Rich_S
HomeGrownToneBrewologist
Well, Agileguy's NGD puts mine to shame, but I'm happy to be back in the double-humbucker business. After stupidly selling my original, black, US-made Schecter back in the '80s, the re-creating it with a goldtop partscaster a few years back, then stupidly selling off the goldtop a couple years ago, I have now learned my lesson and present to you....
the Goldtop PT Mk II.
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I spent the last two months trading bits and pieces across the Internet to bring this guitar together. The neck is a maple'06 MIM I had left over from my abandoned "surf Tele" project. The body came from a mostly-complete Schecter PT that I bought from a fellow Townsend fanatic on the TDPRI. (I still have the Schecter neck for sale if anybody wants it.) I put new Fender Ping Am Std tuners on it, and stainless steel bridge saddles from GFS. The pickups I found used, 59/Jazz. Electronics are all-new; two volume controls with push/pull series/parallel on the bridge and phase reverse on the neck.
Since I was traveling for work all summer, I did most of the assembly and setup work in my hotel room at the Hampton Inn. :lmao:
Since I was on Long Island, Wattage hooked me up with his good friend Steve DeMarino, who routed out the neck pocket to accept the square Tele neck heel. (Schecter uses a curved Strat-style neck heel, even on Tele-shaped PTs. You can see in the photo the new wood on the sides, in contrast to the remaining patch of paint in the center.)
To quote Ron Howard in The Music Man, "Isn't this the most scrumptuous solid-gold thing you ever saw? I never thought I'd see anything so scrumptuous as this solid-gold thing!"
the Goldtop PT Mk II.
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:arms::arms::arms::arms::arms::arms::arms::arms::arms::arms::arms::arms:
:arms::arms::arms::arms::arms::arms::arms::headbang::arms::arms::arms::arms:
I spent the last two months trading bits and pieces across the Internet to bring this guitar together. The neck is a maple'06 MIM I had left over from my abandoned "surf Tele" project. The body came from a mostly-complete Schecter PT that I bought from a fellow Townsend fanatic on the TDPRI. (I still have the Schecter neck for sale if anybody wants it.) I put new Fender Ping Am Std tuners on it, and stainless steel bridge saddles from GFS. The pickups I found used, 59/Jazz. Electronics are all-new; two volume controls with push/pull series/parallel on the bridge and phase reverse on the neck.
Since I was traveling for work all summer, I did most of the assembly and setup work in my hotel room at the Hampton Inn. :lmao:
Since I was on Long Island, Wattage hooked me up with his good friend Steve DeMarino, who routed out the neck pocket to accept the square Tele neck heel. (Schecter uses a curved Strat-style neck heel, even on Tele-shaped PTs. You can see in the photo the new wood on the sides, in contrast to the remaining patch of paint in the center.)
To quote Ron Howard in The Music Man, "Isn't this the most scrumptuous solid-gold thing you ever saw? I never thought I'd see anything so scrumptuous as this solid-gold thing!"
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