Recent content by TonyFlyingSquirrel

That is a rollout with more variables than I can imagine, with tolerances that would discourage many end users for custom shop “parts”.

She’s hanging under tension to pitch for a couple of weeks before I do fret level, etc…

Body is roasted Alder Neck is roasted maple, 12-16” radius, turquoise face dots, finished in mixol green dye with wipe on poly semi gloss finish. Both body and neck acquired at the Warmoth Guitarnival July/2025. Gotoh Floyd bridge, locking tuners, EMG 58 and SAV pickups, Sustainiac with...

If Acme can make a control array that drops into a Strat and allows you to just quick connect the pickups, then use dip switches to change the capacitor values, even the functionality of a pot from a volume, tone or other, surely we can come to a more standardized method of control arrays and...

This=very yes. You can have straight tilt to get the best of both worlds. My Ibanez FRG7620 in my Avatar has a Gotoh Floyd, tilt head straight path to Hipshot open gear locking tuners and can hang with the best Vai-esque whammy yanks and pulls all day long.

While not in construction or design, in function there is similarity, and that little bit of similarity has influence on the final heard outcome.

Every electric guitar is first an acoustic guitar. Once you introduce electronics, all the tone wood arguments get dimmed down significantly. The guitar has a microphone (pickups) and a subtractive EQ (Tone Controls) each of which have their own sonic specifications. Some mics are brighter...

That is all kinds of classy!

Serrated…

I’m still waiting for Spud fretboard inlays as a standard option…

No joke on those tone knobs. All strats I built had a master volume, and a tone on the bridge pickup only, and then,only if it were a Single Coil. Since I use EMG’s, it’s really easy, and nowadays, I only do an HSS with a 58 (P90) voicing in the bridge because it is far more balanced than a...

This was a very well presented video.

Yessir, thatswutiment!

Face inlays next?

Tragic…