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Post by bear on Sept 10, 2022 21:50:06 GMT -7
Swapped in different pickups in the Dean. Back to my favorite neck humbucker and a P90 at the bridge. Tone Emporium neck with the dimarzio style screws that got em the ole cease and desist. I love the sound, 50s Era PAF wind at ~7.9k. I love Tele bridge sound and the P90 gets pretty close. Accidentally wired it out of phase in the middle position but I kinda like it like a coil split.
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Post by bear on Sept 11, 2022 9:32:13 GMT -7
bout to do a Strat bridge pickup shootout. 50s style 6.3k vs overwound hot 9k Texas Blues style
I might drop the other P90 in the neck position of the Dean just to check it out... I know I like the humbucker but I already have guitars with that at the neck. Then maybe I'll get the handwounds ones I pulled out of it into the hollow body.
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Post by bear on Sept 11, 2022 9:34:45 GMT -7
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Post by EllisD on Sept 11, 2022 16:52:44 GMT -7
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Post by bear on Sept 11, 2022 18:31:00 GMT -7
I was about to buy the Zappa muff and then this came out...
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Post by bear on Sept 11, 2022 18:41:31 GMT -7
I might drop the other P90 in the neck position of the Dean just to check it out... I know I like the humbucker but I already have guitars with that at the neck. Then maybe I'll get the handwounds ones I pulled out of it into the hollow body. Boom Rats nest Almost done. Hand wound PAF style no wax potting really brought this to life. I can't get enough of these woody sounding tubular vintage spec neck pickups.
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Post by bear on Sept 11, 2022 18:43:13 GMT -7
Dental floss tycoon on this mess. There isn't room to put my hand in the f hole so I have to tie floss around the control, fish it through, and then pull it up and secure it.
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Post by phish-bot on Sept 11, 2022 18:52:57 GMT -7
Dental floss tycoon on this mess. There isn't room to put my hand in the f hole so I have to tie floss around the control, fish it through, and then pull it up and secure it. yippy-ty-o-ty-ay!
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Post by bear on Sept 11, 2022 19:57:07 GMT -7
So tedious. I finally figured out after taking it back apart for the third time that I should tie the floss before I loosen the controls. Stupid. Got it done though and the tone of the pickups is light years beyond the cheapo generics.
The big jazz body gives it something that the Dean will never have so it feels like coming home after the pickups were in the wrong body for at least a year. They sound big and smooth.
That budget Glen Burton guitar has a plywood top and there is a small block under the bridge for stability.
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Post by bear on Sept 12, 2022 6:43:06 GMT -7
$200 for Glen Burton or $4000 for a vintage Gibson ES-175
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Post by deadphishbiscuits on Sept 12, 2022 8:19:40 GMT -7
Yall are fuggin amazing
I can barely make a guitar outta paper , let alone all this craziness
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Post by EllisD on Sept 12, 2022 8:36:38 GMT -7
Yall are fuggin amazing I can barely make a guitar outta paper , let alone all this craziness I have no doubt that if I gave you the parts you would figure it out no problem.
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Post by bear on Sept 12, 2022 12:30:12 GMT -7
why the f$#& are Tung Sol 12AX7 tubes $35?! They were half that last year.
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Post by higs on Sept 12, 2022 12:55:47 GMT -7
why the f$#& are Tung Sol 12AX7 tubes $35?! They were half that last year. Made in russia?
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Post by EllisD on Sept 12, 2022 15:37:15 GMT -7
Putin price hike
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Post by higs on Sept 12, 2022 15:45:11 GMT -7
I have a modest tube stash. I never did that micro terror experiment, but I bought several tubes to try it. I have some vintage back ups for the rocker 15, too.
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Post by bear on Sept 12, 2022 21:08:51 GMT -7
I'm on a tear. Rebuilding the 2 watter because it was noisy. Top before Bottom after
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Post by bear on Sept 12, 2022 21:09:58 GMT -7
I uh bought a Schecter C-1 E/A. Time to purge.
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Post by bear on Sept 12, 2022 21:40:17 GMT -7
I started getting the boy ready for bed and forgot rule #1 when I came back to the bench: unplug it. I electrocuted myself on the switch trying to pull this obnoxiously long ground wire from the transformer. I probably pulled 2 feet of wire out of there from connections that were lazy. This reduces noise because extra wire and redundant ground connections can act like an antenna.
Shortened the resistors top right on the tube sockets. Changed the dinky caps to orange drops. Shortened the yellow preampe wire. Twisted and shortened green filament wires on the right for the light bulb. Twisted output transformer and speaker wires center. Shortened tone control components bottom center. Twisted white and black switch wires bottom left. Simplified grounding scheme, among others.
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Post by EllisD on Sept 13, 2022 7:42:47 GMT -7
I started getting the boy ready for bed and forgot rule #1 when I came back to the bench: unplug it. I electrocuted myself on the switch trying to pull this obnoxiously long ground wire from the transformer. I probably pulled 2 feet of wire out of there from connections that were lazy. This reduces noise because extra wire cannact like an antenna. Shortened the resistors top right on the tube sockets. Changed the dinky caps to orange drops. Shortened the yellow preampe wire. Twisted and shortened green filament wires on the right for the light bulb. Twisted output transformer and speaker wires center. Shortened tone control components bottom center. Twisted white and black switch wires bottom left. Simplified grounding scheme, among others. But did it fix the noise?
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