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Looks pretty awesome, as always... Nice job.. :icon_thumright:
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whitebison66
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I need your help for the next part of this build. For whatever reason (I'd guess it's my history of traumatic head injuries), I decided that I wanted to actually MAKE the pickup for this build.
Which means I need to make a pickup winder. I've gotten a sewing machine motor and a dimmer, which seem to work well . Now I need to figure out how to wire the mechanical counter and the micro roller switch.
I'd appreciate any guidance you can offer me; I've got a thread going in the Electronics & Wiring section:
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=19850.0
I'm sure I can get there, I'm just having a bit of a struggle at the moment.
As always, thank you in advance.
Which means I need to make a pickup winder. I've gotten a sewing machine motor and a dimmer, which seem to work well . Now I need to figure out how to wire the mechanical counter and the micro roller switch.
I'd appreciate any guidance you can offer me; I've got a thread going in the Electronics & Wiring section:
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=19850.0
I'm sure I can get there, I'm just having a bit of a struggle at the moment.
As always, thank you in advance.
whitebison66
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whitebison66
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Well, I keep reading stuff like this:
I'm concerned about your "ascribation of causation", so to speak - after enough of this, it appears to me that "luck" seems to have, like, nothing to do with your end results. Additionally, I'm trending (the results aren't all in yet) that no matter how hard you pray, Jesus/Allah/Vishnu/Tezcatlipoca the Horned Jaguar God of Darkness* isn't going to slot yer nuts for ya - so to speak. You have a lot of fun, don't you? Hong Kong sounds like an amazing place - to find weird stuff, at the very least. Doesn't every kid want to live in a candy store....
I hope I'm not assuming too much, but that "Dr." tag makes me suspicious you're not quite ready to quit your day job yet? If you do, you're already doing more interesting & varied work than 90% of these "custom builders! eee! eee!" who squirt goo on a Warmoth neck and Musikraft body, screw things on then steal each and every "tone cliche" from each other to extoll the "game-changing", visionary pure genius of their visionary, "game-changing" oh
sorry.
the cat will eat it. Spending more time and effort writing bullshit on your website than you do screwing 'em together is kind of a SIGN th... aw, how anything can be "custom" if you don't even sand shit?
But I digress. (last time! I pwomiss...) I find slide & steel guitar to be absolutely fascinating to actually, physically & mentally play... notes are never in tune until you STOP somewhere, a moving note can't be out of tune by definition. And it's really easy to play in an OK fashion, wank on frets 3, 5, 7, 10 and 12; after a while, you sniggle a few of the major notes at frets 2, 4, and 9 for thrills. And mute the strings you don't want to sound (rather, like any gainful situation, only allow the notes you want to peep out - fully muted is the default position). That's all you have to do! I guess the ease of playing slide is why there are thousands of mediocre players, a dozen great ones and THREE, still-living, masters? Hmmm. Sadistically, one of my favorite new-guitar-student tortures is to stick a slide on 'em and tell them to play something really, really slowly and carefully... good god. Lucky we already fed the cat.
Somewhere around.......... here -
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=20250.msg298800#msg298800
- I dumped off the Keys to the Kingdom, all you gotta do otherwise is leave the slide ON your finger for a quarter-century or so.
THIS guy's so dumb he put a telecaster bridge on the wrong guitar! Look at high he wears it - I'll bet he plays it like a sissy too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7j6QqmJmEE
*(Whoodoo you love?)
I'm concerned about your "ascribation of causation", so to speak - after enough of this, it appears to me that "luck" seems to have, like, nothing to do with your end results. Additionally, I'm trending (the results aren't all in yet) that no matter how hard you pray, Jesus/Allah/Vishnu/Tezcatlipoca the Horned Jaguar God of Darkness* isn't going to slot yer nuts for ya - so to speak. You have a lot of fun, don't you? Hong Kong sounds like an amazing place - to find weird stuff, at the very least. Doesn't every kid want to live in a candy store....
