Inside a Guitar: Pickups and Settings

http://futurespassed.com


Thanks to http://www.youtube.com/user/thecaster for this idea.

There are plenty of videos on YouTube already about how to play guitar, but not a lot out there on the science of the guitar itself. You may know how to play the chords, but you probably don't ever touch that switch on the side. Odds are you don't ever take your guitar apart, either. Here's your chance to learn about the guitar pickups, and see underneath that panel.

The guitars used were:
Fender / Squire Strat - Nothing custom about it, except I changed the order of the pickups, so what I showed you with the switch is not technically correct, but it's better to be told that if you know little about guitars.
Jackson DK1 Eerie Dess Swirl - Custom wiring, bridge springs, and Semour Duncan Detonator (guitar) pickup. The custom pickup being most notable customization.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Guitar
• Pickups
• Single
• Double
• Coil
• Humbuckers
• Switch
• Strings
• Chords
• Take
• Apart
• Electric
• Wiring
• Lesson
• Fender
• Strat
• Stratocaster
• Studs
• Cheap
• Jackson
• DK1
• Detonator
• Replace
• Wire
• Parts

[MrGrumpyGinger]

a jackson DK1?? thought the DK1 had EMG's. dont you mean DK2.

[FuturesPassed]

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.

[krew234]

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?

[FuturesPassed]

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.

[oreospace]

That's the first time I see the 5 switch positions in reverse on a strat syle guitar. Are you sure?

[ninjajo11]

Dude, you should not have smoked that fatty before you recorded that. Got it wrong on the switching on the strat.

[mustang67111]

What a useless f n video are you a retard?

[wickworld]

Why in the crap would you keep this up? You got the pickup switch settings totally backwards! Absurd

[GeoLayered]

yeah u got the switching wrong Well ok u got one position RIGHT lol 1 out of 5 aint bad i guess

[SouthernDoom666]

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]

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

[MasterCamz]

Does it effect the guitar when i put 2 single coils next togetter (when the sides of the pickup touch eatch hother)

[izarebl]

EBAY!