I love your simple rig using a keyboard stand for hanging the guitar and neck to cure.
I love your simple rig using a keyboard stand for hanging the guitar and neck to cure.
And it's all together!
Still waiting on the waterslide for the headstock, and I'm looking for some inexpensive "oven knob" Jag-style knobs to replace the speed knobs.
I'm using the stock single coils, which sound surprisingly good, and two of the stock pots for the two tone controls. Those, I'm not so thrilled with - I'm guessing they're linear, so basically they do nothing at all between 10 and 3, and then fall off a cliff between 3 and 0. I don't use tone much, so I'll replace them some day I'm in the mood to, but no rush.
The humbucker is a IronGear Tesla Shark bridge pickup, and I've got a push/pull volume pot to do coil splitting.
It sounds really good - I'm very pleased with this one.
The build went very well, except for the moment when I first plugged it in and got very low output and massive hum from the humbucker.
I spent a couple of hours looking for a bad connection with no luck. Just before I fell asleep last night I took a quick look at the schematic on my phone and realised that I had forgotten a jumper to ground on one of the legs of the push/pull.
I got up early this morning, soldered the jumper, and everything worked perfectly.
Just noticed that the compression artefacts in the photo make it look like there’s lots of orange peel in the finish. There is actually none at all. The grain is intentionally visible, but there’s no orange peel.
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Nice work!
Making the world a better place; one guitar at a time...
Very nice. Well done.
PitBull Builds: FVB-4, LP-1SS, FBM-1, AG-2, TB-4, SSCM-1, TLA-1,TL-1TB, STA-1HT, DSCM-1 Truckster, ST-1, STA-1, MBM-1, MBM custom, GHR-1 (Resonator), FH-5V (Acoustic).
Scratch Builds: Pine Explorer, Axe Bass, Mr Scary, Scratchy Tele's.
The little voices in my head keep telling me "build more guitars"
Looks great.
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