Recent content by The_Sentry

I'm a fan of Frank Falbo, and his pickup design. I know you can go crazy with the P-Rails as far as wiring. I figured this is the best setup (at least for me personally). 1 volume/1 tone. Even with this setup you can make it sound like 4 different guitars. And the pickups sound nice in this...

Howdy. This is a guitar I had built for me by Doug Kauer out of Sacramento, CA. It has WB pickups, and is a semi hollow body. 91E385L110Q

Strange story.... Dave Plummer of Zhangbucker sent me a pickup in the mail. I liked it so much...heck, I shot a video of it! (9.1k ohms resistance, Alnico 2 magnet.) I'm using a Roland Cube 60 and yeah, it's a cheap guitar. (Here's the link in case I can't do the embedding properly)...

I was thinking about the nature of the hollowbody guitar after doing one, and I know full well about the issues with feedback. What typically causes the feedback (read about this in a Les Paul biography) is the microphonic pickups vibrating right along with the top of the guitar. The whole fix...

Ugh... Well, here's the story...one day a week I sort of volunteer some time at a local music store. I have a keen interest in keeping the place open. Normally...eh, it's nothing big. Make some suggestions, reccomend some replacement parts...how much is this guitar worth...blah blah blah. OK...

I saw these on Craigslist listed for $175 each. Think it's worth picking up one of 'em for a project guitar? http://sacramento.craigslist.org/msg/1511332665.html I think if I did the biggest thing I'd worry about is whether or not either guitar has a trussrod, and the condition of the...

I was sort of curious about this. I know that a lot of Pre-CBS Fender Stratocasters are highly sought, and prized...but is there one year that is sort of "head and shoulders" above the others? In other words, is there a Fender Strat equivalent to the 1959 Gibson Les Paul? I have some suspicions...

OK, I have this pickup...it's a bridge pickup...and it sounds GREAT!!! But I may need to get a mate for it. (I liked it so much I may end up ripping out some actives in one of my guitars and installing this pickup with a mate.) The pickup is a bridge pickup, Alnico 2, at about 9.1k ohms...

Question (Sorry about this, but I do have a few)... For those that have...a lot of pickups...what do you do with your old ones? Put 'em in storage? Sell 'em? Give 'em away? Same 'em for parts? I've got a few sets...nothin' great to talk about...I'm almost of half a mind to send them off for a...

I'd love to get some feedback on this if it's a worthy topic: Based on your pickup experiences, what is harder to find satisfaction with in terms of a pickup? The bridge or the neck pickup? I don't know what it is...but in a lot of cases if the neck pickup's relative output is matched to the...

This guitar is being built for me by a guy named Doug Kauer out of Sacramento, CA. What do you think of it? He also makes Firebird copies, and will have that model available for righties in an assortment of colors.... http://dkauer.blogspot.com/

Howdy. This is one my rigs. It's a Marshall TSL60 with a Genz Benz cab. I like the tone well enough...but it doesn't have that sparkle of another TSL amplifier I own (a TSL122 combo that was re-soldered and fitted with Teslovak preamp and power tubes). I like this rig a lot because it sounds...