How To Optimize Your Pickup’s String Balance
Optimizing your guitar's tone is as simple as adjusting your pickups' string balance. These steps help you get the most out of your pickups.
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Fingerboard Radius – How Does It Affect Magnet Stagger?
Your Instrument's Fingerboard Radius is an important part of your instrument, especially when it comes to selecting Pickup Magnet Stagger!
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Demystifying Humbucker Color Codes
Learn how to match different manufacturer's humbucker color codes with our easy guide.
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The Correct Way To Remove Metal Filings From Pickups
Learn how to efficiently and safely remove metal filings from your guitar (or bass) pickup's magnets!
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4 Unique HSS Strat Wiring Tips For More Versatility
In this article, we discuss Strats with a Humbucker in the Bridge (HSS)! There are a few tips and tricks for interesting HSS wiring, so read on!
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5 Powerful Ways To Coil Split Your Humbucker
Today, we're discussing some exciting and unique ways to approach Coil Splitting with Humbuckers!
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Reverse Pickup Polarity The Easy Way With Multiple Leads
This is the last installment of our Phase and Polarity series. If you want to read more, check out these previous articles: Part 1: Reversing Phase with Single Coils Part 2: Reversing Phase with Humbuckers A few weeks ago, we discussed how to reverse your pickup’s phase by examining the different properties that combine to create the pickup’s overall phase. […]
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6 Powerful Ways To Wire Up A Tone Pot
There are many ways to wire up a tone pot, and it can be confusing deciding which one to choose. Different eras of wiring produce different tones, as Modern wiring sounds different from ’50s wiring. We’ve wired up tone pots on our best-selling Telecaster Control Plates and Prewired Pickguards in many different ways. Today, we’re only going to focus on […]
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Install Your Telecaster Pickups Like a Pro With These Simple Tips!
Installing Telecaster Pickups can be a tricky business. Installing the Bridge pickup alone can give you sweaty palms. Even worse, if those sweaty palms lead to a slip, you can nick a coil wire and kill your pickup. At Fralin Pickups, we’ve seen it all. We’ve seen the mangled coil wires from the mounting screws and punctured coil from the […]
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Learn how to choose between 250K and 500K Pots now!
We frequently get asked about pot values when a customer orders one of our Prewired Telecaster Control Plates or Prewired Pickguards. Pot value has a significant impact on your instrument’s final tone; it’s essential to choose wisely. We mainly get asked how to choose between 250K pots and 500K pots. Let’s dig in! CHOOSING BETWEEN 250K AND 500K POTS: When […]
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How to Reverse Pickup Polarity Part 2: Humbuckers
Note: this two-part article was originally one article, and I edited it into two parts for clarity and brevity. If you want to learn more about Polarity in general, read Part 1. Reversing the polarity of a Humbucker is a relatively simple task when compared to a single-coil pickup like a Stratocaster or Telecaster pickup. When changing the phase of […]
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How to Reverse Pickup Polarity, Part 1: Single Coil Pickups
This is Part 1 of a 2-part series on reversing pickup polarity. This article focuses on Single Coil Pickups. For Humbuckers, see Part 2. Needing to reverse your pickup’s phase is something you most likely never want to encounter, but it’s an essential skill to have. If you are reading this article, you most likely experienced the ‘Out of Phase’ […]
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