rockabilly69

You could always swap the pickups in the H150 and the LP and see if the tone follows the pickups, then you'll know the answer to that What do I think? Because those pickups aren't potted, I think it's the wood.

This might be a little off course, but if you are looking for low output style PAFs, check out the Duncan Jazz pickup in both neck and bridge, I was taken a back at how good these pickups sounded. A realsleeper set! I liked them better than the Seths and 59's! Great clarity in the neck, and the bridge was perfect for on the edge of distortion sounds with a great mid honk. Here's a set plugged right into my Marshall...

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This makes the most sense to me.

If you're going to tap frets make sure to have some super thin superglue and accelerator on hand to wick into the fret slots. I can't count the amount of times I've seen tapped in frets pop right back out. As for fall off, I think it's more successful on lower radius fretboards like Fender 7.25" and 9.5" radius boards, where you have to deal with the string choking on higher fret bends, but I've never needed to do it on a 12" radius or higher fretboard, and with a proper levelling I've got ridiculously low actions. Most people that play my guitars don't like how low I get those strings IMNSHO levelling beams are superior to radius blocks in getting a good fret level, while taking the least amount of metal.

you can make a levelling beam from scratch...

Do you have a levelling beam or radius block? I don't see you doing that step in your pics?

With that Zebra pickup, I think that guitar would look cool with a 5 ply pickguard like this... https://www.ebay.com/itm/295617504808

The Rat pedal is made by Daredevilpedals.com

Great looking guitar, I bet it sounds as great as it looks. Let us know what you think when you finally get that thing plugged in!

Well check out his videos. He's a pretty damn good Jazz guitarist, the guy knows his way around a guitar neck!

Yep he looks like he plays effortlessly through the changes. I've watched a bunch of his videos, especially when I was hunting for a decent archtop, I wound up buying an earlier version of this guitar (with original HB1 pickups)... Here's my actual guitar, which changed hands a few times before it got to me...

That guy is a really good guitarist!

The Mean in a neck sounds KILLER DILLER! As a matter of fact, it was the first neck position P90 (in a modern guitar) that I really ever got along with. And I love the Meaner too. All the electric stuff in this song is my SG Special with a Wolfetone Mean and Meaner set...

I love Marshall style amps, and frankly, these amps were at the top of the pile when comes to modern interpretations of the really great Marshalls. He really cracked the code of how to get a great overdriven Marshall sound at a reasonable volume, and that's no easy task. What a loss to the guitar community losing another great company. But he had to do what is good for him, and taking care of his health is the right priority. It broke my heart ready his letter. But I wish him the best. If I didn;t already have a great Marshall style amp, his would be the first I would look at, and I think, as others have said, his amps on the used market will really go up in price.