Recent content by vinnie1971

A slow sad blues composition. Trying out string section and electric piano with my new midi controller to go with my Fender Lone Star Stratocaster - I changed the fender twin head for a pearly gates and swapped the Texas Specials for Tex Mex which I think are a much better match for the pearly...

Test drive of my remodelled Lone Star Deluxe strat Seymour Duncan pearly gates bridge Fender tex mex neck and middle Lap steel has a Bill Lawrence L250 I love how it still sounds like a strat with the pearly gates bridge selected I’m in the uk - the singer is in Arkansas Hope you like it...

I have a 2013 Mexican Lone Star Deluxe Stratocaster. I love it but.... To me Texas specials are on the shrill side and the fender twin head a little dark. I don’t think it balances well, and I always preferred Fender Tex Mex, thicker hotter and more creamy, break up nicer. In my old tex mex...

Hi all I’ve a Korean made Epiphone Firebird III. It’s old. It has the OBL Firebird pickups in it. I think they sound pretty good and certainly better than the current Gibson Firebird pickups, but even back then these pickups are wound quite hot and through the base plate hole I can see the...

I got the above set to go in my Telecaster / Jazzmaster / Firebird hybrid. The DCR reads approximately (measured in the guitar) Bridge - 10.2k Middle 6.5k Neck 8.5k They’re the stacked Tele bridge, stacked strat middle and Firebird neck pickup. They sound great on their own, especially the...

Straight into the amp ( Roland Blues Cube) no effects. Plus my Godin art and Lutherie dreadnought... Edge of breakup not even any overdrive - just cranked the channel volume. I love the tone of this guitar Edit: https://www.bandlab.com/revisions/a49d4251-8cd1-e911-bcd0-2818789a0161 Sent...

While I wait for my project to arrive ( tekecaster neck bolted to a Firebird body with telecaster bridge and control plate) It will have a 5 way super switch and mini toggle to select either bridge and middle, middle or all 3 in the middle position. Here’s what I’m looking for: if Johnny...

High all I got a budget lap steel. It plays well but the budget ceramic pickup sounds ok, just characterless. I’d like a bit of sparkle that will be crystalline and bell like clean but gritty with a bit of drive. We’re tuned to Dobro open G (GBDGBD) and I play country-blues-rock quite rootsy...

Not a cup of tea but As I say good bye to my Squier Standard HSH with hand wound pickups and my Squier SE with cor-tek alnico 2 classic rocker humbuckers and Wilkinson vintage voice pickups to trade for .... Fender loan star in ocean turquoise. Which I’m very happy about. But the fender...

Hi all. Most of us are used to coil splitting. Some of us are used to splitting to either the screw or slug coil. Some of us are used to the principles of combining the inner coils ( usually slugs) or the outer coils ( usually the screws) for strat-like cluck in between sound or telecaster like...

I have some humbuckers that are Korean but made to this formula: PAF type specs as follows:- Resistance - Bridge - 8.1k (+/-10%), Neck - 7.4k Inductance - Bridge - 3.78h, Neck - 3.48h Magnets = Alnico 3 Scatter wound with Formvar coated wire So as they stand they are very Vintage and...

I converted my Dearmond M65 fitted with SD APH1s into a lap steel. I fitted a lap steel conversion but over my existing nut and raised the action at the bridge. I strung it with Nashville strings but not the Nashville way, it’s in order of thickness : 26, 18, 14, 12, 10, 9 So it can be tuned...

I have an HSH strat based on a Squier standard strat. The pickups are alnico 2 Cort Classic Rocker humbuckers and the original Squier alnico 5 single coil. I really like the humbuckers. They are very close in tone to my Gibson 57 PAF reissues. Slightly warmer in the upper mids and slightly...

Normally I am PAF kind of guy, I have APH1, Gibson 57 PAF reissues, some Cort-tek Classic Rocker 2 ( warm vintage output alnico 2 humbuckers which come close to the 57 PAF reissues if not quite giving the 50s vibe), and what I consider modern PAF: Gibson 498T and 490R' as well as some 1970s...

I have a Cort Yorktown BV which had the Cort alnico 2 classic rocker II humbuckers. For a fully hollow body it was not prone to feedback but it's tone was somewhat muffled - is it because of all this wax? It's got Gibson Classic 57 PAF reissues in now, which I don't think are fully potted but...