Recent content by The Don

Has anyone ever played a swamp ash Les Paul? I know they make them, or at least did for a limited time... Speaking of which... what would it sound like if you made an LP with a mahogany back and a swamp ash carved top/vice versa? Anyone? Anyone with a remote idea? I'd be surprised if it's...

I'm not much of a Strat person anymore having ventured into heavier music but a few guitarists keep me coming back to my old strat... more famous players like Hendrix and Gilmour obviously, but more importantly Ritchie Blackmore and Uli John Roth. Having the Scorpions "Tokyo Tapes", I was blown...

I just scored a pretty nice, unused Warmoth scalloped neck off of ebay. It's maple with a maple fretboard so I know it needs to be finished. The guy I bought it from doesn't seem to know if it's finished; but when I got it this afternoon I realized it feels and looks sort of like it has a...

I was browsing over a random guitar maker's website (I don't even know how I got there in the first place) and I stumbled upon a guitar that had an interesting concept. http://www.kyowashokai.co.jp/caparison%20english/caparison-oldmodels.html Second guitar pictured. It has a Schaller hardtail...

I've been hellbent on building a guitar for quite awhile now and I've finally saved enough money to order a custom guitar (not Fender Custom Shop custom, more like Warmoth custom...). Since the idea has entered my head I've been laboring over what to do with my little project here. My goal is...

I'm a lefty and I'm hell-bent on finding a left handed classical guitar. I'm having a lot of trouble finding one though. I'm actually having trouble finding any nylon-string guitars around where I live, period. There's only one classical guitar at my local Daddy's Junky Music that I am aware...

Simple question, how do semi-hollow body guitars perform under high gain? For example, Thinline Teles, some of the Gibsons (ES-333 etc.) or guitars that are just chambered. What would a reduction in wood do to the tone of the guitar? Clean tones I imagine would be spectacular, but how would a...

I've been looking at different wood types and their tonal properties out of boredom recently. After skimming over Warmoth's site I discovered Rosewood bodies and necks. Apparently George Harrison had an all-Rosewood tele some time ago. Hey, if it's good enough for him, why haven't more people...

I recently saw a wiring model for a Les Paul with 3 humbuckers that used a push-pull pot to activate and deactivate the middle pickup. Seeing as I have a 3-humbucker Strat laying around here (my favorite guitar), I was wondering if I could do something similar to my current Stratocaster. With...

I'm going to be ordering a custom-made guitar at some point within the next year or so and I want to sort out what I want now to save me time (and even more frusturation!) later on. So what are the basic body woods and their tonal properties? You know... Ash, Alder, Mahogany, etc. All I...

I have a few guitars, but in one specific one, equipped with a Duncan Design HB103 in the bridge, I've decided that the output is just too high! This is a seven string guitar - what if I took a high output neck humbucker such as an Invader neck model or a DD neck model and stuck it in the...

Hey all, I know a lot of people use Invaders in Strat-style guitars and other various thin-sounding guitars to get a metal tone, but what about in a mahogany bodied guitar? I've got a mahogany Schecter with Duncan HB-103's (Duncan Distortion clone) in it and compared to my Gibby LP Custom with...

Hey all, I just have a simple question here, which type of pickup produces the best clean (and to a lesser extent dirty) sound while its coils are split? I'm almost positive I want a high output bridge pickup in my seven string and also likely a higher output neck pickup and I do want good...

So as I posted on the other forum, I'll be receiving a 7-stringer soon... I asked for some pickup suggestions but I'm a little dissapointed, so I figured I'd start a topic on here, the pickup forum. :rolleyes: Guitar: Schecter Lefty 007 Elite, Mahogany/Maple top, set neck, string thru...

Being a lefty I find it impossible to do what I'd ideally like to do, which is play every guitar thoroughly before I buy it. I've been searching Ebay and Instrument Exchange for a little while now looking for a guitar to bid on. Well today I got bored and looked up "7 String Lefty Guitar" and...