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Post by Adey Thu Oct 24, 2019 9:16 am

Has anyone done a pickup change on their Pantera X275 or 300?

I bought one recently (a 1987 model) and was contemplating swapping out the existing HSS set up for IronGear Jail House Rails and a Hot Slag at the bridge.

I think the existing bridge is a UBC. The resistance was about 6.6KOhms if I recall correctly.

Anyone else used these? I want the guitar for a metal / gritty rock tone.

Any thoughts?
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Post by Westbone Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:33 pm

Sounds like a good combination you have there.... Cool
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Post by corsair Thu Oct 24, 2019 4:15 pm

No, mate - I haven't. My X300 has a 45 in the bridge...

Those Irongear pickups sound the goods!
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Post by Adey Thu Oct 24, 2019 4:36 pm

Ordered them up this evening....
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Post by Adey Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:09 am

So here is the guitar
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Here the less than fantastic plastic backed UBC bridge pickup

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and with new Iron Gear pickups installed

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I haven't done anything with coil splitting yet as I haven't really decided what I might do - SUGGESTIONS WELCOME!!

I have got a couple of spare switchmaster knobs, so might stick a tone on it with a push/pull too. At the moment it just has the original push pull on the volume, but not wired up to do anything.

Band practice tomorrow night, so I'll be taking this one along and see how it does... :-)


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Post by Adey Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:11 am

The frets need a bit of work too, but I'll leave that for now.

I have just left it with a slightly high action to compensate for the odd high frets at the dusty end that choke out the string bends here and there.
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Post by Adey Wed Nov 06, 2019 3:16 pm

Guitar sounded AWESOME at rehearsal night. A good choice of pickups.

I would very much recommend them....
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Post by Barry Wed Nov 06, 2019 8:12 pm

Excellent! Now that bad boy is rockin'!


The frets are easily levelled and then you can turn it up to "eleven"! Twisted Evil

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Post by Sgt. Vimes Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:42 am

Looks great, always like upgrading pickups to something meaty, new lease of life an all that! 
The hot slag is an excellent pickup, never tried the rails as I don't like the aesthetics.
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Post by Adey Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:56 am

I'll probably sort out the frets by giving them a "going over" this weekend, if I have an hour or so to spare.

What is the group opinion on using the push/pull to do an "across the board" series / parallel option? I'm never really sure that the simple "split" thing is for me...

Can I do this with all the pickups turned from "series" into a "parallel option" through one switch???
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Post by Adey Sun Nov 10, 2019 3:37 pm

The frets took a bit longer to sort out than I thought - took most of the morning in fact!

I decided I might as well do it properly, so took the neck off and levelled the lot up.

A bit of wear in the normal places and a couple of low frets around the 14th fret, so that was why it was chocking out. Still. Sorted now.

A slightly annoying thing with it is that the original behind the nut string lock has been replaced with the quick release Kahler version, but the string angle to the machine head post doesn't really seem to suit it.

Also, the stings are a bit high at the nut, but the height of the kahler looks like it will hold the strings up even if I cut the slot lower.

If only someone were able to make new string locks for these....
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Post by Barry Sun Nov 10, 2019 4:56 pm

Adey wrote:. . .If only someone were able to make new string locks for these....
Gosh I dunno. That would be amazing wouldn't it? Thinking  clown

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