Recent content by Ashurbanipal

Mm hm 😎. They did a nice job with this model - Leeds, Sabbath etc. all day long. I put 8s on mine recently, enjoying it even more.

Pretty fab! not enough matching headstock action in Strat land 😁. Never seen such a figured neck on a Squier (I'm sure the odd one has it, maybe not by intention!). I'd say it's a 50s CV - single ply 8 hole pickguard.

^^ Similar reasons, though I wasn't aware of Lemme's work at the time 😄. My first decent guitar was an Ibanez RG and the neck pu in series was always a bit dark for my taste, so that led me down the mod path. Even these days, a new pu for me is either a last resort when other options have been...

Of course, Norlin stuff has become stupid because people are priced out of 50s-60s stuff. We discussed this re. T-Tops in another thread - suddenly they're the cool thing, back in the day people were tossing them.

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...