Recent content by Hodgo

If you add a tremolo cover to your cart in the material of your choosing and update the special instructions to indicate rear control cover for body XYZ, you get the thing

So I got this lovely 3.5lb body from the recent sale. What to do with it? First things first - placed an order for some Wilde Microcoil Alnico Tele pickups. I think these are vastly under appreciated pickups and produce some of the best Tele tones money can buy. That universal neck rout was...

Just got this in from the Archie Creek fire sugar pine bodies

Thats SUPER cool!

What an interesting fretboard. Good luck with your sale

lol I’d love to be a one man polka band but more like this (aspirationally)

Been thinking about getting back into gigging solo and wanted to incorporate some foot percussion - maybe a tambourine or hi hat, some form of kick and optionally a snare. But most important is the kick and a cymbal of some sort. Any suggestions?

Aren’t you up here in the PNW with me? If so it’s not the shipping, it’s that I don’t wanna But big shout out to Marty - all I did was ship him the lightest body Warmoth had in the showcase. It got to him a few days later and he had it in the mail a week after that. Not cheap, but WOW is it...

Oh, I know. And then it’s cutting the pickguard - I already snapped one blank - and drilling the grounding hole for the tailpiece cause the bridge has nylon saddles… not to mention I still gotta do all that soldering… excuses excuses I am aware.

Paraphrasing the great Al Borland here… I don’t think so, Spud.

These threads sometimes feel like an intervention 😉 but here we go: The “Hendrix Alternate Universe” The Chartreuse Flake Esquire (Marty Bell finish) The still unfinished Steve Morse Frankentele/EBMM Mashup… I really need to finish this but I’ve kind of lost all passion for the project...

I decided to go with a deal on a new in box Mastery bridge and trem. Although I like the appearance of the Staytrem more I am thinking of a slightly flatter radius (10 or 12) for the fretboard. Just need some pickups, a wiring setup, and a neck.

Got me a nice anodized pickguard from Herad guitars. I am thinking of spraying a few coats of clear nitro to make this more vintage accurate, maybe a quick coat of shellac first to help it bind.

Sold - 3.5lbs with a charming little knot. Thanks for the heads up!