ShortScale.org

My Gfs pickups have arrived and are installed: Dream 90 (neck) Mean 90 (bridge). Thanks for posting you jag Dots ripping off your pickup combination has renewed my love for this old girl.

Before:


After:

looks sweet. nice pups
the tailpiece is awesome too. i dont think ive ever seen that before.

that looks super classy!

looks right now. fantastico.

+1 to hazems

crofty wrote: the tailpiece is awesome too. i dont think ive ever seen that before.

it’s the standard epiphone frequensator tailpiece,

blurb from epiphones web site:

Designed and patented by Epiphone's Herb Sunshine, the frequensator tailpiece was originally put into production in 1937. The short fork on the bass side results in a deeper tone. The longer fork is used on the treble side for extra brilliance. The forks are interchangeable for varying tone as well as string tension.

dezb1 wrote:

crofty wrote: the tailpiece is awesome too. i dont think ive ever seen that before.

it’s the standard epiphone frequensator tailpiece,

blurb from epiphones web site:

Designed and patented by Epiphone's Herb Sunshine, the frequensator tailpiece was originally put into production in 1937. The short fork on the bass side results in a deeper tone. The longer fork is used on the treble side for extra brilliance. The forks are interchangeable for varying tone as well as string tension.

wow. thats really interesting stuff. i didnt realise there could ever be as much to a tailpiece as that.
good post.
lots of tailpieces seem to be the something-sator. "frequensator" "compensator"... unless theres an obvious reason im overlooking

I used to have a Riviera. I hated that goofy tailpiece when restringing. It's fucking gash.

Mike wrote:I used to have a Riviera. I hated that goofy tailpiece when restringing. It's fucking gash.

It is a bit of a bastard to restring

nice! do an demo!

I was having a bit of a problem with my Dream 90 (dodgy soldering!). However when I removed it to check it out I noticed that the sticker on the back says that it’s a bridge pickup (the box says neck), I never noticed this when I was installing it. I’ve went back and read all the bumf on the GFS web site and it says the neck pickup pole pieces are spaced differently and that its reverse wound. I’ve measured the spacing on the pole pieces and it’s definitely a bridge pickup. How much of a problem will this 1/8th of an inch cause in the quality of sound from my guitar?

A minor loss of clarity/slight wooliness to the notes.

Mike wrote:A minor loss of clarity/slight wooliness to the notes.

If it was you would you leave it or try to sort something out with gfs?

i'd be looking for an exchange, but that's just me.

Do the neck and bridge pups have the same or similar outputs?
Bridge is usually more powerful, in which case I'd get it changed.
If they are similar in output I'd probably just leave it...doubt it will be that noticable.

stewart wrote:i'd be looking for an exchange, but that's just me.

That’s what I was thinking. I’ve emailed them to see what their response is, and I’ll take it from there.

It’s just a bit of a bastard, getting everything in and out of the pickup cavity and F hole was murder.

dezb1 wrote:

Mike wrote:A minor loss of clarity/slight wooliness to the notes.

If it was you would you leave it or try to sort something out wit gfs?

Get the proper pickup. Bridge pickups are wound hotter to compensate for lack of string vibration and volume near the bridge. Are you noticing the neck being louder?

Thom wrote:Do the neck and bridge pups have the same or similar outputs?
Bridge is usually more powerful, in which case I'd get it changed.
If they are similar in output I'd probably just leave it...doubt it will be that noticable.

8.4k for the bridge, 8.2K for the neck. is that a big difference

dezb1 wrote:

Thom wrote:Do the neck and bridge pups have the same or similar outputs?
Bridge is usually more powerful, in which case I'd get it changed.
If they are similar in output I'd probably just leave it...doubt it will be that noticable.

8.4k for the bridge, 8.2K for the neck. is that a big difference

No, not big at all.
Does the guitar sound unbalanced at all at the moment?

Mike wrote:

dezb1 wrote:

Mike wrote:A minor loss of clarity/slight wooliness to the notes.

If it was you would you leave it or try to sort something out wit gfs?

Get the proper pickup. Bridge pickups are wound hotter to compensate for lack of string vibration and volume near the bridge. Are you noticing the neck being louder?

Yes I have to lower the neck pickup and raise the bridge to get an even(ish) sound

It's a small difference but there's also the principle of it. They should fix their mistake (assuming it is there mistake).