rockabilly69
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8 hours ago, bolero said:
Sounds great!!
Nice pickguard....and lets see some more of that flamy neck? 😎
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Just finished setting this Esquire up and recorded this song with this pickup, the Cavalier Nocaster HolyGrail. The Esquire has a 3 way switch and it's set for the cocked wah position. Man this pickup sings. Check it out...
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On 12/20/2023 at 2:00 PM, Kuz said:
Great playing Daniel. I, too, like a hotter Tele bridge pup. All 3 of my Teles have Klein Nocaster pickups. The neck pickup is clear and kind of Strat-ish, and the bridge is full out Rock & Roll. I love Klein's Epic Nocaster pickups. I also love the Klein Epic 1959 Strat or Klein Epic 1962 Strat pickups.
Again, great pickin'!
Hey John, glad to see you back posting!!! I tried to call you a few times this week just to wish you happy holidays so let me do it here, HAPPY HOILDAYS to you and yours!!!
I still have the Kleins in my Firebird, and they ain't going nowhere! And you know, the Firebird is Gibson's answer to the Tele
I'm glad you like the pickin' because that song is now one of the live songs in my new bands set-list
It's the first one I wrote for the band. Our drummer was telling me how much he loved bacon, that's where the name came from. It was fun to work up a full on Tele instrumental!
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On 12/20/2023 at 2:01 PM, Kuz said:
The perfect at home or recording amp. The Swart Atomic Space Tone amp might also be loud enough for a gig or just mic it through the PA!
One day I was hanging with a friend in my studio and he showed up with a Swart STR and a Gibson ES330. Glorious tone at almost conversational level!
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4 hours ago, bolero said:
I think I already replied here, but it musta got nuked by the server outage?
Is that Barbarella?
Bah Bah Bah, Ba Barbarella....I heard they are reissuing that movie in bluray. Duran Duran inspired by Jane & her galactic adventures
I don't know if that sticker is based on Barbarella, or not I just liked the design
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45 minutes ago, fxdx99 said:
Oh, that sticker looks good. Compliments color and theme. Very cool looking guitar!
Thanks, sometimes all this guitar business gets a little stuffy with the vintage correctness and all, I wanted this to be a fun guitar
And it is killing at the band practices!!!
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On 12/7/2023 at 2:16 AM, fxdx99 said:
Nice sounding pickup, yeh. That's a pretty guitar aesthetically, too - great finish and the black knobs and pickguard design really sets it off.
I replied to you on this but it was dropped on the reboot:) Thanks for the kind words, but I did add a sticker you might not like...
I also got a new Space Oddity pickguard for my green Esquire
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He got his chambered! Must be nice to be the king
It's a nice sounding guitar!
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that's some great guitar playing
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8 hours ago, Gitfiddler said:
Well played, Daniel.
Thanks Tim, it's a cool pickup.
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Well as many of you guys know, I work on guitars quite a bit, and in the last year, have built and rebuilt 5 different Tele style partscasters.
In all of the different building I got try quite a few Tele pickups, and recently I stumbled on the Duncan BG1400. The reason I did was that I was trying to find a bridge pickup that would be strong enough to get a good middle position tone with a Tyson Precious And Grace neck humbucker. I also wanted a lead sound that would be less ice picky than standard Tele, something with more mids and a rounded top. I also loved the idea that it would be hum cancelling as some of the stages I play on are less than stellar noise wise, and when recording I love quiet pickups!
Well I really like this pickup as it gives up what I wanted hear. It barely fit through my bridge plate, but other than that, there was no craziness installing it. And I've got a DPDT switch on the CTS volume pot to split it, which just makes it sound a bit louder and brighter. Stacked humbuckers don't generally split well but this one does. And this one really does make for a good middle position with the neck humbucker.
Here's the guitar that I put the pickup in...
This is what it sounds like....
This
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4 hours ago, bolero said:
That is a really inspiring space. Nice job. I want to record some music, just looking at the pictures!
