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Hey, after reading the site for a while I decided to join, y'all are into the same guitars I am. I just ordered some Bronco knobs last night

Well anyway, I own a Jaguar HH, the black one.



while I like its humbucking tones, I've been wanting to get some single coils recently.



that's what I want to do, minus the pearl guard and the bigsby.

the goal is to get this from that jaguar.




I know it can be done, since the one with the bigsby up there was just like mine before. now, ie never adjusted the pickups in a traditional Jaguar, so i have to ask: are they directly in the wood? this means I'd have to drill holes for them in the humbucker cavities right?

One of our forum members(Haze I believe) did a similar project.

you could just save yourself the grief & sell the HH & buy a single coil one. Unless you are undertaking this as a bit of fun.

Welcome to the forum.

jcyphe wrote:One of our forum members(Haze I believe) did a similar project.

I'll do a search then, thanks!

Johno wrote:you could just save yourself the grief & sell the HH & buy a single coil one. Unless you are undertaking this as a bit of fun.

Welcome to the forum.

It's actually been with me at a few big gigs I did and it's traveled with me a bit, so it has sentimental value. the mod is easily reversible, which is my favorite part.

astrozombie wrote:

jcyphe wrote:One of our forum members(Haze I believe) did a similar project.

I'll do a search then, thanks!

Johno wrote:you could just save yourself the grief & sell the HH & buy a single coil one. Unless you are undertaking this as a bit of fun.

Welcome to the forum.

It's actually been with me at a few big gigs I did and it's traveled with me a bit, so it has sentimental value. the mod is easily reversible, which is my favorite part.

minus going to a standard jag/jazzy trem.. that is pretty much irreversible.

astrozombie wrote:I know it can be done, since the one with the bigsby up there was just like mine before. now, ie never adjusted the pickups in a traditional Jaguar, so i have to ask: are they directly in the wood? this means I'd have to drill holes for them in the humbucker cavities right?

yeah, they sit on pieces of foam and are screwed into the body.

serfx wrote:

astrozombie wrote:

jcyphe wrote:One of our forum members(Haze I believe) did a similar project.

I'll do a search then, thanks!

Johno wrote:you could just save yourself the grief & sell the HH & buy a single coil one. Unless you are undertaking this as a bit of fun.

Welcome to the forum.

It's actually been with me at a few big gigs I did and it's traveled with me a bit, so it has sentimental value. the mod is easily reversible, which is my favorite part.

minus going to a standard jag/jazzy trem.. that is pretty much irreversible.

The mod? No, I think I could put the humbuckers right in if I wanted to. I'd have to rip off the pieces of wood that im going to have to glue in to mount the single coils to, but besides that its just a pickguard swap.

You're not putting the tremolo on it then? I think that's the irreversible part that serfx is talking about.

BacchusPaul wrote:You're not putting the tremolo on it then? I think that's the irreversible part that serfx is talking about.

Oh, no way. This is definetely a guitar i want to keep reversible to stock.