Last Waltz Tribute limited run is now live!

[mayfly]

Flat pole, not RWRP - just a standard middle pickup.

Actually, I lie - on reviewing the specs of the installed pickups I found that the middle pickup actually is wired RWRP.

Sorry about that!

 

[Spud]

I am waiting to hear

I HOPE YOU CAN HEAR BETTER SOON

 

[TBurst Std]

Well GAS has subsided. After doing some serious time listening to the Last Waltz as well as with my Penguin now that I have Zoom-Trons in it: I'm over 85% to that bridge tone. It's not quite as bright, but its close enough in a mix.

A Zoom-Tron is a humbucker that uses magnet poles (cylinders ala Fender) vs a bar magnets underneath.

 

[mayfly]

Here's some pics:

Fired up the router. Decided on a 'partial swimming pool' route. Perhaps we need a name for this: I propose "Hot Tub Route"




Cut a larger opening for the wiring. After routing I found that the body was chambered! Completely forgot about that...



Seems to fit...



Finished:

 

[mayfly]

Update: I was finding the tone of the bridge 'pickup' too dark, so I swapped the pots with 500k versions. Also installed a treble bleed. Better, but not quite the way I like it yet. But please understand - I typically play a telecaster :-0

 

[Verne Bunsen]

Update: I was finding the tone of the bridge 'pickup' too dark, so I swapped the pots with 500k versions. Also installed a treble bleed. Better, but not quite the way I like it yet. But please understand - I typically play a telecaster :-0

I have used 500k pots with a parallel resistor on the switch when mixing humbuckers and single coils, to “show” the HB the full load and the SCs… less... Could such a confguration with 1megs and a 500-or-so-k resistor be an option? 1meg for the bridge HB alone, to brighten it up, knocked down for the others? I don’t remember if you said how you have the pickup selector wired, might take a super switch. Never tried it with 1megs, but it seems like it could produce some kind of results

 

[Scab Pickens]

Hurry up, folks! Only two $3,500 bodies left!

 

[Verne Bunsen]

Hurry up, folks! Only two $3,500 bodies left!

As tempted as I am, I suspect it would cost me half my net worth in the long run

 

[HumanisHappy]

Hurry up, folks! Only two $3,500 bodies left!

I personally am not a fan of how they’re creased in the curves. I probably am wrong but I am curious what #1 looked like cause I didn’t see the creases in the video so wonder if it had the creases visible on the two remaining.