Lucius Paisley
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Now, I know what you're thinking. And it's disgusting. She's your cousin, for god's sake!
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Now, I know what you're thinking. And it's disgusting. She's your cousin, for god's sake!
Chris Pile
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So how is it?
Lucius Paisley
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My review from Facebook, language-adjusted for sensitive readers:
The paint job isn’t perfect, the frets could be longer but they don’t stick right the heck out like other “cheap” guitars, the P90 is buzzy as hell but that’s what you’re signing up for. A few adjustments need to be made before I can play the hecking thing, as always, but this time around there’s risk involved. I don’t know what the heck that blue dot means.
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I've begun minor changes; moved the strap button from one side to the other and installed locking tuners - from the same manufacturer to keep costs down.
I have a left-handed nut, from the same guitar I took the locking tuners. But I don't want to change that over just yet as the procedure looks to be a very delicate one.
The biggest risk I'll be taking... well, not me, exactly... is having somebody do the routing so the controls can be placed in the left-handed position.
I won't be requiring the replaced control cavity be filled as I don't think taking out that much wood will affect the sound enough to matter and the plan has always been to cover it in stickers, so I can just cover the holes in the front. A reasonable amount of stickers, not an "oh s**t, there's still a spot of yellow left!" amount.
$279AU / roughly $185US. Hopefully the woodwork cost won't be too much so it will have cost less overall for me to have this done than to buy from Harley Benton and wait who knows how long for it to come to me.
Lucius Paisley
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Some prep doodles...
The lines are supposed to indicate how to measure where drilling/routing should happen. I've tried to keep it symmetrical, but I was surprised at just how not symmetrical it is, as is made obvious by how "off" the headstocks are. But these aren't to scale, so maybe my eyes are playing silly buggers.
The lines are supposed to indicate how to measure where drilling/routing should happen. I've tried to keep it symmetrical, but I was surprised at just how not symmetrical it is, as is made obvious by how "off" the headstocks are. But these aren't to scale, so maybe my eyes are playing silly buggers.
Lucius Paisley
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A few months later and it's done.
As long as I'm standing perpendicular to the amp and more than a few feet away from the speaker, there's zero unwanted hum at lower volumes.
Turn the volume up, however, and that's when you want that hum to be there.
Having this done was quite the spending spree, so it will be my last guitar for some time.
As long as I'm standing perpendicular to the amp and more than a few feet away from the speaker, there's zero unwanted hum at lower volumes.
Turn the volume up, however, and that's when you want that hum to be there.
Having this done was quite the spending spree, so it will be my last guitar for some time.
