Expanding Your Guitar's Tones with Pickup Mods: From Easy and Conventional to Innovative and Exotic

Section 1 is dedicated to providing the background material most people will need. You will learn how pickup placement and dimensions, inductance, resistance, capacitance, and types of magnets all affect how a pickup sounds. Furthermore, you will seen how different switching configurations of pickup wiring can also alter the sound. Finally, you'll get a brief overview of soldering, switches, potentiometers, etc. to make sure you are ready to mod.

Section 2 will ease into the modification process by utilizing easy projects that are typical of what most people do - they just replace old pickups with new ones. Such mods are relatively uncomplicated compared to projects later in the book and are certainly a good place to start if you have never modified your guitar before.

Section 3 changes things up by demonstrating how you can get totally new sounds from the pickups you already have, just by changing how they are electrically wired together. You will discover new and seldom used, wiring configurations that can alter your guitar's tone.

Section 4 really gets things going with projects where you change both the pickups and the wiring configurations to produce dramatic new sounds while maintaining all of the old ones.

Section 5 will create some new, custom, one-of-a-kind pickups - without even winding a coil. These are truly the exotic mods that can make your guitar unique and special.