new old pickup day: old DiMarzio in the SS2

[Jimbilly]

This guitar had an old Super Distortion in it when I got it, also a double creme, (cream?).  Probably 20 years ago I put a black/black BBQ bucker in there and was happy. Not long ago tested out an '83 Shaw paf, it's good but I dunno.  All my other Hamers are mostly all original, so this one gets the pickup swaps.

   I was going through my parts drawer (it's like an early Christmas in there!), found a DiMarzio with 3 wires (black, white and plain, wrapped in a single black insulation layer), around 7.7 ohms (simple DiMarzio Paf?).

  Sounds great so far, and maybe it's time to bring this look back to this guitar, what was a very dated look in the early 2000s might be nicely retro today.

[Cboss]

Beautiful guitar and color! If the old SD needs a new home let me know

[Bennyboy-UK]

I like it! 

[beezerboy]

if it works and is reasonably balanced you are gold.  I did one long ago and the super D blew the single coil out of the water... terrible mismatch / 50 years later I found the right place for it

[Disturber]

I think all of those SS IIs came with the 17K Slammer humbucker. At least mine did. Great pickups, for being so hot.

[Jimbilly]

15 hours ago, Cboss said:

Beautiful guitar and color! If the old SD needs a new home let me know

I'm going to have to try that one out again before too long. 

I've found that if I dive bomb the trem and stick my wallet under the gap to keep the strings loose, I can get the pickup out from under the strings without loosening any strings,  a very easy guitar to do pickup swaps on.

[Jimbilly]

16 hours ago, Cboss said:

Beautiful guitar and color! If the old SD needs a new home let me know

The copper paint seems to have real copper in it: where there's clearcoat or paint damage, there is green corrosion on the paint at the edges of those damaged spots.

[Cboss]

6 hours ago, Jimbilly said:

I'm going to have to try that one out again before too long. 

I've found that if I dive bomb the trem and stick my wallet under the gap to keep the strings loose, I can get the pickup out from under the strings without loosening any strings,  a very easy guitar to do pickup swaps on.

Floyd's are really easy for changing pickups! That's one plus for them

Edited November 26, 2024 by Cboss