Recent content by neil

the guy in the picture does a prince tribute act over here in the u.k.  his got the purple rain era wig the lot and he's real tiny...that body is only 11" wide! :laughing7: When he turned up to collect the guitar i thought he must have nicked his dads car :doh:

ive done a few scratch builds thet have had maple necks,or in one case an ebony board that needed spraying white....sick but it was the customers choice. I do normally mask the frets,but it takes ages...warmoth are great guys but no one could expect them to be able to make such great parts and...

Feeler gauges and a radius template will drive you nuts but it works a treat...good luck, If your like me you might even invent some new swear words

I know it's slightly off topic and it may just be me...but does anyone else think that bigsby loaded tele's,especially thinlines just look so cool. Yes the tuning is pants,but after gritting my teeth while building a thinline bigsby for some one who i thought had no taste, it really started to...

The battery life thing is not such a problem these days,the power drain is considerabley less than in the past....a single pick up with no add on circuits can run for up to 3000 hrs on one battery. These pick ups sound great have a very low  background noise level and best of all do not require...

go for the norton...lets you sound like you....it's not over voice. Sorry to here of your loss,the bad memorys go and the good come to the fore....remember the good and make the most of everyday you have with your friends and loved ones. Take care dude

whats the pickup & how many conductor wires from it...lets nail this sucker

when you touch the strings/hardware you become part of the ground loop. try it again while touching the trem,rule out the simple things first...it might then be time to look at screening.

I agree with Mr.Tony.....this pick up has a very "voiced"mid range,works for some and not for others...I'm still a Quensryche fan to this day....yep should have grown up but didn't. Preffer OBL's or EMGS these days...nice trick with OBLS on the 4 conductor....attach the green wire to the spare...

nice job....personally any guitar that comes into my shop,that i dont have a template for, I copy on to wall papper lineing papper and then cut a perspex template in down time. Always good to be able to pull out of the hat at minimal notice...gets the repeats back. Normally cut mine on a 3/4"...

didn't fender do something similar on early jazz basses....the copper strip from bridge to first pick up cavity?

I've always found that I've got some signal compression with all trans systems....well except with  EMG pick ups    maybe becease they are low impedance.....buffering? Oppions please?

the road ready thing referres to some of my customer who love their old strat's etc. that aren't up to the punishment they put them through. I work with a lot of very aggressive metal bands and you have to nail every thing down for them before a tour. I do all the set up work but then road ready...

Yamaha's switching pot don't push pull,they push push to do the same job...I have had some heavy handed players actually pull the control knob off of the pot when activating the switch! Not some thing you really want to do mid song! Yamaha's pots don't differ in any other way,the same job,same...

the push pull pot thingy is a great way to go,but to road ready maybe worth contacting your Yamaha dealer for their push push pots...they don't come off in your hand if you get over excited on stage.