I was wondering if anyone's played single coils in a mahogany body. I was thinking that maybe it'd bring out the richer side of singles that I can never seem to find in my strats.

More specifically I was thinking of a custom strat with a Les Paul wood configuration on the Body and Fender woods in the neck, meaning a mahogany body with maple top and a maple neck with rosewood fingerboard.

Anyone played a guitar built like that or have thoughts on the matter?

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Try playing an SG, LP Special, LP Jr, or a Melodymaker equipped with P90s. An old one if you can

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Stage Guitars: '80s Thin line LP Custom, '70 LP Standard, '83 Squier Black Headstock Strat w/ Dan Torres pickups, '59 Black Danelectro DC, sometimes others.

Pedal Board: Nady UHF 10 -> TU2 -> Rocktron Big Crush -> 70s MXR Phase 100 -> Cry Baby -> Bad Monkey -> Early '80s Rat -> Early '80s Ibanez CS 9 -> Ibanez DE 7 -> Behringer Dr 100 Stereo Reverb

Stage amps: '63 Blonde Tremolux w/ two original 2X10 cabinets with a '60 Ampeg Rocket/18 watt VTB Marshall clone/ Epi VJ into a Mashall 1965A

actually fender made a mahogany strat a couple years back so. They dont sound bad.

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Hamer Sat2 or Jackson JRR-94 Rhoads>Laney gc80a or hc25(practice).

Hamer(standard tuning) Ernie ball Slinkies
Rhoad JRR 94' (still fiddling with)
Alvarez Dana Scoop (standard tuning) D'adarrio 10's

Yeah, they pretty much sound like Strats. A lot of parts places also offer mahogany Strat and Tele bodies. Warmoth etc.

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Stage Guitars: '80s Thin line LP Custom, '70 LP Standard, '83 Squier Black Headstock Strat w/ Dan Torres pickups, '59 Black Danelectro DC, sometimes others.

Pedal Board: Nady UHF 10 -> TU2 -> Rocktron Big Crush -> 70s MXR Phase 100 -> Cry Baby -> Bad Monkey -> Early '80s Rat -> Early '80s Ibanez CS 9 -> Ibanez DE 7 -> Behringer Dr 100 Stereo Reverb

Stage amps: '63 Blonde Tremolux w/ two original 2X10 cabinets with a '60 Ampeg Rocket/18 watt VTB Marshall clone/ Epi VJ into a Mashall 1965A

A mahogany Tele is all over "Let It Be". You can even see it in the rooftop video. Sounds like a Tele, only maybe a hair mellower.

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the reason for that is that fender's tone relies heavily on electronics. if you strum an unplugged strat and the a unplugged lp there is a very huge difference in the tonal quality of the woods involved. but plug them in and the fender doesnt sound better or worse because the electronics are more involved in coloring the tone. Mahogany or alder the strat and/or tele will sound like a strat/tele unless you change the style of pickups and wiring.

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Hamer Sat2 or Jackson JRR-94 Rhoads>Laney gc80a or hc25(practice).

Hamer(standard tuning) Ernie ball Slinkies
Rhoad JRR 94' (still fiddling with)
Alvarez Dana Scoop (standard tuning) D'adarrio 10's

I've been down this path myself.

I have a custom guitar with Pacific Mahogany body, and bolt on maple neck (ebony board), and single coils. It sounds pretty much like an Alder bodied strat.

I think the scale length and neck joint have a much greater impact on sound than just wood selection alone. Soundwise, Mahogany is close enough to Alder that most folks probably won't pick up the subtle differences. Now try another very different type of body wood (Maple?), and you're bound to hear the differences.

Gibsons having a shorter scale length, and a glued neck will provide a different sound no matter how you configure your bolt-on longer scale neck.

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Interesting stuff, thanks guys. I tried out a sixties reissue LP with p90s and loved it, but it appears thats more for the scale and neck setting than anything, and p90s are supposed to be darker and fatter than strat style singles aren't they?

I'm guessing that most of my inability to connect with my strats has to do with the pickups I've put in them than anything else.

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You can always coil tap a hb pickup btw. My Lp Custom has a coil tap switch.

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Stage Guitars: '80s Thin line LP Custom, '70 LP Standard, '83 Squier Black Headstock Strat w/ Dan Torres pickups, '59 Black Danelectro DC, sometimes others.

Pedal Board: Nady UHF 10 -> TU2 -> Rocktron Big Crush -> 70s MXR Phase 100 -> Cry Baby -> Bad Monkey -> Early '80s Rat -> Early '80s Ibanez CS 9 -> Ibanez DE 7 -> Behringer Dr 100 Stereo Reverb

Stage amps: '63 Blonde Tremolux w/ two original 2X10 cabinets with a '60 Ampeg Rocket/18 watt VTB Marshall clone/ Epi VJ into a Mashall 1965A

you know I completely forgot about that option

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Hamer Sat2 or Jackson JRR-94 Rhoads>Laney gc80a or hc25(practice).

Hamer(standard tuning) Ernie ball Slinkies
Rhoad JRR 94' (still fiddling with)
Alvarez Dana Scoop (standard tuning) D'adarrio 10's

Yeah, my main guitar is a Les Paul Deluxe and it has coil tapping, and I like for some sounds with middling distortion. Its pretty tinny sounding compared to my strat that I'm not 100% about though.

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you can probably try a hb sized p90/p94 and get a similar tone or if i remember corectly Duncan makes a P-rails pickup that's essentially a p90 with a half sized single coil rail beside it and its tappable.

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Hamer Sat2 or Jackson JRR-94 Rhoads>Laney gc80a or hc25(practice).

Hamer(standard tuning) Ernie ball Slinkies
Rhoad JRR 94' (still fiddling with)
Alvarez Dana Scoop (standard tuning) D'adarrio 10's

See if you can try an Ibanez Paul Gilbert Fireman - it's an all mahogany set neck guitar with three single coils. Admittedly they are stacked singles and wound to be a little fatter than a standard strat but from what I've seen/heard they still seem pretty single coil-y (haven't played one myself but that guitar is all over the Fuzz Universe album and it sounds like singles).

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Pretty sure that's one of the rare old rosewood Teles.

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Yeah, those pickups do sound like single coils. I actually have his signatures in my Highway One cause I wasn't crazy about the Alnico IIIs the guitar came with and they seemed like a good choice. The Alnico IIIs werem't exactly the strat sound I was looking for, so I wanted to try some stacked singles.

I would like to try that guitar out to hear the set neck and everything else about it though. I wonder where I could find one =/

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