Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Harmony Partscaster
I just finished building up this guitar from pieces. I bought a very early set of Lindy Fralin Strat pickups 1-2 years back, and have been waiting for a home for them. The old Harmony body came along for $30 with a bridge and scratch guard on it, so I was started! The body is solid wood, and two pieces. The neck is from a 2005 Squire. The harness is from a recent Fender with 250k pot's, but the wiring is a little different than those from my 80's Strat's. Since the pot's came wired, I just loaded it as is, but I may rewire it back to old school and see how the sound differs. I have a nice action set up on it with 10-46 strings. Nice!
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I finally did the rewiring. I've returned the configuration to 57/62 standards, removing three small capacitors and moving a couple of wires in the process. (They way the harness came was a little weird. It seemed the volume pot was also affecting tone.)
The tone from this configuration now, with the Lindy Fralin pups and whatever the Harmony body is, is a little too bright for my liking. I can cut the tone with the tone pots of course for the middle and neck pups, but the bridge pup is extremely bright. I'm sure my bias for warmth and neck pickups affects my judgement here, but it's not my absolute ideal sound. I CAN get nice sounds on switch positions 2 through 5. I'll post some a/v some time.
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