"Bladecatcher" DC Esquire

[wokkaboy]

thanks for the tips Barge. Thats pretty heavy vibes, your missus must be tolerant to have that blaring in the car on a road trip !

[bargeloobs]

/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from wokkaboy on October 16, 2014, 13:01
thanks for the tips Barge. Thats pretty heavy vibes, your missus must be tolerant to have that blaring in the car on a road trip !

Don't get me wrong, she's a metalhead from way back but I think she was all Mastodon'd out by the end of it.

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[Tim]

simply stunning Barge.. What an awesome build

[stan]

just finish this already, dying to see it done, love it

[wokkaboy]

like the others said Barge everyone has fallen in love with this build. Just let me know if it will be entered in November GOTM and I'll enter my worst build haha

[bargeloobs]

@ Tim, Stan, Wokka hey cheers for the feedback guys, you motivated me to finish it Stan so thanks man. I don't think I've seen a bad guitar come out of the 4D camp yet Wokks so I'm sure whatever you're putting up will be awesome.

[west0288]

I'm still not really sure I understand how you are able to be just so darn good at this building thing, man.

So jealous. So very, very jealous.

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/<\\/p>[/<\\/p>[/<\\/p>[/<\\/p>[/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/]<\\/p>/]<\\/p>/]<\\/p>/]<\\/p>/Quote from west0288 on October 22, 2014, 23:40
I'm still not really sure I understand how you are able to be just so darn good at this building thing, man.

So jealous. So very, very jealous.

Cheers Brodie, man I still have shitloads to learn but I suppose as long as do your very best and try to improve a little each time I guess that's all we can ask for really.

So first impressions upon tuning up, intonating and actually playing are encouraging.
First thing that hits you upon plugging in is that it's damn quiet, not something you usually associate with Tele's.
I've made zero adjustment to the bridge height (other than by eye when I screwed the posts in) and action wise it's actually pretty nice other than fretting out somewhat above the 15th in places. Will need to do a bit of fine tuning and may have to screw the treble side up slightly.
The second quite striking thing is the natural resonance this thing produces, there's a distinguishable and pleasant high/mid ring that emanates from the string through area back up through the guts of the body and seems to compliment the bassy "Invader" nicely.
As far as the tone control goes there's pretty much no audible variation across the 3 switch settings and I may have to replace the 0.047uF with a 0.022uF and see if that makes a difference, as it stands right now the tone control is just an ornament :P
The over wound "Invader" is a very loud, very precise pickup and I'm pleasantly surprised as to the tonal qualities of the series, split, parallel wiring options.
The parallel setting (back) is by far the loudest option with some nice deep bass, cutting mids (especially noticeable using distortion) and crisp highs whilst the split setting (middle) is in contrast the thinnest of the sounds with a ringy treble, pronounced mid twang and a lot less bass, the series setting (forward)is a similar tone to the split setting but with a bit more presence and slightly richer mids.
As Pabs pointed out in another thread these Bournes pots stick out a fair bit off the body and I might have to throw some extra nuts on the inside of the control plate to bring them down somewhat, no biggie.
Will throw up a demo when I get some spare time.

[AJ]

looks gorgeous.