Here's a new guitar

[sammysucks65]

nice!

[Matt White]

I'm a huge fan of the 50's TV model JR........

one of the best looking guitars in history............

[GAR]

I remember watching Joan Jett play one of those Gibson planks in the 80's and wanting to stick my dick in her butt.

That was a Melody Maker somebody loaded humbuckers onto.

Her boyfriend commited suicide and she turned gay and quit playing for a decade but I wonder where that white MM went?

I saw one just like it in the trade-in pile at Guitar Center Hollywood back in 84, similar crackled lacquer finish and humbuckers, $400 at the time. I wonder if that was Joans' trade-in, and who got it because that thing was a well-balanced thing.

[GAR]

It looks like crap to alot of people

They feel like toys. That's a girl's guitar.

[rustoffa]

That's a girl's guitar.

[GAR]

Your post belongs in the "new gear I bought" thread.. now go find it please.

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[Diamondjimi]

The Savickicaster !

[Diamondjimi]

Ain't it pretty?

Nice ,great sounding R&R planks...

[GAR]

There's a magnet trick I can tell you of:

If you think the lead pickups too bitey, like you hear too much of the pick and like the sound but want to diminish some of that harsh P90 characteristic:

Take the pickup out

Loosen the screws that attach the coil to the brass plate 3 full turns.

There are 2 alnico bar magnets because the pickup was designed in 1948 when alnico magnets were weak, they don't need so much power these days so you take one out..

Keep a Sharpie marker handy, and push the magnet out from the side with a butterknife carefully and slowly enough that you do not lose direction of the magnets' orientation.. when you get it out immediately mark the side of the bar that touched the screws by writing "screws" and then write "top" to the topside that touches the bobbin.

Tighten the plate, then reinsert pickup. That should warm things up a bit and if you want your squeally pig high noises back again, you've marked the magnet's orientation so it can just slide back in.

If the bobbin tips when you tighten the screws back, it's because you tightened to much. Loosen em up again and take a popsickle stick or matchbook cover folded over a couple times and cram it under the bobbin to the height of the removed magnet. You'll need to shim it if you can't figure out that the bezel screws only need to be tight enough to keep the magnet remaining from falling out sideways. Otherwise, use a shim.

[rustoffa]

Don't break what's already broke!!!

[Sarge]

There's a magnet trick I can tell you of:

If you think the lead pickups too bitey, like you hear too much of the pick and like the sound but want to diminish some of that harsh P90 characteristic:

Take the pickup out

Loosen the screws that attach the coil to the brass plate 3 full turns.

There are 2 alnico bar magnets because the pickup was designed in 1948 when alnico magnets were weak, they don't need so much power these days so you take one out..

Keep a Sharpie marker handy, and push the magnet out from the side with a butterknife carefully and slowly enough that you do not lose direction of the magnets' orientation.. when you get it out immediately mark the side of the bar that touched the screws by writing "screws" and then write "top" to the topside that touches the bobbin.

Tighten the plate, then reinsert pickup. That should warm things up a bit and if you want your squeally pig high noises back again, you've marked the magnet's orientation so it can just slide back in.

If the bobbin tips when you tighten the screws back, it's because you tightened to much. Loosen em up again and take a popsickle stick or matchbook cover folded over a couple times and cram it under the bobbin to the height of the removed magnet. You'll need to shim it if you can't figure out that the bezel screws only need to be tight enough to keep the magnet remaining from falling out sideways. Otherwise, use a shim.

Gar,
You are a good resource on everything gear related!
Nice guitar Rustoffa!

[GAR]

Well, thanks! It works.. I just figured my 50's P90's sounded SO MUCH softer than the modern ones I was like "hell, why so much magnetism?"

Because the humbuckers, they use a shim on the other side why wouldnt it work on a P90 if you took out one of the mag bars, you could always slide it back in right?

Worked like a charm, dulls the briteness and all you're out is 2 hours with a screwdriver and is totally reversible.

The Alnico formulaes, I asked Seth Lover when he was still around, what was the best he said nobody knows so long as what Gibson ordered back in the day worked they didn't question it too much if it was a deal and was consistent enough.

But the metals foundries post-war 50's had all kinds of slurpluss rare earth magnetizable stock. Remember, alnico's not magnetized when it comes poured into the mould - after its' ground and surfaced into little bars and slugs, it's hit with high current called "tropicalizing" "magnetizing" "gaussed" and other inhouse terms particular to the industry.

One a magnet's magnetized, it's called isotropic (or "hit with current") and if it's not been hit with the highcurrent field, it's called "anisotropic" because there's no North nor South.

Sometimes alnico's sold both ways, if you try some vague sources for experimenting with your pickups you have to specify "isotropic" or "magnetized" if you don't have the unit to do it.

The difference in cost is pennies..