Sounds great! Still more like a LP, but brighter, with a hint of a Strat. Proves, that it's not only the pickups responsible for a certain sound...

this is a classic video that the character of the guitar comes from the build and very importantly scale length....

Why is nobody talking about the fact that this guitar is finland

I certainly like that guitar's finnish.

This video proves to me that electric pickups don’t just make 100% of the overall tone of the guitar. Sure it sounds "strat-like", but its also really got this awesome blend of low-grudge darkness that gets added to the tone from the les paul body/hardware. Love the vid man

I've never seen anyone do this before. Very cool.

Epiphone made a 3 pickup Les Paul with Strat pickups and even the slanted bridge. I’d like to have one myself. I’ve also thought about using a LP copy with a Broadcaster or other hotter wound Tele bridge pickup and a Strat or p90 neck. I’ve always thought a Broadcaster/Tele bridge pickup in a LP would sound great.

this is pretty freaking great! Cool tone!

A more expensive telecaster

Man that sounds killer...very cool!

Damn! What a pleasant surprise.

looks and sounds great! I did something similar to a LP clone of mine that had terrible sounding overwound humbuckers. I opened up the pickups and disconnected one of the coils on each pickup. I like the looks of your single coil adapter plates. I used one of those on a different guitar that had a H-S-S pickup arrangement. I replaced the humbucker at the bridge position with a conversion plate and installed a generic TL neck pickup. gets a very cool and different sound. the TL neck pickup I used has DC coil resistance of about 6K, and has a strong midrange. sounds sweet at the bridge position, and is a nice blend with the other two standard ST-type single coils. plus, it looks cool!

Sounds great!

Great tone.. it sounds pretty damn sweet

Very cool and very unique to yourself

I love the sound of single coil pickups. More of a clean, cutting sound that just suits my ears. Not saying I'm right. Different folks with different sets of ears.

Insane 🤝👏👏👏

This actually sounds really good to me

That is a very Brian May'ish tone!

Great experiment dude.

Very interesting!

I gave a thumbs up to Frapzoid below because for the most part I have played Gibson Les Pauls for 40 years. Single coils have their place though. I have a couple of 70's Fender Strats and Mustangs stored away. Every time I attempt to play them, back in storage they go. I cannot let go of my Les Pauls.. I simply love the feel of the Les Paul (sound too). So, I was wondering what would it sound and be like to install a nice single coil pickup at the neck position (single coils at the bridge position absolutely suck, sorry).. Great job in presenting such a sound. I think I will have an install done in the neck position of one of my Les Pauls. Why? Who knows, been playing a long time, simply for something different maybe.? ....lol. Thanks for sharing young Hero.

I did the same thing on my guitar the sound is very very nice it cleans very nicely with the potentiometer and I can say that even though I have better guitars than the one I converted to, I play almost exclusively with this one without having to change many things in the settings of the amplifier or the pedals, I can play a live with different types of music and still have a clean * sound but also dirty the wiring I made is very easy in the middle position the sound is unbelievable I also did it this way so that I can have both in series and parallel and in the middle position out of phase (when I want)

Great sounds 😃👍 am just planing to modify my samick linda ln30 to 50s wiring and put a pair of vintage alnico 2 or 5 low output humbuckers on it , BUT 🙊 i have a Dimazio Cruiser (hotrails) and a Dimarzio Fred ,so im thinking im going to try those first , but i dont know if try the cruiser on the bridge and the Fred on neck or vicerversa 🤔

Sounds killer

Actually sounded great

really nice

Okay... This sounded a lot better than I thought it would!! When you play My kind😂 however as an avid Les Paul owner and fan for 50 plus, single coils on a Les Paul is an unholy Union an abomination😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 good Playing son😮😮😮

must admit it sounds good!

I dig this more than anything next to the silver sky prs, The thin coil singles with that meaty darker les paul sounds sick, I like the cleanness but also with that meaty vibe

that sounds great. ive been thinking about doing this myself. sometimes i want the single coil sound but i just love the look and feel of les pauls i dont have much experience modding guitars - would it be more difficult to use tele pickups instead?

