Recent content by Hodgo

That’s how I’m leaning - JM-Historics 58s or 62s Yeah… know my personal preference here pretty well at this point. 59 Roundback or 66 Oval C Strat, 9.5” or higher radius, preferably raw and oiled over lacquer. Won’t stick to Leo’s vintage recipe for this build. Cant be as bad as a Firebird! I...

JM pickups are low, flat, wide single coils. I’m not likely to go with humbuckers. Man… I don’t like the JagStang body but I love this modified version a poster over on OffSetGuitars came up with

I have literally never played a Jag, Mustang, or Jazzmaster. While I could go play one, I kind of want to just build a “holy grail” example from parts - buy once cry once. I’ve done my own research and listened to clips and am pretty settled on something in the 58-64 JM style, with maybe a few...

Correction Middle aged Hodgo has a crush on Mike Adams

If you haven’t checked out puisheen on YouTube he’s a huge advocate for the Mustang trem and offers some great tips on setting them up:

Warmoths roasting (or whoever their supplier is if they do it upstream) seems to be ridiculously consistent compared to some other brands… IYKYK.

I’m honestly surprised these are under 5lbs… I assume Warmoth is now short stocked on lightweight ash

From Warmoth themselves frets are playable but could always use some refinement: https://warmoth.com/blog/warmoth-fret-installation The same goes for the nuts. I would certainly plan to either refine both as part of initial setup or pay a tech/luthier to do it. I also really just don’t like how...

Dang nab. 7/8 Dirty Penny Bobby Bobertson tribute ruined

Speaking of off menu @aarontunes, is the pickup routing also available on a different pickguard?

Rumor has it “Filthy Penny” was Prince’s working title for Darling Nikki

The 7/8 I do like. A 7/8 soloist… top rout… jaguar scale? Mmmm.

It’s just an aesthetic thing for me, I don’t care how big a guitar is. I can play a dreadnought or an ES-175 just as poorly as I can a dinky or pacer.

Vacillating between these two double cuts for a superstrat build. The OG vs its slimmed down offspring - which shape do you prefer?

The neck is loose in the pocket? You can shim it, you can dowel and redrill the threads, you can stick a toothpick in there and have it bite down on that, you can convert it to threaded bushings… many ways to skin that cat