NOT Your Typical Heavy Metal Guitars

[Jeffblue]

Edenhaus Mahogany body, custom homemade copper pickguard, Seymour Duncan pickups.

Custom homemade offset Mahogany capped with Lacewood body, custom homemade copper pickguard, Seymour Dunca and Bill Lawrence pickups.

Mahogany body custom homemade brass top, Seymour Dunca/Bill Lawrence pickups.

Mahogany body custom homemade brass top, Seymour Duncan pickups.

Warmoth Alder body, custom homemade copper pickguard,Sweymour Duncan pickups.

My original Silvertone modded brass top, Bill Lawrence pickup.

GFS Paulownia body, custom homemade copper pickguard, Seymour Duncan pickups.

StewMac Alder thinlinebody, custom homemade brass top, Seymour Duncan pickups, unknown humbucker in the neck.

 

[beaubrummels]

How does a copper guard affect the pickup/magnetic field? I'm aware of DiMarzio baseplate effects (are those brass, I think?).

 

[Jeffblue]

How does a copper guard affect the pickup/magnetic field? I'm aware of DiMarzio baseplate effects (are those brass, I think?).

Not entirely sure. I think a copper plate on the bottom of a pickup (like a telecaster pickup) would have more of an effect. The copper pickguard does help the shielding and adds some sustain being that it is metal.

 

[Mincer]

Wow, I love how unique they are! Does the copper oxidize quickly?

 

[Jeffblue]

Wow, I love how unique they are! Does the copper oxidize quickly?

The oxidation/patina takes some time. The more you play it seems to make it happen faster. Body oils and sweat and all that. The Warmoth strat had some vinegar dabbed on it before I installed it. That helps it patina faster.

 

[Mincer]

Does it turn darker...or green?

 

[Jeffblue]

Does it turn darker...or green?

If I remember correctly, I added vinegar randomly on the face of the pckguard and the rest is time/age. And I only did this to the tobacco sunburst strat pickguard and the rest are naturally patina'ed

 

[Mincer]

If I remember correctly, I added vinegar randomly on the face of the pckguard and the rest is time/age. And I only did this to the tobacco sunburst strat pickguard and the rest are naturally patina'ed

Science solves things again!

 

[Chistopher]

I wish warmoth made an offset Strat body

 

[Jeffblue]

The offset is of my own design. The offset strat sounds really good.