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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:39 am
by ekwatts
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:59 pm
by endsjustifymeans
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.
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:37 am
by endsjustifymeans
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!
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:44 am
by Joey
What's the next project!? You swore, no more... but your lying.
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:49 am
by endsjustifymeans
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.
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:39 am
by Joey
So a baritone with a single coil & jack?
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:45 am
by taylornutt
Joey wrote:
So a baritone with a single coil & jack?
Baritone Musicmaster
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:28 pm
by Joey
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.
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:30 pm
by Gabriel
taylornutt wrote:
Baritone Musicmaster
That would be so incredibly cool.
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:45 pm
by endsjustifymeans
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.
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:52 pm
by Joey
Very neck heavy, but you could explode the body or increase the thickness of the guitar to offset the weight.
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:36 pm
by George
Buy a suede strap, pussies.
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 3:22 am
by endsjustifymeans
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.
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:13 am
by taylornutt
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.
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:29 am
by endsjustifymeans
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.
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:51 am
by serfx
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.
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 6:13 pm
by endsjustifymeans
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.
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 6:58 pm
by Haze
Fucking rad
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 7:20 am
by mtotallywired
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