Recent content by Ashurbanipal

I'd agree. Also a nice set of audio taper pots with a 5-10% tolerance, wired up 50s style, so clean to mean is at your fingertips, keeping with the theme of the music you're going for with this one. Think of Pete and Jimmy turning down to get those sweet clean sounds, they weren't stomping on...

No silliness, just awesomeness. Has a bit of a Hellecasters vibe, in fact.

Following on from above, Gotoh make compensated barrel saddles in a few flavours - brass, steel or titanium. These are also slotted, which may or may not be an issue depending on the particular geometry and string spacing of your Tele. Another option is Wilkinson, they offer unslotted...

Eddie used a 250k pot with his broken JB in the 5150, right? I don't remember the exact details from that Larry DiMarzio article. I have tried the JB a few times in the past, mostly in passing, I may have to revisit sometime since it's been an age. I briefly had a Jackson DK2M which came stock...

Maybe ESP should've got some of Bob Taylor's streaky ebony instead of pau ferro 😄. It does want some of Monty's Montypresso. It was cool to see him play an Old Boy replica at the farewell gig.

For those who want the more traditional look, I can vouch for this. Used especially, a pretty great deal. For LTD, I confess I like this one, with its vaporwave shtick.

I don't know if anyone's got anything on snobbiness in the classical world, heh - rosewood back/sides or else it's a harder sell (I'm generalising but it is the broad trend). There was a research project done on this around 10y ago in Europe (https://leonardo-guitar-research.com/), to see...

^^ It's doable, like Tony has been doing for decades. But, you'd want a pretty long screw, since the horn is quite pointy and has all those angles, so there's not a lot of support at the very end. Or you can do at the back of the horn, or having a long metal insert - have seen British maker...

Hehe, yeah, it happens. When I was redoing my Ibanez Proline almost 15y ago, I bought a sheet of tinted mother of toilet seat from Warmoth for the new pickguard, which has in the meantime yellowed like your Tele. No smoky bars or anything, just the plastic off gassing.

I expect people are also more into old T-Tops these days because they're priced out of PAFs and Pat. Nos. 😁. As said above, we live in an age where you can have infinite gain and boost in amps and pedals, so a cleaner/lower output pu isn't seen as an hinderance, like it was in the old days...

Cool; never tried one, but always dug them. Seems like a worthy candidate for a modern SG. Regarding the balance of traditional ones, some may be more dippy than others. Swapping the metal pegs on your tuners for plastic ones helps; some say having a vibrola also does. Another trick I've found...

They're cool, precisely because they're not traditional. The longer scale and bigger body is an attraction for those who find regular LPs on the cramped side. I do prefer the full fat version, which has an ebony (or richlite?) fretboard and binding. Since both versions have been discontinued...

A few points: Yes, the intonation can be approximate, though for many close enough for rock'n'roll, and if you don't play expensive chords, especially up the neck, it might be fine. I find with the Epiphone lightning bar used nowadays has the treble strings raked forward too much, don't know...

SG. Usual spec for this model, has a few functional mods.

Just get a set of these and call it a day. Put some on my SG last year - drop straight in, same footprint. Non-locking version with plastic keystone peg is similar weight to stock tuner. Various options - locking, vintage diameter posts with ferrules, different peg types etc. More recently...