Recent content by Charlie Boo

I recently was checking out a guitar at GC and plugged into a Hot Rod Deluxe, and it sounded ridiculously good - like - too good for a standard Hot Rod Deluxe. I checked out the speaker and it had a Cannabis Rex in it. I played the same guitar through another Hot Rod with the stock celestion...

In an effort to have my bridge humbucker at 500k push/pull, and the middle/neck single coils at 250k, I'd like to wire my strat with 2 volumes: one 500k for the humbucker and one 250k for the neck and middle to share (no tone knob, as I'm pretty much a "leave it all the way open" guy). I've...

I recently installed a humbucker in a project guitar. All 12 pole pieces are "working" and have output, etc. However, I thought the pickup still had a little more ambient noise/buzz than it should and I noticed that when I touched some of the pole pieces on the inner coil, it hummed as if they...

Classic Stack Plus Wiring Question: what is the "hot" lead and what's the red wire? I am an admitted novice guitar "tech" and I'm having some installation issues with my new Classic Stack Plus neck pickup in a humbucker bridge (SD EVH 78) and single coil neck stay build. I am using the Mad...

I just received a new Classic Stack Plus neck pickup that I ordered and the pole spacing is the exact same as my trembucker spaced bridge pickup. As a result, even though I have a strat trem spacing of 2 1/8 at the bridge, the 1 and 6 strings fall inside the outer pole pieces on the Classic...

I am getting close to the "assembly" part of a Warmoth Strat build and the last piece I have to make a decision on is a modern American strat tremolo. I don't like screw in tremolo arms, as I much prefer the adjustable push in arms - so I am looking for an alternative to the licensed Fender...

I was going back and forth on using a 250k or 500k tone pot for a Humbucker/Single coil build when I realized that I haven't intentionally backed off the tone on a guitar in a couple decades - lol. If I just eliminate the tone knob altogether - what does that do to the natural tone of the...

I am working on a swamp ash body wenge/ebony neck Warmoth build and am looking for a low-moderate output hum/s combo that will be versatile enough to cover classic/hard rock to country. When I spoke with Kevin at SD and told him I was leaning towards the '78 Model for the bridge, he suggested a...

OK Seymour Guys - please help out a brotha who is strongly considering "taking the leap" back to passives. It's been almost 10 years since I have played passives. I currently have EMG 81/60 in 3 of my guitars and the EMG JH Set in the other. Before we go on an anti-EMG rant, I really like...