Recent content by d^rren

Is that a staggered Quarter Pounder? Cool! I have plans to do a switch and pot swap on mine. I'll be replacing the push-pull with a push-push, and also putting another one on the volume pot to engage both pickups in series for some extra oomph. I've always liked the series option on...

I love it.

I would install it an whatever angle fits with the natural sweep of your arm. I'll be replacing all of the electronics in my Vela in a few weeks. Not because the ones in there are bad, but the knobs and switch tip I bought are for USA sized pot shafts and switch threading, so it all needs to...

Fair point! 😂

A switch isn’t going to alter the tone. It’s literally just connecting two pieces of wire.

Although compound radius is marketed as something players will “feel,” it’s really more to do with having the correct geometry for a vibrating string along a tapered fretboard, so notes don’t choke or “fret out” as you bend strings. Stew Mac has a good explainer on why compound radius makes...

Worn frets means it's time for a level, crown, and polish, not a refret. Medium-jumbo frets can be re-leveled and crowned many times before there isn't enough material left on the crown. If you wanted to replace them with stainless frets, that's another thing entirely, but you're literally...

The early SE models did not have coil splitting options.

That should be fine. Personally, if I were ripping out the frets and re-radiusing the board, I would go with a compound radius. Why are you having it re-fretted in the first place?

That looks fantastic.

After a lifetime teaching typography, please don't. If you want emphasis, we have a tool for that. If you want to state something more forcefully, there's a tool for that, too. Still not getting your message across? There are options. No need to go FULL BLAST all the time.

What's Up With The Title Case On Everything?

You can tell yourself anything you like. 😉

The "soft bevel" on the pre-2023 SE models is more comfortable, in my opinion. On any kind of "violin carve," the face of the guitar meets the sides at a 90° angle, sometimes even a slightly acute angle, if there is some "re-carve" on the top. It has no functional purpose on a solid-body...

Has the neck shape changed? What makes it less comfortable?