Recent content by Lewguitar

The whole guitar is steel. But I didn't want to drill a hole in it or enlarge the end pin hole. Anyways, it doesn't hum, there's no static and it sounds good! Been playing it through my pedal board with a little echo from the Strymon Timeline and compression from the Wampler Ego then into my...

The Seths in my PRS SE are double creams and I'd hate to give up on them. They sound good but the pickups in my other two PRS SE Singlecuts sound better (to me) so I don't play the one with Seths very much. I'm thinking I might put RCA5 in them and see what happens.

That's kind of like the set I have on my Fender Tele Custom that I have set up for slide. I have the action very high, but it's set up for slide so that's all right. I did put a Barden bridge and Duncan Jerry Donahue bridge pickup in it for more mids and less treble. Fralin Strat neck pickup...

Dolly Parton?

A guy posted this on Facebook. He has an old patent number Gibson humbucker in pieces and didn't know what it was. I asked him to measure and photograph the magnet. He did. The magnet is not polished. It's roughcast. And it measures 2 3/8" x 1/2". Not 2 1/2". 2 3/8" magnets were used in the...

Builder Profile: Seymour Duncan's Custom Shop Queen | Premier Guitar

It's an amazing guitar. Mine is a "Lightweight" so it's chambered. Lindsey Buckingham made the Model 1 famous. John Mayer plays one too. Has a piezo in the bridge for acoustic tones and the humbucker rotates to accentuate the lows or the highs. Has an active parametric eq too. You might think...

I do have a set of double cream Antiquitys, but they’re staying right where they are.

I posted this yesterday and it got hijacked by an angry forum member so I deleted it. But it's a very long, very detailed interview with James Brown, the designer of EVH and 5150 amps, and Dave Friedman. A lot of info that'll go beyond the needs of most members here but if you're an amp tech...

They LOOK better...that's for sure! At least to me. Always liked double creams. Can never have too many either.

Eddie's been flipping the neck pickup around 180 degrees for a long time. Guess he liked it. When the most influential guitarist of the last 40 years prefers the sound of doing something like that, a wise person would think there might be something to it.

Check it out. It's all guitar talk. I could have posted it in the Sound Room but that's kinda gone south... Eddie Van Halen on His Guitar Heroes and How He Found His Sound (yahoo.com)

Apparently, this is what they look like with the covers removed. Thanks to Ace Flibble.

Phatcats with the covers removed according to Ace Flibble. Thanks!