Components
used in the construction of this guitar.
Guitar
- 2012 American Deluxe
Strat®, Candy Apple Red.
- Compound Radius 9.5"
to 14" Maple Neck, Medium Jumbo Frets,
Locking Tuners.
- KGC Brass Mega Mass
Tremolo Block, KGC Brass (Chromed)
Bridge Top Plate, KGC Brass Tremolo Claw
and Graph-Tech String
Saver Saddles.
- Custom Manufactured
"Drop-Trem" Style Push-In Tremolo Arm.
Pickups
-
Bridge:
Seymour Duncan P-Rails TBPR-1b
(Trembucker)
-
Neck:
Seymour Duncan P-Rails SHPR-1n (Humbucker)
Tone
Capacitors
- Bridge Pickup: 0.045
uF Sprague Polyester Film Orange Drop
Capacitor.
- Neck Pickup: 0.044
uF Sprague Polyester Film Orange Drop
Capacitor.
Controls
There is a
separate volume and separate tone control
for each pickup.
-
4 x
Bourns Model 95 Premium 500k
Potentiometers w/Custom Machined Aluminum
Control Knobs.
-
2 x
DPDT Mini-Toggle Switches.
-
CRL 3-Way Selector Switch.
Pickup
Selection Switching
With the combination
of a 3-way selector switch and two DPDT
mini-toggle switches there is a total of 12
unique pickup selection options. The
way each of these P-Rails pickups are
designed as a matched set where you have a
designated bridge and designated neck pickup
and when each pickup is split for either
P-90 tone or single coil (Rails) tone and
the bridge and neck pickups are selected
together with the 3-way selector switch
(middle position) hum cancelling is
achieved. This is because the bridge pickups
coils are wound the opposite direction as
the neck pickups coils and they are also
opposite polarity, which in effect creates a
wide spaced Humbucker.
- The 3-way
selector switch performs a typical
Gibson style pickup switching with 3
selections; Bridge pickup selected, Neck
pickup selected or both pickups selected
together. These 3 basic pickup
selections combined with the four
selections below create the 12 unique
total pickup selections.
-
The two
mini-toggle switches work in combination
with each other to provide the following
pickup selection options:
-
Series
connection between the P-90 coil and
the Rails coil of each pickup to
provide a typical Humbucker tone,
full output with hum cancelling.
-
Parallel
connection between the P-90 coil and
the Rails coil of each pickup to
provide a lower output tone with hum
cancelling.
-
Rails
portion of each pickup selected,
P-90 portion off. This is single
coil pickup tone.
- P-90
portion of each pickup selected,
Rails portion off. This is P-90
pickup tone.
