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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:35 pm
by Fran
New thread with demo.
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:40 pm
by markleton
Shall bodge something together tomorrow after work! I'll do a stock demo first, even with the pussy strings (10s i thinks) and even weaker stock pickups. First port of call is a rewire and a set up.
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:50 pm
by Fran
Nah, you'll have to post it up tonight or Mezz will ban you. If you pm him he may change his mind.
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:39 pm
by markleton
Holy shit! Tomorrow it is! Suck it shortscalers! It's exciting, but sucks, needs big man strings! The short scale is super comfortable, I wasn't expecting it to be this easy to play.
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:44 pm
by James
The switches look smaller but everything else looks very close. Is it 24" scale?
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:03 pm
by markleton
It feels like a 24" scale, the first fret is definitely tighter than on a les paul. The switches are pretty tight feeling, a solid click is needed, and it's a bit tight. Might stick some new switches in there when rewiring. I'll knock a thread up in a bit, got some semi-decent pictures of it. Got gay strat knobs on it, they gotta go.
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:06 pm
by James
Yeah know how to check right? Measure from the nut to the 12th fret and double it. Also what's thenut width? Standard Fender is 1 5/8" or 42mm
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:58 pm
by markleton
Didn't have my long straight edge to hand earlier, scale is 24" and nut width is a shade over 40 mm, no more than 41 mm.
Can't believe how quiet the pickups are, to get any sound out of them i have to crank my tiny terror from a room loud 1ish on the volume to half way up around 4ish. I'll rewire it first, got a scratchy volume pot, and see it it helps. Does sound good at those volumes though.