Recent content by Lagavulin

I get a bottle in Christmas and one in Easter...twice a year is what I can afford lol. Here in Greece the 16-yo one is 45 euros.

Cool, BKPs absolutely rock! I have a Holydiver in my LTD MH400 and my Miracle Man just arrived for my next guitar that's gonna be a Warnoth Floyded strat. I'm gonna match it with a Trilogy (middle) and a 63' Veneer model (with an EMG after burner for the neck).

Hey, good to see someone knowing this fine Scotch. I like it a lot and it has a cool name so...  Actually when I first heard its name I thought it was Russian (you know like Iron-Clad Pudovkin and such). LOL, I know nothing about those fluffy fellahs. ;)

I must recommend the WCR Fillmore set here too. It's really good and exactly what the thread title describes. 13.5K etc.

As for single-sized humbuckers, they aren't single coils nor like humbuckers (full-sized) either. They're something on their own. They have two coils like humbuckers but both coils pick the sound from the very same point of the string just like single coils. A part of the characteristic sound of...

If you like dark fretboards and thinking about ebony, I would go with binding too. Otherwise I'd choose a maple board.

Nope. Actually, imagine basswood as alder without the extended spectrum ends (lows are not recessed but they don't go that low in frequency - this applies to highs too). Mids are not scooped but not pronounced either. It's the more limited spectrum ends that make it sound middy. It's also more...

I think fatness in sound has to do a lot with the pickups. It's how pronounced and dense the midrange is. I say dense (or solid) cause some pickups have hollow sounding mids. That makes them sound deep but not fat. For a fat tone you need "density" in the mids (for lack of a better description)...

Yeah it sounds strange to me too. I became aware of that just from a video of the fender custom shop I watched recently. As for the looks............yeah I am a poser from way back.

I actually find it a cool idea not for fooling anyone or something like that. But for those who want the original look of the Tele but like the middle pu sound too. Also it's helpful for any Tele or Strat player who like the middle sound but the middle pu gets in the way of their pick. ;)

Hmm that makes that you'd need to rout 1mm down to hide a q-tuner under the guard. Unless the Tele routes are deeper.

Not much taller though. About 1 - 1.5mm taller than a Duncan Hot Stack (they're 20mm tall). I dont' know the pickup holes' depth though.

@OP: A super-fat sound can be fun at times but forget major/minor 3rd malmsteen kind of power chords. ;)

That's a great idea for Teles! Neodymium pickups are the ones for this job. They claim to have the highest-strongest magnetic field. Actually they're designed with the larger distance from the strings in mind. Check these out: http://www.q-tuner.com/gs.shtml <----ugly but once they're hidden...

The ones I'd consider trying: Screamin Demon, Custom 5, Brobucker (Seymour Duncan custom shop), Bare Knuckle Nailbomb, Cold Sweat, DiMarzio Virtual Hot PAF.