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That makes more sense. In my defense, I've seen some people try some WEIRD things. I still don't know that it will make a big difference in tension. For a given string diameter, and scale length, the tension should be the same to reach pitch. I would think it might give a little easier bending since the elongation is spread over a slightly longer total string length but I don't know that it would be a significant percentage.

Jazz guy. His lessons are excellent.

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...

Good to know!

Never heard of him

Yep, I know this guy, bought an H150 2 years ago from him. Plain top custom core for $2100, Indian Rocks Beach, Florida. Looks mint.

I think he was referring to the tailpiece fingers where the strings anchor.

I don't think it will make a significant difference in the tension or in "dynamics", but it will play havoc with the intonation. The reason the bridge points end up where they are is because that is the point where the 12th fret harmonic is equal to the fretted note.

Anyone out the ever reverse the finger bridge pieces so that rhe low e string is short and the high is in longer,everything in the opposite direction, I know it will increase the tension on the high end and lower the tension towd th low e. But waht dynamic results has anyone found.

He has that economy of motion thing down to an art form.

That guy is a really good guitarist!

That was quite enjoyable to watch, thank you some outstanding guitars there too

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 too have never been terribly impressed with the stock Lollar P90s’. I do like his 50s’ wind. I give a big nod to the Wolfetone “Mean” P90.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9I8x1qvgtG4&si=dZJp39wWA_JoK1qC Happy Holidays to all!

Absolutely. Everyone's ears are different. But mine say nothing touches Lollars.

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 saw a big furry creature in Alaska running through the woods, carrying a gtr that looked like that.

Exactly, haha But in our modern era of social media & human behaviour "evolution" you need to grab people's attention.

Rock on LedZef, rock on.

I thought Heritage has been giving Gibson a run for its money ever since the first few I saw in the mid 1980's!!! I have a great Gibson Les Paul, 60th anniversary 1960 Ver 2 custom reissue. It is just killer. But my H535 is the best ES style I've ever owned and among the best I've ever played. Side by side with the Collings I35, I'd take the 535 for half the price (or less actually). That Collins weren't no slouch either.

A current manufactured stable, good tube supply is difficult these days too