It's a nice little place Chris. I haven't been recording up there lately, but once a week, I've been rehearsing with a new band that I just started. The guys love it up there. This isn't a weekly gigging band, but more of a showcase band for my original songs. We will try to get opening slots for bigger bands in upscale venues.
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On 11/26/2023 at 6:26 PM, HANGAR18 said:
So I heard from another source that Slash didn't leave Marshall but that he simply signed on with Magnatone. Meaning that the Magnatone deal would not be an "exclusive" deal.
This makes more sense as see them both working together Slash having some good choices.
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On 11/26/2023 at 7:27 PM, zguitar71 said:
Very cool! Nice set up.
Thanks it's quite a bit better than when they we all around the room or stacked on one another
On 11/30/2023 at 7:15 PM, ElChoad said:I love it! I am OCD like that, myself.
OCD helps in a studio
Makes it easy to find things when you need them.
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Congrats on NAD. I've always liked the bigger Orange amps, gotta wonder what these smaller ones sound like. Record a clip or two and post them.
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That's my kind of guitar, a lightweight rock machine, and it already has some good mods to start with. Congrats on a great find!
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nice weight, nice color, nice looking tight grained rosewood fingerboard, nice squiggly flame, nice guitar... SCORE Brent!!!
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2 hours ago, HANGAR18 said:
Yeah I can't imagine trying to buy an original as I'm guessing that they are extremely difficult to find and that if you actually found one, it would be WAY too expensive! So I don't really mind the reissue part. They seem to be one of the factory hot rodded models that sound good out of the box an don't require any modifications the way many have done with stock JCM 8000's. And this was also during a made pre-sellout year (where Marshall was sold to some non-English company) and I deem that to be a good thing.
The original combos sell for an reasonable amount of money. https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=Marshall 2554
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Don't know about the reissues, but the originals from the 80's were really good sounding. A close friend of mine gigged with one (2554), and I played that little combo many times. I'm more of a Fender Tweed guy then a Marshall guy, and I could say without a doubt, that I could get tones that were more to my liking than I expected.
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Just like I said about the Custom core 150's I think the Heritage is upping there game. I like that I have two of the old guard H150s, but I had to do a lot of to them to get them where I wanted. And Kuz fixed my H535 P90 guitar with everything I would have (thanks Kuz), befoe I bought it from him
fret work (clean up file marks and level)
replace nut (or at least re-slot it)
new pickups (I'm not a fan of any humbucker they offered other than Throbak)
change bridge and tailpiece (I never got the heavy Schaller tails or Nashville bridges)
The new custom cores are closer in spec to what I like, but I wish they would use a proper abr instead of the cheap one they went with. I see they have gone with a different set of tuners which also seemed to be a mis-step with the CCs. But I LOVE the new headstock, the pickups sound nice, and I finishes look great (not the relic's, I'm not a fan of that, but for people who are they look pretty good).
And I like the blocks on the the new H530 and H535 they look great!
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31 minutes ago, ElChoad said:
You can get the Grover 502s with several different buttons. I usually go with the nickel keystones, which are the 502NKs. I am also curious about the Ratio tuners, and will be watching this thread to see if anybody has used them.
I have ratio tuners on one of my Teles and they are great.
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On 8/15/2023 at 9:33 AM, gregcon57 said:
I just did this! I like it. it's staying~
Looks great to me!
On 10/14/2023 at 1:16 AM, snowscientist said:Just got the MojoAxe pickguard with the cream and black and it looks great on my 530. Since this guitar has an ebony board, I changed the knobs to smaller bonnet types for a more vintage look. Thanks to Skydog for pioneering this with Dan at MojoAxe. Really nice product that he makes there, highly recommended. Also Yooper appears to have my guitar in its cousin form of 535, awesome finish on that one. I do love the burnt amber color on these.
These guitars look so much better with pickguards!!!
