Posted by Kevin Nickler on February 9, 2014 at 7:03pm
Fender-inspired four-string bridge - half of a JTL Trinidad cigar tin, with lipstick pickup...installed at the wrong angle. Fender runs them NW - SE instead of SW - NE. The usual undermining-myself sort of blunder that marks just about every project. Will it affect the tone/volume? I don't know. Maybe I'll put the pickup in upside-down and it'll be okay. Most likely it won't make an appreciable difference. Relax, don't worry, have a homebrew/CBG.The truth of the matter is I generally don't care at all for the sound of a bridge pickup, much prefer the mellower tone of a neck pickup, particularly with the higher strings, so in the end this will probably give me something closer to the overall sound that I'm looking for while sort of keeping the aesthetic of the Telecaster bridge that inspired it.Now, I just need to choose the box to put it onto.
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