Bobcat Cub—a one pickup wonder. A single pickup version of our Bobcat Special.
Bobcat Cub—a one pickup wonder. A single pickup version of our Bobcat Special.
It begins with excellent Anderson genetics and structure:
• Our Single-Cut style, Mahogany (Okoume or Limba) all-tone wood body.
• Mahogany neck back with a Rosewood (Blackheart or Ziricote) fingerboard.
• Short Scale - 24 3/4-inch scale length (string length from nut to bridge).
• Top-mounted bridge and tailpiece—where the break angle of the strings over the saddles is less abrupt than a string-through-the-body design, for a more centered projection and softer spring to the low end strings.
But of course, it is always-always how you do it. How you do it all—everything together as one harmonious whole. And in the case of Bobcat Cub, one astonishing axe with one amazing pickup—seemingly resounding with almost endless sustain.
Out of this world.
Editor’s Note: Why would anyone opt for a single pickup layout? Some feel that less magnetic pull from having only one equals greater sustain. Is this true for real-world application? Up for debate and your testing. And more importantly, it mostly depends on the style of pickup as to how much influence the presence of additional coils may have on the overall. And for other players, they simply prefer the simplicity.
Ensuring full-bodied articulation for this particular Cub is the choice of a single PQ Series pickup—a Soapbar-style—where giant single coil tones (without hum) come out to play. As powerful as a vintage humbucker but with a bandwidth that is more spread. Think big, powerful, broad bandwidth single coil sound rather than the mid-only focus of a side-by-side humbucker.
