Tonar8352
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I just received a DeTemple Titanium Strat Bridge and it got me to thinking about things that have or have not lived up to the hype. I spent $402.00 dollars on this thing and it came without screws or springs. I have not put it into the guitar yet so I don’t know if it will live up to the hype on his web sight but I was disappointed that it came without springs and screws. I hope it does what they say because that is a chunk of change for a bridge. Anyway here are my lists of things to build guitars (I could go on for days about amps and stomp boxes so we will exclude them) that have lived up to the hype in my opinion and those that have not
First the ones that have lived up to the hype.
1. Warmoth Bodies and Necks.
2. Glendale Tele Bridges and Saddles.
3. Cryogenically Frozen Fralin Pickups from Callaham Guitars.
4. Callaham Strat Bridges.
5. Callaham Vintage Style Pickguards. The mint and parchment Strat guards and the Lacquered Tele Blackguard.
6. RS Guitar Works 280K Volume Pots.
7. McFadden’s Lacquers.
8. Don Mare Tele Pickups model #2324. I am not sure I love them but they match what Don say they do. I think I like the Duncan Real 54 neck pickup and the Duncan Jerry Donahue bridge pickup better.
9. Original Joe Barden pickups.
10. Real 59 PAF Pickups.
Here are the ones that did not make the grade.
1. Kluson reissue vintage style tuners. My understanding is that Tone-Pros has bought the Kluson name and redid them so they are suppose to be back to a quality piece. The ones I check out at the NAMM show seemed real nice so I have a set on order. Well see if they are better than the last set I got which was crap!!!!!!
2. RS Guitar Works Strat Upgrade kit. It is suppose to keep you from loosing the highs as you roll you volume back, which it did, but it made the guitar to bright so I pulled it out.
3. Coil taping on a set of Duncan 59’s. I left it on my Les Paul but I don’t use it very often so I won’t be tapping coils on Humbuckers again. If I want a single coil sound I use single coil pickups. Just my opinion, I know lots of you love splitting coils.
4. Anything other than a bone nut. Sorry, my opinion, I have used them all and always come back to bone nuts.
5. Over wound or hot pickups. They get to much midrange and become muddy for me.
6. Most modern capacitors I have used get replaced with vintage ones if I can get my hands on them.
7. Stock CTS pots.
What about you?
First the ones that have lived up to the hype.
1. Warmoth Bodies and Necks.
2. Glendale Tele Bridges and Saddles.
3. Cryogenically Frozen Fralin Pickups from Callaham Guitars.
4. Callaham Strat Bridges.
5. Callaham Vintage Style Pickguards. The mint and parchment Strat guards and the Lacquered Tele Blackguard.
6. RS Guitar Works 280K Volume Pots.
7. McFadden’s Lacquers.
8. Don Mare Tele Pickups model #2324. I am not sure I love them but they match what Don say they do. I think I like the Duncan Real 54 neck pickup and the Duncan Jerry Donahue bridge pickup better.
9. Original Joe Barden pickups.
10. Real 59 PAF Pickups.
Here are the ones that did not make the grade.
1. Kluson reissue vintage style tuners. My understanding is that Tone-Pros has bought the Kluson name and redid them so they are suppose to be back to a quality piece. The ones I check out at the NAMM show seemed real nice so I have a set on order. Well see if they are better than the last set I got which was crap!!!!!!
2. RS Guitar Works Strat Upgrade kit. It is suppose to keep you from loosing the highs as you roll you volume back, which it did, but it made the guitar to bright so I pulled it out.
3. Coil taping on a set of Duncan 59’s. I left it on my Les Paul but I don’t use it very often so I won’t be tapping coils on Humbuckers again. If I want a single coil sound I use single coil pickups. Just my opinion, I know lots of you love splitting coils.
4. Anything other than a bone nut. Sorry, my opinion, I have used them all and always come back to bone nuts.
5. Over wound or hot pickups. They get to much midrange and become muddy for me.
6. Most modern capacitors I have used get replaced with vintage ones if I can get my hands on them.
7. Stock CTS pots.
What about you?
