I've been looking at Brian May's red special (something of an obsession actually) and something I noticed was the roller bridge, it doesn't use a typical screw adjustment style (which I'd class as analog), instead it has a number of grooves set at fixed intervals where a loose roller can be...
Bit of an impulse buy today I bagged myself a Squire Showmaster with HSS pickup arrangement, purely because I want a reverse headstock and haven't found a lefty I can butcher. So thinking obviously about replacing the pickups and I've had my eye for a while now on a Seymour Duncan TB-4 JB...
Re: Pickups to pair with Teisco body.
Well the body is very thin, like 29-30mm, a standard neck will sit much higher than a recessed pickup on this and traditionally on these guitars mounted on the top of pick guard, kind of similar to a semi-acoustic. They are odd little guitars.
So a Teisco body (an ET-200 Version 11 to be exact according to the internet) came up for sale on Ebay and I couldn't resist. Received the body today and it's smaller than I thought it would be, maybe 2/3rd the thickness of a typical strat body and a good inch or two shorter. It's also really...