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Really really nice thinline Tim, turned out great.
Any more info on the pups?

Ah well the bridge pup is the Catswhisker standard tele offering, medium output, nice and bright. Nothing too outlandish but it sounds good. The neck pickup is the mini-humbucker with adjustable poles, which works great in this position. These pickups are handmade, and very affordable.

The Catswhisker chap has updated the site recently:
http://www.catswhiskerpickups.co.uk/

did it come with the nitro on? that is a damn near perfect tint. great looking.

timhulio wrote:Couple of projects that've been on their way for a while. Excuse the mess, I've just moved flat.

Custom Tele Thinline with Allparts nitro vintage fret neck, catswhisker pickups, custom build body painted by aworkoffire, plastic tipped klusons.







Musima Elgita 1973. Neck is replacement made by my mate Ant (setchellguitars.co.uk) copying the musima headstock shape (I still have the original neck, it's too fat!) but using the profile of my AV Jazzmaster. It's been rewired and the output jack (previously 5-pin) changed for an Ibanez slimline thing.

I like the Mini Hum Tim, nice touch. That Musima is 'touch and go' - borderline on the 70s Plywood Brigade. Im sure the neck upgrade makes a world of difference though.

Not really- Musimas are generally held to be the best of the iron curtain guitars, so all the hardware is tough if not elegant. The trem actually floats and works well, there's a roller bridge and the body is made of real wood. The pickups even have adjustable poles and a decent output.

timhulio wrote:Ah well the bridge pup is the Catswhisker standard tele offering, medium output, nice and bright. Nothing too outlandish but it sounds good. The neck pickup is the mini-humbucker with adjustable poles, which works great in this position. These pickups are handmade, and very affordable.

The Catswhisker chap has updated the site recently:
http://www.catswhiskerpickups.co.uk/

Cheers I'll check them out.

Mine:

I have a thing for Kahlers.

CHARvel is badass, i don't care what they look like!

The off-white one smelled like tobacco for several weeks after I got it (I don't smoke). Pure. Smoked. Mojo.

Those are cool.

Are they the same guitar? What are the pickups like?

robert(original) wrote:CHARvel is badass, i don't care what they look like!

+1

that smoked blonde one is pretty cool.

They're both 1986 Model 4 guitars. Basswood, made in Japan, insanely playable neck, great bang-for-buck. Passive pickups with active circuitry and a je1200 midboost.

The bridge pickups, J80C's I think, are mostly underwhelming. No real balls to them. Unexciting, competent at best. The midboost helps out. The neck and middle pickups are completely unremarkable. I'll switch to the neck pickup every now and then for some meedly-meedly, only to find that the meedle isn't quite there.

The USA Charvel/Jackson pickups are supposedly far superior (so much so that J/C enthusiasts scramble to collect them), and maybe the later imports are too. These ones? Not so much.

scandoslav wrote:The bridge pickups, J80C's I think, are mostly underwhelming. No real balls to them. Unexciting, competent at best. The midboost helps out. The neck and middle pickups are completely unremarkable. I'll switch to the neck pickup every now and then for some meedly-meedly, only to find that the meedle isn't quite there.

hahaha

what kind of pickups would you prefer? you mentioned a fellow who had some strat pickups and a P-90 in his in your other thread. maybe check Guitar Fetish? they have some excellent bang for the buck pickups. humbucker sized P-90s as well.

mage wrote:what kind of pickups would you prefer?

Something evil, for lack of a better word. Double row of hex screws, alnico 8 or ceramic magnet, possibly "EMG" on the front and "81" somewhere on that back. An 81 with a boosted midrange might... I don't even know. I don't even know what I'd do with that.

you mentioned a fellow who had some strat pickups and a P-90 in his in your other thread. maybe check Guitar Fetish? they have some excellent bang for the buck pickups. humbucker sized P-90s as well.

Guitarfetish does good stuff. That other fellow has a guitar built to be an all-rounder. I do not need want an all-rounder at this point. Also, it's an immensely tempting idea, putting a P-90 in the bridge of a superstrat, but I really, really hate hum.

Edit: I think I'm underselling the stock pickups though. With the volume and gain at 11 they're fine for 80s thrash (seeing as how they were probably used on a great many thrash albums during that time). It's only in the "everything else" category that they suffer.

Also edit: They're also passable for clean, but who plays a Charvel clean? Who?

Also also edit: Really, they're OK pickups. The fact that I've had them for this long and haven't gotten around to replacing them means they're OK enough for me. I'm not one to be content with "OK enough" though, and am a what-iffer, so I like to hate on the present state of things. But really, these are solid guitars with solid electronics. The only real downsides I keep hearing are the thick poly gloss finishes on the neck (doesn't bother me) and whatever hangups one may have about the vibratos (Kahlers or Floyds).

right, it doesn't hurt to try out some different pickups. you can always put it back how it was.

you'll find there are a lot of fans of glossy necks around here.

yea, I've never really gotten the whole EMG thing. what little I've heard they sound mushy and indistinct. I'm not incredibly experienced with them though. I tend to incline towards biting single coils. I think they can attain far more crunch than any humbucker. I like humbuckers in the neck position. a medium gain humby in the bridge position can work at times.

I grew up listening to humbucking Gibsons played through Marshall amps. That's probably why I'm so fond of the that sound. Fast forward to many years later when I find Les Pauls unplayable (and switched to strats) and finally admit to myself that one's hand size probably doesn't increase after one's early 20's (and found interest in short scales).

As for EMGs, I'm lazy. That's basically what it comes down to. I stumbled across them, they work for GUZZGUZZGUZZGUZZ sorts of things (which I happen to like), so I've more or less stuck with them.

That and I'm putting off learning to solder.

scandoslav wrote:I grew up listening to humbucking Gibsons played through Marshall amps. That's probably why I'm so fond of the that sound. Fast forward to many years later when I find Les Pauls unplayable (and switched to strats) and finally admit to myself that one's hand size probably doesn't increase after one's early 20's (and found interest in short scales).

As for EMGs, I'm lazy. That's basically what it comes down to. I stumbled across them, they work for GUZZGUZZGUZZGUZZ sorts of things (which I happen to like), so I've more or less stuck with them.

That and I'm putting off learning to solder.

soldering is one of the easyest things to do, especially in guitar electronics where the parts are large, its hard to miss, and you dont have to worry about your heat settings, bridging traces with solder, etc.

also, i think these pickups are perfect for you. http://store.guitarfetish.com/veviexhoblbr.html

vintage EXTRA hot. the brown sound in a pickup. i think it would word really well with that guitar, especially with the mid boost. muahahaha

HAHAHA "VEH" instead of "EVH," beautiful. And the price is right. And I know what you're saying about a scooped PAF + a midboost... I really need to try that out.

the family as it stands now:





i might buy a new neck for the jazzy. i was gonna sell it but the dude appears to have dissapeared off the face of the planet.

just can't get the neck to do fuck all, i don't know if the truss rod is buggered or something but the neck doesn't budge no matter how much you turn it. it sucks that i'll have to get rid of the block and bound by cowbell neck. hopefully a more knowledgable shortscaler can make use of it.

two questions. one, whats that one on the very right?
two, is that white one OG or is it a re-ish?