Recent content by ThunderLizard

Re: Which do you prefer, a Gibson Flying V or a Dean V guitar? I always heard the greater mass is better. This was before a company named Aspen & Associates came out with the Fathead. It was a brass plate that was mounted to the back of the headstock between the wood and the tuners. A friend...

Re: Who's working on a build right now? Let's see your stuff! My beloved but very damaged ML is on the bench right now. The lacquer finish on the neck was getting soft and tacky, the cracks in the body finish plus the fact I could easily see headstock repair all told me it was time to do a...

Re: Show Your Stuff Thread!! Ok, I'll show a group shot of most of them. This pic is about a year old now and the homemade bass in my avatar is missing in the shot as well as my frankenbass. The blueburst Dean ML is currently being stripped because the finish went soft.

I think I have finally found a pickup that "works" in my fairly unique Gibson! When I first got this Gibson it was a mostly stock "The Paul". A walnut body and necked guitar that looked to be made of different thickness's of scrap wood. When I got it, had a Lawrence L500 in the bridge and what...

I have a Gibson pickup that I'm wondering what the heck it is. It has the 2,737,842 patent number stamped on the base plate, a braided 2 conductor wire and what appear to be Schaller bobbins and output reads 13.7K. To be honest it sounds awful to me. No warmth at all, mostly highs and even they...

Re: Recommendation for Dean V with covered pickups? It turns out there is more to the story. I played the guitar a bit this morning and switched to the neck pickup. It sounded awful. Evidently when I took the covers off the pickups I reinstalled them reversed. I did some more swapping around...

Hi all! Long time Duncan user but new member in the forum here. I have a Dean V that I love the looks and feel of. The problem is it has the stock Dimarzio Super Distortions that have gold covers with no holes. I love the look and string balance is fine, it is just too warm sounding with no...