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Beautiful 7-string I picked up used that needed some refurbishing. Took it apart, gave it a thorough cleaning/detailing, and a fresh setup with Elixir Optiwebs. The frets had been previously Plek’ed so I could get the action crazy low.

Shoutout to Mike & Coleen Austin at Guitarmory. A previous owner had had a set of Hades pickups with custom pale moon ebony tops made years ago (before the Austins were involved with the company), but there was something wrong with them: output way too low, and DC resistance measuring too low on both pickups. I contacted Guitarmory and Mike immediately offered to set it right, even though they predated both him and me. He wound new bobbins and I got them back within a couple of weeks – no charge, he just wanted to make sure that a product bearing their company’s name was working at its best.

Installed with Schaller Megaswitch, Emerson custom taper and BKP/CTS pots, series treble bleed, Gotoh dome knobs, and 9 unique switching positions with a bunch of coil split options – and it sounds absolutely fantastic through the Axe-Fx III. Punchy, articulate, focused, and brutal when I need it to be.

Really happy with this instrument, a welcome addition to the stable!

Beautiful 7-string I picked up used that needed some refurbishing. Took it apart, gave it a thorough cleaning/detailing, and a fresh setup with Elixir Optiwebs. The frets had been previously Plek’ed so I could get the action crazy low.

Shoutout to Mike & Coleen Austin at Guitarmory. A previous owner had had a set of Hades pickups with custom pale moon ebony tops made years ago (before the Austins were involved with the company), but there was something wrong with them: output way too low, and DC resistance measuring too low on both pickups. I contacted Guitarmory and Mike immediately offered to set it right, even though they predated both him and me. He wound new bobbins and I got them back within a couple of weeks – no charge, he just wanted to make sure that a product bearing their company’s name was working at its best.

Installed with Schaller Megaswitch, Emerson custom taper and BKP/CTS pots, series treble bleed, Gotoh dome knobs, and 9 unique switching positions with a bunch of coil split options – and it sounds absolutely fantastic through the Axe-Fx III. Punchy, articulate, focused, and brutal when I need it to be.

Really happy with this instrument, a welcome addition to the stable!

My third Strandberg in just over a year – now completing the collection of 6-, 7-, and 8-string Bodens. Needless to say, I’m sold on the design and ergonomics of these instruments, and this is a particularly beautiful specimen (despite my usually preferring satin finishes).

When I was a young pup first starting on my guitar journey, I remember pining for an S-type sunburst sitting on display in my local music store. At the time, it was well beyond my reach. This guitar scratches that 30-year itch in spades; just gorgeous.

It plays like a dream and is already being put through its paces as I work on the next album!

My third Strandberg in just over a year – now completing the collection of 6-, 7-, and 8-string Bodens. Needless to say, I’m sold on the design and ergonomics of these instruments, and this is a particularly beautiful specimen (despite my usually preferring satin finishes).

There was a bit of a rough road with this one. It was a B-stock (for a cosmetic flaw in the finish on the back of the body, no problem). It arrived with frets freshly leveled…but not crowned or polished. I otherwise loved the guitar and didn’t want to go through the tedious exchange process, so I took care of it myself, giving it a full setup, crowning, and mirror polish.

There was also a bit of a dead spot in the pickup selector between positions 4-5. They took care of this, sending me a replacement Schaller Megaswitch M (and covered the rewiring cost), so props to them for that.

This thing plays like a dream and is already being put through its paces as I work on the next album!

Edit: thought I’d add that I modified the Amber, adding a push/pull volume pot to use the bridge pickup’s Voice 3 split in positions 1-3. I had made a separate post with the details recently, if anyone is interested.

I’m trying to achieve a specific wiring scheme and could use some help.

I have a Strandberg Boden Original N2 that sports a pair of “Power:d by Fishman” pickups; effectively, they’re a custom Fluence model made for Strandberg.

First pic is the wiring diagram (better viewed here as PDF); second pic is of the bridge pickup with the pins marked.

Goal:
I want to keep the wiring scheme as listed on the PDF, but want to replace the volume pot with a push/pull that would activate the bridge’s Voice 3 Outer Coil in positions 1 & 3. So, I want to add <pos.1 pull = bridge V3 outer coil> and <pos. 3 pull = bridge + neck V3 outer coils)

My understanding is that grounding any of the pins from the right harness (the V2 and V3 pins) activates that function. Note that the bridge’s white wire from the right harness (V3 outer coil) is not in use in Strandberg’s default scheme; there are therefore no positions that use the bridge’s Voice 3 outer coil function.

So, I believe that if I connect the bridge’s “V3 outer coil” white wire to a volume push/pull so that it’s grounded when pulled, that will effectively do what I want with the default positions 1 & 3, since they both have the bridge active.

So far, does that sound right?

The thing preventing me from simply testing it out is: what happens then in position 2? As the wiring diagram shows, the bridge’s yellow wire (V3 inner coil) is connected to the Schaller Megaswitch’s N tab, which grounds that connection in pos. 2. If the bridge’s V3 inner coil function is already active in pos. 2, what then happens when the volume pot is pulled, activating the freshly connected bridge V3 outer coil?

Do the V3 inner & outer coils stack? Do they cancel each other out? Does the pickup blow up?

Thank you in advance to anyone who can shed light on this!