JohnnyCrash
Doctor of Teleocity
I’ve been too busy for my amp projects, but I did finish these over the winter holiday break…
The Little Lion (black) and the Lioness (white) Telecaster Deluxes, inspired by my son and daughter.
Both have red tortoise pickguards, lefty (reverse headstock) WD necks, vintage style lefty tuners, Zero Glide nuts, 500k pots, and Pure Tone jacks.
Both are also wired ‘50s Les Paul style (The Lioness has a DPDT pull switch, however. See below) with 0.015uF Tone caps.
The Little Lion has $40 (each) Filtertron clones from EBay. They had standard humbucker sized AlNiCo II bar magnets.
I kept the magnet in the neck pickup, but replaced the 1/8 inch thick magnet in the bridge pickup with a more typical Filtertron 1/4 thick AlNiCo V magnet (the baseplate gave me a little trouble accommodating the thicker magnet). They sound nice and bright and the bridge sounds exactly like my TV Jones Classic.
The Lioness has a Guitar Parts Zone AlNiCo 8 bridge, which is basically a Seymour Duncan Alternative 8 clone. It read around 17.6k. It is the hottest pickup I own. It’s ridiculous… in a good way, at least for hard rock (sounds massive in Drop D tuning for old Soundgarden type stuff and metal).
The neck pickup is a Guitar Madness 360 ceramic neck pickup and reads around 8.4k. It’s basically a DiMarzio Super 2 clone.
The bridge pickup’s Tone pot is a DPDT switch that throws the AlNiCo 8 into single coil mode. I think I’m going to change it out for a partial-split (2.2k to ground for the red and white wires) on one side of the switch with a bass trim cap (0.047uF) though. It splits well, but needs more oomph in single coil mode… though, I won’t likely use single coil sounds with this monster.
My next guitar project will probably be modding a Squier Cyclone as a metal/hard rock machine with a single humbucker. I have all sorts of vintagey type stuff, but realized after The Lioness that I don’t have any heavier guitars in my arsenal. I should now have three (a Les Paul with a DiMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge, The Lioness, and the Cyclone for one with a vibrato unit).
The Little Lion (black) and the Lioness (white) Telecaster Deluxes, inspired by my son and daughter.
Both have red tortoise pickguards, lefty (reverse headstock) WD necks, vintage style lefty tuners, Zero Glide nuts, 500k pots, and Pure Tone jacks.
Both are also wired ‘50s Les Paul style (The Lioness has a DPDT pull switch, however. See below) with 0.015uF Tone caps.
The Little Lion has $40 (each) Filtertron clones from EBay. They had standard humbucker sized AlNiCo II bar magnets.
I kept the magnet in the neck pickup, but replaced the 1/8 inch thick magnet in the bridge pickup with a more typical Filtertron 1/4 thick AlNiCo V magnet (the baseplate gave me a little trouble accommodating the thicker magnet). They sound nice and bright and the bridge sounds exactly like my TV Jones Classic.
The Lioness has a Guitar Parts Zone AlNiCo 8 bridge, which is basically a Seymour Duncan Alternative 8 clone. It read around 17.6k. It is the hottest pickup I own. It’s ridiculous… in a good way, at least for hard rock (sounds massive in Drop D tuning for old Soundgarden type stuff and metal).
The neck pickup is a Guitar Madness 360 ceramic neck pickup and reads around 8.4k. It’s basically a DiMarzio Super 2 clone.
The bridge pickup’s Tone pot is a DPDT switch that throws the AlNiCo 8 into single coil mode. I think I’m going to change it out for a partial-split (2.2k to ground for the red and white wires) on one side of the switch with a bass trim cap (0.047uF) though. It splits well, but needs more oomph in single coil mode… though, I won’t likely use single coil sounds with this monster.
My next guitar project will probably be modding a Squier Cyclone as a metal/hard rock machine with a single humbucker. I have all sorts of vintagey type stuff, but realized after The Lioness that I don’t have any heavier guitars in my arsenal. I should now have three (a Les Paul with a DiMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge, The Lioness, and the Cyclone for one with a vibrato unit).
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