, a pickup winder. There are reasonably priced electric and manual options on eBay, Electric seems infinitely more sensible but is pretty westcountry and 3x the price. Wire - found a source of affordable enamel 42awg, just not buying it till I have a winder. Gonna get a whole kg up front, since these are my first pickups and they're entirely experimental. I may have mentioned this already but not having a good feel for turns to resistance to inductance, this is probably going to be a challenge with a few failures.

This 3 pickup mustang with a jaguar switching is a dream of mine. Hope it works well. i want to do it some day

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Tqi wrote:

Shame on me for double posting, but this arrived and I think it's super neat.

Obviously for a Jazzmaster, the opposite would have been more useful, since as mentioned above - I've fallen back to Jaguar knobs out of practicality. But since that's.. physically impossible, this is still cool. And I like how simple it is.

Where did you find that?

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When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.

Just did a mod to my basement pedal board.
This was my first design built and has become my secondary board.
I needed drop slots for the patch chords and power lines. Also needed a custom patch chord length.
It's super clean now!

Today I got a new Catalinbread Topanga Burnside. It's really nice and not heard a lot here on SG101 about it.
The Reverb is excellent, but now with 18v, great headroom.
The built in Tremolo circuit is very cool but not really vintage. It only enters the Reverb mix on the trails.
So it's very expressive and interesting to play with.

Now this pedal board has 4 Reverbs all very different.

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