Hear a lot of Hendrix in it, but oddly at the same time some Angus very interesting guitar. I love it 🤘🤘

Great test mate!!...maybe you can try a HS config, Humbucker on the bridge and SC on the neck..... the tone comparison would be really interesting that way.... :-D....

Cool 👍

Doesn't sound so much diff than P90's but it has weird Nashville tele overtones. I dig it and this would be more fun than a Jag =p

in an alternate universe where evh wants a gibson with a strat sound

If you guys want a great telecaster sound like from your les paul, check Lollar Novel T pickup. That pickup really transforms your LP to tele.

Not bad actually, great job dude.

Like the neck tone.

it sounds good

Cool! I'm about to do this with an Epiphone G-400. 🎸

If u wanna do a sound demonstration, do it in clean tone

Would love to rip some SRV on this for some reason

I like this set up. Why not..??? LP’s, SG’s Tele’s and Strat’s are IMO all great mod platforms to experiment with. I’ve just completed a similar build using active Telecaster pickups and it’s conventional active wiring of 1 vol, 1 tone with 3 way blade toggle switch. In my world using any pickup and wiring configuration makes these instruments step out of the box. I would not do it to a vintage or a new instrument though! I’ve done a few of these types of mods on new build’s or on less expensive entry level refinish, mods and upgrades. BTW, you LP looks and sounds great. Don’t know if you did a refinish or the finish is original? Either way I love it and you can always go back to humbuckers if so or when desired. Ones mods are for the one playing not for whoever is quick to critique. Keep up modding and playing…

Interesting. Sounds like a Les Paul still but more towards a Tele than a Strat id say. The Strat pickups in that sound alot like the humbucker sized P90s they make.

Got to say that sounded pretty good to my ears - a bit more twang, but not really Strat like (none of that bottle-type/glassy sound) Pretty similar to a Les Paul with P90s or a beefy Telecaster maybe. Thanks for sharing the experiment.

No rules in rock-n-roll.......defeats the purpose

Single coil for ever

STRATOPAUL!!

Yes it do have the sound character like a strat..

This guitar sound versatile for me, i think this can also do Country Twang like Telecasters.

Awesome experiment! Are these pickups still wired in series like the humbuckers are in a Les Paul, or were they wired in parallel like a Strat? I’d be curious if the Les Paul familiar sound you’re getting from this setup is due to the pickups and how they’re sequenced in the circuit. Great video!

thats pure evil...........love it

Great mod! Can you please demo the clean tones, in various pickup switch positions? Thanks!

Love Your Experiment: In a Les Paul Body and OfCourse, its Hardware, It Produce Seldom Tone Like Stratocaster or any Single Coil Build Place in a 6 Pole Bridge (Fixed or Floating) Hence, Its Still Got The Crunch of a Humbucker But more recognizeable in Treble Side. Its not as Bright as a Strat But maybe Closer to A 53' Telecaster in Blackguard Scheme. And Yes As you mentioned, it has better tone than a Coil Splitted or Even Coil Tapped Humbucker. I Wonder what single coil are those compose of? You give me idea of trying this stuff on my Les Paul Copy but with Bareknuckle Pickup U.K's Trilogy: Bridge and Neck Pickup (Alnico V) Bridge:15.5 kΩ | Neck: 12.5 kΩ

