Can a deacon be setup with strat pickups?

Greg Henderson Posted 2002-12-13 10:26 PM (#215209) Subject: Can a deacon be setup with strat pickups? Joined: June 2002 Posts: 7 Location: Canton GA Have any of you fellow guitar redoers ever set up a dacon or breadwinner with strat pickups I have a shaller bridge and was going to make a pickguard for three emg strat pickups so my string spacing wont be a problem but the distance from the bottom of the neck to the bridge is shorter than that of a Stratocaster has anyone out there ever did this and did it sound strat like? Did the middle and bridge pickup settings sound right? If you know that this wont work let me know at hendoandson@att.net also Samova if you see this email me back and to all of you out there .... Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a new 0-0-0-0-0-0vation! Paul Templeman Posted 2002-12-14 5:08 AM (#215210 - in reply to #215209) Subject: Re: Can a deacon be setup with strat pickups? Joined: February 2002 Posts: 5750 Location: Scotland On a 21/22 fret guitar such as a Strat the neck pickup sits exactly under the 24th fret harmonic node-point, so if you put Strat pickups on a 24-fret guitar such as a Breadwinner it cannot sound exactly like a Strat as the positions and spacing of the pickups is different. (The Breadwinner is an all-mahogany guitar which will also contibute to the sound difference) That's not to say it wont produce a good-sounding instrument. Breads & Deacons with changed pickups are common, personaly I like the quirkiness of the original pickups and pre-amp. If you want Strat-sounds leave your Breadwinner alone and try a Viper 3. I have a Breadwinner with 2 Viper pickups & a Deacon pickup and it produces some good strat-like sounds. Paul [ December 14, 2002: Message edited by: Paul Templeman ]