SUSPENDED Charlie Christian - Pete Biltoft/Vintage Vibe

[jads57]

I have CC Rider Humbucker,or Double Charlie suspended on my Elferink Tonemaster arch top guitar. It directly replaced my Kent Armstrong 12 pole piece floater HUmbucker. LOVE IT!

[Gitpicker]

Hi Doug,

I'm the owner of the L5C presented above, with the CC floater from Pete Biltoft. There will be no misbalance between the strings if your guitar has a nice acoustic sound. I also asked the same question to Pete when he was about to build thsi floater for me. He adviced not to notch the bar, as some used to do under the B string, on my guitar. And he was right !

Cheers.

Fred your tone is superb as is your fine playing. I'm sold haha! Looking forward to trying this. I put my order in already! Thank you!

[Fred Archtop]

Wise choice Doug to go for a Biltoft’ floater. I also have a CC unit from Pete installed on my ES-300. Great tone too.

Cheers.

[Gitpicker]

Well I got mine and I think it looks right at home on this 18" Eastman. Yes??

[TPMCD]

Well I got mine and I think it looks right at home on this 18" Eastman. Yes??

Well this is a few years old, not sure if you'll see this, but I have a dumb question: how is the pickup held in place? Is it attached to the pickguard? That seems odd to me, but I suppose it works? Thanks.

Tom

[JFranck]

Those Biltoft CCRider pickups are great ! I mounted one on a tele in 2008 and still use it with as much pleasure as on the first day !

[Esport]

Love my Biltoft CC floater!

[2bornot2bop]

18”? oh yeah!

[TPMCD]

Love my Biltoft CC floater!

Guitar looks great! Is the jack under the pickguard or in the lower bout? Thanks.

Tom

[Esport]

Guitar looks great! Is the jack under the pickguard or in the lower bout? Thanks.

Tom

Thanks, Tom. It’s still in the stock location on the lower bout.

[Gitpicker]

These guitars all look great. I took the Biltoft floater off my 18" Eastman a while back and re-installed it on this custom non-cutaway Eastman and I enjoy it as much as ever. Looks and sounds great. Still very happy with the pickup.

[telecat]

Does string choice (flat vs round) matter with these suspended pickups? I'm new to flats and arch tops in general, apologies for a potentially stupid question.

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

I took the Biltoft floater off my 18" Eastman

An 18” Eastman??? I thought I knew a fair amount about Eastman, but I never heard of one bigger than my 17. Please tell me more!

[medblues]

Mine looks like this:
https://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/atta...c-img_4916-jpg

[Herbie]

Beautiful guitars You guys have!

Sorry for a stupid question, but what is ’suspended’ CC pickup?

[medblues]

Beautiful guitars You guys have!

Sorry for a stupid question, but what is ’suspended’ CC pickup?

suspended=floating

[Herbie]

suspended=floating

Thanks!

As a non native english speaker I thought about suspended chords and suspenders, and wondered how they are related to CC pickups.

[sgosnell]

Suspended is not the usual term in English.

[Gitpicker]

An 18” Eastman??? I thought I knew a fair amount about Eastman, but I never heard of one bigger than my 17. Please tell me more!

Eastman in the past has made a few custom order 18" guitars but not many. I happen to have one and it's a great guitar. Mine is from 2011. They made a few for Japan and this one was an "extra". Though I live in Beijing, my particular guitar is located at home in the California Bay Area. I may be selling it later this year as I really need to cut down on gear and I have since also acquired a Super 400 for my 18" needs but the Eastman to be honest, is as good in every way, though its a different animal of course.