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Actually just the opposite, the cap plays a bigger part in the sweep but not when it's wide open. The 490R/498T setup is tried and true, but I would use an .015 cap on the 490R for the clarity but more importantly, it's perfect for the woman tone when the tone knob is rolled off! As for the NSWkit I have never used that alone, at first I used Faber inserts which were far better than the stock Gibson and Heritage inserts. Difference very clear here, stock inserts in the left. Faber German steel, Gibson/Heritage pot metal! And than I used the BSW kit in one of my H150s and I heard a difference. Kuz also had the BSW kit installed in my H535 P90 (once again, thank you Kuz!!!) Kuz has extensive experience with Faber you should address some of these questions to him. That way it's more than my opinion

Congrats on the gtr mods Kuz! looks great

Thanks Rockabilly ! Nice Zemaitas ! Well i emailed Larry and he introduced his NSWkit for direct replacement for Nashville style bridge on my H150... Its a simplier installation where it didnt require any drilling opposite to his other kit ..... and your right it would be fitted with their FaberABRN bridge... i wonder if this kit would a big game changer... As for the pickup i would try the gibson 490r/498T.... probably also swap the capacitors to luxe bumble bee 0.022uf but it kinda pull me back as i am not a tone knob player.... and mostly i set it all rolled off as am a rock to metal guy.... do you think even with ya tone knob all rolled off... the cap still plays part in the tone for some reason ?

Nice mod Kuz! You know I love Gotohs (especially the 510), and I think your guitar looks better with nickel. For me it's either Gotoh of Schaller (not Sperzel) I love them both!

Are you saying you're going to put a Nashville Faber on your guitar??? I have never heard a guitar go from an ABR bridge to a Nashville and sound better. And as I've said in many earlier posts, I've worked on 100's of guitars. I love Faber bridges, and as Kuz will tell you, I hipped him to them. I especially like the brass saddle tone lock bridges. I have them on both of my H150s, my H525 P90 (that Kuz sold me), and my Firebird. Every single time they cleaned up the low end and gave me a more balanced tone. On every one of these guitars they replaced a Nashville! Another benefit of the ABR is that could always get the tailpiece into it's sweet spot (low to the body) without having the string hit the back of the bridge. And besides the guitars that I still own. I replaced the Nashvilles on two other Les Paul Specials, an SG Classic, and a Firebird. And all of those sounded better with the Faber ABR. I only ever had one bad experience with Faber with an ABR that sounded dead. But a few weeks after I installed it I got a letter from Larry Corsa and he told me mine came from a bad batch and that he would send me a new one. I never told him about my bad bridge!!! And the new one was great. Now that's customer service! If you want a great set of pickups with the jazz/jb vibe, pair a Wolftone Legend in the neck with a Wolfetone Fenris in the bridge. Same vibe better tone. If your guitar is dark try a 0.15uf cap in the neck, and a .022uf in the bridge. If it's bright, try .022uf caps for both the neck and bridge! 500K pots all the way round! That's the setup in this guitar and it rules, I love having the ballsy bridge pickup...

Am late to the game lol.... any idea do they build any thing alike or in the path of the duncan Jazz/JB ? I just bought a used Gibson 490R/495T after hearing the clips on youtube on these gibson 495T set vs duncan JB.... and the tone on these are great!! Be getting the Faber bridge post soon too hope the Faber bridge for nashville be a contributing factor on the tone being more mids accentuated & louder acoustically when played non plugged in....

I have read so many arguments about wood making a difference, the discussions seem to fall apart into chaos and anger. I’m not sure how anyone could argue with Terry Mcinturff though. I also firmly feel wood plays a huge role in the sound of the guitar and feel of the guitar. It is why I love my 150 so much, it is a joy to play plugged in or not. It is a joy to thump the neck with my finger and hear what it sounds like. When the guitar sounds great unplugged or just tapped on with a finger it will definitely sound great with good hardware, electronics and a great amp. They all come together for a killer sound. I play all my guitars unplugged the majority of the time. When I plug them in they all translate the unplugged sound and feel into the amp. I don’t use pedals and all my amps are fender derived so not super high gain and I think that really allows the guitar to express itself. Each one has its own character but they are all LP derived.

TO ME, the best repro PAF ever made and by far the most consistent from set to set. All my humbucker guitars have them and they are perfect for me. I have tried Lollars, Wolftones, Seth Lovers, Gibson Custombuckers, Peter Florence Voodoo Specials, and MANY more... none (TO ME) were close to Throbaks. Luckily, I bought most of my Throbaks years ago when they were more affordable!

