rockabilly69

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.

It's all subjective and what your ears personally want to hear but I've had better luck with other P90s. Lollars wouldn't even be in my top 5, but to be fair I think we all play through different amplifiers and that makes a hugh difference. In the video they sound great, much different than what they sounded like in my Special that was just like the one in the video. I have never played Sanford Magnetics P90s, but these sound pretty great at the end of this video... Of the ones that I've owned and liked/loved, I've had GREAT luck with Wolfetone P90s, they are probably my favorite. Throbak makes killer P90s. Another shout out to SHED pickups, his P90s slay! Tyson Tone winds some great P90s! And for raunch, stock Gibson P90s are right up there!

I'm pretty sure they're Lollars. I've had mixed luck with Lollar P90s as the first few sets I encountered in two different Reverend guitars, were kind of sterile sounding, but the guitar that Kuz sold me (H535 P90) has a great set of Lollar dogear P90s, I love them. I guess it's luck of the draw. A demo of that guitar plugged straight into my Mesa Fillmore 50...

I like it better with the guard on too, but I personally prefer the shape on the Heritage H150 guards. They just go with the flow of the body shape. And I think whatever guard is on it would need to be aged to match the body. It's not a '59, it's a Heritage.

I'm also a fan of Wolfetones. I've got Legends in one Zemaitis, Legend and a Fenris in another, Dr V and a Marshallhead in a PRS Custom 22, and a Mean and Meaner P90 set in my SG Special!

I do think they sound best when the amp is working a bit. BTW the Analogman pedal that we ise is the BC183 not the BC103. Fortunately the silicne fuzzes are usually less expensive the the germaniums I think I did this with the Marshall cracked open bit. The fuzz gives the leads a vocal quality.