Single coil hum is making me hate my steel

[Bent Romnes]

Eugene, this is Canada you know. I can't get my head around all the red tape to wade through to get our CRTC interested in a lowly transformer. As long as it don't interfere with police communications and peoples TV, they don't care about some steel player's issue.
I told my local utility about it and they just smiled.
They won;t do anything unless it leaks or catches fire.
!@*)&!~

[Eugene Cole]

Eugene, this is Canada you know. I can't get my head around all the red tape to wade through to get our CRTC interested in a lowly transformer. As long as it don't interfere with police communications and peoples TV, they don't care about some steel player's issue.
I told my local utility about it and they just smiled.
They won;t do anything unless it leaks or catches fire.
!@*)&!~

Oh dear. That does throw a wrinkle in things.
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I have not seen anyone mentioning coil-tapping yet in this thread. I would urge you to look in to getting your pickup rewound with a few coil-taps. The thing about pickups is that someone that really knows how to wind them will understand that you want particular tonal qualities and can wind the pickup accordingly. And typically they will be happy to tap the coil in a couple of places to increase the tonal options which the rewound pickup can offer to you. I am not an expert on pickup winding myself but I do love having a switch which will give me tonal options at my beck and call on a switch on the guitar. I know Jason Lollar has a good reputation for doing customized re-winds and I am confident that you can get both input and some good referals to other pickup specialists that can help you out.

[Per Berner]

A couple of years ago I had a Sho Bud Pro III Custom (converted to SD-10 spec) with an aluminum neck and a Bill Lawrence humbucker. Brightest steel I've ever played; way brighter than my Legrande with standard Emmons s/c or my present Zum with 17.5k Truetone s/c. Go figure!