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Is that what’s left of your guitar there in your dog’s mouth? 😜

#5 on your list cracked me up!

I enjoyed reading about the progress of your build which had it’s ups and downs, but turned out really great! And that neck is absolutely gorgeous!

Regarding Coffee, thanks! The pickup is supposed to be as close as possible to the early Eddie Van Halen pickup(s), and when Pete Thorn tested like 30 pickups for that sound, this was his favorite. It works great for everything from early AC/DC and Free to 80´s Whitesnake. It is not high output...

@kennslp I was wondering about woods and tone in 2023, when I built my Soloist-based guitar ”Coffee” (swamp ash, maple cap, roasted maple neck, gibson scaled neck, etc). But the truth is that the tonal impact worth to consider happens somewhere else in the signal chain. Pickups have a big...

It is interesting to (once again) see how songs evolve when a band plays them live for a while. Long Live Rock’n’Roll from Live in Munich 1977 sounds quite diffrent from the great version that appeared on the album titled the same as that song.

Deep Purple ”Made in Japan” is my all-time favorite album. Just listened to ”Lazy” from the 2014 remastered version.

I adddition to the P90 (that I also associate with Leslie West), the Filtertrons sounded really good. And for me, too, Malcolm Young is ”the” sound. Great video!

There’s a huge P90 boom right now (no wonder), and I’m hoping that there will be a good noiseless P90 available at some point. i have been looking at the SD JJN version, but no real reviews yet, I believe?

Looks like a raclette for the guitar player

@stratamania Yes, most probably. That locking nut seems massive (high). But as fixing things (working on the nut itself or the guitar neck) feels a bit too much for me (and my tech friend), I will probably get rid of the locking nut and put the Graphtech unlock nut there, instead.

@stratamania good point, I do have a retainer bar. And yes, when I lock the nut after having used the headstock tuners, the tuning changes. However, the tuning goes off when the nut is locked, just after playing a song or two, without doeing any heavy bends. But I’ll check the retainer bar, thx!

@bruzanhd thank you for the information! There is now a 0.25 shim in the neck. The bridge shim was removed before it was installed, so nothing to do there, but there were shims placed under the saddles (for the radius), and the ones under the E strings were now removed. This has made the upper...