Color OCD- Duncan Cool Rails and Custom 5 trembucker

[Toejam]

Re: Color OCD- Duncan Cool Rails and Custom 5 trembucker

That is sweet. Cool Rails and C5 has got to be a "cool" marriage.

Unless you're looking at a different pic than I am, that is not a Cool Rails with having two sets of screws and no actual rails. Looks like a JB Jr. or Lil' '59.

Looks great, though!

 

[jeremy]

Re: Color OCD- Duncan Cool Rails and Custom 5 trembucker

lil 59

 

[Synapsys]

Re: Color OCD- Duncan Cool Rails and Custom 5 trembucker

Spot on, Toejam. Was keen on going C5/CR on this one, but chose the CR for a Jackson DK2 instead. That one has a poplar body, and tne CR sounds awesome on it, going with a VR in the middle and a Full Shred trembucker in the bridge.

Since I wanted something in the vein of a SuperStrat with a "harder PAF" (well, sort of) on this one, so I went C5/CR on this one. They compliment the mahogany body, neck through maple neck on this one quite nicely. The Lil59 is way thicker than the CR, but that was the tone I was going for, with the DK2 aimed at brighter tones.

The cream matching color scheme would have been the same, though.

 

[Artie]

Re: Color OCD- Duncan Cool Rails and Custom 5 trembucker

Unless you're looking at a different pic than I am, that is not a Cool Rails with having two sets of screws and no actual rails. Looks like a JB Jr. or Lil' '59.

Looks great, though!

Oops. You are correct. I was basing that comment on what the OP said in the title. My bad.

 

[David Garner]

Re: Color OCD- Duncan Cool Rails and Custom 5 trembucker

ill post a crappy cell pic later but the color is very slightly different when you put them right next to each other

edit: heres the picView attachment 100448

they are very close, if they werent right next to each other you might not be able to tell

The two coils on both of my double creme Custom Shop Pearly Gates pickups are very slightly mismatched. You have to really look to see it. It won’t show up in a photo. I think it’s actually cool. More like a vintage guitar that actually had some of the plastics fade differently.

 

[frankfalbo]

Re: Color OCD- Duncan Cool Rails and Custom 5 trembucker

ill post a crappy cell pic later but the color is very slightly different when you put them right next to each other

edit: heres the picView attachment 100448

they are very close, if they werent right next to each other you might not be able to tell

Jeremy: Occam’s Razor? If that’s 10 years old I don’t think we had cream colored rails pickups available at that time. Could yours be a (previously white) cover that MJ dyed for you?

 

[jeremy]

Re: Color OCD- Duncan Cool Rails and Custom 5 trembucker

the pg is 10+ years, the rails is from 2019. pg is probably 15+ now that i think about it

 

[frankfalbo]

Re: Color OCD- Duncan Cool Rails and Custom 5 trembucker

Ah I had it back’erds.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Color OCD- Duncan Cool Rails and Custom 5 trembucker

i have it back'erds plenty so i totally understand!