New gear alert :)

[kenny mac]

Actually blooby the 3 guitars to the right are equipped with coil taps

[Geir]

Coil tap rules

[kenny mac]

Yeh Geir they are the business .

[fenderbender]

Not impressed in the least
Not a Lefty in sight

[Blooby]

Actually blooby the 3 guitars to the right are equipped with coil taps

Maybe so but irrelevant to my line of thinking.

[64Guitars]

Nice guitars Kenny!


I think we're talking about split-coil humbuckers rather than coil taps. They're not the same thing.

To quote Wikipedia:

"Some guitars which have humbucking pickups feature "coil splits", which allow the pickups to act as "pseudo-single" coils by either short-circuiting or bypassing one coil. The electrical circuit of the pickup is reduced to that of a true single coil so there is no hum canceling effect. Usually, this feature is activated using a miniature toggle switch or a DPDT push-pull switch mounted on a potentiometer. Some guitars (e.g. the Peavey T-60 and the Fender Classic Player Jaguar HH) make use of a variable coil split circuit that allows the guitarist to dial a variable amount of signal from the second coil, from pure single-coil to full humbucker and everything in-between.

Coil splits are often wrongly referred to as a "coil tap". Coil taps are most commonly found on single coil pickups, and involve an extra hook-up wire being included during the manufacture of the pickup so the guitarist can choose to have all the windings of the pickup included in the circuit, for a fatter, higher output sound with more midrange; or switch the output to "Tap" into the windings at a point that is less than the full coil for a brighter, lower output, cleaner sound. By example: a full pickup coil may be 10,000 turns of wire and the "Tap" may be at 8000 turns. Because of the confusion between coil splits and coil taps - and the rareness of coil taps in general - it is difficult to find tappable single coil pickups for sale. However, pickup manufacturer Seymour Duncan offers tapped versions of many of their Telecaster and Stratocaster pickups on their website at an increased cost."


I've never had any luck with single-coil pickups. They're far too noisy in my environment. My Godin and my Ibanez both have split-coil humbuckers but I've never been able to use them in the single-coil mode because of the noise.

[kenny mac]

Here's the spec.

[64Guitars]

Yeah, it says "coil tap". But as the Wikipedia article mentions, the terminology is often used incorrectly.

Here's the SWC page at Rockfield Pickups:

http://www.rockfieldpickups.com/swc.html

It says "The Split coil option or "Tapped" positions are useful and articulate well for a great pickup in any format!".

So Rockfield says they're split coil. I think they put "Tapped" in quotation marks to indicate that many people refer to split coil humbuckers as "tapped" even though it's incorrect.

[kenny mac]

Nice one 64' very interesting mate,the guitar in the spec photo is probably my most used guitar(the amber one)
It's so versatile and the clean sound is often mistaken for a strat .
A good example would be the version I did of the song local heroe.
That's the very one ,or black coffee 

[T.C. Elliott]

There are a whole lot of very pretty ladies in that there picture. The new one isn't the prettiest in my opinion, but it sure doesn't bring the pretty factor down, either. Congratz. (I'm jealous.)