20th ... modification

[Earplayer]

Hi folks!

The 20th is my main guitar in the live-department and i really really love this guitar - now i am thinking about to install a coilsplit to cover nearly all styles...

If it´s possible to get some decent singlecoil sounds out of this baby it would be amazing and i wouldn´t touch another guitar on a gig anymore!

Any progress reports or suggestions? Wiring schematics?

I think i can solder everything together but maybe i am too stupid to figure it out with the di-marzios...

20th all the way!

Greetz
Tom

 

[Roubster]

I was thinking of doing the same thing on mine, but I just left it with the 3 positions and some higher output pups. I love it the way it is now. Besides, I have my Silo Special that covers all the other stuff.

You have come a long way since buying the LUKE from me! How is she doin? Lets see some pics of the family man.

 

[Earplayer]

hi buddy!

hmm... yeah... you know for me the 20th is still the best guitar from ebmm! the axis, the luke, the ss,... all are great but my no1 from musicman is the 20th...

...and i am completely convinced that the guitar sounds better the more i play this baby!

i am thinking about a pickup-change... but i am not sure which one... maybe a breed or somethin... i dunno
the stock pickups are really nice too... but for the more "vintage" oriented humbucker tones i have my ´58 les paul - so the 20th would be my rock-machine... maybe something hotter would be great but the 20th is so wonderful i don´t want to tinker around too much...

i will upload some pics...

all the best
tom

 

[GHWelles]

I put a Breed in the bridge and put a nickle cover on it, so it looks stock. I put a coil tap pot in.

Sounds great, my favorite sound is the coil tap with both pups on.

 

[Dante]

man, i wish i could get the same stuff JP uses but with nickel covers. cuz i don't know how to do that, i might go with EMGs on my 20th.

 

[petruccirocks02]

man, i wish i could get the same stuff JP uses but with nickel covers. cuz i don't know how to do that, i might go with EMGs on my 20th.

Instead of going with the EMG's and having to find a spot to put the 9 volt or the possibility of having to route out a spot for it, why not go try DiMarzio D-Activator's? They're as hot as actives, but they're passive.

-Phil

 

[Earplayer]

emgs in a 20th?! ughh... thats a no-go for me honestly......

@GHWelles - yeah your koa-beauty is killer!!! sounds good - any clips/soundfiles after the mod.? do you have a push/pull pot (500k)?

i think whitestrat has a paf joe and a fred in one of his 20th - sounds also very interesting...

 

[D.K.]

I am interested in doing a coil tap in one of my 20-ths as well.

The problem is, I have read somewhere on this forum that a switching on the 20-th was a pretty sophisticated one, so that shouldn't be that easy to install a coil tap. Could someone who has done it share some technical knowledge/ show us a switching diagram?

I would VERY MUCH appreciate it. Thanks a lot!

 

[Earplayer]

pics

 

[whitestrat]

The problem is, I have read somewhere on this forum that a switching on the 20-th was a pretty sophisticated one, so that shouldn't be that easy to install a coil tap. Could someone who has done it share some technical knowledge/ show us a switching diagram?

I would VERY MUCH appreciate it. Thanks a lot!

I think that manly applies to those with Piezos because the pots are soldered directly onto the circuit board... The non piezos should be relatively simple.

 

[RocketRalf]

Instead of going with the EMG's and having to find a spot to put the 9 volt or the possibility of having to route out a spot for it, why not go try DiMarzio D-Activator's? They're as hot as actives, but they're passive.

-Phil

Or the newer D-Activator X, which they claim to be better (and hotter ) I'm thinking of putting a pair on a replacement pg for my Silo in the mid term future.