Owen

[quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1351597684' post='1853006'] Crikey mate - you really need to get out more [/quote] I cannot deny it.

[quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1351595820' post='1852979'] Hastings? Sorry you've lost me......... [/quote] Your post count was 1066 at the time

Steve's Hastings post!

Try the bassdoc.

You will need to be on comission for all the DVDs you have inadvertantly sold!

It lives!

[quote name='ikay' timestamp='1351070876' post='1846827'] Here's a useful review of the Model Js which gives more detail on the coil configuration and series/parallel switching. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/165194-dimarzio-model-j-dp123/"]http://basschat.co.u...-model-j-dp123/[/url] Separate series/parallel switching for neck and bridge pups should give loads of tonal flexibility and looks like a great option to me. Tempted to try it myself. [/quote] That sounds like what I am looking for. Sorry Mr Byrne, I should have listened in the first place Now to find ones in 5 string format. I'm sure Mr Wizard can come up with something suitable

But is there a difference in windings? More/less? Is it just the two coils going into humbucking mode which change the character of the sound or is it to do with more/less wire on the coil? I am not being deliberately stupid here.

So a J is single coil. A P is humbucking. Could a J have two coils (I have seen these so know they exist) but with a kind of coil tap so that I had access to the correct J windings and the correct P windings? I am aware that there is an element of compromise about all this. Perhaps I should just S1 it and get over myself. I am now getting into dangerous territory that I only 20% understand so forgive me for any crass stupidity

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1351064115' post='1846707'] This sounds interesting, but I cannot see the pic Is it just me? [/quote] It was obviously just me. It is there in all it's glory on my computer at work.

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1351022607' post='1846398'] I stealthed a J pickup into my P bass at the 24th fret position. I chiselled out the cavity deep enough to hide a J pickup (and a bunch of Strat pickup magnets to boost the range of the pickup). [/quote] This sounds interesting, but I cannot see the pic Is it just me?

Thanks for all the comments. I guess the obvious thing to do is push the pickup in my P right down and suck it and see. I will not be ruining anything which exists, I am just thinking about doing a build (as in someone doing it for me, obv!).