EMGs + Fernandes Sustainer on a LP


cowman
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12/05/2004 12:01 pm
A friend of mine has an Epiphone Les Paul he wants to heavily 'pimp' :p. He was thinking of putting EMG's on it, and the other day, while talking about me getting a sustainer for my strat, he came with the idea of putting one of the EMGs in the bridge position and the driver of the sustainer system in the neck. I think it would sound cool, but we thought that maybe the sustainer wouldn't sound as good as the EMG working as a pickup. So we thought of something: Why not modifying it so it becomes a 3 pickup guitar, With EMG's in the bridge and middle and the Fernandes sustainer in the neck. Is it possible to wire the 3 pickups to configure the guitar like this??

We thought of some possible shortcomings, such as the need to place a 5 position pickup selector, the need for 2 batteries, and how to wire the volume and tone controls. Any suggestions??
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cowman
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12/06/2004 1:10 am
What I see that could be a great pain would be cutting the wood to fit the 3 pickups and also, covering the evidence :p.

Also, we could make it work with a single battery, but It would be to risky to run out it, that's why we are thinking of going with 2 batteries.
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