The Phoenix... the restoration of a rare custom-made "Thunderbird"

[Pilgrim]

Much coolness, and loveliness!  It's looking wonderful.

[clankenstein]

vey nice indeed.there are many wiring options for sure.what works for me is pickups in series,i find that in parallel with both on they seem to cancel a little.

[PeterB]

Wow Kenny, that Bird looks beautiful, very nice and deep color!  Interesting idea to split the mudbucker.

[Chris P.]

Great, Kenny!!

[Highlander]

Thank Joe for the idea, Peter... 

[PeterB]

Thank's Joe! 

[FlatEric]

Kenny, Hi.

Still waiting for "more shots".
I'd hoped you would have done a couple of shows with this already!!

How's it coming along? Nearly finished?


Cheers.

[Highlander]

Waiting for a couple of parts to arrive at the moment and trying to figure out how to post some vids/sound clips at the moment... hope the warm, flat beer goes down well... 

[Highlander]

Posted this in our "post your music" section but thought I'd drop it in here too...

Something I'd completely forgotten about until I put this together - the Tequilabird not only had the MB1 at the time, but also a skinned Dimarzio P replacement by the bridge - no original Peter Cook pup and prior to fitting the EMG Select in that position... recorded directly into the board, so this is as clean a sound of her from that period that I have...



Three of us from this line-up were the bunch that got together for a few gigs last year; this tune is all very eighties but I still like it; one of the best we did...

[FlatEric]

VERY impressed.

Nice bass sound - good 80's sounding track.

Nice.

[Highlander]

First sound tests today...



Used some chocolate-block to temp link the pups to and ran a bunch of tests - the thing that surprised me the most was the difference in output between in-phase/out-of-phase with both the coils of the Mudbucker and with the RD pup... also noted that the sound of the two coils on the MB differed enough to be of interest to me... lots of quite interesting sounds to play with... now got to confirm wiring and start fitting the switchgear...

[shadowcastaz]

That came out real nice. Im not a gold fan but the pup treatment on that rockz!!!

[Highlander]

I've been rather pre-occupied with some things of late to concentrate on this, or anything constructive, but I managed to sit down and work out how I want her wired - I'll post a diagram in the next day or so but this is the basics...

2 x 500k volume pots, the original pup selector, Bill's (Sniper) original EB3 rotary switch and a double pole single throw switch with an XLR socket wired with stereo capability...

Rotary switch positions with an output to the pot...
1 - Reverse phase MB
2 - Normal MB
3 - Parallel coil MB
4 - Bridge side single coil MB

RD Artist pup out to 2nd pot

Both pups wired through a fairly standard pickup selector with output straight to one pin on the XLR - the double pole single throw switch will bypass the volume pots and each side will go straight to 2 pins on the XLR for straight to the board or running two amps... I have the ability to blend the sound on the Hiwatt as the inputs both produce differing sounds to the pre-amp circuitry and the balance control blends these two inputs...

[sniper]

looking mighty fine

[Highlander]

I think this is about it...