The Show Your Work Thread

[jhale667]

More from the Duncan visit.

[Von Halen]

More from the Duncan visit.

Is that the Seymour Dunkin' pickup?

[Nitro Express]

Due in great part to you I'm a Seymour Duncan convert.

I used to always get DiMarzio's but now I've had opportunities in live set ups to compare my SD guitars with them they sound better to me to varying degrees depending on the model. Also on your advice I've added brass blocks to two of my main guitars and it's made a significant difference. I truly appreciate that.

In this thread I'm playing Auriga because I can't help myself it goes with the culture here...

Dimarzio is a good company. The thing is Seymour Duncan is probably the premier pickup experts on the planet. It's one thing to make a new pickup. It's a whole other thing to make a working replica of an old pickup. Nobody is going to touch Seymour Duncan on making custom pickups which is saying something because you are dealing with different covers, bobbins, magnet materials and magnetism levels. Also different types of wire. You just don't go out and order all those components. Some of that stuff is going to have to be made in house.

The devil is in the details and Seymour Duncan knows the details. Also their pickups have always been quality. They never made junk.

[Nitro Express]

Is that the Seymour Dunkin' pickup?

If that thing has been in water since 78. Someone should take a sample of the goo off of it and grow a culture in a petri dish and see what kind of deadly disease is growing on that thing.

You don't want that getting loose. It could cause an epidemic.

[Nitro Express]

Can't... apparently I'm too busy patting myself on the back.

Ed always said that front pickup was a junker that was never hooked up. Then of course you have that old corroded selector switch. I guess he wanted Seymour Duncan to make and age everything to make a complete Frankenstrat replica? Well there ya go. Seymour can make something that sounds like the old one and age it to look like it too. Getting the right patina and old dirty look is an art.

[jhale667]

Dimarzio is a good company.

Meh, not hating on them but IMO trademarking "double cream" pickup bobbins when Gibson and other manufacturers were doing it long before you knew it was cool is kind of beyond weak sauce. Case in point: From way back in the day, the original Alan Holdsworth pickup.

[ELVIS]

I still haven't broke down and replaced one of my HS3s with a YMJ...

They gotta be good as Yngwie switched virtually overnight...

[ELVIS]

Here's a cool clip...

[Seshmeister]

I still haven't broke down and replaced one of my HS3s with a YMJ...

They gotta be good as Yngwie switched virtually overnight...

Or maybe they paid him.

[ELVIS]

I'm sure they did, but Yngwie doesn't seem to be a sellout...

BTW, this is kinda funny...

[ashstralia]

Yngwank's not a sellout??

Fuck man, you have been huffing too much car wash grease

[jhale667]

Or maybe they paid him.

If it was just about money doubt they would have continued past the first dozen prototypes.

Played a set in one of Duncan's demo Strats in their soundroom, I prefer the Stack Plus models, but the YJMs sound cool too...

[Diamondjimi]

I'm sure they did, but Yngwie doesn't seem to be a sellout...

BTW, this is kinda funny...

Is it just me, or is Fender reducing the scale of the YJM signature Strat? Yngwie is gonna have to have them scaled the the size of an ES335 to look "normal" on him.... Lol

[vandeleur]

Is that not the big bird out of heart

[ashstralia]

I think that bloke was extracting the urine..