Recent content by Blues357

Re: Guitars With Satin Finishes Hi, interesting thread. I have a 2016 Studio T in satin fireburst (pictured). I've had it for six months, and the finish looks as good as the day I got it. I play it every day, and play it hard. This was not my experience with a 2014 cherry LPJ; the finish on...

Re: Help with Chapman ML1 Pickup Swap Oh, an additional note: The pickups mount directly to the body. When you remove the stock ones, save the spacers. The single coils have a double spring and foam spacer, while the humbucker is just a couple of pieces of foam. You can reuse the screws from...

Re: Help with Chapman ML1 Pickup Swap Okay, thanks. Went the old-fashioned way, broke out the multimeter, experimented. For reference, if anyone else is swapping stock ML1 pickups for SDs, here's what worked for me: NECK: black and bare to ground on volume pot; red taped off; white to the...

Hi, I'm about to swap the stock pickups in my 2015 Chapman ML1 with Seymour Duncans (the ML1 is a great guitar, by the way, but I'd like something a bit better than the stock G&B pickups). The wiring is a somewhat unusual, however. It's an HSS configuration, but with a 3-way toggle and a...