Unusual timber Tester Guitar

[Simon Barden]

Looks a pretty cool guitar in its own right!

Any photos of the slide-in/slide-out and latching mechanism? And what does the pot and switch do? If it's volume, have you got something to imitate a tone pot - and if so are those resistor and cap vales changeable? If it's a tone pot, have you got something to imitate a volume pot's resistance and is that changeable? Or is the reddish bit interchangeable for humbuckers and single coils as well as the pup mounting/slider mechanism?

[euroa guitars]

nice one Euroa, so whats the setup will it be easy to interchange pickups and where did you score that great set of pickups ?

I have a few "carriers" made that pickups are mounted into then they just slide into position, the unstained and purpleheart section is a drawer that slides in and out. So changing pickups takes a matter of seconds just attach the pickup leads with alligator clips

And where did I score the pickups BWAH HA HA you should see my credit card statement!!!!
They're sourced from 3 different manufacturers in Korea and China. One makes Wilkinson under licence and the other two make for other major companies under various brand names. These were bought in as paid samples, if I get more I have to buy in lots of 10 or 20...There goes the credit card limit!

[euroa guitars]

Looks a pretty cool guitar in its own right!

Any photos of the slide-in/slide-out and latching mechanism? And what does the pot and switch do? If it's volume, have you got something to imitate a tone pot - and if so are those resistor and cap vales changeable? If it's a tone pot, have you got something to imitate a volume pot's resistance and is that changeable? Or is the reddish bit interchangeable for humbuckers and single coils as well as the pup mounting/slider mechanism?

Thanks Simon, the shape is one that I've been working on for a customers 7 string build so thought I would have a trial run with this.
On the First page of this thread #7 is a pic of the slide out drawer its attached with two small magnets (located away from the pickups)
Just has a volume control 500k if I find that its not satisfactory I can always make up another slide in drawer jus for singles. The switch is a standard 3 way I can place in 2 humbuckers (or singles) and have bridge / neck / both as they would be in a standard set up. Wasn't going to worry about a tone control at this stage, just use amp controls again if not suitable might add in a varitone control...Its a bit of a work in progress!

[Simon Barden]

OK, I see.

I'm just asking about the tone controls because just having one there makes a big difference to the pickup sound. The cap value less so (affects the tone when the tone control is turned down but very little difference to the high-end with the tone control fully up), but I'd certainly add a fixed resistor and cap in series to earth to simulate a tone control get a more realistic idea of what the pickups will sound like when installed (maybe a compromise 0.033uF cap rather than a 0.047uf or 0.022uF). And rather than just one resistor I'd add add a mini-toggle to switch between 250k and 500k 'tone pot' resistors for use with single coil and humbuckers.

In the same way I'd also wire a 500k resistor in parallel (via a switch) with the volume pot, so that with the switch connecting the resistor across the pot, you simulate a 250k volume pot for use with single coils.

All simple to do (three resistors and a two switches) and makes the rig a far more adaptable and realistic environment.

[stan]

Another option for down the track or a different rig is add a bread board setup so you can just plug in resistors and caps and pots and change them about to suit.
Awesome rig, such a great idea

[Zandit75]

They're sourced from 3 different manufacturers in Korea and China. One makes Wilkinson under licence and the other two make for other major companies under various brand names. (

The South Korean company wouldn't be Jinho by any chance? I have a set of locking tuners coming from them this week, and they are supposed to be good quality for the money.

[euroa guitars]

The South Korean company wouldn't be Jinho by any chance? I have a set of locking tuners coming from them this week, and they are supposed to be good quality for the money.

No its not Jinho, but I think you'll find most Korean made hardware is of good quality

[euroa guitars]

Another option for down the track or a different rig is add a bread board setup so you can just plug in resistors and caps and pots and change them about to suit.
Awesome rig, such a great idea

Thanks Stan that's an awesome idea, part of the problem with this guitar is the lack of space in the control cavity both in width and depth