Recent content by Jay Menon

Don't they age differently Aaron, when a Warmoth body is polyurethane and neck is nitro? Jay

Considering the difference between a 9.5" and 10" radius. (In that there is a big diff between 8" & 9" radius Less so between 12" and 13" Almost imperceptible difference between 15" and 16" radius) Would it work fairly well to use a Graphtech 9.5" radius nut on a 10" Warmoth strat nut slot...

Thanks guys - it had never struck me that the posterior surface go the pickguard might be engraved with a channel for the coil...

I managed to acquire a Strat pickguard mounted Ilitch coil - and as usual there are complicating factors :-) It’s a 11 hole mint green;Mine is an 8 hole parchment. The options are to fit the mint guard it as it is, or to transplant the coil across to my parchment Pickguard. It is a black...

I have a Warmoth body originally drilled by Warmoth for a 6 screw vintage tremolo. However, someone installed a Floyd Rose and plugged the 6 trem screw holes. I managed to extricate the Floyd inserts nicely using oversize washers, a nut and a trem post to exert perfect perpendicular traction -...

Thanks Cagey and Aircap... The choice lies between and Does the latter, with its flat base, offer any sonic advantages / more coupling with the wood etc please?

What is the depth of the nut slot please on a Warmoth Strat neck? I take it the bottom of the slot is flat..? Given the 10"-16" compound radius - I'm hoping the Graphtech PT-5000-00 nut (9.5" radius) will be a close fit - but I would need to be sure that it's tall enough...

Actually the Gotoh 510 comes in both 6-screw and twin pivot versions... With a choice of a traditional Steel or an FST Zinc block. They don't do the FST mechanism in steel - so I got one made by a friend. Works an absolute treat...! And used in conjunction with Fender Bullet strings...

Re: tuning instability on Stratocaster type guitars. The effect of the following friction points is well recognised - tuning machine posts     - sloppy windings     - locking machine heads (minimising windings around the post) - string trees - nut slots Perhaps less well recognised are...

Floyd Rose's own push in arm - with the grub screw similar to the Gotoh 510 (except that the Floyd arm doesn't screw in) works perfectly - with no wobble at all...

A lot of wise replies. Here are my 2c... Pickup technology is old - dates back to the 1950s and I don't really believe that there is anything wonderfully different from one manufacturer to another. Don't get pickups with an elevated G string pole though - that was designed for the wound G...