mistermikev
Tele-Afflicted
Thank you sir! very much appreciate it.
ct rainbow bass is the ultimate inspiration... but surely all those others too.
What's on your workbench today?
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ct rainbow bass is the ultimate inspiration... but surely all those others too.
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tvvoodoo
Tele-Afflicted
Hand-dyeing some fun snake patterns - bright white to start
mistermikev
Tele-Afflicted
thank you. yes, the "100lb sturgeon"... reminds me of my brother and fishing stories from childhood!! thank you very much for the kind words.
JohnnyThul
Tele-Holic
With five unfinished guitars in the rack, why not do some more? I have an itch for a Huber Orca 59 style lately and so I made two bodies, top carvings close to the finish line.
Body bases are reclaimed stair steps, chambered, some kind of mahogany, maybe khaya, or sapelli.
Necks will be made if the same stuff. Other than that, I will have to see, what will come of it.
Body bases are reclaimed stair steps, chambered, some kind of mahogany, maybe khaya, or sapelli.
Necks will be made if the same stuff. Other than that, I will have to see, what will come of it.
hopdybob
Friend of Leo's
just a thought.
i have the humbucker in this kind of setup (but only single on neck and hummy at bridge) and the 4 way switch with one micro switch.
the micro switch sets the hummy in parallel ore series mode with itself.
switching is N>N+B>B>N+B in series.
ad the positions where the mini switch gets involved and you have 7 sounds
why use the humbucker in parallel and not coil split?
because the neck pickup is also a noisless and with the above setup, all switch positions are
Thanks for this info. I’m book marking this for a future build! I like the sound of a humbucker wired in parallel. My (Fender) Tele has a DiMarzio blade bridge pickup I wired so that the switch provided single/parallel/series options for the bridge pickup and the pots were volume controls for each pickup.just a thought.
i have the humbucker in this kind of setup (but only single on neck and hummy at bridge) and the 4 way switch with one micro switch.
the micro switch sets the hummy in parallel ore series mode with itself.
switching is N>N+B>B>N+B in series.
ad the positions where the mini switch gets involved and you have 7 sounds
why use the humbucker in parallel and not coil split?
because the neck pickup is also a noisless and with the above setup, all switch positions are
The split position has just enough of the second coil in play to keep the noise down.
Diminished7
TDPRI Member
Love random reclaimed wood. Stair steps I had never even thought of. Chambering just of personal preference or is the wood just that dense/heavy?
JohnnyThul
Tele-Holic
Chambering because I just like it. I believe (so, not a fact
) that it does something to the mids of a guitar, that I like, just a little more raw and open, less compressed.The wood itself is not extraordinary heavy, but also not especially light, so, one could have easily done the bodies solid.
As for the steps, they are petty common here in Germany in the guitar building community, because they have a perfect thickness usually from 38mm -45mm. I've seen full staircases of solid mahogany thrown in the dumpster or burned in the oven. So, everytime I see these and have the space, I buy them. Still, an absolute shame how material like this is treated. Everyday I see stuff thrown away where I always think, one could make something cool out of it.
Diminished7
TDPRI Member
Chambering because I just like it. I believe (so, not a fact
The wood itself is not extraordinary heavy, but also not especially light, so, one could have easily done the bodies solid.
As for the steps, they are petty common here in Germany in the guitar building community, because they have a perfect thickness usually from 38mm -45mm. I've seen full staircases of solid mahogany thrown in the dumpster or burned in the oven. So, everytime I see these and have the space, I buy them. Still, an absolute shame how material like this is treated. Everyday I see stuff thrown away where I always think, one could make something cool out of it.
Very cool, I feel the same way when I see the old support beams, farm house wood, and pine billets just thrown out. Looking forward to seeing how these turn out. I'm a fan of the '59 style but more so from small luthier/builders.
Jim_in_PA
Friend of Leo's
My shop bench has a cabinet project on it which is soon going to be completed.
The "garage" now has a bench...it's in pieces at the moment, but it's an old lab bench that a neighbor had stored in a shed with a beautiful hard maple top, metal base and provisions for both electric and air. I need to do a little restoration, but today's task was to retrieve it from her shed using the Big Orange Power Tool.
Since it's a nice day, the BOPT was also put to work smoothing out the areas where some trees that needed to go got removed on Friday afternoon.
Lastly, I'm putting together a cement mixer. It's time to get the walkway between the new shop building and the house underway. Too small a job to order material from the local purveyor of redimix and too big of a job to mix by hand in a wheelbarrow. Harbor Freight to the rescue.
And yea, one of these days I'll get started on a BB gitfiddle or something.
The "garage" now has a bench...it's in pieces at the moment, but it's an old lab bench that a neighbor had stored in a shed with a beautiful hard maple top, metal base and provisions for both electric and air. I need to do a little restoration, but today's task was to retrieve it from her shed using the Big Orange Power Tool.
Since it's a nice day, the BOPT was also put to work smoothing out the areas where some trees that needed to go got removed on Friday afternoon.
Lastly, I'm putting together a cement mixer. It's time to get the walkway between the new shop building and the house underway. Too small a job to order material from the local purveyor of redimix and too big of a job to mix by hand in a wheelbarrow. Harbor Freight to the rescue.
And yea, one of these days I'll get started on a BB gitfiddle or something.
Medeltids
Tele-Meister
Here in Northern California we got slammed. Yes, California. And not the Tahoe, skiing part. We affectionately call our snow “Sierra cement”. Once it sets and packs, impossible to move with a snowblower...and I have 3 of them.
This year we got almost 4 feet. Here’s our pump house just before the last storm which added another 8” to this.
ArtieFufkin
TDPRI Member
The novelty of hand sanding fretboards has worn off, so I've put together a jig from scrap to cut a 12" radius.
I plowed the 3” of snow off the driveway, then came in & decided to restring & setup my Epi Toby bass with flat-wound strings.
Cleaned & oiled fingerboard.
New strings.
Set neck relief, intonate, tightened a couple loose pots, & tweak saddle height slightly.
Plays nice & smooooooth now.
Scott
Cleaned & oiled fingerboard.
New strings.
Set neck relief, intonate, tightened a couple loose pots, & tweak saddle height slightly.
Plays nice & smooooooth now.
Scott
58Bassman
Tele-Holic
Less than when the day began, but more than I would like.
Next up- my '58 Bassman chassis, for capacitor testing/replacement as needed, then check out all voltages, resistors, etc.
Next up- my '58 Bassman chassis, for capacitor testing/replacement as needed, then check out all voltages, resistors, etc.
hopdybob
Friend of Leo's
you don't have to follow the common switch options.
i have a dual humbucker strat like guitar with a single coil middle pickup
wired it
B>B+N>N>N+M>M
why? because with the humbuckers you have the middle position of the LP/SG setup but also have the quack of the neck middle combo.
Humbucker guitar? look at the G&L PTB tone stack, it does can make your hummy sound more single coil
