Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt

[Dave W]

I don't see how that could help, Ken. To cover the cavity you have to have flanges on both sides of the pickup. Easy enough to do with a single pickup as long as it's not too close to the neck or bridge The Grabber, for example. But with two pickups the flanges that face each other would have to be able to slide under/over each other when the pickups were close together and yet be long enough to cover the gap when they pickups are furthest apart. And with this much range of movement, when both pickups at their furthest apart, the flanges would have to be so long that they would go under the bridge and into the neck pocket area; otherwise, when the two pickups are close together in the middle, both ends of the cavity would be exposed.

[Highlander]

I propose scrapping the idea altogether... any seconders...?

(there must be some neater arrangement than that "shed" job...)

[nofi]

you could tote a 'samich' in that hole.

[uwe]

I find the concept of sliding pups appealing, but if truth be told I haven't seen it done better than on a Grabber. To combat the problem Dave mentioned in a two pup set-up, you might work with two separate cavities and live with the drawback that between them there might be a range where neither of them can go.

I guess the charm of the Warwick model is that you can combine the single coils to a concentrated humbucker by moving them together? But that hole is a high price to pay for it, especially given how much wood is sacrificed for it.

[4stringer77]

I would have designed it with accordion style cloth on either side of the pickups, maybe with some nice embroidery that reveals a different scene or phrase depending on the position of the pickups.

[uwe]

"...that reveals a different phrase depending on the position ..."

Oh, I get it, you mean like the Russian sailor who went to a doctor with a tatoo on his dick which read "GlonorMaSoFl". The doctor, slightly bewildered, "What does that mean, sailor?". The sailor shrugs, "Oh, it doesn't make sense that way, but in full use it reads ...

T o   t h e   G l o r y  a n d   H o n o r   o f   t h e   M a j e s t i c   S o v i e t   F l e e t !"

[4stringer77]

Or a guy notices another guy at the next urinal has the same tattoo and says, "So you have a girlfriend named Wendy too?" and the man replies, "No mon, it says Welcome to Jamaica have a nice day."

[Dave W]

 

They'll be here all week, folks, be sure to tip your waitress and try the veal.

[ilan]

"makes it kind of homemade, sort of seems like someone knocked it up in their shed"

Wait for the Wishbass version.

[Basvarken]

I advised them the very, very, very flat Lace pickup:

Do you work as an advisor for Warwick now too? 

[Chris P.]

I give my free and unwanted advice to anyone, as you know.... Peter B. already is sick of all my ideas;)