Guernsey Pete
New member
Hi.
I was refurbishing a ten-year-old tele project, and went mad on the internet, and so now this warmoth neck, mahogany bodied tele is sitting there looking at me with a Kent Armstrong high-output H/B on the neck. and a SD Hot Stack on the bridge, just waiting for the coil-tap switches to arrive and be fitted.
Meanwhile the bug bit me and I went out and got another replacement neck and a chunk of mahogany and got out the woodworking tools........the neck pickup will be an old Dimarzio H/B, I think it's a Super Distortion, with the cream plastic tops to the coils, came from a car boot sale for a fiver, hows that for swank ? , and I also have a SD Hot Rails for the bridge. Does this seem like a balanced set of pick-ups for each instrument ? Or should I put the Hot Rails with the Kent Armstrong and have a hotter and a more mellow instrument? I've got a bit of time to decide, the coil-tap switches ( which are Dimarzio, why can't you get SD coil-tap switches ? ) won't be here for two or three weeks, and I've got to take at least half an inch off the back of the new body, currently weighs eight pounds with everything but the control recess routed out.
I was refurbishing a ten-year-old tele project, and went mad on the internet, and so now this warmoth neck, mahogany bodied tele is sitting there looking at me with a Kent Armstrong high-output H/B on the neck. and a SD Hot Stack on the bridge, just waiting for the coil-tap switches to arrive and be fitted.
Meanwhile the bug bit me and I went out and got another replacement neck and a chunk of mahogany and got out the woodworking tools........the neck pickup will be an old Dimarzio H/B, I think it's a Super Distortion, with the cream plastic tops to the coils, came from a car boot sale for a fiver, hows that for swank ? , and I also have a SD Hot Rails for the bridge. Does this seem like a balanced set of pick-ups for each instrument ? Or should I put the Hot Rails with the Kent Armstrong and have a hotter and a more mellow instrument? I've got a bit of time to decide, the coil-tap switches ( which are Dimarzio, why can't you get SD coil-tap switches ? ) won't be here for two or three weeks, and I've got to take at least half an inch off the back of the new body, currently weighs eight pounds with everything but the control recess routed out.