floyd99
Well-known member
Hi all
I've been wanting to swap the electronics on my LUKE for ages and finally got around to it.
I got my tech to do this for me. He said it was a bit tricky but nothing too drastic.
Firstly, we had to choose pickups that don't have the wings/flanges on the side due to not wanting to alter the routing of the timber.. we wanted ones that would slide straight in.
So - we went with the following;
Neck - Seymour Duncan Little '59
Mid - Seymour Duncan Custom (with a non-seymour pickup cover as seymour didn't have black cover to suit!)
Bridge - Seymour Duncan JB
Swapping to passive meant changing out pots, and the jack and switch also got replaced.
We installed a push/pull tone pot, and each pickup is split to single coil when the pot is pulled up.
He said he had a little trouble getting the neck pickup installed - and had to do a very small amount of shaving/routing inside the cavity in order to get a little extra space for leverage of the pickup cables. But it's internal/under the pickup, so no issue.
Haven't tried at a gig yet but a quick fiddle at home - it's fantastic. So much better and FAR more versatile than the original EMG's..
cheers,
Dave
(melbourne, aus)
I've been wanting to swap the electronics on my LUKE for ages and finally got around to it.
I got my tech to do this for me. He said it was a bit tricky but nothing too drastic.
Firstly, we had to choose pickups that don't have the wings/flanges on the side due to not wanting to alter the routing of the timber.. we wanted ones that would slide straight in.
So - we went with the following;
Neck - Seymour Duncan Little '59
Mid - Seymour Duncan Custom (with a non-seymour pickup cover as seymour didn't have black cover to suit!)
Bridge - Seymour Duncan JB
Swapping to passive meant changing out pots, and the jack and switch also got replaced.
We installed a push/pull tone pot, and each pickup is split to single coil when the pot is pulled up.
He said he had a little trouble getting the neck pickup installed - and had to do a very small amount of shaving/routing inside the cavity in order to get a little extra space for leverage of the pickup cables. But it's internal/under the pickup, so no issue.
Haven't tried at a gig yet but a quick fiddle at home - it's fantastic. So much better and FAR more versatile than the original EMG's..
cheers,
Dave
(melbourne, aus)
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