thinking of striping a strat to a single neck pickup, anyone a fan?

[EricPeterson]

I love the neck pickup on a strat, and I often use only that, espeically for rhythm. I have my old black, rosewood board squire and a perloid SSS pickguard and one decent single coil. I am thinking of taking the ceramic HSS setup off the squire and wiring the alcino single up to a single volume knob and then straight to the jack. Anyone else do this? Pictures for inspiration would be nice.

[Blue4Now]

I rememeber seeing a picture of a parts strat that Rob Distefano built liek that. It ws way. Its proly on his web site. www.frettech.com (http://www.frettech.com)

yep, just checked he has one liek that under his strat section

[kristian]

I think its a very good idea and have considered doing it myself. I love the neck pickup and live on it for clean sounds.

[chucke99]

From the Frettech site (linked directly to the image there):

http://www.frettech.com/images/strat-tele-full800.jpg

[Tone_Terrific]

I find neck pups to get woofy under heavier distortion.
If you are looking for more simplicity convert the Squier to H and S with a 3 way toggle sw and one pot. You don't have to use the Hb but I sure would.

[never-enough]

I did all kinds of stuff to my first guitar, an old squire strat that I played for years and years.

It ended up with a single coil in the neck and a humbucker in the bridge, each pickup had a volume knob but no tone control and no pickup selector switch.

It was a really cool versatile setup.

[ShavenYak]

why not?
i have set one of my strats up duo-sonic style

check out the burgundy-mist (pink) Strat to the far right

That's pretty cool looking. Is one of the pickups RWRP?

I probably would have kept both tone knobs, and had one for each pickup. Then again, I don't know if I'd be happy without the neck/middle combination being available....

[guitardirky]

Stevie Ray used to have yellow strat set up like this. I think it was a '64 that someone had swimming pool routed.

[Kontalonis]

Stevie Ray used to have yellow strat set up like this. I think it was a '64 that someone had swimming pool routed.

+1

I remember seeing this guitar during one of the Montreux sets. I can't remember what kind of pickup it had in it though. I wanna say it was a chrome lipstick pickup but then again i could be mistaken. Regardless, i know the guitar you're talking about.

Upon further research I found this:

Yellow was a yellow 1959 Stratocaster that was given to Stevie by Vanilla Fudge's lead guitarist. It was in poor shape, but was restored by Charley Wirz. When Yellow was given to Charley , the body was hollowed out to accept four humbuckers, Charley then removed the humbuckers and fashioned a new pickguard in which he placed a single Fender Strat pickup in the neck position. Stevie placed his signature "SRV" sticker directly under the strings, where normally the other two pickups are installed. The hollow body gave Yellow a unique, "ringing" sort of tone. This was supposedly the guitar played on the album versions of "Honey Bee" and "Tell Me". Yellow was stolen in 1985 at the Albany Airport in New York, but was later recovered and is now on display in the Las Vegas Hard Rock Cafe.

To top it all off here's a vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrxnolOf1Z0

[guitardirky]

Also if you look further than wikipedia there is a site that lists it as a 64. it's called www.jcdisciples.org/musicians/srv/guitar (http://www.jcdisciples.org/musicians/srv/guitar) .

[screamtone]

I did that to a Strat once. It was really cool, until I took it to a blues gig without taking another guitar. The bandleader called out a Zeppelin tune (much to my surprise), and I was totally screwed without a bridge pickup. It became my slide guitar after that. I spend 90% of my time on the neck pickup, but that other for the 10%, a bridge pickup was really important.

[MarkF786]

Why not just keep your pickup selector in the first position?

[EricPeterson]

Why not just keep your pickup selector in the first position?

If you have to ask... you will never know. J/k

I am thinking less wiring = a more direct tone, less places for tone loss, less load on the circuit, less capacitence. Basically less is more.

Plus I only have one decent pickup to put in it right now, trying to get it done on the cheap. Also there is something about the idea that intrigues me, like it is the anti-shreader. Instead of a high output humbucker in the bridge a low output single in the neck. I guess I am a little crazy :crazy