Hi all.....
I'm quite fond of these McCarty pickguard/pickup units on my old Gibson archtops.
Its kind of neat how without alteration, one can easily convert an acoustic archtop to an electric....but what surprised me the most was how well these actually work.
My '45 L-7's McCarty is what got me started....and I can't get enough of the low output single coil sound of these things.
One of these days will have to figure out the sound clip thing but for now you'll have to take my word for it.
Suffice to say.....they're surprisingly Franz like, not much like a P-90. With the pickup being a floater, the sound of that acoustic archtop is definitely still evident.
They made these for both the 17" Gibson L-7's and L-5's but also could be found on the L-4c model.
With that McCarty L-4c idea in mind I set out to make one for my '61 CA-100 using the Guild pickguard shape as a template.....and a pickup from a wreck I got on Ebay.
So here 'tis...
I've yet to put volume or tone controls on this, and may not bother. I run my volume and tone wide open most of the time anyway with volume and EQ pedals. If I do will probably use the under pickguard "stealth" mounted versions.
So thats it....lots of fun.....this Guild sounds great!
ziz
I'm quite fond of these McCarty pickguard/pickup units on my old Gibson archtops.
Its kind of neat how without alteration, one can easily convert an acoustic archtop to an electric....but what surprised me the most was how well these actually work.
My '45 L-7's McCarty is what got me started....and I can't get enough of the low output single coil sound of these things.
One of these days will have to figure out the sound clip thing but for now you'll have to take my word for it.
Suffice to say.....they're surprisingly Franz like, not much like a P-90. With the pickup being a floater, the sound of that acoustic archtop is definitely still evident.
They made these for both the 17" Gibson L-7's and L-5's but also could be found on the L-4c model.
With that McCarty L-4c idea in mind I set out to make one for my '61 CA-100 using the Guild pickguard shape as a template.....and a pickup from a wreck I got on Ebay.
So here 'tis...
I've yet to put volume or tone controls on this, and may not bother. I run my volume and tone wide open most of the time anyway with volume and EQ pedals. If I do will probably use the under pickguard "stealth" mounted versions.
So thats it....lots of fun.....this Guild sounds great!
ziz