Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:19 pm
Hot Snake JohnsonDoog wrote:Jim Hates Skiing
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:59 pm
1970s JHS copy of a Gibson Marauder
"there were a lot of Gibson Marauder copies being sold under different brand names such as Avon, Cimar, ESP, Maya, Rose Morris, CSL and finally JHS (now known as Vintage & Encore)"
"there were a lot of Gibson Marauder copies being sold under different brand names such as Avon, Cimar, ESP, Maya, Rose Morris, CSL and finally JHS (now known as Vintage & Encore)"
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:05 pm
JAPES HUNG SALAMIrobroe wrote:Hot Snake JohnsonDoog wrote:Jim Hates Skiing
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 7:08 am
Doog wrote:paul_ wrote:The Polaris II (bridge pickup) and III (a II with a trem, I think) both had 2 pickups.Doog wrote: Ahhh, so sick, I really liked that blue one, good to hear it sounds good plugged in too. If it had 2 pickups, I probably woulda taken it; I think the body was pretty much the same thickness as the neck
The neck is probably thicker than the body, to be honest. The strings are way high over the pickguard and the neck pocket on the body is the thinnest bit of wood on the whole thing (thinner than the headstock).
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 2:34 pm
Why are the two on the right so much smaller than the one on the left?westtexasred wrote:1970s JHS copy of a Gibson Marauder
"there were a lot of Gibson Marauder copies being sold under different brand names such as Avon, Cimar, ESP, Maya, Rose Morris, CSL and finally JHS (now known as Vintage & Encore)"
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 2:49 pm
one of the universe's unanswerable questions
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 3:06 pm
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2020 11:24 pm
Thinking out loud, on (free alternative to) Photoshop:
I might have to track me down another matching pickup as that looks SICK and is likely more up my alley than the huge woolly stock neckbucker...
I love how the first one with the dual angled pickups has a 'Les Paul Recording Model' vibe to it:
I might have to track me down another matching pickup as that looks SICK and is likely more up my alley than the huge woolly stock neckbucker...
I love how the first one with the dual angled pickups has a 'Les Paul Recording Model' vibe to it:
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 7:41 am
It might not fit sideways (or straight) with the actual rout. Don't really know.Doog wrote:Thinking out loud, on (free alternative to) Photoshop:
I might have to track me down another matching pickup as that looks SICK and is likely more up my alley than the huge woolly stock neckbucker...
But a much more useful mod would be the blend control some late Marauders had.
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 9:41 am
Possibly, although that Avon/Rose Morris I had years ago had a swimming pool route, and the stock neck humbucker is already way bigger than the proposed mod so it miiiiiiiight be ok?Fakir Mustache wrote:It might not fit sideways (or straight) with the actual rout. Don't really know.
Gonna have to play the long game on this anyways, said pickups don't pop-up often. Although, I've now got it in my head to find another Marauder, and swap pickups, so I've got a SS and a HH Marauder. BEASTLY.
(using photos of a Photoshop definitely helps helps on the uncanny valley shit a bit lol)
Would just need to get the (obviously custom) pickguard extended out a bit to cover the gooch gap by the bridge. However, that might actually be a problem with the stock route, might need to open up the pit a little.
Ehhh, my Silvertone Jupiter had a stock blend pot (since unwired), and I'd leave it on one setting and never touch it again. Easier to just do that with the pickup heights and still have control over the switching.Fakir Mustache wrote:But a much more useful mod would be the blend control some late Marauders had.
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 4:30 pm
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 5:06 pm
I find that it only works if the bridge pickup is already louder than the neck.Doog wrote:Ehhh, my Silvertone Jupiter had a stock blend pot (since unwired), and I'd leave it on one setting and never touch it again. Easier to just do that with the pickup heights and still have control over the switching.
If they both put out around the same output, you can lower the neck pickup flat and the bridge pickup almost touching the strings and the middle position will still sound like only neck alone.
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2020 5:10 pm
Ehhhh well that depends how much available space you have, doesn't it?Fakir Mustache wrote:I find that it only works if the bridge pickup is already louder than the neck.
If they both put out around the same output, you can lower the neck pickup flat and the bridge pickup almost touching the strings and the middle position will still sound like only neck alone.
The humbucker is twice as loud as the singlecoil in this Marauder, but the position and angle of guitar's neck allows for the bridge itself to sit quite high, giving lots of space between the strings and the pickguard, so a large range of pickup height adjustment possibilities.
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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2020 6:55 pm
I doubt the humbucker is twice as loud as the single coil on the Marauder. Have you measured the resistances?Doog wrote:Ehhhh well that depends how much available space you have, doesn't it?Fakir Mustache wrote:I find that it only works if the bridge pickup is already louder than the neck.
If they both put out around the same output, you can lower the neck pickup flat and the bridge pickup almost touching the strings and the middle position will still sound like only neck alone.
The humbucker is twice as loud as the singlecoil in this Marauder, but the position and angle of guitar's neck allows for the bridge itself to sit quite high, giving lots of space between the strings and the pickguard, so a large range of pickup height adjustment possibilities.
On my Vintage Modified Mustang the bridge pickup has more resistance than the neck, and I have it as high as possible, a couple of mm below the strings, the neck pickup flat with the scratchplate and the neck pickup still sounds too loud.
But I don't doubt that the Marauder bridge sits higher with normal action.
The problem is that in the neck position the strings vibrate more.
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2020 7:05 pm
I have not; it's just louder, okay? Yeesh.Fakir Mustache wrote: I doubt the humbucker is twice as loud as the single coil on the Marauder. Have you measured the resistances?
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2020 7:16 pm
Actually you're right,Doog wrote:I have not; it's just louder, okay? Yeesh.Fakir Mustache wrote: I doubt the humbucker is twice as loud as the single coil on the Marauder. Have you measured the resistances?
I found some info online, humbucker measures about 6K ohms,, bridge about 2.25K. Although that's not a 100% indication of output because it may vary with pickup construction.
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:09 pm
Double angled looks the best to meDoog wrote:Thinking out loud, on (free alternative to) Photoshop:
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:51 pm
Yeah same, looks mad futuristic
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 1:08 pm
Shit Doog, I had one of those pickups in my parts box for years and just got rid of it last month. Bugger!
Congrats on the new guitar, it looks great! I just picked up an Epi neck for my spare Sonex body but I'm keeping it for a little quarantine project should that happen.
Congrats on the new guitar, it looks great! I just picked up an Epi neck for my spare Sonex body but I'm keeping it for a little quarantine project should that happen.
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 1:39 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!Thomas wrote:Shit Doog, I had one of those pickups in my parts box for years and just got rid of it last month. Bugger!