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I've got a bunch of wood on my property from a pine tree that was cut down right before I moved here. It's cut into logs that are just long enough to not be usable for a guitar. However, the wood has a big enough circumference to be made into a guitar. Is there any reason why I couldn't build a...

I have hardwired something similar. I got inspiration from the Fender Greasebucket circuit. The intent is to make the bottom 10% of the tone control off limits. I did it because with small capacitors, sometimes that resonant peak just sounds bad.

Put em out of phase for classic rock middle position 🔥🔥

I appreciate the idea, but that's 9 different guitars. They could all be made from the same wood and still different.

Loblolly I think

Maybe that's what your basswood sounds like I only use basswood sourced from the lower trunk, the part that’s spent decades flexing against the prevailing winds. That natural tension compresses the grain ever so slightly, giving it a density and resonance you simply can’t get from the upper...

You can always put a Phat Cat or Bluesbucker in the neck

It definitely changes in the 60 Hz range that's for sure

One time Axesrus gave a ceramic 8 (which is just a normal ceramic) instead of the Alnico 8 I ordered

Even with perfect quality control, it's best not to assume magnets from one batch are going to be identical to another. Especially Alnico 5. Boy howdy are there a lot of subgrades of A5

A few of the younger guys I work with use flip phones

I'm starting up a workshop to build bodies pretty soon. Pine is an excellent candidate because there's three large dead pine trees on my property, so the wood is basically free.

If you practice hard enough, you can get all 6 sounds out of the same instrument

Now that we have pickups with any EQ you want, and you can have any pedals you want into 1000 different types of amps; I don't think that's possible.

Compensated saddles would be a better route unless you are specifically concerned about the look.