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mcatano wrote:Looks great! Tell me about these pickups—do they have the mega baseplates on them?
KingNed wrote:Just put this together...
(Sorry if this pic comes out massive. I've resized it but preview is still showing it as being huge...)
3-piece Walnut Body
Aluminium neck by Alef Guitars
Custom wound TB500 inspired pickups by Fletcher Pickups in the UK.
G&L PTB wiring (passive treble and bass cut pots)
Custom NYXL set so I get equal tension across all the strings in my weird custom tuning
It clangs.
KingNed wrote:Just put this together...
(Sorry if this pic comes out massive. I've resized it but preview is still showing it as being huge...)
3-piece Walnut Body
Aluminium neck by Alef Guitars
Custom wound TB500 inspired pickups by Fletcher Pickups in the UK.
G&L PTB wiring (passive treble and bass cut pots)
Custom NYXL set so I get equal tension across all the strings in my weird custom tuning
It clangs.
…...........................…psychic vampire. wrote:The important take away from this thread: Taoism and Ring Modulators go together?
sonidero wrote:Roll a plus 13 for fire and with my immunity to wack I dodge the cough and pass a turn to chill and look at these rocks...
kbithecrowing wrote:Making out with my girl friday night, I couldn't stop thinking about flangers.
niftyprose wrote:
It's amazing how stuff finds you. I used to sing in a vocal harmony group. One of the tenors worked at the city dump, and he brought music stuff to sessions. This is one of his finds. Like it says on the headstock, it's a Vintage Zip, model #VZ-99, and it could have been designed for me.
I favour lightweight one-pickup guitars, don't usually like humbuckers and prefer Gibson scale length. But the wrecked SG-Jr I bought at college didn't work for me because the P-90 was too close to the bridge. (The same arrangement works fine on the Les Paul-Jr., likely because of the heavier body.)
The Zip's single lipstick humbucker is mellowed by its mid-front position. The guitar is bright and largely hum-free, and it adds a lightweight chambered body, a sensible bolt-on neck and Strat-style volume control placement to the Gibson mix. The construction quality is between OK and magnifique -- the neck is no shit one of the best I ever played, and Trev Wilkinson must have been having a particularly good day when he chose that gold sparkle.
The Zip was fairly common in the noughties, at least in Europe, and I've seen a few on Gumtree in the sub-100 bucks range. (There's presently one on Reverb for several times that.) There is a caveat, which is that my axe got itself junked because shallow, low-end stud drillings had allowed its bridge to go out of whack. I enlisted the help of a friend with a drill press and installed 1 1/4" Klusons, which are fine. I also replaced most of the electrics, added shielding, and mounted 150g of lead in the pickup cavity to eliminate a mild case of neck dive.
PS If the Klusons go, I will install expensive locking studs from https://www.schroederguitarhardware.com/
backwardsvoyager wrote:^ I'm not sure about the other models, but the Super Sonic would not stay in tune at all out of the box. The hardware is pretty bad and it ships with 9-42s,
skullservant wrote:You can like whatever you want so long as it makes you happy
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