Hooli
Big Ugly
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CABilly
Splitter
I bought one on the Black Friday sale. Got it the next week.
Still waiting for my guitar so I haven't even opened the amp. :nchantr
Hooli
Big Ugly
Huh.
That's gotta hurt. :laughing
Hooli
Big Ugly
I've built a few guitars since the 90's, mainly partscasters for friends, but I did do a couple of bodies from scratch (one was a really odd duck for a lefty who preferred it strung righty, the other for a MC shop owner. He received a Strat made from a beautiful body blank of flamed maple with a matching neck, birdseye maple fretboard and gold hardware. I still have the photos somewhere, I'll post them up when I get home later today). Did my time at Chandler's and then Ransom Guitars in SF, learning luthier-ship. :teeth Now I want to get into CNC routing. I figure if I sell a couple of bikes I can free up some garage space. Neighbors might complain about the noise though... :laughing
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CABilly
Splitter
Quite. They keep trying to get me to take a floor model but they aren't offering any discount so I'll keep waiting. Stupid COVID I don't think anyone who's ordered one of these has actually received theirs.
kelsodeez
2wheels good 4wheels bad
It plays really really well. I want it so bad but I recognize that it's a family heirloom and you gotta respect that.
Oh also, he told me that his brother bought it in 1965. I looked up the serial number and it's actually a 1963.
I was just thinking of buying one of those body templates and going to town with a bandsaw. Cnc is next level tho. Those routes would be smooth as hell
Kornholio
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That was snobby? Your skin is thin. :rolleyes
Hooli
Big Ugly
It was easier to drill three holes than try a dremel a straight slot for a blade switch. :laughing He also wanted a coil-split mini by the tone pot.
Kornholio
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Since you mentioned it, Jeff, have any of you actually played a guitar with coil splitting that actually blew you away with the coils split? My LP has it and maybe it's just my ear, but every time I try to use it, the difference just isn't really all that much to make it worth using more often.
poach
seeking balance
Hooli
Big Ugly
Thanks Poach. :thumbup
Jason, I personally wasn't at all impressed with coil split 'buckers.
If we think of a coil split as being an attempt to make a humbucker sound like a Strat, we'll inevitably be disappointed. I've heard a lot of players get some useful sounds out of a coil split or two pickups split and run reverse wind, reverse polarity. It's usually a glassier, thinner sound, but useful in some music.
One thing I’ve noticed, since my guitar has lots of pickup combinations, is that amp settings with prominent midrange tend to obscure the differences between pickups. Not sure how you run your amp, but if the mids are really forward (they tend to be in Boogies), you might experiment with mid settings to see if lowering them a bit make the differences between pickup settings a little more obvious.
Kornholio
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I've been monkeying around with settings a bit but overall I've been scooping the mids pretty deeply if not bottoming them out with some of my guitars, but that's usually the ones with single coils, not the ones with humbuckers. However, that's only with the five band slider EQ. The standard knob adjustments are pretty well always set at just about 11 o'clock or 10 o'clock.
Kornholio
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I'll have to look into this when I get home today. Probably some comparison videos on YouTube so I can see the difference. I'm looking at replacing the humbuckers on one of my guitars anyway and have been kind of stumped on options.