Just have to tell someone!

[MWaldorf]

Mel, I wonder if they would make me a Falcon with Three Dyna's ? Now that would be super cool

You mean something like this?



There was a discussion about three pickup Gretsches over on the GretschPages a while back:
http://gretschpages.com/forum/general-tech-questions/3-pickup-gretsch/9352/page1/

I'm pretty sure I've seen photos from the 50s/60s of someone playing a White Falcon with three dynasonics, though it might have been a 6120, I don't remember.

[mark1]

Excuse me while I wipe the drool...... Mel, you never cease to amaze me! Now I have to play the Falcon for a while then decide if I want my guy to put in a third pickup.I don't even have the guitar yet and I like the idea.

[olrocknroller]

I've had mixed results with the sound of tri-power humbuckers. I had a Univox Ripper (1976) that sounded so good a guy kept offering me more money until I sold it... Recently, I built a tri-power guitar with 3x Golden Age Humbuckers from Stew-Mac, and anything involving a mix with the center pickup sounds like I'm playing through a ten-foot long sewer-pipe. It's definitely unique, but I don't have a clue where I'll ever need quite that sound... Dynasonics and "Trons may be completely different animals though...never had the good fortune to play with them!

[MWaldorf]

Dynasonics can get a nice quack in the bridge/middle and middle/neck settings. Similar to a P-90 or a Mosrite pickups, it's thicker than a Fender single coil but the quack is there.

I've never played a guitar with three humbuckers, and it's been over ten years since I've owned a guitar with any humbuckers, so I can't comment on how that would turn out.

Definitely get used to the Falcon as is before doing anything to it. Chances are you'll love it as it.

[brutus]

That Buckingham is looking good! I've always said the Buckingham is pinnacle of Vox amp design. The guitar is great looking too.