Let's see your GUITAR!

[fetch]

You have something very similar to my surname as your username and the same guitar I used to have only a rosewood neck instead of maple. Freakeh (I even put a white switch tip on mine when I had the white guard on!)

[O Drones]

Is it separate pieces glued together to get that effect? Looks insane, I've yet to see one in person. What pickups are in it?

Yeah it's separate pieces of birch, dyed and then glued together.

The pups are a 496r and a 500t. Pretty high output which suits me fine for the Doom/Psych band I'm playing in. With it being a birch body the natural tone of the guitar would be quite bright but the pups in it combat that and the actual tone of the guitar is incredible, it cuts through the mix like no other guitar I've owned but sounds really, really thick at the same time.

The pics of the guitar on Gibson's site look nothing like the ones you see in real life. I've never been a fan of high gloss guitars and this is the opposite of that. It looks and feels handmade. There's actually a pretty cool video on Gibson's site
Here's all Gibson's info http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electri ... -Suit.aspx

[mathias]

Yeah it's separate pieces of birch, dyed and then glued together.

The pups are a 496r and a 500t. Pretty high output which suits me fine for the Doom/Psych band I'm playing in. With it being a birch body the natural tone of the guitar would be quite bright but the pups in it combat that and the actual tone of the guitar is incredible, it cuts through the mix like no other guitar I've owned but sounds really, really thick at the same time.

The pics of the guitar on Gibson's site look nothing like the ones you see in real life. I've never been a fan of high gloss guitars and this is the opposite of that. It looks and feels handmade. There's actually a pretty cool video on Gibson's site
Here's all Gibson's info http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electri ... -Suit.aspx

SGs have an awesome tone, brighter than a Les Paul but not too bright. I love it. I think mine has the issue of having too high output pickups for what I play. Full volume knob on the bridge causes the signal to start to distort in some of my pedals -- and not a pleasant distortion/overdrive, but bad clipping. Maybe I just need to replace those pedals with ones that have more headroom, but still. Crazy how high output those pickups are compared to the tired singlecoils in my Strat.

Edit: Also, depending on the glue/epoxy used to create that birch ply, the tonal characteristics of the wood could completely change. In a plywood, the glue becomes the structure of the guitar. Sure, a cheap piece of plywood for house construction isn't going to resonate and has some really gummy glue and low quality wood. But birch plywood is used in all sorts of high-end applications, and is what most good speaker cabs are made of. For all we know, Gibson could have picked some crazy epoxy that sounds great when it is the main structural material in a guitar body.

[mathias]

This thread needs more SGs. Here's mine.

[MEC]

SGs have an awesome tone, brighter than a Les Paul but not too bright. I love it. I think mine has the issue of having too high output pickups for what I play. Full volume knob on the bridge causes the signal to start to distort in some of my pedals -- and not a pleasant distortion/overdrive, but bad clipping. Maybe I just need to replace those pedals with ones that have more headroom, but still. Crazy how high output those pickups are compared to the tired singlecoils in my Strat.

You should try lowering the height of the your pickups, doing so can lower the output as well.

[Caesar]

New Blacktop tele

[mathias]

You should try lowering the height of the your pickups, doing so can lower the output as well.

Lowered them a few turns, thanks!

[Heavy_Soul]

This thread needs more SGs. Here's mine.

Agreed, here's my two:

[mathias]

How do you like the Maestro?

[Heavy_Soul]

Love it, I abuse the hell out of it despite being advised against it and it holds up well, plus it looks badass

[Caesar]

I almost bought the g-400 custom. I really hated the middle pickup.

[magiclawnchair]

[O Drones]

To you too Sir

[Achtane]

My Jaguar Bass is finally done
This was my first time refinishing anything, so it took me forever and I made a lot of small errors which required me to sand it all the way back to bare wood each time. Sanding by hand is hell. Once I saw Thurston Moore's trans-green Jazzmaster I was set on copping that finish, I was awestruck! So here it is (click for biggun's)






It started out candy apple red with a white pickguard. I have to give a big thanks to the dudes at reranch.com for guidance and also for providing the decal! I really learned a lot while doing this project, and now I want to do even more.
I "routed" the middle pickup cavity with a wood chisel -- it's a Rickenbacker HB2 humbucker, which I believe are on the 4004 series basses but good luck finding any information about the actual pickup. I had to buy it direct from them. I hated the pickups that came with this, so they have been replaced with Dimarzio Model Js, which were a terrible creme color but some Rustoleum solved that (it's on the pickguard too). I got rid of the preamp, so now the three switches are NECK/MIDDLE/BRIDGE on/offs, with a master volume and tone. The other switch is SERIES/PARALLEL for the HB2. The roller knobs are currently unused but who knows what the future holds. Maybe volume for the J's and volume for the HB2...
Anyway, it has a nitro finish except for the neck, which is still poly because I wasn't confident in stripping it. The headstock is nitro.
It's tuned BEAD and the pickups sound MASSIVE, just beautiful! This is my dream!
Oh yeah, I firmly believe that adding a number to any name makes it cooler, so that's that.

My three loves:


The SBV-500, which I adore, has a sparkly finish but you can't see it here. The pickups are great, unique sounding Js, and the build quality is excellent -- at least equal to my MIJ Jaguar Bass -- and it's made in Taiwan! Surprising! Finding this, here, with the price I paid ($200 and it was in a $300 gig bag) was a once-in-a-lifetime chance I think. This is a reissue of a 60's bass that was sold in the early 2000s, one of five different models. They stopped making these in 2006/7, but here in the US I think they became rare a few years before that. I love it!

The Wagoneer...I posted this before. There isn't much else to be said about it, other than that the seatbelt was cut out of my first car, as is the door emblem embedded in the body. It has a SD Quarter Pound and a GFS MM-style pickup. I am confident that if you beat someone to death with it, it would stay in tune.

(If anybody cares, the background is the former bathroom door of Volume CDs. I bought it from the owner before he had to close down the shop. Here it is in its natural habitat)

[magiclawnchair]