Working on an unholy abomination of a diy instrument and I’m planning on using the hardware from an electric guitar I got for free at a yard sale. I already took a deep dive into pickup construction and wiring, but the explanation for where they put them on the guitar mostly in guitar player jargon and I’m not sure if that translates to this.

Basic questions, why are there 3 pickups? Why is one behind where you strum and the other two up front? Is there an ideal placement for different sounds?

Any help would be appreciated, I’m not much of a musician, and this is really just a silly project just to see if I can do it but anything worth doing is worth overdoing and I like the chance to learn.

    • Postmortal_PopOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      So if they were placed away from the body in a way that the only serious eposure is string movements, what would that do to the final sound?

      Also, Frankenstrat is me new favorite read for the week, I have a new found love for Van Halen just because of the goblin tech that it’s made of.

        • Postmortal_PopOPEnglish
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          5 days ago

          That shouldn’t be too hard to. Meet, though I expect it well take some tweaking given the construction. If the body were to be more skeletal, say just enough material to hold everything in place but nothing else, what kind of effect would that have on pickup placement?

          • ProfThadBachEnglish
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            5 days ago

            You are getting out of my area with that. Look on youtube are Tim Sway. He builds guitars and can be very experaimtal.