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Zork wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:13 pmNo inlay necks look also very cool.

i've been really surprised by the fact that i haven't had trouble hitting the fret i want without position markers except on the side of the fretboard which i often can't even see. the neck is just wonderful...it's one of those West German necks like a Framus made of ~1 mm laminated strips of maple with thinner strips of some other darker wood between them. it's an asymmetrical C shape that tucks perfectly into my hand and feels more like an acoustic guitar neck than any other electric i can recall.

i was reorganizing photos on my computer and found a shot of my Lead II...my only quibble with it is the pau ferro fingerboard, which was dry as dust when it arrived, drank up a ton of fretboard treatments, and is still annoyingly pale though it feels a ton better now.

dubkitty wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2025 11:46 am TDPRI thread on Uptown Kat minihums:

https://www.tdpri.com/threads/the-epiph ... r.1141131/

Lol--now I'm wondering whether a set of the gold FB pickups from fleabay would be a good cheap upgrade on the bass minihumbuckers in my Epi Rumblekat.

at $33 a set i can’t see any reason not to try them.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255028215889?m ... media=COPY

dubkitty wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 1:24 pm i was reorganizing photos on my computer and found a shot of my Lead II...my only quibble with it is the pau ferro fingerboard, which was dry as dust when it arrived, drank up a ton of fretboard treatments, and is still annoyingly pale though it feels a ton better now.


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These things are still so so cool. I really wanna get one of the purple ones with the black pickguard. Sweet baby cheesus.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... lic-purple

Lead II maple neck on eBay for $319 OBO:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/197060659486?m ... media=COPY

dubkitty wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2025 11:15 am i don't know what the heck Epiphone was thinking with the P-90s they used in the 00s-10s. the ones in the orange Wildkat i used to have were 11.5/12.25 kΩ per specs, which is crazy. after i saw that i understood better why the 'Kat didn't work for me. there were other issues--the tension-roller Bigsby made the break angle over the bridge far too steep, and the spring-retainer tunomatic's saddles would waggle back and forth because the spring couldn't handle the break angle/tension--but the pickups were the biggest ones. i guess if i was a harder rocker they would have been good.

Absolutely. It simply makes no sense to put pickups like that in a hollow body. The guitar was completely unusable with the stock pickups, even after I waxed them in their covers because I thought they were microphonic. But they were just waaay too hot! As soon as I wanted to use a even moderate drive pedal it would just feedback like crazy. The Artec pickups are about 7.5k and it's really such a joy to play the guitar now with the band that I used only the Casino for the last three or four practices. We play pretty loud and I use a Rat, a Wooly Mammoth and a Big Muff with no trouble. It really makes me wonder why don't they put the right pickups in there from the start?

Um… I put a barenuckle warpig in my Sheridan ii… (used to have black winters in it… )I think it’s 20k… I also put a supermassive90 in my prestige hollow body.. I don’t like low output pickups most of the time…

Okay, different strokes for different folks and all. I don't even have a strong preference for low output pickups (in myTele I like them super hot) but in this case it was not a question of preference but of functionality. If we assume the intended purpose of an electric guitar is to be amplified loud enough to play along with a drum set, the Casino was not able to function properly.

Is the Prestige a full hollow body? If so, how do you make it work with a high output pickup?

It has a center block, in general with a full hollow body for me it’s where your amp is vs guitar, being good at grabbing the volume control when you aren’t plucking or covering the holes, eqing out what freqs are causing the biggest issue. But, really the pickup output shouldn’t make feedback more or less.. how well the pickups are built, and how loud your amp is and how much gain you use that is a bigger component.. my most feedbacky guitars/basses are ones with underpowered or cheap old pickups like danelectro and univox… maybe something with better potting

one thing i like about my 335 is that it's a happy medium between feedback and control...it's generally well-behaved, but if you put it 6" or less from the speaker it sings you the song of its people. it's so loud through an amp that i was startled to find the the pickups are only ~7.2 kΩ. i don't know what kind of weird mojo it has, but it's a great way to interface with (as opposed to "play through") an amp.

dubkitty wrote: ↑Wed Mar 05, 2025 12:13 pm one thing i like about my 335 is that it's a happy medium between feedback and control...it's generally well-behaved, but if you put it 6" or less from the speaker it sings you the song of its people. it's so loud through an amp that i was startled to find the the pickups are only ~7.2 kΩ. i don't know what kind of weird mojo it has, but it's a great way to interface with (as opposed to "play through") an amp.


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That's rad as hell. Really pumping up my want for a 335 someday. I used to have a casino coupe that was cool but it fed back way too much so I sold it.

I recently decided I wanted a guitar with a whammy bar and bought this used ESP.

there’s a lot of things i usually don’t like there—the Floyd, the trendy fade vs. sunburst, the burl-esque (heh) top, the reliced-to-a-fault pickup covers, the odd contrasty plastic parts—but for some reason it works visually. the pink knobs make my teeth grind, but i can’t think of anything that would work better and be visible on that background other than stone or exotic woods.

I got my first Floyd guitar last year and was shocked with how okay the experience has been. It has its points, though boomer bends with non-bent strings isn’t one since it’s at full floating. Not sure about the trade-off of setting it to drop-only. It’s not necessarily just pulling up; the guitar has been eerily in tune through seasonal changes, and I wonder if that’s because strings and springs have kept equilibrium.