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A Cort CL1000 with a Joe Barden HB Two-Tone in the neck and a Gibson Tony Iommi Signature HB in the bridge.

Compared to the beauties in your collection, it might as well be sitting in the lap of a wino in a trailer park. Sounds good though. I never finished the changes that I originally planned for it...Still needs a black replacement bridge from WD Music and a set of black Sperzel locking 3+3 tuners.

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skeet said:
...I've got Texas Specials in my Tele and I can't get on with them at all. Funny how one mans meat...
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The Texas Special Tele and Strat pickups aren't for everyone -- especially the traditionalists. The Fender Texas Specials are overwound for that "go for the throat" tone.

Fender's Texas Special pickups aren't exactly an original idea. Here are the high quality "originals," which have been manufactured for many years locally, but now copied widely by everyone and their uncle.

http://www.riograndepickups.com/



 
Groltz said:
A Cort CL1000 with a Joe Barden HB Two-Tone in the neck and a Gibson Tony Iommi Signature HB in the bridge...
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Speak of the devil, I saw one of these "PRS Single Cut Clone" Cort just like yours this past weekend, used and for sale at a Walmart.... I meant at a Guitar Center.

Yours does have pretty good pickups, though, and fortunately installed in the proper positions for their sonic characteristics. Your Barden *humbucker* (in the neck postion) is a fairly uncommon pickup. Joe Barden sells a hell of a lot more Telecaster replacement (micro-humbucker) pickups than his full-size humbucker. I have an set of original Bill Lawrence twin-blade humbuckers that is physically very similar to your Barden. The Iommi pickup you have in the bridge position is pretty hot, and works much better in that position.

Speaking of Tony Iommi, the pickup model Tony Iommi used throughout the 1970s in all those early classic Black Sabbath albums is -- ironically -- the pickup shown in my avatar! It's the Gibson P-90 single coil pickup (Tannin's favourite pickup, don't ask) which is a large sort-of-"dark" single coil pickup with a fairly powerful output. Tony had a Gibson SG with P-90s, I have a Les Paul with P-90s outfitted with creme covers. Other notable P-90 users have been Santana (early 70s) where he used an SG with P-90s for his scalding wah-wah solos, and Pete Townshend used an SG with P-90s (specifically "Live At Leeds") for a few years LIKE THIS HERE which he also used to hit Abbey Hoffman with at Woodstock (!). The big mid-range punch of the P-90 is not for everybody, as Tannin can telll you, and they can be a bit noisy and hummy like other single coil pickups (unlike humbuckers).

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My Les Paul Gem Topaz with P-90 pickups...



 
Greetings zx! The Giver looks forward to crossing swords with you here in the near future. Good to have you on board!
 
Some updates:

Nowadays, I'm working as a unix administrator for a very large company.
Technically speaking, this is my third place of employment this year. Talk about up's and down's :)

One night, after I got most of the people here VERY drunk, I managed to get them to nominate me as a moderator for this place (I did get a couple IOU's also....;) ). So be nice, and crunch for our Folding team, please?!
 
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