This guy is a dope....

[OrangeChannel]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2384&item=3765201787&rd=1


Oooh. Both "rare" and "vintage" And completely designed by Eddie himself? I guess Dudley is chopped liver. This cat makes it even sound like VH wound the pups (not that a blasted old damaged pickup is any technique other than abuse) himself (I guess Steve Blutcher is chopped liver as well)....and to boot he says you can find lesser model EBMM's at GC for $2799? This dude is straight tripping son.

 

[gproud5150]

And I doubt a serial number of 88051 is a an early production model. I know they're not perfectly sequential, but I imagine this one was made in 94-95. My serial is 81769 and it was made in 92.

 

[OrangeChannel]

He's in my general locale....Koogs and I should pay him a visit and "correct" the issue....hehe.

 

[PurpleSport]

Hoo-boy.......I just LOVE this line o' crapola:

"It was this project that he first revealed his pick-up winding technique/secret that is really the guts of his 'brown sound' he is so famous for creating on his earlier recordings. "
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As I recall, the story went that the DiMarzio guys discovered that EVH's main pickup was actually BROKEN - the pickup itself wasn't actually running at full output due to a stretched, kinked, or busted coil wire, apparently thanks to EVH not rewinding his PAF properly. So in other words, the resulting "secret" magic was a complete accident*...and while the Axis/EVH pickup sounds good, IMHO it's definitely NOT a tone-clone of the original to my ear - too middy and hot. Apparently that rewound "PAF" had output more like a soapbar or other hot single coil, and not a standard humbucker (can anyone say MM90? ).

Glad he's selling it, and I hope he loses money on the deal. Clueless idjits like this guy don't deserve a fine instrument such as the EBMM!

*I believe DiMarzio even patented this abberation, resulting in their "Dual Resonance" manufacturing process, where one coil is wound hotter than the other. Which of course leads one to wonder if this is really a true "innovation", much like their patenting dual cream colored coils on humbuckers....but perhaps that's a discussion for another thread!

 

[beej]

> Apparently that rewound "PAF" had output more like a soapbar or other hot single coil,
> and not a standard humbucker (can anyone say MM90? )

FWIW, Bill Lawrence sells an ingenious little device called a Q-Filter for about $20. Allows you to change the H (inductance) value of your pickups, which are essentially an LCR (inductance, capacitance, resistance) circuit. With that little baby wired up to a pot you can reduce the inductance of a pickup, with the resultant sound being like taking windings off. So you can take a hot hubucker and sonically reduce the windings on it, resulting in a sweeter, less output pickup.

I've got one in all the guitars I've rewired (including my sil special) and in conjunction with a tone control you can use it to get a tone similar to EVH's brown sound.

So no real mystery to reducing the output of a pickup.

 

[jongitarz]

*I believe DiMarzio even patented this abberation, resulting in their "Dual Resonance" manufacturing process, where one coil is wound hotter than the other. Which of course leads one to wonder if this is really a true "innovation", much like their patenting dual cream colored coils on humbuckers....but perhaps that's a discussion for another thread!
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Gibson does the same thing with the burstbuster p/ups