The Guitar PR0N thread

[jhale667]

[jhale667]

Dafuq?

[jhale667]

[jhale667]

[kwame k]

OK......I've heard of fretless bass but........stringless bass

Killer axe, bro!

[jhale667]

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[Coyote]

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[Seshmeister]

[vandeleur]

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[jhale667]

My MJ-wound Custom Shop pickup.

[VAiN]

My MJ-wound Custom Shop pickup.

Very cool! So what's custom about it and what does hybrid mean?

[jhale667]

Very cool! So what's custom about it and what does hybrid mean?

It's the only one of its kind. Y'know, unless I like it so much I ask for another (which is a distinct possibility). It was made in the Custom Shop, wasn't done on the assembly line. Short of Fender's (retired) Abigail Ibarra, there's probably no one cooler to wind your pickup for you. MJ is a legend, she's the one that wound the Frankie pickup (among others for Ed, she showed me specs for 2 if not 3), and every other signature model you can think of (Holdsworth, Lynch, DeMartini, etc.).

"Hybrid" meaning it's coils from 2 different pickups (different wind, wire gauge, whatevs) 1 coil from a Custom, and the other is somewhere in the neighborhood of a Pearly Gates. I like the regular '59/Custom Hybrid, but I wanted something with a little more oomph, but didn't lose the articulation. So she changed the wind and the magnet (A2 instead of A5). So sure, you could pull two pickups apart, get some A2s and make your own PG/Custom Hybrid (they were nice enough to show me how to do it while I was there) but it wouldn't be this exact (MJ-tweaked) one.

It's going in the Bomber, of course.

[VAiN]

Nice man, I'm not all too familiar with what goes into making a PU but that all sounds awesome. Congrats on a nice piece!

[jhale667]

Thanks. Installed it last night, it sounds killer! Very STP-ish, or think whatever-the-hell-pickup was in Ed's guitar at the US Festival. No matter how much gain I throw at it thus far it still retains its almost single-coil-like clarity and articulation. But at the same time it's way beefy. The PG coil seriously asserts itself, killer harmonics, and the A2 kept it from being harsh in the high end. It's really present and sparkly but not screechy (thankfully). VERY satisfied.

[Von Halen]

Guitar pron?

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[VAiN]

Thanks. Installed it last night, it sounds killer! Very STP-ish, or think whatever-the-hell-pickup was in Ed's guitar at the US Festival. No matter how much gain I throw at it thus far it still retains its almost single-coil-like clarity and articulation. But at the same time it's way beefy. The PG coil seriously asserts itself, killer harmonics, and the A2 kept it from being harsh in the high end. It's really present and sparkly but not screechy (thankfully). VERY satisfied.

That sounds fan-fucking-tastic!!

[qikgts]

Got this delivered earlier this week.

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Not a EBMM ASS, it's a SBMM (Sterling By Music Man- Import) AX30D. I think it's a real good looking top especially for the sub $300.00 I gave for it! Music 123 had it listed as a used level 4 so I wasn't expecting much but when they sent pix I snatched it up. Out of the box there was some fret sprout, and that was part of the condition assessment, but it's recovering nicely.

Sounds nice but needs a set up. I haven't reached the point where I can maintain my gear. I'm still learning...

[Nitro Express]

Nice man, I'm not all too familiar with what goes into making a PU but that all sounds awesome. Congrats on a nice piece!

Pickups in theory are real simple. You have a magnet which produces a magnetic field and you have copper wire wrapped around into a coil inside the magnetic field. When anything disrupts the magnetic field it creates a small amount of electric current. The more windings in the coil create more current and so does using a bigger magnet. Changing all these things affects the tone. So the devil is in the details but the general science behind what makes a pickup work is pretty simple.

[kentuckyklira]

Here´s me rocking my latest major guitar purchase last summer. A late 80s/early 90s ESP 901 limited edition with an acrylic body.

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[jhale667]

Here's the Bomber and Excalibur circa 2015...subtle mods: LP-style pickup switches, and direct-mounted via PMS bridge pickups.

[ELVIS]

Crickets...

[DavidLeeNatra]

I got mine Keith customized...new bridge, gibson humbucker in neck position, five strings...Open G only...great sound!

[LEFTY is Gar's Bitch]

Here's the Bomber and Excalibur circa 2015...subtle mods: LP-style pickup switches, and direct-mounted via PMS bridge pickups.

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[ELVIS]

Look like some 80s has been clunkers to me...

Those Teles are cool though...

[Von Halen]

Look like some 80s has been clunkers to me...

Don't talk about Lefty like that.

[LEFTY is Gar's Bitch]

get a room fagboys you queers cant even play gutar

[DavidLeeNatra]

get a room fagboys you queers cant even play gutar

Damn right...but I own some nice ones...

[jhale667]

Currently on Ebay...

[Romeo Delight]

Cool? Link? I rally like the white and black one that he played in the Tokyo Dome show

[Romeo Delight]

Frankie would look cool with an Ebony fingerboard

[qikgts]

There are 3 on there right now...

[jhale667]

Frankie would look cool with an Ebony fingerboard

Sure would... I like how that one has none more black hardware, too. A Red D-Tuna would be the push over the cliff. Here's the link...

[Seshmeister]

Got my Xmas present from the SM the other week.

20 years ago she bought me a second hand custom guitar I found second hand in a shop for $600 which was a lot for us in those days but an amazing bargain.

The guy that built in in 1988 is a bit of a legend in Scotland, Jimmy Moon who these days mainly does acoustic instruments. He's made guitars for Big Country, Texas, Simple Minds, Adele, Ally McErlaine (Texas & Red Sky July), Bryan Adams, Dougie MacLean, Guy Berryman (Coldplay), Paolo Nutini, Trevor Rabin, Steve Earle, Peter Rowan and the Scissor Sisters.

Apparently someone had traded it in against an Ibanez JEM. It didn't really suit me with it being single coil but it had the best neck I had ever played on. I tried putting a DiMarzio Super Distortion dual blade but it lacked something and when I went back to gigging and recording a few years back it didn't cut it plus the flat purple paint job was not great.



We took it back to the maker just after Xmas to be stripped, went for a tobacco sunburst, a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom in the bridge and move the Dimarzio to the neck. Everyone involved was a bit worried about how it would turn out , it's a maple straight through neck with a mahogany body but I think it's worked beautifully.

It has a Kahler trem which never goes out of tune and Sperzel tuners. I'm in love again, this guitar is amazing to play.







There is always a downside and with this it's that it's now been valued at 8 times what I paid for it which is great but now I don't know if I can use it at gigs. Secondly it's making all my other guitars feel like shit.

The only thing is that I've just realized after all these years that I'm missing fine tuning pegs at the bridge. I never even noticed as the beauty of this set up is you don't have to fuck around with locking nuts any time you need to tune. Google says 6 x $6 which is daylight fucking robbery for little screws but I guess I will. The other tiny niggle is that the trem is a little short and again the internet tells me that Kahler are non standard diameter?

[jhale667]

Congrats on the refurb, nice job. Why not just get the parts from Kahler directly?

[Seshmeister]

Thanks I'll go through that website and see if they still sell them.

Funny that I picked up a pretty decent guitar a couple of weeks ago online for a good bit less than the cost of one of these trem systems...