Alright. I've helped drag this thread off topic enough! Back to the show. I wanted a more classic and typical 594 to go with my more wild PS594 I posted previously. I was able to snag one of Willcutt's WL brazilian board run, and I could not be happier. VERY vintage looking and sounding. These 594s are special, but in a different way than the McCarty SC PS run. I love both, and I'm NOT considering getting rid of my McCarty SCs. I am still enamored with the 24.5 scale.
Kevin
Kevin:
Awesome guitar!! Thanks for posting additional pics.
IMO Eric C at Willcutt Guitars did an awesome job on their Wood Library Run, as usual. Really, all of the dealers have done great jobs, a lot of diversity across the board from the various dealers, and having choices is a great thing. I like the vintage simplicity of Eric's run, Brazilian Boards with MOP Old Birds, and classic vintage finishes and tops. I particularly like the MOP Old Birds, a very classic look, versus the 2-Piece "J-Birds" many of the other dealers went with on theirs, which to me is a more modern look, more fitting to my Brian's WL 594 in Violet Blue Burst, for instance.
Also the MOP material for the Old Birds is identical to the material in the 2009 PRS Ted McCarty Run, and all 3 of the Willcutt Ted WL runs, so to me it really connects it with the lineage of my 7 years of fondness of the short scale PRS McCarty!
I adore my Vintage Sunburst Willcutt's 594, it is my favorite Non Private Stock PRS I have ever owned! Yours looks just as great.
Here's something I haven't seen yet. For all the geeks like me who want to know how things work. Wiring is functionally very close to the SC 245, except here we have 0.022uf capacitors (vs. 0.033uf on SC 245).
The typical 2.2k and 1.1k resistors for the neck and bridge splits, respectively.
Caps are 400V 0.022uf +/-10%
WO number hand written on the wood. MODCAT sticker on the cavity wall. Interesting.
No shielding, clearly.
I haven't taken off the other cover to look at the switch, but I expect to see a Switchcraft straight toggle there.
Garrett:
Interesting, thanks for sharing that! I am not good with the electronics side of things, but someone posted very early on in this thread about there being no ground or something like that, so there is a buzz when you are not touching the strings. I have noticed that. Apparently it was because Paul thought it sounded better that way or something like that. Works for me, they do sound GREAT!!
Also of note, the 5815 LT pickups are NOT 4 wire pickups, they are 3 wires, or really 2 wires with a ground. I found this out when I tried to have my Tech put in ThroBak Peter-Green pickups in my Willcutt Vintage Burst 594, and tried to have him wire 4 conductor wired pickups to do the out-of-phase thing electronically with a push-pull. I ended up not doing the out-of-phase thing at all, which for now I am okay with, as the middle position with those pickups is great, and for what I was proposing, I would have lost the ability to do individual tone controls on the two pickups while blending them, which I didn't want to do. I may try that again with another set (and another 594, thankfully I have several) with the magnet actually mechanically flipped.
Again for the record, the 5815 LT's are to die for, great pickups, but my goal is to keep the stock ones in a couple of guitars and explore a wider variety of tones with other pickups in other guitars, which I have done and I am REALLY enjoying!
-Pete