Recent content by Chris Pile

So you really have NO IDEA.

Let's put it this way - shop fees are usually around $100 per hour at a machine shop, so a new nut is cheaper.

Wood is a LOT easier to cut than whatever the wangulator maker is using. That's the correct way to do it.

Lindy Fralin just dropped a new vid this morning. I direct you to the point he lifts the pickup from the wax - you can see the dirt come out of the pickup. My guess is they just changed the wax out for the New Year, because the last couple vids the wax has been a bit cloudy. Enjoy!

Phil can do no wrong.

A new bridge isn't much money. Go for it, and enjoy.

Candle wax has chemicals added to provide scent, color, etc. I'd rather use pure paraffin or beeswax. You never know what might react with the pickup years later.

Candle wax doesn't make a good potting wax, but drive on.

SO... you want to put the toothpaste back in the tube? Good luck.

The chance of fire is HIGH, even on an electric range. Trust me - I know. Beeswax or paraffin burns EASY. I started out in the 70's using a double boiler (a small pan inside a larger pan). The wax never gets hotter than the boiling water. However, about 25 years ago I bought a small Crockpot...

The stock frets on this thing are .040 tall, and the zero fret is a big wide jumbo measuring .055 tall. That is too much to grind down to size. Secured a 2 inch stick of narrow Martin stuff that measures .042 tall. PERFECTO! Now this thing plays as smooth as it sounds. I hear the client will...

Not to be TOO pedantic, but the pickups are part of the actual guitar. It's a system.

Any nut material can have problems if the luthier didn't cut the slots properly.

Tusq is just marketing. I won't stock them. I used to make clients buy a blank if they wanted one. Now I won't even do that. IMO it's a shit material. I do like Graphtech's NuBone. It looks just like unbleached bone. If you shape it on the sander it even smells like bone. It works like bone when...

The regular CHUG pedal is for using as a preamp. The CHUG Lite is an actual distortion unit designed to feed into the main input of a guitar amp. It has fewer controls.