1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

[Ozz666]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

Here's my Warrior Pro before pic when I first got her:



...and here's the day after I received her with the JE circuit sh^t removed and the EMG thrown in there with a flat metal p/up ring.



For me it was a mod that was definitely needed....
- Joel

[paddok]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

Awsome warrior, what did you have to do to make the EMG fit ?

[Drake S.]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

Hey Paddok that what mine looks like except I have chrome hardware & both pickups are EMG. I had the bridge cavity slightly routed to fit the humbucker on mine.

[Sunbane]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

Ahhh! [img]images/icons/blush.gif[/img]
That guitar is sooo wicked...
The desire... *shakes*

[charvel750]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

Ken did a mod on a red pearl Warrior that Newc sold to me:

Now, that's not so bad, ain't the best, but ain't bad either. I also have a black Warrior that I EMG'd and kept the slant, couldn't be happier:

[Ozz666]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

I just grabbed the dremel and squared out the cavity a bit and kept checking my route job with the pup and the pup ring to make sure everything would be covered. I only opened it up enough to just fit the EMG in there. I also made sure the EMG was at the same angle as the single coil by making a few measurements...then just mark the holes for the ring and predrill and screw everything in.

- Joel

[paddok]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

I think im going to go with an X2N in the bridge and either a SD hotrails in the neck, or a "the chopper" in the neck.


anybody tried this combo ?

[xenophobe]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

Joe, show a close up of the red Warrior's route. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

I still say mod the pickup to fit the guitar, not the other way around. But then again, it's only a piece of wood. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[charvel750]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

Sorry, Xeno. Here it is from Newc's archives:

[VitaminG]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

wow, look at that! You'd never know it used to have a slanted pickup. [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[toejam]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

[img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[MountainDog]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

In the attached thread about warriors, I explained how to cut the tabs on an EMG hum to fit the warrior without doing any cutting to the wood (so the guitar isn't 'violated'. So check out my instructions, somewhere in the middle of the post. I can send someone a pic of this if they'll post it on the board.
http://www.jcfonline.com/cgi-bin/ult...c;f=1;t=000784

[paddok]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

Well all, friday im taking the warrior to GMW to get routed for a slanted humbucker. Im 99% sure im going with the X2N in the bridge and the FastTrack 1 in the neck.

My only concern is ive never heard the X2N being played. Does anybody know any bands aside from Death that use the X2N ? I actually dont like chuck's guitar sound very much, but im pretty sure thats just production.

[RacerX]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

Harmony Central guys are saying KISS, Buckethead, Steve Vai, who knows, and who cares. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[toejam]

Re: 1991 Warrior Pro, someone please educate me on my new guitar !

I've never heard of anyone in Kiss using the X2N, but Ace used DiMarzio Super Distortions, and Paul always used lower output pickups than that. Buckethead had two in his custom Jackson V guitars, Steve Vai did use them a very long time ago in his early solo and Frank Zappa days. I used one for many years in my old Kramer, put it in my Model 5A for a couple months, now it's just sitting around waiting for another guitar to be put in eventually. Get one, you won't be disappointed... for a passive pickup, it blows the doors off an EMG 81.