New project - Creature

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:39 am

If the pickups are already wired up you could just plug a cable into the guitar and then touch the multimeter tips to the other end and switch between the pickups. It's not as accurate but it'll tell you which one is the higher rated at least.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:59 pm

I almost forgot to state the important part...

GUITAR SOUNDS AWESOMEZ!

Finger access to squeely oscillations is amazing used in conjunction with various stomp boxes.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:37 am

Pickups fixed. All is well, fuck is this neck fat.

If you guys are good little piggies I'll demo it tomorrow. Neck pickup is sweet, middle setting is pure rock and roll. Bridge pickup is odd... it's 13K so it's way powerful for a single coil... comes off less like a jazzmaster/p-90 sound and more like the middle position on a strat. the quacky one. Sounds great dirty, but clean it quacks like a duck. Neck and middle are a dream clean so I'm not sweating it, and the bridge sounds fan-fucking-tastic dirty.

P.S. All my gear is in my basement because of band practice. Tested with The Internet and when I hit teh gewgle switch I got a god awful buzz. Thought something was wrong, then I realized ALL of my guitars get a god awful buzz in the basement when I enable GEWGLE!

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:44 am

What's the next project!? You swore, no more... but your lying.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:49 am

Joey wrote:What's the next project!? You swore, no more... but your lying.

It's likely I was lying... as after the Franken-Sonic I swore no more as well.

Once this is all settled and I have time to forget about how horrible I am at this... I dunno... there's alot of baritone love going around. Tell you one thing... next project will be WAY MORE SIMPLE.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:39 am

So a baritone with a single coil & jack?

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:45 am

Joey wrote:

So a baritone with a single coil & jack?

Baritone Musicmaster

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:28 pm

I've got a template of a MIM Duo Sonic with the infamous 22.7" neck scale... that converts over to the 25 1/2" scale with no problem... could use a baritone conversion.

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:30 pm

taylornutt wrote:
Baritone Musicmaster

That would be so incredibly cool.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:45 pm

Joey wrote:I've got a template of a MIM Duo Sonic with the infamous 22.7" neck scale... that converts over to the 25 1/2" scale with no problem... could use a baritone conversion.

lol, neck heavy like whoa.

Not going to lie though... interesting proposition.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:52 pm

Very neck heavy, but you could explode the body or increase the thickness of the guitar to offset the weight.

George · Post by **George** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:36 pm

Buy a suede strap, pussies.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 3:22 am

Is it just me or is playing a 9.25" radius for the first time like learning guitar all over again... I have to totally alter my "strangle the neck" fretting technique.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:13 am

endsjustifymeans wrote:Is it just me or is playing a 9.25" radius for the first time like learning guitar all over again... I have to totally alter my "strangle the neck" fretting technique.

I know what you mean. Currently all my electrics are 7.25" radius after I sold my Squiers. I just prefer the vintage radius.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:29 am

Yeah, that in combination with the giant u radius of this neck and I literally have to completely alter my approach to guitar playing. Honestly I sort of like that... I may have been spoiled by ny mustang. I feel like if I can play this club I can probably be comfortable on any guitar, verses my mustang which has me comfortable only on... Well... My mustang.

I'm going to man up and tame this beast.

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:51 am

yup, its a bat of a neck, i don't know who Aen got it from (on that cp jag), but thats who i got it from... and now you have it.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 6:13 pm

So I really suck with adjusting truss rods, so I took this to the local shop for a truss adjustment (which it needed bad), neck shimming, intonation etc.

I just got a call...

"We got the action as low as we could, but we noticed with aggressive strumming your strings kept popping out of the saddles. We installed a buzz stop and it seems to alleviate the problem... do you want us to leave it on?"
"Uh... how much is it?"
"We've had a bunch in the shop forever and no one's ever needed one before, consider it part of the initial setup fee."
"So free?"
"Yep."
"Sweet, leave it on there!"

I'll pick it up after work and demo this weekend.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 6:58 pm

Fucking rad

mtotallywired · Post by **mtotallywired** » Thu May 05, 2011 7:20 am

can't wait to see pics of the finished project! this thing is awesome. would love to see it in surf green with a mint guard. OH MAN