Recent content by Hodgo

It would be shocking if you were the ground! Your body is a big sack of water that does a great job acting as an antenna. It actually works both ways: if you’re ever hunting for your car in a parking lot, you can hold your key fob under your chin and it will increase the range while making you...

I absolutely love this. I asked ChatGPT about the phrase, and it said: Now I need to learn to pronounce it for my next meeting at work.

Warmoth tends to say no unless you explicitly say “I know this might not work and will be non refundable and am willing to pay the shop fee regardless” Had to do that for one of my builds where the Warmoth pickguard wouldn’t fit my options and they told me it was fine as long as I accepted the risk

They also make humbucker adapter rings for Filtertrons, so they fit. They look cleaner with no ears/direct mount though

Yeah adapter plates look wonky IMHO. They are good for hot rod / rat rod aesthetics, but if you’re building from the ground up it seems like an odd choice. Another nice chimey option I think would look great is Filtertrons. They sort of slot between SCs and HBs and look great direct mounted or...

No, but like @cuthbert / @TBurst Std they have their own thing going on that is much more single coil in character than your typical PAF.

Ah, the old “I prefer the sound of single coils and the look of humbuckers”. Totally get it. Might I suggest classic Firebird pickups, Fralin Big Singles or Unbuckers, Lollar Novel Ts/The Birds, or similar humbucker sized single coil (or single coil voiced) pickups? I recently put a pair of...

Never played them but that’s the word on the street. Who are your tone influences? How’d you end up on P-Rails in the first place? Sheer versatility? I’ve chased that before and I have to say I’m always left wanting and always go back to a guitar with a few great sounds on it - less switches...

It’s a LOT of guitar. And I doubt it would make many sounds *I* would enjoy, but I see where you’re coming from. Have you built a partscaster before? This is going to be a headache and a half. Having said that, if you are Steve Morse incarnate, this seems like a great build :)

IIRC the hole spacing is the same but the location is slightly different from the top rout (I tried putting a pickguard over a rear rout body from the showcase and it was a no go)

I’m not saying don’t do it I’m just saying put a cloth over your head to hide your sins from Saint Leo

Sir that is extra heretical

A JM without a JM trem?? Heresy.

TED used to be great… then came TEDx and the curation and content went downhill fast.

…why did you censor Gibson? 🤨 OP - totally doable but you’ll need a superswitch. Wire the output of lug one from the tone control for the bridge to a common lug, then wire the signal output (vol pot middle lug) on the volume to all positions you want 50s wiring on. Easier to do with just a...