I hope I'm not assuming too much, but that "Dr." tag makes me suspicious you're not quite ready to quit your day job yet? If you do, you're already doing more interesting & varied work than 90% of these "custom builders! eee! eee!" who squirt goo on a Warmoth neck and Musikraft body, screw things on then steal each and every "tone cliche" from each other to extoll the "game-changing", visionary pure genius of their visionary, "game-changing" oh
BARF!
sorry.
the cat will eat it. Spending more time and effort writing bullshit on your website than you do screwing 'em together is kind of a SIGN th... aw, how anything can be "custom" if you don't even sand shit?
But I digress. (last time! I pwomiss...) I find slide & steel guitar to be absolutely fascinating to actually, physically & mentally play... notes are never in tune until you STOP somewhere, a moving note can't be out of tune by definition. And it's really easy to play in an OK fashion, wank on frets 3, 5, 7, 10 and 12; after a while, you sniggle a few of the major notes at frets 2, 4, and 9 for thrills. And mute the strings you don't want to sound (rather, like any gainful situation, only allow the notes you want to peep out - fully muted is the default position). That's all you have to do! I guess the ease of playing slide is why there are thousands of mediocre players, a dozen great ones and THREE, still-living, masters? Hmmm. Sadistically, one of my favorite new-guitar-student tortures is to stick a slide on 'em and tell them to play something really, really slowly and carefully... good god. Lucky we already fed the cat.
Somewhere around.......... here -
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=20250.msg298800#msg298800
- I dumped off the Keys to the Kingdom, all you gotta do otherwise is leave the slide ON your finger for a quarter-century or so.
THIS guy's so dumb he put a telecaster bridge on the wrong guitar! Look at high he wears it - I'll bet he plays it like a sissy too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7j6QqmJmEE
*(Whoodoo you love?)
whitebison66
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Thanks for all the kind words, everyone.
I am truly sort of shocked that I managed to take an admittedly crazy idea and somehow wrestle it into reality. Not saying I didn't think I could do it, I just wasn't sure (with good reason) that it could be done.
But it could, and I did.
Stubhead, my ascription of success to luck re: those two little wires has to do with their delicacy as well as their location/situation in a place that certainly encouraged breakage; taking that cover off and putting it back several times was a very unpleasant experience.
I know lots of people make lots of pickups every day without messing them up, but this was also my first attempt, and typically I couldn't just build a normal humbucker, no not me.
I promise not to indulge in any self-aggrandizing flatulence, preferring instead deprecation, either of self, cork sniffing, or general internet hoo-hah (my current favorite being that the maple spacers on PAFS were used because of their tonal superiority, NOT because there was a ton of scrap maple lying around).
As for my day job, I lost it a couple years ago (Publish or Perish). Since then I have been quite underemployed, the only good part being plenty of time to work on projects like these.
I enjoy playing slide when I have my chops up and I have a guitar set up for it. Since I now have one of those requirements met, I suppose I have no excuse not to fulfill the other.
I am truly sort of shocked that I managed to take an admittedly crazy idea and somehow wrestle it into reality. Not saying I didn't think I could do it, I just wasn't sure (with good reason) that it could be done.
But it could, and I did.
Stubhead, my ascription of success to luck re: those two little wires has to do with their delicacy as well as their location/situation in a place that certainly encouraged breakage; taking that cover off and putting it back several times was a very unpleasant experience.
I know lots of people make lots of pickups every day without messing them up, but this was also my first attempt, and typically I couldn't just build a normal humbucker, no not me.
I promise not to indulge in any self-aggrandizing flatulence, preferring instead deprecation, either of self, cork sniffing, or general internet hoo-hah (my current favorite being that the maple spacers on PAFS were used because of their tonal superiority, NOT because there was a ton of scrap maple lying around).
As for my day job, I lost it a couple years ago (Publish or Perish). Since then I have been quite underemployed, the only good part being plenty of time to work on projects like these.
I enjoy playing slide when I have my chops up and I have a guitar set up for it. Since I now have one of those requirements met, I suppose I have no excuse not to fulfill the other.
