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well, I've heard of a high output baseplate on the bridge pickups, but does anyone know if its good to put them on all three pickups or does it not work?

You can put them on whatever pickups you like as long as they fit. I make my own out of brass and they add a nice punch.

Snowdog

The baseplate will fatten up the bass about 5% and seems to thicken up the mids a little bit too. I don't know that I'd like one on the neck or middle pickup, but if your neck and middle pickup sounds to thin to you then give it a try and let us know the results. Generally, they're only used on the bridge pickup...

Lew

Please excuse my ignorance on this but how does it work? do u screw the base plate to the pickup or it just sticks to it with magentic force?

Tele bridge pickups have a metal baseplate attached by wax on the bottem of the pickup. You can do the same thing to a Strat bridge pickup...that's the idea behind the Duncan Twangbanger and the Fralin Baseplate that Lindy will add by request to his Vintage Hot or Blues Special Strat bridge pickup. The plate is first dipped in wax and then you press it against the bottem of the pickup, melt the wax with a soldering tool and then when the wax cools and hardens the plate stays attached to the pickup. There's also a ground wire soldered to the baseplate that you solder to the ground wire (usually black) of the pickup.

Lew

thanks lew

I've had good results also with clear silicone...

some considerations..

Magnetic metal is needed. Ferrous ( brass is doing nothing to the magnets yet it may add inductance? -- thats hard to estimate unless you have a HZ meter)

carefull when adding metal to rails and humbuckers you may redriect the magnetic fields away from the strings and squash output.

thanks for all the help, I'm gonna put them on some 62' strat pickups. I'll tell you all how it goes, should be intresting


Originally Posted by Rev DonzoMagnetic metal is needed. Ferrous ( brass is doing nothing to the magnets yet it may add inductance? -- thats hard to estimate unless you have a HZ meter)

I'm not sure that it needs to be magnetic, per se. By bringing metal into close proximity to the magnetic field, you add eddy currents. Thats cuurent flow that isn't doing any work, but it adds to the overall quot;loadquot; the pickup sees. Kinda like going from a 500k pot to a 250k - but different. It just has its own affect on the frequency response and output.

Artie

So, can this be done to one coil of a Stag Mag or similar? Hmm...

Any other sources for a plate?