Recent content by Hodgo

Use lots of heat, clean and solder the tip between connections, use leaded solder as needed. The Freeway contacts solder like a dream compared the back of the pot. Of course, pre-tin everything and only solder once you have a strong mechanical connection. A set of helping hands goes a long way...

Blue pearl and yes the stock Tele is backwards, nobody had invented pinky swells in 1950 yet

Hmmm… not a Warmoth finish but maybe if enough people shame them they’ll add it and I can be counted retroactively. I know of at least two people who like Chartreuse Sparkle, me and Dick Dale…

Beautiful!

Nice try gubbamint, I ain’t giving you no locations (But yeah I am around)

By the way if you’re capable of soldering at all, adding a third wire to a pickup is easy.

Open top cover yes, no cover probably not unless it has a conductive metal baseplate. Any metal on the pickup, ungrounded, is functionally an antenna. To fix that, we send that noise to ground with the ground wire, so you have to give the cover an additional path to ground if you intend to use...

Have you tried the Wilde (Lawrence) Micro-coil Alnico? I have a set here but the body is in my box of shame

While I agree with your conclusion, I would caution you to be careful about using resistance as the measuring stick. DCR is only an indicator of output if all other variables (magnet gauss strength, wire gauge, construction) are the same. Inductance, measured in henries, is the best spec to get...

That first one… I’m in love.

I mean ideally the switch throw would be a tangent of the arc defined by your elbow/wrist in your playing position, and you can rotate the switch in the cavity to accomplish just that But it really doesn’t matter if you’ve put in your 10,000 hours.

🤷 Dreaming about guitars is fun Buying guitar parts is fun But I work 60+ hours a week and in the hours I don’t spend sleeping or with my wife, I mostly play drums. So that is my box of someday projects

@Spud it is too late the body is in my box of shame now

Are you going to add a skeleton body… …or quit while you’re a head?

I wouldn’t put it past Fender to have repackaged the PV 64s as the AVII 63 pickups. I bet they’re very close. Just email Rob and tell him what you are after. He made me a stealth neck pickup for my Tele after I found out the Duncan Secret Agent wouldn’t fit in a Warmoth Tele neck rout. He will...