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Ok, so special order went into StewMac on Monday evening AFTER making a special order with Realtone in Aus, also on Monday night. Lets see which order gets here first. I have my money on Stewmac!
I am going to change a few things from the original plan.
Changing out the bridge, it's too flimsy for my liking and thicker ones generally produce better sustain.
I was going to install two active humbucker pickups but have opted to use passive humbuckers as well as a single coil in the middle position.
I am anticipating using this guitar in my home studio. Here is what I am aiming at.
The guitar will be capable of producing a MIDI signal which can be manipulated into any instrument of my choice. It will also be capable of being mixed with the analog signals produced by the guitar. This is where the pickup selection has become important. Since Fender and Gibson are the most commonly used guitars, i have decided to use coil-split humbuckers at the bridge and neck and a single coil in the middle position. Switches as opposed to pots or push pull pots will be used to turn off or on every coil thereby allowing me to select any combination of single coil and humbuckers. Now for the final pickup. I am also installing at the bridge, a Ghost Prewired Saddle Pickup Set with onboard Acousti-Phonic Onboard Preamp and onboard QuickSwitch which will allow me to switch between electric and acoustic pickups and to mix these together AND to mix these with the MIDI output too!
But I digress....
What I have done today was to put on some really nice looking locking tuners onto the headstock. I am really partial to locking tuners.
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looking good Gav, the range of sounds you will get with this axe should be amazing, can't wait to hear/see it completed !
Was this strat body and neck a $80 or $90 cash convertors axe ?
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$40, they couldn't give it away for that price ! Any idea what sort of wood it is ? Hope its not mdf or a cheap compressed wood !
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It's Ash! but it had a few dings in the Nitro finish, broken wires in the output Jack which was missing a screw and there was a missing string... They wanted $80, offered them $40 and they agreed.
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very cool Gav, you know how to bargain mate !
See if you can bargain with DB for wifi in the naughty room !
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great work! waiting to hear this thing in action!
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....and we have a result on the Stewmac VS Realtone delivery race...........
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Here I have installed the acoustic pickups in the bridge.
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