Re: The Seymour Duncan 35 Guitar Available NOW
That new red one of his is a great workhorse. It is a Mexican neck, but he worked it over. I want to say it was a "Blacktop" series Tele originally. He bought it a few years ago. It was a two humbucker Tele and he swapped the bridge out for the tune-o-matic. He also carved the neck down to have a slight V shape. He's brought it to some band practices and gigs, and yeah it was really heavy. So I told him we could pick a super-light piece of Swamp Ash from the Larrivee inventory. They still have the CNC program for making the SD35 so they just cut him one.
When it was done Seymour came by the shop and we swapped most of the parts from the Mexican Tele over to the new body. But we used the Callaham t-o-m. Here's the kicker- the Mexican body alone weighed about 6 lbs. The entire guitar with the new body? You guessed it-about 6 lbs!
The pickups he had in the mexi were what he likes to describe as "weakies", basically meaning they're on the weak side of a wind and weak magnetically. I think he made them for the heavy mexi body, to give it some life and touch sensitivity. We put those in, but I think he wound some replacements once he got the new body home. He's been sending me sound clips and loving this guitar.
To anyone who says "body wood doesn't make a difference because pickups only hear magnetically" this is one of the most extreme examples of how false and misguided that logic is.
Chris-the pickguard is clear-coated phenolic, and the 4 holes for the mounting ring are slightly oversized so the screws pass through them, screwing directly into the wood. The pickguard is pinched between the body and ring. The opening in the guard matches the pickup route, so the height adjust screws do not go through the guard.