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On 9/22/2023 at 3:45 PM, Rockaman said:
...There are a couple of issues I found though - nothing world ending to me, anyways. There was a ding under the pickguard where the bracket screw hit the top of the guitar (sucky but not a huge deal for me) and the neck pickup ring is cracked. Neither of which are a huge deal, but kind of bummers. You'd think they'd put some felt under the pickguard screw or something...Sweetwater offered to exchange for a different guitar, but the only other one in this color is heavier and uglier
They said they'd try to get me a replacement p/up ring.
The only other thing with fit & finish that has me going "wait, what?" is the wiring job:
That is some SLOPPY solder work - the only thing I can think of is that it originally had the SD 59's then there was a "oh s**t this one is supposed to have the Alnico IIs" and it was a Friday before a long weekend
(You can also see the stepped carve from the CNC; I don't know that I've seen a cavity like that before.)
Anyways, other than those teeny issues, I absolutely love this guitar and it absolutely blows away several other LPs I've played lately.
When I first opened this post I didn't see the complaints, just the picture of the new guitar which looks sweet! BUT.... I've had more problems with Sweetwater than any other online dealer when it comes to missing things. The 55 point inspection is a joke! And worse yet, after buying some picks or a few sets of strings, you get a bothersome follow up cold call asking how you like them. If they really did a 55 point inspection and let that: dent, cracked ring, and abysmal soldering job get through their inspection, then shame on them! The neck pickup volume pot may be the worst solder job I've seen on an upscale electric guitar. It sucks when pots are soldered like that, because cleaning up those globs of solder means you have to reheat the back of that pot chancing damaging it. I do a lot of soldering of pots, and one thing I can tell you without a doubt, is that modern pots are not very well made, and don't handle the heat as well as the older stuff. If it was up to me, I would ask for a new pickup ring, and some replacement pots and solder them in correctly. The newlywed phase of buying a new guitar wears off fast, and after that, you're left with a guitar with less resale value than what it would have had without the issues!
If you really love the guitar then I would address the solder job and ring, if not, I would return the guitar, and wait till you find a new one in the same finish without the issues, especially the dent!!! Have them ship it without the pick-guard on! That way if the grain looks nice. and you like the pick-guard off, the choice will be available to you!
It was a special treat to yourself, why live with "the bummers"???? If Sweetwater doesn't make it right, return it and go to a better dealer!
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I love that he played the cool Jeff Beck "Blue Wind" lick in the demo
Another Ballsy Tele Pickup, Cavalier Nocaster Holy Grail!!!
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The look of that neck is just.... as Pressure would say.... FAB!
You've really gotten heavily into the Tele types lately. What is this, #6? 7?
Rich, I built or rebuilt (swapped necks and pickups etc) 7. I currently have 5 Teles that I built, 2 Fiesta Red Teles, Gold Esquire, Brown Tele Deluxe and Purple Tele with humbucker and single coil. I also built an Esquire with a British racing green body, but I tore that one apart, because I wanted the pickup for a different build, and the neck for another one, I gave the green body to a friend. I also have a reverse headstock Tele that a friend gave me and custom shop that I've had for a long time. The reason I'm doing this is because I've always like the idea of Telecasters, but never really bonded with one as a full time guitar. Now though, through my experimentation, the gold Esquire and purple Telecaster have turned out to be monster guitars that I could use as full-time giggers. Two things that I've learned is that I like hot bridge pickups, and 9.5 radius fingerboards with slightly bigger frets, The other Teles are all fine guitars since I've tweaked them but the gold and purple have the magic...
This one has American Professional neck with Rosewood fingerboard (9.5 radius), and Fender locking tuners, Guitarfetish Poplar Body, Decoboom pickguard, American Professional bridge, Nocaster Holy Grail Pickup, Eldred Mod wiring
This one has Allen Eden Paulownia body, Decoboom pickguard, Ebay seller from China Flame maple neck with rosewood fingerboard (9.5 to 12 compound radius) Fender 52 reissue bridge, Tyson Precious and Grace neck pickup, Billy Gibbons BG1400 bridge pickup,