Thanks!! She is a keeper warts and all!!

Throbak sle101s just sound so natural tonally....

Great looking axe with fantastic upgrades! Enjoy!

My 150 Artisian Aged Custom Core has been a labor of love in modifying it to how I wanted it to look and sound. Like the theory behind the 150 CC, I used a '59 LP Burst as my inspiration. -Some of the mods were merely just personal choice; 1) I greatly prefer A2 magnets over A3 magnets so I installed a used set of Throbak SLE 101s pickups with aged covers. 2) I like the look of the Rhythm/Treble "poker chip" pickup selector 3) I replaced the orange drop caps with the same values in repro Bumble Bee paper & oil caps 4) For consistency in pot values and taper I installed RS Guitarworks 500K volume and tone pots -Some of the mods were just necessary functionally; 1) the bridge studs and the stoptail studs were drilled at an angle instead of straight into the top from the factory so the TOM bridge & stoptail wouldn't lower completely. So a Faber locking ABR bridge and Faber locking StopTail studs were used to fix the original off angle bridge & stoptail studs. 2) three of the aged tuners stripped and became useless. I replaced them with CHROME (I couldn't find Nickel ones which I would have preferred) Gotoh tuners that were a direct drop in, lighter, and had improved tuning ratio. .... BUT WAIT, A MAJOR UPDATE ON NEW AGED NICKEL FINISHED GOTOH TUNERS.... SO... the last 150 CC mod/improvement was buying on Ebay some new Antique Nickel Finish Gotoh tuners. To me, the Chrome on the Gotohs tuners was a complete eyesore with the aged finish of the rest of the 150 CC. These new Antique Nickel Finish Gotoh tuners were not cheap ($110 + shipping) but to me they were the final piece in the puzzle to getting my Aged 150 CC to look close to Vintage LP Burst. (I also added some Kluson-like tuner buttons to finish the transformation) BEFORE with the CHROME GOTOH tuners AFTER with the new ANTIQUE NICKEL GOTOH 510 tuners

There was a pretty good jazz guitarist I knew as a kid. He was not finicky about his instruments. I think he used a old beat up ES-175. There was no point talking to him about instruments. I brought my guitars to him a couple of times with some trivial concerns. He'd play them then say stuff like it works don't it? He was a studio musician.

My favorite finish! so nice.

Blame it on Eric clapton the woman tone, Jimmy page and of course Gary moore !! Lol irony is they all use G brand and thats how the R9, R7,R8,R0 was born to capture buyers like us looking for that famous tone, branding and look.... we been pressed by media in our heads, records magazines , posters were mostly famous players holding on to their Geez... inevitably we been suck into this deep dollars trench... yet in my humblest G is something special only on their upper tier their Rs.... their standards ,deluxe, classic has all been rounded up by H150 (standard) thats just my point of view....

Sick!!

Wow this looks fantastic !!! What a piece with white limba !....

Many people out there obsess over this stuff. A '59 Les Paul is the Stradivarius of the guitar world!! Like it or not. Can Terry build me a guitar that sounds like like Barbra Streisand? I think that should be the new standard in tone comparisons. "That '59 Les Paul sounds pretty good, but does it do a convincing Barbra Streisand?"

They’ve been gone for a long time sir.

When you commission a custom build from Terry McInturff he will ask you for a SPECIFIC audio example of WHICH "Holy Grail Vintage Les Paul" you want him to replicate the tone of on his builds. He has FIVE different "Holy Grail Vintage Les Paul" tone voicing you can choose. He says there are 5 tonal choices because each "Vintage Burst LP" sounds different. Then he cautions to make sure you are factoring in the amp that was played, the speakers in the amp, and if any pedals were used with the recording of the "Vintage Burst Tone" you want him to try to replicate.

Hey it's friday. A better shot of that trans black H150. Mic stand? Abuse on the front I might try & get refinned. Hey people pay extra for fake abuse & aging: does the real thing look as good? Lol

This is great! I think there's a lot of variation in parts though: I've heard winders talk about different wire coatings, certainly there are different magnet materials, and types of magnet casting. So to lump it together as "the same stuff everyone else uses" glosses over a lot of details

Hey that's good to know about, thanks Kuz! I wonder if Heritage would just sell us an unloaded CC body, since we end up replacing all the parts anyway? And without the bridge posts drilled out. They could call it the "Naked Custom Core"

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