Antoria Les Paul

[awediohead]

Hi folks - first post here! I signed up for the catalogues hoping to find out more about my Antoria LP but drew a blank - hope you maybe able to help.

I bought this guitar second hand in the late 90's and while it's mostly in fairly good condition at some point a previous owner added a third middle humbucker. It has the original Super 70 PAF open humbuckers in the neck and bridge and a DiMarzio in the middle - this gives it more growl than suites the styles I play especially since it's been wired Bridge & Middle, Bridge & Neck and Middle and Neck on the three position selector.

I'm looking to upgrade the pick ups for a more jazzy blues tone and tidy up / replace the cracked pick up rings etc while I do it - I'd love to lose the middle pick up altogether, but since that would leave me with a gaping hole . . .

.... the Seymour Duncan "Tone Wizard" asks you to specify the wood of the body, fretboard and neck and I have no clue what these are!

Any ideas how to find out?

cheers

[Bob K]

Have you seen this website? May be of some help.



Good Luck,
Bob

[wietse]

why change the pickups?
super 70's are great for a bluesy tone, better rewire it, i did it on my 3 pu guitar too. (homebrew)
use the normal switching on a 3 pos switch, bridge, bridge and neck, neck, and replace one of the volumepots by a push/pull pot, with which you can switch on or off the center pickup in every position.
and when you're at it replace the other pots also with push/pull pots so you can get any pickup you wan't in or out of phase, or split them.
so no extra holes and easely to bring it back to original.

[awediohead]

Thanks!

I had already found that site - it doesn't say anything about my specific guitar sadly - though it looks a little bit like the EG1737. Still I might join up and get some advice there too

The idea with the push pull pots sounds excellent - couple of questions if I may . . .

What might I replace the middle Dimarzio with? It really is pretty hot - no serials on it so I can't tell what it is beyond the fact that it adds way too much "growl".

Can you point me at a wiring diagram for what you're talking about doing?

I'm going to do this in two stages - first is just to disconnect the Dimarzio and tidy up the pick up rings etc - at least I'll then know how the Super 70's sound . . . and then second stage do something as you suggest with push pulls, though I'd been thinking of a four way selector.

cheers again!

[Bassassin]

Hi - you'll probably get more Antoria info at the www.ibanezcollectors.com forum - many 70s Antorias were identical to Ibanez models of the same era - built in the same factory, they sometimes even shared catalogue numbers. It's quite likely your Antoria will have a counterpart in the Ibanez range, and specs will be available.

Post some pics (or link to some pics - the image system on that board is a bit eccentric!) and post on the "other replicas" board.

Jon.

[jedistar]

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0179382291

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/revi ... +copy/10/1

[awediohead]

Thanks jedistar - those pics in the first link are the closest I've seen to my guitar after a lot of searching! The differences are probably due to this being a "custom" while mine is a "standard" - mine has a bolt on neck, has no "zebra" pickups, and the inlay is different on the neck and headstock - also mine is a much darker wine red sunburst.

Thanks Jon - I'm chasing up the IbanezCollectors link - I hadn't realised they were just re-badged Inanez for the UK market, though I knew they came from the same factory I'd no idea they were pretty much exactly the same guitars!

New pick up rings etc. arrive tomorrow - then I'll see how it sounds without the middle.

thanks!