atquinn

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He knows me well... - Austin

The CU22 Soapy is the standard 25" scale. I'm sure I'd like a Monaco III less because it's not solid and has a Bigsby, but those are the same reason other folks might like it more. And yes, my Photobucket site is a truly shameful record of my exploits - Austin

Hell, someone can buy it and sell it back to me in a year or two - Austin

I've only seen one CU22 Soapbar with a W/F neck; it was an Artist Relations guitar from the original run (I owned it briefly). This has a Regular D neck. It basically feel like a DGT neck without the jumbo frets. - Austin

Weighs 8 lbs on the bathroom scale btw. - Austin

Yup, standard pickups. Duncan vintage P90s in the neck and middle and, IIRC, a Duncan Hot neck P90 in the bridge. A nice combo IMO. - Austin

SOLD! (see all pictures at http://smg.photobucket.com/user/atquinn1975/library/2008%20PRS%20Custom%2022%20Soapbar?sort=3&page=1 ) Selling yet another CU22 Soapbar. This is one of the limited reissues; it differs from the originals in that the neck is mahogany, not maple (which makes the reissue sound better IMO). 10-Top, in excellent condition with no fret wear, just a light scratch on the back and a light ding on the underside. Will ship with the original case, also in excellent condition. Yours for $1600 PayPal'd and shipped. Thanks for looking. - Austin

Seems like you should be looking at an early-90's Studio Custom (or whatever the hell they were call them back then) so me. I had one from 91 (IIRC) and the neck was shredderific. - Austin

All Suhr humbuckers are 4-conductor; he doesn't make 2-conductor humbuckers. At anyrate, these appear to be sold. - Austin

Price drop! Let's get these outta here! - Austin

A set of all black Suhr Aldrich pickups with an f-spaced bridge. 8" of wire for the bridge pickup, 13" for the neck. Both have mounting springs and screws. $140 Paypal'd and shipped. Or for $150 I'll throw in a set of covers (for you to put on). To be clear, these pickups came uncovered. The covers are from a different set of Suhr humbuckers. Thanks for looking. - Austin

10 pages before the whining and bitching started? Not too bad. - Austin

Is the SD Forum always such a complete unuseable POS? I registered there ages ago and could never get in after the first day. Went to their change password because I didn't recall my pw, created a new one, but am locked out of everything, even from viewing the forums. Not a fan of Duncan before, even less so now! It's always been fine for me. More stable than the HFC and TGP in fact - Austin

cool, thanks Austin. I guess you could even use a pot, for more options. Exactly. This is like a spin-a-split, but the resistance is fixed. You could also use a mini variable resistor in the wiring cavity and just adjust to taste. But I already had resistors laying around when I did it so for me it was and easy-to-try no-cost option. - Austin

+1! Already got the wheels spinning thinking of a custom double cut, but while the heart is willing, the pocketbook has other ideas - Austin

I generally use Seymour Duncan's diagrams for reference. The one for coil splitting is here: http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=coil_splitting Anyway, instead of going directly to ground with a wire, you put a resistor there and send it to ground. The resistor prevents all of the signal from going to ground (the greater the resistor, the less of that coil gets grounded), so you end up getting some of that coil in the "split" setting. - Austin

Happy Birthday!

I would say it's the opposite. And in fact I believe Seth Lover's original concept for the humbucker called for 2 equal coils. The better to buck the hum. - Austin

This is how Nash wires up the neck pickup (Dimarzio Bluesbucker) in the LP's he "makeovers". Pretty slick idea, that I've completely forgotten about; I believe it only works with one pickup though (ie, you'd get a big mess if you put the red/white combos from both pickups to the lug)? I haven't been too impressed with any of the pure split sound from Duncan's PAF-range neck humbuckers I've tried (the PG, Jazz and 59), which is why I recommended the partial split. I think I might try your idea on the neck pickup on my Studio Custom though; thanks for reminding me of the idea! - Austin

A correction. From the PDF I linked to, you can see that PRS uses a 1.1K resistor on the neck pickup and a 2.2K resistor on the bridge. So the bridge has more of the other coil when split than the neck does. The cool thing about a push-pull is that it's very easy to use different values for each pickup. I could do it on my superswitch as well, but I'd have to change around the wiring I'm using a little bit and since the only setting that uses the split bridge is in combination with the split neck, it's easier for me to just worry about how the neck split sound and let the bridge follow along. - Austin

Yes, it can be done on any humbucker that is wired for coil splitting be it 4 or 3 conductor. - Austin

Awesome pinches at about 4:30, but you should listen to the entire solo starting around 4:10 - Austin

You might want to investigate a partial split which is what PRS has been doing on their DGT for the past couple years. I used the concept on the coil splitting on my Showmaster and it sounds great. Here's a wiring diagram: https://www.prsguitars.com/csc/schematics/2012/dgt_2012.pdf I The resistor keeps one coil from shutting off completely. So for example, in my case, my neck pickup is a Suhr SSV that measure 7.5K full and 3.75 split. By wiring in a 1.5K resistor to ground the coil split is now 4.8K. So I'm getting approximately 1K from the other coil instead of completely shorting it out. Soundwise, it sounds a bit beefier than the traditional coil split, which make it more useful. The greater the resistor value, the more signal from the shorted out coil you get. I think the 2.2K value PRS uses on the neck pickup is a bit too much actually, but it's something that is easy to adjust to taste. - Austin

I believe those are artificial harmonics, not pinch harmonics. - Austin