sergiodeblanc
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There must be some more fodder for this thread, I need some motivation to get a couple of projects done while I'm home...
All mine are old.
There must be some more fodder for this thread, I need some motivation to get a couple of projects done while I'm home...
I miss Tales from the STC.
Egad, there's...something terribly...'haunting' about that.There was a late night Walmart parking lot deal for a Louis Vuitton bag, huffed and sprayed some 3M adhesive, superglue, sandpaper, spray paint, and Boom! Bourgeois on a Budget:
Gotoh locking tuners, SE soapbars (flipped), SE HFS or VB (can't remember which one because: tequila) in the bridge with the mini-toggle activating middle P90 in ant position. Also my only guitar with a tone control.
:cheers:
*adds have tequilla (anejo) with Sergio to bucket list
I like Dobel and Casa Noble.
So, I guess with the addition of the Louis Vuitton stuff, it's worth a couple of grand?
So.......let me get this straight, Sergio. You have a PRS Gucci, a PRS Vuitton, and the finest PRS guitar polishing video ever made. ENVY!
:cheers:
*adds have tequilla (anejo) with Sergio to bucket list
I'd love to hear that! Not sure how you guys think this stuff up! :iamconfused:
OK, this pic doesn't show it, but I did something interesting just for grins in the split circuit and really like it.
I took a single 2.2K resistor and wired it across BOTH split lugs on the split switch and then to ground, like you would wire up a bare wire to ground like you see in the pic.
For the uninitiated, the bare wire grounds out one coil and leaves the other on. You can have one ground wire for both pickups because it's grounded out and there's no signal from either slug coil in either pickup. When you want to add a resistor, you typically add two - one for each pickup. That way each pickup's slug coil has a significantly reduced volume, but isn't totally off, and the result is a much fatter and more usable split tone with less volume drop.
So, by adding one resistor and using it for both slug coils simultaneously, say if I have the bridge pickup selected on the 3 way pickup selector, I'm not just reducing the volume of the bridge slug coil, I am also adding in the reduced neck pickup slug coil. Why the hell would I want to do that? I have no idea, but it sounds pretty awesome. I get the most realistic high quality tele bridge pickup type tone with the Mira now. I don't know why it works, but it does and it's staying that way.
(Earlier in this thread I mentioned putting in a DGT bridge pickup, but that didn't last. I didn't like it. It took away from this guitar what made it magical in the first place. Actually I was just commenting recently about how the DGT bridge pickup improved every guitar I put it in... this one was the exception I had forgotten about. )
Look to be running into the bridge pickup cavity, then to control cavity.Nice! How did you get the piezo wires to the control cavity?
ditto this. If he decides to wander into Naperville to see Davy Knowles maybe I can cross it off my list.
BTW, that CE body from the "somebody buy me this" thread showed up. I've got some plans for it that I pray result in some form of "bangin' "!
Look to be running into the bridge pickup cavity, then to control cavity.