Yes, it's the one and only keeper.AiRdAd wrote:
The top looks lovely - do you still have that guitar Adrian?
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- Wed Jul 27, 2016 2:54 pm
- Forum: Guitars
- Topic: Show us your Telecasters
- Replies: 659
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Re: Show us your Telecasters
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:17 pm
- Forum: Guitars
- Topic: Show us your Telecasters
- Replies: 659
- Views: 135667
Re: Show us your Telecasters
Yes, I like itbender wrote:
Adrian!
Good Representation on this thread.
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:15 pm
- Forum: Guitars
- Topic: Show us your Telecasters
- Replies: 659
- Views: 135667
Re: Show us your Telecasters
A small instagram picture of my tele, my first guitar, the first guitar I built: https://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9cjoasyqZ1reif91o1_540.jpg It's a funny shape becasue it was based on a plan in popular mechanics, which was an approximation of a tele at best. kauri body, NZ red beech top, tawa nec...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 7:11 pm
- Forum: Guitars
- Topic: Show us your Stratocasters!
- Replies: 223
- Views: 53496
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
I suppose it would be cheating to show ones I made for other people, but there are a couple I made for me first, and then sold without ever playing them outside of the usual testing and trying various options. Both to the same chap in Christchurch, I seem to recall. First one is a super light wester...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 6:13 pm
- Forum: Guitars
- Topic: Show us your Telecasters
- Replies: 659
- Views: 135667
Re: Show us your Telecasters
I tried kwila in a number of formats including a whole Aurum guitar and just fretboards, but as a no-truss rod, no-finish neck is definitely the winner. I have a strat neck twin of that one still here for future use and a big chunk of very nice quarter sawn kwila that came from a member here Aaron, ...
- Mon Jul 25, 2016 3:12 pm
- Forum: Guitars
- Topic: Show us your Telecasters
- Replies: 659
- Views: 135667
Re: Show us your Telecasters
I think the neck on Simple Si's tele is one I gave Adrian. It has the best figuring of any neck I have ever seen. Elegant and lovely. Yes, that's the one. I had plans to use it on a korina cabronita, but I ballsed it up and promptly ran out of time, money and workshop. Good to see it in use as very...
- Mon Jul 25, 2016 3:02 pm
- Forum: Guitars
- Topic: Show us your Telecasters
- Replies: 659
- Views: 135667
Re: Show us your Telecasters
The neck on that one is kwila, not rosewood. No truss rod.handsoffmatt wrote:Agreed.bender wrote:+1. That neck is awesome.AiRdAd wrote:
Such a cool guitar!!!
Rosewood necked guitars are one of my favourite things, yet I've never owned one. They lend a wonderful attack characteristic to the note and just look and feel amazing.
- Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:08 pm
- Forum: Guitars
- Topic: Ash Western Steel
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2003
Ash Western Steel
Next one off the build list - Ash Western Steel Singapore-bound as soon as I find a suitable case for it. Mahogany body Rosewood board Gotoh SG381 tuners Seymour Duncan '59 humbucker Volume/Tone 14-56 strings, tuned to Open D https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7476/15741307580_5ae320ff9a_c.jpg https://f...
- Sat Nov 22, 2014 2:47 pm
- Forum: Guitars
- Topic: Radian Cabronita
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2802
Radian Cabronita
I'm getting through the remaining Radian bodies - this one's a winner... Radian Cabronita ~ Flamey Korina body ~ Maple Vintage/Modern neck ~ Hardtail bridge with stainless steel saddles ~ Ash Gruntertron pickup (Rebel Yell clone humbucker coils re-built to Filtertron dimensions under a maple cap) ~ ...
- Sun Nov 16, 2014 7:18 pm
- Forum: Show us yer gear
- Topic: Just not right.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4250
Just not right.
Not right at all... Ash Heilo - Jamieson GK. It has a Roland GK MIDI pickup system built in, along with a Rio Grande BBQ/Texas humbucker set. The body is chambered mahogany with a flame maple top and maple/rosewood neck. I can't play a lefty properly, so its hard to tell for sure, but this seems ver...
- Sat Nov 01, 2014 1:20 pm
- Forum: Guitars
- Topic: Big year, big changes at Ash Customworks - OMG Thread
- Replies: 57
- Views: 12170
Re: Big year, big changes at Ash Customworks - OMG Thread
Latest news and speculation disolver: http://www.nzguitars.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=26025&p=612920#p612920 Update - November 2014 Things have been going more or less to plan, just a bit slower than expected. As of Monday, guitars go back to just being an expensive hobby for me - I star...
- Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:55 pm
- Forum: GAS
- Topic: NTD (new tele day)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5538
Re: NTD (new tele day)
I have Area T and Virtual T units here if you want to add to that pickup delivery incoming.StrummersOfThunder wrote: Pickups are ooooo-kaaay but will definitely be changed out.
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:58 am
- Forum: Pickups
- Topic: Making the best of a bad situation?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4920
Re: Making the best of a bad situation?
Yeah, already reflowed the solder to see if it made a difference but nothing. The reading I get is 2 Meg. In regards to why I didn't want a rewind, it's more that I don't know what it was meant to sound like and I feel I might as well buy a new one if it's going to cost the same. Rewinding will alm...
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 7:58 pm
- Forum: Pickups
- Topic: Making the best of a bad situation?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4920
Re: Making the best of a bad situation?
As per JVPP's suggestion, if I was repairing it, the first thing I'd do would be to re-solder the coil to cable connections and see if that fixes it. Then I would unwind 100 or so turns and see if that reveals a break. You can sacrifice those 100 turns without much loss of signal. Non-obvious breaks...
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 12:15 pm
- Forum: Guitar Mods
- Topic: Anyone know where to get pickups repaired?
- Replies: 10
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Re: Anyone know where to get pickups repaired?
A cracked coil wire will read very high, but sound weak and thin. When the cracked wire is still held close together it's like having a tiny capacitor in series with the coil.
There's a strong chance it will cost more to rewind than a used one is worth.
There's a strong chance it will cost more to rewind than a used one is worth.