Any possible problems/side-effects with mixing these pickup types?

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― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link

What kind of pickups are the 621/623? If they're humbuckers
(which is what I'm thinking) P-90's wont fit. I know that somebody makes a p-90 in a humbucer sized chassis, but I can't remember who right now.

What might help more is if I knew what kind of guitar it is, which would give me a little more insight into how difficult the wiring harness is going to be to deal with.

By the way, if it's a semi-hollow or hollowbody, you probably want to stop right now...

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

washburn hb-30, basically a generic version of a gibson dot i.e. hollowbody ;0(

not that big a deal really. but is it really that much more difficult w/ a hollowbody?

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:17 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry yeah they are humbuckers

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:18 (eighteen years ago) link

it's pictured on the 'new guitar' thread

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link

or rather the "ah fuck it, what do your guitars look like" thread (i need admin)

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link

HB-30's are cool, but rewiring hollowbodys is a total pain in the ass. You have to pull the wires out of either a pickup hole or a f-hole to do the wiring, generally, and even worse, you have to be able to pull all the pots/switches/etc. back into place afterwards. I'll try to do some research on the wiring harness on that guitar and let you know exactly how pain in the ass it will be...

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Thursday, 8 June 2006 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks john. don't trouble yourself too much as i'm a novice with electronics/wiring and should probably just leave things be rather than chance fucking it up royally

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Thursday, 8 June 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

All I really need to do is figure out whether the pickups connect durectly to the switch or not. If so, banzai!

No trouble at all, really. This is what I do all day anyway...

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Friday, 9 June 2006 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Theoretically, the higher impedence of the bridge pickup VS neck pickup might make the bridge weaker than expected in the mixed position VS each solo.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Sunday, 27 August 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

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