Holy Schnikes wrote:As for that Callaham, if you haven't tried one on a Tele and you get the chance, do! They're incredible, basically the same to a Tele as the Mastery is to a Jazzmaster/Jag imo. I held onto one that was installed on my old Tele cuz I knew I'd want it if I ever got a new one.
Way thicker steel so it makes far better contact with the body whereas the flimsy stock bridge likes to arch from the tension. The end result is better contact with the body and significantly increased resonance and sustain, hard to believe until you try it. That said, if you want your Tele sounding snappy and old school, you probably wouldn't dig the Callaham. The enhanced saddles are great too as they eliminate all intonation problems and keep the strings from hopping all over the place like they do with the standard threaded saddles.
I gotta agree with this post whole heartedly! I have a callaham bridge with no pickup cutout on my Dirge Telemaster and I love it. The craftsmanship is top notch and it does help mellow out a tele and add sustain / resonance. Definitely a worthwhile purchase, all though not the cheapest. As far as the saddles for some reason on all three of my tele-bridged guitars with the three saddle setup I've ended up using compensated saddles on the outside and a straight saddle in the middle. I could never get the G + D strings both intonated with a compensated saddle, but I threw straight saddles on them on a whim and BAM everything intonated perfectly.
skullservant wrote:Got back home yesterday and immediately started working on my Jagar. It'd been bugging me for a while and looked kind of sloppy so I ordered a new pickguard before I left and installed it. Got the Phat Cat that was in my Telemaster back from Ancient, was going to do Phat Cat in the neck and humbucker in the bridge but I decided against it and blocked out the neck humbucker part of the pickguard with remnants of the old pickguard. Dropped the Phat Cat into the bridge, wired it directly to the volume pot, sounds perfect. I really love the Phat Cat sound. Strung it with cobalt .12's and a wound .22 G. Might end up ordering another new pickguard since I decided to go bridge only, but I dunno. It's my thrasher guitar so it's got some charm to it
Hot shit bro!!!!! Glad to see you made use of that Phat Cat, I still gotta find time (and a way) to install that EGC pickup in my P-bass.
Iommic Pope wrote:
Skip, you rule. You hate people so much, you're willing to discredit all human progress, its awesome.
Holy Schnikes wrote:As for that Callaham, if you haven't tried one on a Tele and you get the chance, do! They're incredible, basically the same to a Tele as the Mastery is to a Jazzmaster/Jag imo. I held onto one that was installed on my old Tele cuz I knew I'd want it if I ever got a new one.
Way thicker steel so it makes far better contact with the body whereas the flimsy stock bridge likes to arch from the tension. The end result is better contact with the body and significantly increased resonance and sustain, hard to believe until you try it. That said, if you want your Tele sounding snappy and old school, you probably wouldn't dig the Callaham. The enhanced saddles are great too as they eliminate all intonation problems and keep the strings from hopping all over the place like they do with the standard threaded saddles.
I gotta agree with this post whole heartedly! I have a callaham bridge with no pickup cutout on my Dirge Telemaster and I love it. The craftsmanship is top notch and it does help mellow out a tele and add sustain / resonance. Definitely a worthwhile purchase, all though not the cheapest. As far as the saddles for some reason on all three of my tele-bridged guitars with the three saddle setup I've ended up using compensated saddles on the outside and a straight saddle in the middle. I could never get the G + D strings both intonated with a compensated saddle, but I threw straight saddles on them on a whim and BAM everything intonated perfectly.
skullservant wrote:Got back home yesterday and immediately started working on my Jagar. It'd been bugging me for a while and looked kind of sloppy so I ordered a new pickguard before I left and installed it. Got the Phat Cat that was in my Telemaster back from Ancient, was going to do Phat Cat in the neck and humbucker in the bridge but I decided against it and blocked out the neck humbucker part of the pickguard with remnants of the old pickguard. Dropped the Phat Cat into the bridge, wired it directly to the volume pot, sounds perfect. I really love the Phat Cat sound. Strung it with cobalt .12's and a wound .22 G. Might end up ordering another new pickguard since I decided to go bridge only, but I dunno. It's my thrasher guitar so it's got some charm to it
Hot shit bro!!!!! Glad to see you made use of that Phat Cat, I still gotta find time (and a way) to install that EGC pickup in my P-bass.
Iommic Pope wrote:
Skip, you rule. You hate people so much, you're willing to discredit all human progress, its awesome.
I totally forgot how much the Phat Cat owns. It's got a more defined midrange than the EGC, so it's been nice doing one guitar track with the Obstructures, then one with the Jag. I totally dig this setup now on the Jag. Had a re-bonding experience recording with it yesterday.
It's a little funky going from an arched radius fretboard on the jag to a flat radius on the Obstructures, but they are both incredibly different beasts in their own right. I love them both!
As far as the EGC pickup goes, I'll have to get you that router for sure. Maybe once you've got the cavity cleared out you can get some threaded T nuts so that you could plant them into the body of the bass so that it is reinforced when the screw is driven in the back- I bet that would level off the screws too if they would be slightly risen up when drilled in!
Let me introduce my 90 LP Custom... I love her but not playing her that much, I guess I'm a single coil guy... It's a one piece body, all original except the knobs...I've swapped the translucent black ones for those old style gold ones... Now I'm happy.
raphaël wrote:Let me introduce my 90 LP Custom... I love her but not playing her that much, I guess I'm a single coil guy... It's a one piece body, all original except the knobs...I've swapped the translucent black ones for those old style gold ones... Now I'm happy.
Holy Schnikes wrote:Threw a black anodized pickguard on my Antigua Tele today. I prefer it to the body colored burst guard plus that Antigua guard is actually painted so I figure may as well preserve it.
BKP Blackguard Flat 50's will be here next week, high output singles that are supposed to bring the hugeness, plan wire 'em up with the 4-way switch mod. Also have a satin nickel Callaham bridge plate and enhanced compensated saddles to install along with matching satin nickel knobs.
As for that Callaham, if you haven't tried one on a Tele and you get the chance, do! They're incredible, basically the same to a Tele as the Mastery is to a Jazzmaster/Jag imo. I held onto one that was installed on my old Tele cuz I knew I'd want it if I ever got a new one.
Way thicker steel so it makes far better contact with the body whereas the flimsy stock bridge likes to arch from the tension. The end result is better contact with the body and significantly increased resonance and sustain, hard to believe until you try it. That said, if you want your Tele sounding snappy and old school, you probably wouldn't dig the Callaham. The enhanced saddles are great too as they eliminate all intonation problems and keep the strings from hopping all over the place like they do with the standard threaded saddles.
The black pickguard is 100000x sexier. Good call.
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raphaël wrote:Let me introduce my 90 LP Custom... I love her but not playing her that much, I guess I'm a single coil guy... It's a one piece body, all original except the knobs...I've swapped the translucent black ones for those old style gold ones... Now I'm happy.
And the cat pic:
Is the cat a once piece body too?
I love my cat... I wish he could be as pink as the fur inside the hardcase
New bridge pickup day! Actually put in myself and only screwed up the pickup cover so it just has to look silly (but I kind of like it for some reason ) until the new strings need changed and I can out new covers on.
Live your life like a tree.
spacelordmother wrote:Didn't hate it
Incoming
True pedge
Picked her up really cheap. 490 AUD. That's pretty much the best deal ever. Ha. Very nice sounds. I'm thinking of replacing the pickups, but then I still really like the sound of them atm. So I'm not sure. I guess I can get the pickups and if I don't like them, swap them back. haha.
) until the new strings need changed and I can out new covers on.
I'd play the crap out of that thing.