Maybe; I got it used, so it may have been customized, though it doesn't look like it was. I added my own custom ones after owning it for a while. I've been wanting to try out EMGs for a while now.
and butted it up to the other angled picup.. mind you i had to chizzle out some of the body under the pic guard and i just wired the pick up straight into the other 1.. mind you while i was doing this i was hammer drunk!!! (do not sudgest doing this drunk).. but i had a gropund problem and notice a few loose wires and sauldered them any where i see fit.. not i got no sustaine and suvere feed back problems.. but ill get it up and screamin and post a vid.. PEACE!
MasterCamz -- HEY MAN I KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKIN ABOUT.. you know the angled pickup by the bridge on a strat?.. we check this out.. i ripped my strat appart and ditched all the pickups and wired in a single coil out of an ibanez rg470 or 450. and sauldered it useing the wires from the neck pick up and flipped it upsidedown and screwed it into the bridge.. sounded fuckin amazing!!!.. but i wanted more!. so i ripped out the single coil in my s470
Where do you buy the caps to put over your pickups, so that its a diffrent color? Im making an Jem GMC but I dont kno where to find the green pickup caps, tone and volume knobs
hey i switched my pickups to some emgs but they are loose and when i try to tighten them they just move up and touch the strings and like when you turn the guitar faceing down the pickups act like there gonna fall out, help?
Well, sometimes pickups are a little loose. Turning the screw to the right ("tightening") draws the pickup upward. You can't use the screws to tighten the pickups, only to adjust the height.
The pickgaurd? If you mean the big piece, no, but if you mean the little plastic part that goes over the actual coils, then yes. Those parts are just for show.
There are some specially designed Strats that have no pickgaurd at all, but you have to buy them like that.
Well, I don't know if there's anything you could do for that, cheaply. The pickups are mounted to the pickgaurd, so you'd have to get a Strat body that is designed to hold pickups without a pickgaurd.
Buying a body can get expensive, and with all the work you'd have to do, it would be easier to sell your guitar and get another one with the design you desire. The only time I'd buy a body is if I had a really good neck and set of pickups, but the body I have is holding it back.
I mostly just use the DK1 because it is superior in every way to the Strat except the strat stays in tune longer and the stings are closer to the frets.
Translation: I like to play the purple/blue/green guitar much more than I like to play the blue and white one. The white/blue one has it's good points, though, but not enough.
Oh, and I have an acoustic guitar, too. There's another option.
hey futuresP. i see that you know alot about pickups and that is why iam asking you this question. I have a fender strat that has 3 pickups, but im planning to reduce it to two one being a seymore duncon invader and the other seymore duncon 78 model. i wanted to know if its a good idea to do this( i sourt of want the best of both worlds, Metal/Classic Rock)And how would i get a two way swittch
Hmmm... Well, first off, you'd have to find a pickgaurd that you could mount those two pickups to (I don't even know if they make them for Strats).
That combo should sound really good, especially for alternative rock, and the metal one should be closest to the bridge.
As for the switch, you could make the 5 way switch a "1, 1-2, 2, 2, OFF" switch. If not that, you could probably find a 3-way "1, 1-2, 2" switch somewhere online.
Well would it be bad if i put the 78 in the bridge and the invader in the neck. Seymore duncon recomends the 78 to be in the bridge and the invader to be in the neck
Ha, yeah, the order is wrong, but I did mean to get it wrong, however, not like that. I customized it so the pickups are in 1-3-2 order, but since this was a teaching thing, I didn't want to get too complicated.
On the standard guitar, yes, what you pointed out is true.
What a useless f n video are you a retard?
mustang67111 11 months ago
either my toggle is messed up or you messed up becuase when my switch is set towrd the bottom its only using the bridge pickup.. not the neck pickup.
garrettlee9512 11 months ago
Why in the crap would you keep this up? You got the pickup switch settings totally backwards! Absurd
wickworld 1 year ago
a jackson DK1?? thought the DK1 had EMG's. dont you mean DK2.