I do wish you had included clean tone tests, and above all, an actual SSS, 5-way pickup setup. But that said, it's still a very interesting and fun listen if for no other reason than just because Strat-style single coils in Les Paul-style bodies are so vanishingly rare, that it's fun to hear anyway, even if imperfectly presented. You know, I suppose that this is really just the inverse of listening to, say, a Strat HH. Both sound roughly "halfway between" that Les and Strat sound, because pickups are only part of the story. It is my understanding that roughly equivalent in importance to final overall sound as the pickups themselves is the scale length, and of course, a Strat HH is still Strat scale while this guitar is still Les scale. Certainly, the tone woods, body shape (and solid vs chambered vs hollow vs semi-hollow), neck joint design (set vs bolt on vs neck through), bridge style and so many other things do make a difference too, of course. But my understanding is that it's the pickups and the scale length which are the two "great biggies" with all the rest making still very important, but overall much smaller impacts. I presume this is also why on my Ibanez RG (HSH) that the humbuckers also kinda sound "halfway between Strat and Les", I actually REALLY like the sound! I do wish someone would just make a proper "Strat Paul" with Strat-style electronics in a Les-style body. If it was cheap enough, I'd even buy one, even if I do think I like this marriage just a little bit less than its converse. At least based on what little I can tell based on what little I've been able to hear of it. This seems a bit more "squawky" to me vs going the other direction. I hear both the good and the bad of both in both compromises, of course. But the other seems a little more "best of both" than this one does - to me at least. :-) In any case, thank you for uploading anyway! It's still super neat to get to hear the compromise principle at work from the opposite direction that we're used to hearing it! And no complaints on your playing either! :-) Cheers!

And so, the myth that the Les Paul tone comes from wood dies...

At zeppelin test i was about to close the video but finally forbiddend myself to do so

i need it.

wow this is what ive been looking for. im a noob but you think i can put texas specials on a epiphone? Ive been meaning to try it but no one seems to have done it on the web. I'm not even sure if its possible to put strat pick ups(?) on a epiphone

I’ve been thinking about putting a tele bridge in my Gibson was 135, are you still digging doing this ?

Love the Finland flag design.

Les Strat or Strat Paul or Stratopaulster ?!

sounds like wilder tele

clean song please!

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It shows you don't need humbuckers to play dirty. Go with what you like.

Hey man. That tone is bonkers! Where did you get the wiring diagram? I wanted to replace my humbucker neck with a single coil but can't seem to find the exact wiring diagram for it online.

Can you please explain or make a video on how you managed to install and fit the single coil in the humbucker cavity? Thanks

I must apologize for the incoherent rambling on my prior text! It was the phone it wasn't me😮😮😮😮

Which make & model of single coils did you install?

It goes to show u......weed just keeps getting better and better🤣🤣🤣

Finland

The sound I would wish from a Strat, well some Strats will but more often not.

Wouldn't that be Jaguar?

You know, with all that distortion I have no idea what that guitar really sounds like. A few moments clean would tell all.

I’d pay good money for you to ship me one to the states

That's literally a 2/3 Gibson Corvus III. I won't tell you how much of a pain in the ass G-spaced single coils are to find. The only option I've found that fits are Alumitones from Lace.

My God that sounds f n good.maybe you should show gibson

The sound is very 70's

Les Paul?

So you made a telecaster.

Is this a true single coil or the stacked one that is actually a humbucker?

This will be the les paul super modern in future. Well hear me out. Old les paul models. P90 or humbucks, then les paul modern with humbuck with single coil switch, now you got the super modern with single coil.

sound like black sabat

It's a Tele

Isnt splitting humbuckers easier then replacing them

I tried to do this with just my neck pickup but my single coil was so quiet that I could only hear it when everything was cranked to max

sounds like a les paul...a bit leaner! more proof wood means alot indeed!!

I'm used to see stratocaster with humbuckers, but not les paul with single coils, I just can't accept that

Love it👍❤️ Did you solder them yourself? If so what wires where ? I fancy trying it.

Kiva saundi! Mikä ton lisäpalikan nimi on? Toi siis joka täyttää ylimääräisen tilan humbbarin kolossa.

Oh thats so weird, it actually sounds like both a Les Paul and a Strat..

You should sell these

It would be nice to hear it clean.

Very cool stuff! I'm planning on doing the same. Check this idea out; Seymour Duncan humbucker for the bridge, strat pickup on the neck. Dunno about the specs, just tossing ideas. I've got the plans on the ironing bench, so we'll just have to see how it plays itself out. ;)

this is weird since it has the strat tone but kinda also sounds like an lp

Sounds like tele but not, like lp but not hahaha

Gibson Stratocaster

can i know what guitar is that tho? it rly looks pretty and ive been lookin for a LP like that i cant rly tell the brand can u id it pls? great playing and amazing video idea too btw loved it