Recent content by mrpinter

Looks like I have a new source for picks. Someone on The Gear Page was talking up Apollo Picks, so I ordered some. Apollo is a one man shop (Nik Monnin) that does a lot of custom work, and mostly Casein as the material, although he does have two types of high performance thermoplastics (like...

All-maple is going to be really heavy unless it's chambered; and it would probably be a VERY bright sounding guitar (depending on your pickups, of course). Any of the bindings or dots or whatever will look OK on birdseye maple, and should be fine with a tortoise pickguard as well. Just a...

Yes, body weight is part of the equation, which is why I said I'd go with a solid body rather than chambered.

Generally speaking, to avoid neck dive you want the upper horn (where the strap button is) to be over the 12th fret or longer. This body doesn't look like that will be the case, so you can probably expect the headstock to want to head towards the floor. If you want to stick with that body I'd...

I broke out the good mirrorless camera today and took some better photos:

Thanks. I call the color "Army". The pickups are by Righteous Sound Pickups -- all I use in all Pinter guitars. The bridge pickup is basically a "Gold Tooth" humbucker, and the single coils are from the RSP High Road set - Joshua's highest output strat pickups..

I'm a pick fanatic. I collect them, and use quite a few different ones depending on the guitar I'm playing or my mood. Lately my favorite pick company - at least for electrics - is a company in North Carolina called Honey-Picks. they have picks of many different materials; from relatively cheap...

Finished!

I've gone over to the dark side :cautious: Incoming: Most G-Shocks would look like manhole covers on my 7 1/4" wrist. But the case size of this one is 42.9mm (small for a G-Shock); I think I can pull it off.

^^^ Hey @rockandroller, I deleted the body of my reply that you quoted, because I misunderstood your first reply and I thought it would be confusing. What you describe would be a nice guitar.

It's at the painter now. This digital mockup is an approximation of how it will look: and these are the pickups that will go in it: