Recent content by orpheo

I tried to make my own wiring. The idea is that I have 3 singlecoils in 1 guitar. Neck and bridge go through a series/parallel switch, and then to a regular 3 way selector toggle. That output goes to a 4 way rotary switch, where I can choose to have that signal on its own, series or parallel...

Hello guys, I tried the freeway 10 switch again against my better judgement and it is a nightmare. I need the following options, is this doable? Regular 5 strat positions neck & mid in series Bridge and mid in series Neck and bridge parallel I have a superswitch (4 pole) and a 2 way 3 pole...

Guys, Is there a way to use a puse pull pot or toggle to select if the middle position of a 5way is either the middle, or bridge & neck, without it affecting the rest of the 5way switching? I have a 4pole 5way switch, a 3pole 2position toggle, and a 4pole pushpull available. Would love to...

I went on hiatus since 2022. I just... did not have the mental strength to build again. But lately, I felt discombobulated. Uneven. I had to make a guitar. So with leftover parts here and there, I made this. Actually... Just the fretboard and neck were "leftovers", the rest was all new. But hey...

In 2013, I made my very first electric guitar from scratch. A les paul, of course. More than 10 years and 150 guitars later, I compiled every single guitar I have ever made in a complete compendium. I started this project with my best friend, who quit after 2016, but I continued. Many of my...

variety of reasons. This one was a nightmare. The finish never fully hardened, so as I was polishing it the top layer would droop a little and pull out the burst (red/gold to purple chamelon, with splatters, and a green/silver binding). Everything was trash except the playability and the...

Nice, nice! I'm always happy to see collections. I have reduced mine tremendously. I once had this, at its height: Over 104 guitars in total. it was ridiculous. I gave a whole lot of it away here on the forum, few years back, destroyed a bunch, sold a bunch too. Now I'm back to 32 with 16...

I found a 5 way switch schematic for 2 humbuckers in an old notebook, but I have no idea if this works. Can you guys help me out?

here the entire guitar. the mode-selection goes stealthily via push pull pots. I cannot recall where this guitar went to.

I have tried to get SD to make it but they won't. There is one way though. go to a shop that mills thin sheets of brass or whatever, have them mill out a topper, add an open chrome cover, and done. will work just fine. SD just won't do it for reasons that are beyond me.

Guys, I have a pickup with a double thick ceramic 8 magnet, and I am thinking of swapping it for an alnico5. What do you think this would do for the tone? Currently, that pickup is approx 8.4k, neck position, asymetrically wound, and it sounds fat fat fat fat fat. I want to reduce the output a...

What a mess. I plugged the hipshot holes, drilled floyd rose, for the non-finetuner version. DAMN that doesn't intonate properly. Okay, fine. let's do the regular finetuner version with the Graphtech saddles, where the intonation point is 2.5mm forward. Result? Swiss cheese and plugs. So I...

So, I took off the headstock cap: Milled binding MOP inlay Plugged the holes and added wings of roasted maple, to emulate old growth wood. Yes, the Trussrod is off-center. I know. . The headstock veneer is now centered, and I used a PRS template so the strings would go straighter. I...

I made this guitar in 2018. The flamed maple is from a mill that went out of business in the early 1960s, so this is old wood. I gave it a ziricote fretboard, ziricote headstock cap and backplates, and double cream Seymour Duncan hybrids. But the guitar had issues. The low E tuner was positioned...

I'll add the photo's later, but I want this add to go up now. I have for sale a set of the BKP Polymaths. I pulled them from a guitar; the pickups have a lot of wire; bridge is shortened just a bit but the neck is full length. Both gold covers, gold screws, short triangular based legs, black...