NOGD!

[cooter]

New Old Guitar Day! And it's a shortscale too!

1963 Alden Stratotone.







Original wiring and pickup.

[plopswagon]

Sweet!

[sunshiner]

A really nice looking guitar, congrats!

How do you find the Hershey bar pickup?

[NickS]

On my phone that looks perfect.

[cooter]

Thanks everyone. I'm really diggin this thing. The pickup sounds nice and clean but can get nasty. The catalog price on this was $69.50 back in the day.

[plopswagon]

According to the online inflation calculator that would be $672.91

[Doog]

Love these, passed up a dual pickup one a few years ago (not the same model, but a similar Alden), wish I hadn't. Might start the search again at some point..

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Have been playing a modern Silvertone Jupiter reissue with Mojo pickups 'goldfoils that look like Firebird pups' for years now.

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314083159330


If i didn't think this would arrive in several pieces...

[sunshiner]

Have been playing a modern Silvertone Jupiter reissue with Mojo pickups 'goldfoils that look like Firebird pups' for years now.

Do they behave any differently than regular singles/humbuckers, like cleaning up with the volume rolled back? And how noisy are they? I've always wanted big singles in a minihumbucker/firebird pickup format.

[NickD]

Is that in Wunjo?

[Doog]

Do they behave any differently than regular singles/humbuckers, like cleaning up with the volume rolled back? And how noisy are they? I've always wanted big singles in a minihumbucker/firebird pickup format.

I need to redo the wiring on mine, I think I naused something up all those years ago as I think the pots behave a bit strangely. I don't feel like the pickups behave any differently, they have a slightly mid-scooped vibe?

And aye Nick, it's Wunjo one hundo

[jcyphe]

These can sounds really good with that dearmond pickup.

[cooter]

Love these, passed up a dual pickup one a few years ago (not the same model, but a similar Alden), wish I hadn't. Might start the search again at some point..

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Have been playing a modern Silvertone Jupiter reissue with Mojo pickups 'goldfoils that look like Firebird pups' for years now.

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Damn, that looks like my kind of shop.
Your reissue looks really nice, I didn't know there was a reissue for the Jupiter. I'll definitely be on the lookout for those now.

[Doog]

Thanks man! It's really a 'reissue' by name and vibe alone, although it had the wacky blender circuit that I removed as it sounded like arse. It's a solid body with a TOM, modern neck and flat radius; that '60s Alden felt like a parlour acoustic by comparison! I don't normally go for 'clubby' necks, but it was pretty slim across the 'nut dimension' (lol) and I really enjoyed it.

They've since released the reissues with Dearmond pickups (rather than the stock Filtertone-style units mine originally had), although they seemed to have removed that info from their site now.

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[cooter]

Those really look sweet. I had looked at the Silvertone 1449 reissue at one time but was bummed to see it was a solid body. I'm still on the hunt for an original Silvertone 1448 that I can afford. Unfortunately the odds against me finding an affordable one grow greater as time passes.

[sunshiner]

Do you still have the Flat Duo Jets one that you built? That one was awesome.

[cooter]

No, I wish I did. That thing sounded great. I'm on the hunt for another to fix up.

[Pens]

Holy fuck that thing looks awesome.