Overwound Strat Pickups.

[catscurlyear]

I had the bridge single coil pickup on my jaguar re-wound from 6k up to 8k by Kent Armstrong , the Tone and gain was much more suited to what i wanted from the bridge pickup , 6k was too weak and bright sounding , 8k seemed to have more gain and was a little darker but still had plenty of growly bite, both pickups seemed a better balance on the guitar now, the neck pickup was still a stock 6k.

[knotty]

Wrkego 8 may 2015

 

The pickup is no more responsible for tone then a microphone is for the tone of the voice.

 

Wrkego 20 may 2015

 

The hollowness of the Casino is a much lighter, more touch sensitive sound. The Dot is much thicker tone but I have swapped pickups around in both enough times where I can pretty much match the tones and touch of both.

 

 

If the truth hurts stifle it!

Complaining about being quoted directly? Some confidence issues there.

[ballhawk]

Can we get back to talking about the op's point?

 

I agree about hendrix and the fx part of the equation. But let's not forget about the many examples of clean to edge of breakup in his recordings. Bottom line is use the pickups that work for the sound you want.

[onelife]

Strats need help.

 

Their (original stock) pickups were weak by todays standards but had a more even frequency response compared to other pickups in the early 1950s. In fact, Fender advertised the start as having wide range high fidelity pickups.

 

This "high fidelity" was improved with the Jazzmaster and Jaguar but the sounds that defined the electric guitar had already been defined by the tele and start in spite of their "flaws".

 

[RGfretter]

Ya Gardo!

 

But it's not that we don't care exactly, it's that the pissing match takes away from some good info on both sides.

 

But enough already! Just post your points and forget about the other.

 

For all our sake! Stop.

[Juicy Elk Man]

From a man who knows. This is taken from a similar thread form 2007 - a post by Norcal_GIT_r, otherwise known as Bryan Gunsher - BG PUPS:

 

"It all depends on what you base your overwind too. If you use a base model that is wound X amount of winds and then increase the amount of winds on the same model bobbin, using the same wire, you will decrease the highs and increase the mids and lows.

 

If you are talking about a hot single coil, then it depends on how you construct the pickup. I can wind up a single coil to 10k and depending on different factors such as, how I build the bobbin, the wire I use, the magnets I use, the way I tune the magnets and so on and so on it could be a screeching ear piercing pig or it could sound like a warm stick of butter. It all depends on what I'm shooting for.

 

Just a little food for thought. "

 

 

[gardo]

From a man who knows. This is taken from a similar thread form 2007 - a post by Norcal_GIT_r' date=' otherwise known as Bryan Gunsher - BG PUPS:[/color']

 

"It all depends on what you base your overwind too. If you use a base model that is wound X amount of winds and then increase the amount of winds on the same model bobbin, using the same wire, you will decrease the highs and increase the mids and lows.

 

If you are talking about a hot single coil, then it depends on how you construct the pickup. I can wind up a single coil to 10k and depending on different factors such as, how I build the bobbin, the wire I use, the magnets I use, the way I tune the magnets and so on and so on it could be a screeching ear piercing pig or it could sound like a warm stick of butter. It all depends on what I'm shooting for.

 

Just a little food for thought. "

 

 

Good info. thanks