B.O. Tele - Buck Owens not Body Odor

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Oh, I am SEVERELY LEFT HANDED, But as I am entirely unskilled and barely practiced on guitar, I have decided to try REALLY HARD to play right handed one last time.

before i sink into the black Strat Abyss that is the lefty lack of choices.

There's never been a better time to be a lefty guitarist that now.  Sure GC doesn't have much, if anyhting, for you, but I'm right handed and they don't have squat for me either.

 

[DangerousR6]

Oh, I am SEVERELY LEFT HANDED, But as I am entirely unskilled and barely practiced on guitar, I have decided to try REALLY HARD to play right handed one last time.

before i sink into the black Strat Abyss that is the lefty lack of choices.

You should just play whatever way feels natural. I mean just because you write right handed doesn't mean you should play right handed or if you write lefty you should play lefty. It should be what feels natural, and what feels comfortable. You will be more apt to learn quicker... :icon_biggrin:

 

[AGWAN]

There's never been a better time to be a lefty guitarist that now.  Sure GC doesn't have much, if anyhting, for you, but I'm right handed and they don't have squat for me either.

XD I've noticed that guitar stores seem to sell guitars like they're accessories to outfits. as long as it looks neat who cares about quality. but still many more guitars can be had for less for righties.

though I've noticed quite a few custom builders don't charge much, if any.... more then the big  companies for what they make. I know for a fact a Hembry is several thousand less than an identical Custom from say... Schecter

Oh, I am SEVERELY LEFT HANDED, But as I am entirely unskilled and barely practiced on guitar, I have decided to try REALLY HARD to play right handed one last time.

before i sink into the black Strat Abyss that is the lefty lack of choices.

You should just play whatever way feels natural. I mean just because you write right handed doesn't mean you should play right handed or if you write lefty you should play lefty. It should be what feels natural, and what feels comfortable. You will be more apt to learn quicker... :icon_biggrin:

I'm very used to painting and drawing left handed. picking is a motion that very much mirrors that. beyond that I have an old pinky injury that makes fretting kinda suck.

I'm just going to take some time with a cheap old acoustic. give it one last go. and when I'm sure it IS or ISN'T working for me... I'll build then.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Here's the p'ups.  A DiMarzio Area T and GFS P-90.  I orignally wanted a humcancelling P-90, but everything I'd read about them says they don't sound like a P-90, the exception being the $160 Kinman.  GFS says these are nice upgrades to a PRS SE and stand up to any boutique.  We'll see, if it's great, that will have been a good $33 spent.

It's also starting to look like a guitar.  I didn't know how Ivoroid binding and a cream pickup with gold hardware and a loud top would look.  It'll be fine.

 

[Jusatele]

I like the ground buss idea, makes perfect sense to me. infact I think it be a great idea to copy. Electrically it makes killer sense, continuous and unbroken ya know.
Now about that guitar
it is a complete flop
disastrous
be a shame to be seen with it
Just to save you from it I have emailed my Address, you need to mail it off to me immediately to avoid all embarrassment, I promise to use it and abuse it till it falls to pieces just to relieve you from the shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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DUDE THAT THERE IS ONE SWEET AXE

 

[Cagey]

I like the ground strap. That's a good idea.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I like the ground buss idea, makes perfect sense to me. infact I think it be a great idea to copy. Electrically it makes killer sense, continuous and unbroken ya know.

It's a butchered 4/11 cover.

 

[rockskate4x]

I LOVE it. The sheilding and grounding looks great to me! +1 to it making total electrical sense. Soldering to pots is always what kills me, maybe just cuz I suck but I seem to get cold joints half the times that I solder to a pot. However, one thing that kind of confused me is why you didn't either go all noiseless or all single coils. I'd think the people who say there are no noiseless p-90's that sound right would also say that there are no noiseless tele pups that sound right, so it would make sense to me to go either all in or all out when it comes to that. Also, that's a great axe! I love the paint job. I'm having trouble getting used to the gold hardware but that's just me.

Over all, I'd definitely  arty07: that!

 

[Jusatele]

Rock, I have a bit of experience with coils and the electrical fields they create, and pickups are all about coils and electrical fields, What any single coil offers is a unique field a humbucker cannot create. They are just too different in architecture to create the same field, and it is the field created that makes the sound (tone,timbre,brightness, etc.) of of the pickup. What makes one thing takes from another.
To keep this short, It would take knowledge of electrical theory to show what happens,  Just look at it like this, Such as a modeling amp, we can emulate a P90 sound with no humm, but we cannot copy it, and like a modeling amp, some guys are satisfied with them, others find they just do not get it, it is all up to how developed the personal ear is.

 

[rockskate4x]

Rock, I have a bit of experience with coils and the electrical fields they create, and pickups are all about coils and electrical fields, What any single coil offers is a unique field a humbucker cannot create. They are just too different in architecture to create the same field, and it is the field created that makes the sound (tone,timbre,brightness, etc.) of of the pickup. What makes one thing takes from another.
To keep this short, It would take knowledge of electrical theory to show what happens,  Just look at it like this, Such as a modeling amp, we can emulate a P90 sound with no humm, but we cannot copy it, and like a modeling amp, some guys are satisfied with them, others find they just do not get it, it is all up to how developed the personal ear is.

I wasn't looking to start a hum or no hum debate here, I'm just wondering why he choose one of each instead one or the other. I know some people are happy with their noiseless pickups and some people NEED authentic single coils, and frankly I don't really care which side Super is on I was just asking why do both.

 

[Jusatele]

well, I would do the P90 for the pure sound of the original P90s
as long as I get twang i would be satisfied with the Telesound, I do not judge a Tele for pure Timbre, more for the twang factor'
which is strange as my Tele build is getting 2 Lollar P90s.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

To Rockskate4x, I think I did kind of halfway explain why I don't have a noiseless P-90.  There is one I'm considering is $160 from Kinman.  I may get it eventually, but the GFS was $33.  $160 is not too much to spend on a pickup, just too much right now.  This little humcancelling with a single coil detail did bother me too, but there's a sheit ton of bridge hums and neck single coils out there that sound great.  Believe it or not, this guitar is being done on the cheap.  The bridge is a $20 Warmoth jobby, the body was $370.  While that ain't cheap, that's a steal considereing the build price was around $650. 

 

[rockskate4x]

you take a look at the fralin noiseless p-90? It's around $130.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

you take a look at the fralin noiseless p-90? It's around $130.

I did take a look at that one.  I looked at the website and was very pleased not just with that pickup and Lindy's reputation, but with the fact that it could be ordered with 2 leads or a braided jacket and shielded lead.  I did research, mainly looking in other forums.  While it does sound great, by adding a coil to make it noiseless, it doesn't sound like a P-90.  BTW, none of the dealers including Warmoth had one in stock.  Warmoth doesn't have any Fralin P-90s, noiseless or otherwise.  If they do, it's not on the site.  Time and time again and internet search after internet search, the Kinman noiseless P-90 kept coming up as the most P-90 sounding noiseless P-90, and it still wasn't perfect.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Got it finshed.  Here's the Tele thread.

http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=14479.0