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Topic: 8-string pickups |
Ted Smith
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Idaho - shot of Jeff Peterson, Ted and Smith Curry "Nothing but the taillights tour"
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Bob Tuttle
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Republic, MO 65738
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Posted 10 Apr 2011 6:47 pm |
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| The Wallace True Tone pickups are a good choice if you like the single coil sound. If you prefer a humbucker, you can use the George-Ls 10 string pickups on an 8 string. They don't have pole pieces so you don't have to worry about the string spacing. The Lawrence 705 style pickups with the rails instead of pole pieces would work too. |
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Ted Smith
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Idaho - shot of Jeff Peterson, Ted and Smith Curry "Nothing but the taillights tour"
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Posted 10 Apr 2011 6:49 pm
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Bill is making the 705 again??
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Bob Tuttle
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Republic, MO 65738
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Posted 10 Apr 2011 6:59 pm
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| I don't think Bill is involved in it. Another company evidently has the rights to make a reissue of the 705. Bobby Seymour and others are selling them. I've heard very good reports on them. |
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Carl McLaughlin
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St.Stephen,New Brunswick,Can
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Posted 10 Apr 2011 9:30 pm 8 string pu
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I just had Vintage Vibes{Pete Biltof} build me acouple of custom 8 string pu and they are great sounding.They were only $135.00 each shipped.The last pu he made for me has adjustable magnets,also came with 2 extra set of mags in different strenghts
Carl..I HIGHLY RECOMMEND..
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I have a Tele plus telecaster, Larrivee acoustic. Also have a Fender resonator guitar with new Quarterman cone and spider, and an Allan tailpiece .Playing through a Fender Super Champ XD, using a little delay on the amp and a Harmonix Holy Grail Echo pedal, set on Hall turned to about 1pm.Just Bought a Yamaha FGX5 Recently and love it. Recently got a Sho-NUFF 6 string pedal steel in open G.Still learning.Just bought back my old SX lap steel that i modified, in open G |
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J.D.White
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Lafayette, Louisiana
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John Allison
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Austin, Texas, USA
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Posted 11 Apr 2011 2:48 pm
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I use Rio Grande stringmaster stylepickups. They sound better than anything else I've tried and the price is reasonable. Feel free to contact me for pricing...
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John Allison
Allison Stringed Instruments
Austin, Texas
www.allisonguitars.com
Last edited by John Allison on 11 Apr 2011 3:00 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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John Allison
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Austin, Texas, USA
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Posted 11 Apr 2011 2:59 pm
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PS...the last time I contacted Bill Lawrence about getting single coil 8's they were not making them...Even after getting through the confusing tangle of Bill Lawrence, The Bill Lawrence, The Original Bill Lawrence, Bill and Becky, Wylde, Keystone, etc, etc...
Maybe they're back in production?
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John Allison
Allison Stringed Instruments
Austin, Texas
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 11 Apr 2011 7:11 pm
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It's sure a lot easier to build 7 string steels 
All kinds of pickups available. I've been using the DiMarzio DP 702 bridge humbuckers with great results.
69 bucks on Ebay from a music store in Texas.
I've built only one 8 string steel, for a Hawaiian, with a horseshoe type pickup. |
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George Piburn
From:
The Land of Enchantment New Mexico
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Ted Smith
From:
Idaho - shot of Jeff Peterson, Ted and Smith Curry "Nothing but the taillights tour"
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Posted 23 Apr 2011 8:30 am
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Great help guys!
I've been traveling a lot lately and unable to get to my computer but I'm going to follow up on all the advice here and see what we can do. I have three of the old CC8 style bodies I'm going to go ahead and finish so I may put a different pickup type on each one. Super help!! Thank you.
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