Marcel's GAS SGM-1 (PBG build #5)

[FrankenWashie]

Don't you mean "INTONATE, INTONATE, INTONATE"? Or in the case of a Rainbow Dalek "ACCESSORISE, ACCESSORISE, ACCESSORISE"

[Marcel]

It seems that leaving the thing well enough alone is what was needed. After getting fed up with the compressor pedal I cleared the bench so as to change the errant G string. After giving the beastie a quick tune I thought to check a few fretted notes to surprisingly find all were close enough that a run through an amp was in order....No string change required.

Fretting notes gently is the go, pressing too hard as I all too often do is less than desirable... and with a light touch this dark one sings. On the VOX Pathfinder 10 in overdrive mode is awesome. Not too much bottom end on the neck and plenty bright enough on the bridge where it counts, a nice range that with the flick of a switch or tweak of a dial inspires the imagination with the well known overtones of Sabbath and AC/DC...

Neck seems somewhat fatter that what my taste prefers, and I'm not yet accustomed to what feels like a much longer neck, but the balls are there in spades ... I'm saying it's done... Just need a decent guitarist to pick it up and play....

[chrissyinbkk]

That looks superb Marcel, very very nice, I have one of these kits waiting in the wings to assemble, also my first venture with Tru Oil to go on it, now fingers crossed it will look as good as yours does... well done

[Sonic Mountain]

Agreed, this is really nice.

I think I need one.

[wazkelly]

Nice look on the back of the neck too.

Overall it is something I would be happy to add to my own collection.

[Kick]

Very nice indeed! Well done job Marcel

[Marcel]

Thanks guys... Inspired by your comments I've entered this one into November GOTM...

[Marcel]

Simon mentioned about the copper shielding, going under the screws and I did correct it.

From experience in RF shielding throughout my career the more complete the shielding is the better particularly as you move up into the UHF and SHF frequencies, but at audio frequencies it it perfectly permissible to leave tiny holes and slight gaps and be none worse off. So long as at least one good low resistance contact is made and the shielding covers from all sides better than 90% of what you want to protect there should be very few problems.

[Marcel]

A bit of rain outside from another of those cyclone thingies so I hid from the wife in the shed and did manly stuff that men do in sheds....lol

Anyways...

I got distracted from the planned upgrades to my 2204 amp build and ended up powering up the AC18W amp into the 2x12 Celestion cab to check something on one of my other guitar builds... Did some tweaks, and suddenly felt in the mood to just drop everything else and just play for a while... Half an hour on the test bed Strat had me craving for decent sounding humbuckers so a switch to the SD rails loaded strat seemed right.... An hour of noodling latter and I put it down to give my shoulder a break and I soon found myself wandering around the shed re-examining other builds I house there... And then I picked up the SG...

"Bzzz.... Bzzz..." was the horrid noise from the high E... after a WTF moment I became inspired with a 'I need to fix this now' thought, and so after a 30 second inspection found that an errant bridge PU height was the problem, and I also had the bright idea that this SG needed to be tested...

The rain from the TC was hitting the shed hard...wind blowing... small branches crashing against the tin roof....

"Buggar this, I can't hear a damn thing".... as I reached out to the AC18W amp and opened the audible flood gates.... Gain @10, Master volume @ 8... "That's better"....



An hour and a half went past so fast..... I honestly though my watch was lying to me....

[wazkelly]

What a great excuse to make lots of loud noise.

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