MrGrumpyGinger 2 years ago
Maybe; I got it used, so it may have been customized, though it doesn't look like it was. I added my own custom ones after owning it for a while. I've been wanting to try out EMGs for a while now.
FuturesPassed 2 years ago
yeah u got the switching wrong Well ok u got one position RIGHT lol 1 out of 5 aint bad i guess
GeoLayered 2 years ago
and butted it up to the other angled picup.. mind you i had to chizzle out some of the body under the pic guard and i just wired the pick up straight into the other 1.. mind you while i was doing this i was hammer drunk!!! (do not sudgest doing this drunk).. but i had a gropund problem and notice a few loose wires and sauldered them any where i see fit.. not i got no sustaine and suvere feed back problems.. but ill get it up and screamin and post a vid.. PEACE!
SouthernDoom666 2 years ago
SPRAY PAINT!
MasterCamz -- HEY MAN I KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKIN ABOUT.. you know the angled pickup by the bridge on a strat?.. we check this out.. i ripped my strat appart and ditched all the pickups and wired in a single coil out of an ibanez rg470 or 450. and sauldered it useing the wires from the neck pick up and flipped it upsidedown and screwed it into the bridge.. sounded fuckin amazing!!!.. but i wanted more!. so i ripped out the single coil in my s470
SouthernDoom666 2 years ago
Does it effect the guitar when i put 2 single coils next togetter (when the sides of the pickup touch eatch hother)
MasterCamz 2 years ago
nice but you need a camera man or tripod
theMUTT114 2 years ago
Dude, you should not have smoked that fatty before you recorded that. Got it wrong on the switching on the strat.
ninjajo11 2 years ago 2
i have the same just as like the 1 one, and every time i play it the skin on my fingers becomes like sandpapper
i want a schekter synyster !!!
panzarw 2 years ago
That's the first time I see the 5 switch positions in reverse on a strat syle guitar. Are you sure?
oreospace 3 years ago 5
i noticed tht myself
dud8112084 3 years ago
interesting =)
Itachi15Uchiha 3 years ago
Where do you buy the caps to put over your pickups, so that its a diffrent color? Im making an Jem GMC but I dont kno where to find the green pickup caps, tone and volume knobs
icesikill 3 years ago
spray paint it lol.
haxor179 3 years ago
EBAY!
izarebl 2 years ago
oh man i love you guitars color so beutiful!
kevingp12 3 years ago
hey i switched my pickups to some emgs but they are loose and when i try to tighten them they just move up and touch the strings and like when you turn the guitar faceing down the pickups act like there gonna fall out, help?
krew234 3 years ago
Well, sometimes pickups are a little loose. Turning the screw to the right ("tightening") draws the pickup upward. You can't use the screws to tighten the pickups, only to adjust the height.
FuturesPassed 3 years ago
Help me! I messed up my pickups xD I just wanna look inside my guitar and maybe learn how to put in new... But now my pickups are messed up .. :(
Kevanio95 3 years ago
Well, if you took the cover off and strached a wire in the process, that would do it.
What's working and what's not?
FuturesPassed 3 years ago
Well, all of my pickups work very well, but I do not know where the pickups shall go, Maybe I have taked the pickup wrong..
Kevanio95 3 years ago
i think uve got ur 5-way switch wired the other way... just a thought though 'cause i wire mine the other way
ichtus 3 years ago 2
lame ass video whats its purpose?
pleazinyou1st 3 years ago
To teach you about the guitar. If you already knew about it, you shouldn't have looked it up.
RobotComics 3 years ago
woah, don't sound too happy.
taycuhtoe 3 years ago
you got the pickup selector switch mixed up :P
when it is down you are on your bridge pickup. when it is up, you are on your neck pickup.
333justin333 3 years ago 2
I have a feeling you won't be the last person to point that out. XD
I actually have it set up differently (The neck and middle pickups were switched) but yeah, on a standard guitar, you're right.
FuturesPassed 3 years ago
am i able to keep the pickguard off and just screw in the pickups back in
2346 3 years ago
The pickgaurd? If you mean the big piece, no, but if you mean the little plastic part that goes over the actual coils, then yes. Those parts are just for show.
