stratdeluxer
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Hello fello Tokai folks.I've been doing some pretty serious tweaking on my beloved Love Rock..The results....
New wiring including shielded wiring(Guitar is dead quiet)
New gibson 3 way switch
4 new CTS short shaft 500k pots
Switchcraft output jack
.01 cap placed on the neck pickup's tone control...Nice slow controlled tone rolloff.
Made the neck tone control into a "No Load" tone pot....Removes the cap and pot resistance when the tone pot is set to 10...Gives the pickup more highend and more output....From 9 on down the tone pot acts just like stock.
I have the neck pickup pretty much flush with the pickguard...Sounds better to me,more articulate/clear..
Bridge pickup is back to the stock Tokai....Kind of bright...Jury still out on this pickup? Adjusting it up or down,still kinda bright unless I roll the tone control back to about half way....
.02 cap on the 500k tone pot.......Didn't do the No Load tone pot on this pickup as it doesn't need it... ;o) The Classic 57 Plus I had in this position was terribly microphonic and got sent back to Gibson for exchange....Don't know much about this pickup since it was pretty unusable...The Tokai humbuckers appear to be potted very well and are nice and quiet.
The Tokai bridge humbucker measures about what the Classic Plus measured in dc resistance which was around 8.8k...Nice 59 Les Paul overwound reading for the bridge actually....
This guitar is great and I'm about 95% there once I get the bridge pickup dialed in to my liking....
John
New wiring including shielded wiring(Guitar is dead quiet)
New gibson 3 way switch
4 new CTS short shaft 500k pots
Switchcraft output jack
.01 cap placed on the neck pickup's tone control...Nice slow controlled tone rolloff.
Made the neck tone control into a "No Load" tone pot....Removes the cap and pot resistance when the tone pot is set to 10...Gives the pickup more highend and more output....From 9 on down the tone pot acts just like stock.
I have the neck pickup pretty much flush with the pickguard...Sounds better to me,more articulate/clear..
Bridge pickup is back to the stock Tokai....Kind of bright...Jury still out on this pickup? Adjusting it up or down,still kinda bright unless I roll the tone control back to about half way....
.02 cap on the 500k tone pot.......Didn't do the No Load tone pot on this pickup as it doesn't need it... ;o) The Classic 57 Plus I had in this position was terribly microphonic and got sent back to Gibson for exchange....Don't know much about this pickup since it was pretty unusable...The Tokai humbuckers appear to be potted very well and are nice and quiet.
The Tokai bridge humbucker measures about what the Classic Plus measured in dc resistance which was around 8.8k...Nice 59 Les Paul overwound reading for the bridge actually....
This guitar is great and I'm about 95% there once I get the bridge pickup dialed in to my liking....
John