The British Steelies Society

Hi All

In my search for greater tone I am thinking of getting a 2nd pick up installed in my Carter SD10. I can't afford to buy a new steel so this is a would be a way to achieve this.

I can't do it myself so I would have to find someone who could do it for me. The neck is hollow steel so it is possible to cut a section away to create a gap for another pick up.

Has anyone had this done? Does anyone know of someone who could so this for me?

I have no information on this, but am curious to see what you end up doing with this idea.

Interesting idea. Last week I changed my George L for a single coil truetone and while doing it I wondered why there was no split coil steel pick up available. As it is, I still find the biggest difference is choosing where, from the bridge, to pick and, apart from a slightly brighter tone, and a feeling that it brought me home to the Strat, the pick up experiment was the least of my issues. Now, being able to have two pickups out of phase - now we’re talking. Next thing independent volume knobs worked by your.........

Dale Rottacker in the US has this setup!

Caution! Ask yourself what you really want to achieve, and address that issue. You have a guitar, pickup, amp (with tone controls), strings and hands to consider before adding a (possible superfluous - how many players have two p/ups per neck) second pickup. I wish you well in your search but be careful before routing out a perfectly good guitar
PS my first PSG had a pickup with three coil taps, totally useless! I found one sound that was - OK (just) - and stuck with that Good luck.