There are some specially designed Strats that have no pickgaurd at all, but you have to buy them like that.
FuturesPassed 3 years ago
well yeah the big white plastic thing that covers everything everytime i remove it the pick ups come off how can i get them to stay in
2346 3 years ago
Hmmm...
Well, I don't know if there's anything you could do for that, cheaply. The pickups are mounted to the pickgaurd, so you'd have to get a Strat body that is designed to hold pickups without a pickgaurd.
Buying a body can get expensive, and with all the work you'd have to do, it would be easier to sell your guitar and get another one with the design you desire. The only time I'd buy a body is if I had a really good neck and set of pickups, but the body I have is holding it back.
FuturesPassed 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this. It was cool to see the inside and learn more about it.
nofiction3001 3 years ago
Steve, darling, why would you take your guitar apart?
RandomInsomniac 3 years ago 2
I've customized them before. =P
Plus, most people never get to see the inside of one.
I have to admit, it's still in pieces as I type this though.
FuturesPassed 3 years ago
Lol, well, perhaps you should put it back together...otherwise I don't think you'll be able to play it in that condition...
But I must admit, it was cool to see the inside of it.
RandomInsomniac 3 years ago
I mostly just use the DK1 because it is superior in every way to the Strat except the strat stays in tune longer and the stings are closer to the frets.
FuturesPassed 3 years ago
*Nods head and pretends to know what that means* Yeah, totally.
RandomInsomniac 3 years ago
Translation: I like to play the purple/blue/green guitar much more than I like to play the blue and white one. The white/blue one has it's good points, though, but not enough.
Oh, and I have an acoustic guitar, too. There's another option.
FuturesPassed 3 years ago
Lol, hmm, I see.
RandomInsomniac 3 years ago
hey futuresP. i see that you know alot about pickups and that is why iam asking you this question. I have a fender strat that has 3 pickups, but im planning to reduce it to two one being a seymore duncon invader and the other seymore duncon 78 model. i wanted to know if its a good idea to do this( i sourt of want the best of both worlds, Metal/Classic Rock)And how would i get a two way swittch
amrRocker06 3 years ago
Hmmm... Well, first off, you'd have to find a pickgaurd that you could mount those two pickups to (I don't even know if they make them for Strats).
That combo should sound really good, especially for alternative rock, and the metal one should be closest to the bridge.
As for the switch, you could make the 5 way switch a "1, 1-2, 2, 2, OFF" switch. If not that, you could probably find a 3-way "1, 1-2, 2" switch somewhere online.
FuturesPassed 3 years ago
Well would it be bad if i put the 78 in the bridge and the invader in the neck. Seymore duncon recomends the 78 to be in the bridge and the invader to be in the neck
amrRocker06 3 years ago
Oh, I was assuming the 78 was the classic rock tone pickup... Or is it?
I think what you just said was what I was trying to say, but worded badly or something.
FuturesPassed 3 years ago
ya, sorry for the bad wording. But ya the 78 is the classic rock pickup
amrRocker06 3 years ago
Oh, no, I meant I was the one with the bad wording. XD
Yeah, the 78 at the neck (for a cleaner tone) and the metal one at the bridge (for a more crisp tone).
The hardest part is probably finding the pickgaurd to hold 'em.
FuturesPassed 3 years ago
i just found one on ebay. thanks for your help. if you want to check it out its under
Dual Humbucker BLACK3-Ply Fat Strat Pickguard G49
amrRocker06 3 years ago
Oh! Very nice find, there!
Best of luck to ya'!
FuturesPassed 3 years ago
So thats what it looks like. You rock dude.
fullmetalmonkey3 3 years ago
Hey man when you showed the pickup selector switch, i think you got the order wrong, you had it reversed i believe
Dethfunk 3 years ago
Ha, yeah, the order is wrong, but I did mean to get it wrong, however, not like that. I customized it so the pickups are in 1-3-2 order, but since this was a teaching thing, I didn't want to get too complicated.
On the standard guitar, yes, what you pointed out is true.
FuturesPassed 3 years ago