Recent content by orpheo

hook the white and black of the custom coil to the black and white conductor lead wires; then hook up the 2 black wires of the 59 to the red and green. Then, measure if you didn't mess it up or have a short. tape it up, seal the pickup. install the pickup in the guitar like regular: black to the...

Interesting thing what you said about the Revv pedal. I use the purple pedal, the G3, in front of a relative clean amp, and that gives me exactly what I want. I have a Revv Gen120 mk2, and the G3 pedal in front of my koch Twintone over the clean channel is perfection to me.

Yeah man, I've done that. exactly that. I had 3 necks and 3 bodies, same pickups for all, same bridge. Rosewood neck ebony board, maple neck ebony board, maple neck and maple board; mahogany body, ash, black korina. The differences were immense. It's 9 combinations, after all. It's so funny to...

It's a shame that Washburn appears to have failed as a company. I remember their older guitars very well, the USA ones were absolutely amazing, and the acoustics were very, very decent too.

I have made quite a few 25.5" LP's to bring them closer to Fender territory. More spank. Also, it was easier to line up the trem tremplate with that scale than having to recalculate the entire thing.

The neck pocket template. Lining that up 100% right is a PITA. If that goes off, all bets are off. The rest is a matter of procedure. Half a degree off the center line, and nothing lines up.

First, I do a rabbet on the ledge so I know how tall the maple edge will be. Then the shelf for the neck angle. Then, if I'm feeling like it, chisels followed by sanders. Otherwise flap disk on an angle grinder and then the sanders. I use a 125mm mirka deros, 77mm mirka deros, and a pneumatic...

I have 2 purple tele's. HSH and SS. which one do you mean?

Well... not exactly. I FINISHED twelve guitars, because I started some of them way, way back in 2021. Do we remember 2021? COVID was rampant, you guys had a president who didn't need a diaper, and life? life seemed fine at the time. I prepared fretboards, tops, bodies, necks, but hadn't had...

I used to have a Zilla 412 oversized cab with a vertical partition, with one half open and the other closed. That cab in combination with my Revv Generator 120 was heaven. Now I use my other 412 oversize, which is by a defunct Dutch manufacturer, Kool&Elfring. I still need to fix this cab, to...

I think Masta'C is onto something. Not joking. I think that the way the guitar is made, and the hardware that is bolted on to it, makes a huge difference. I remember, my absolute favorite Aristides of all time was an 060 in cerulean blue, floyd rose, and 2 Dimarzio pickups. The material of...

I have tried hundreds of basswood guitars, and I always hear the same issue: they sound flat, almost dead. Totally uninteresting. But with a maple cap, it gets more spunk, bite, and comes alive. The softness and weight are not an issue for me, it's just boring.

The series parallel options work very well for these pickups because their inductance is so low. The phase options also sound great but I just like phase reversal. Gotta finish the guitar by screwing the backplates etc but there's just so, so much work left to do. Hope to get it all finished...

Yes, my wife was in her own country for 2 full months so i finished projects. Still 9 to go.

OH this one has backplates. Next weekend I think I'm going to make photos of my 2-month guitarmaking binge. I finished I 15 guitars in 2 months.