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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:28 pm
by Fran
That red rooster looks interesting... How about this, cheap as chips...
LANK
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 5:43 am
by ekwatts
Fran wrote:ekwatts wrote:Fran wrote:They are made by the Burns people at the same factory apparently.
Some pics...
Not quite. The pickups are designed and made by Alan Entwistle, who also makes the Burns pickups (from conversations with him I suspect he's a bit more involved in Burns now, possibly making design suggestions and the like). The actual Revelation guitars are made in the same factory as Alden/Hutchins models as far as I know.
I thought they had connections with Alden, all the evidence is there when you pick both brands up, but he said Burns. Dunno Eric.
Alden actually feel better though imo. The full hollow body I tried with the Toaster pups was one of those guitars I wanted to instantly buy there and then.
Entwistle Pups seem to be a selling point as there are tags on these stating what they are. I was quite impressed with the Entwistle models in the Tanglewood Les Pauls a few years back, they dont look anything special and have daft names but always seem to have a great tonal range.
Like I say, he's involved with Burns on the pickup front, but "Alden" guitars are basically Alan Entwistles range, so he has some sort of contract with them to manufacture his guitars, and probably his pickups too. Revelation is his latest brand and I can't imagine him contracting out another factory to make them if he already has Alden on the books. It just seems unlikely.
His pickups are fucking immense. By far the best (and cheapest) shit I've ever tried. I bought a three pickup toaster hollowbody Alden a while back and even though it had issues with the frets, the pickups sounded better than nearly anything else I've ever played, hands down. I found out (from Alan) that they were called the Nashville and Entwistle sold a version. So I bought one and stuck it in my Epi Royale. It's just as good.
The guitars are standard cheap Chinese fare (which I guess nowadays means: really not that bad at all if set up well). No question of that. But the pickups make them something else.
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 12:11 pm
by Thomas
Because of the weak Euro you can buy the Graham Coxon sig Tele for about £500 from
THOMANN.
I dunno if you've tried them but it's a great guitar.
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 12:49 pm
by George
yikes - time to buy somethign from thomann this week!
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 1:01 pm
by Doog
Doog wrote:..I don't wanna just buy or make another Tele..
But I bet they are the nuts though!
I've accepted my fate and bought one of these guys..
.. to put an angled Tele pickup in any 'bucker-loaded geetar, probably using my Jetking as a guinea pig to see how close a TOM-bridge with the right pickup config can get.
Thomas wrote:Because of the weak Euro
This excites me also.
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 6:57 pm
by Thomas
I'm excited to see/hear what you think.
I know you're not in the market for another Tele, but that model fir that price. It would have been wrong not to post it.
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:05 pm
by Freddy V-C
Doog wrote:Doog wrote:..I don't wanna just buy or make another Tele..
But I bet they are the nuts though!
I've accepted my fate and bought one of these guys..
.. to put an angled Tele pickup in any 'bucker-loaded geetar, probably using my Jetking as a guinea pig to see how close a TOM-bridge with the right pickup config can get.
Thomas wrote:Because of the weak Euro
This excites me also.
100% backed. I did this with my Vintage SG and that guitar has been my NUMBER ONE ever since.
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:33 pm
by Doog
With the Jag pickups?
It definitely is baby jaggy so prettye
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:33 pm
by Freddy V-C
YEP.
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:04 am
by Noirie.
Doog wrote:Doog wrote:..I don't wanna just buy or make another Tele..
But I bet they are the nuts though!
I've accepted my fate and bought one of these guys..
.. to put an angled Tele pickup in any 'bucker-loaded geetar, probably using my Jetking as a guinea pig to see how close a TOM-bridge with the right pickup config can get.
Thomas wrote:Because of the weak Euro
This excites me also.
Swear you did something similar with your old Jazzmaster.
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 7:32 am
by Doog
Right you are, sir; Strat pickup into blank JM pickup cover cut for normal single, angled.
Totally worked, but extra height of the pickup required shimming the neck and it never played as nice with it in.
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:43 am
by timhulio
I just bought an exciting doublecut guitar. Won't say what it is yet though TROLOLOLOLOL!
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:57 am
by ultratwin
We all be on them pins and needles, Tim!
Also...I'm seeing an exciting horizontal ss.org banner going on.
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:57 am
by timhulio
Ah, go on then...
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:14 pm
by Doog
timhulio wrote:I just bought an exciting doublecut guitar. Won't say what it is yet though TROLOLOLOLOL!
PRS?
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:47 pm
by Doog
http://www.watanabe-mi.com/osaka/list/p40505/
If I could find one of these anywhere, I would've already bought it
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:14 pm
by Thomas
What about a Fender Flame?
Gumtree Lank
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:37 pm
by benecol
^ I keep meaning to say Dooglas: you'd LOVE a (proper) Firebird pickup.
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:40 am
by Doog
Minibuckers, eh?
Kinda nifty, but it's still just a Les Paul wearing a fake moustache, yknow?
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 7:40 pm
by benecol
Cannot tell if that was a deliberate troll in the "Jazzmasters have P90s" vein, but Firebird pickups aren't the same as mini-humbuckers. You fucking n00b.
