What a weird place to have the output. Must have been more genteel times where nobody ran the risk of unplugging themselves.Rog wrote:Antoria? Been there got the T-shirt:
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Still do by the looks of it and your plugged into the old home stereo?Vince wrote:What a weird place to have the output. Must have been more genteel times where nobody ran the risk of unplugging themselves.Rog wrote:Antoria? Been there got the T-shirt:
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LOL I made the pickup (hand wound - took forever) and didn't want to drill another hole in the box, so wired it under the scratchplate. Yep, good old Philips Stereogram!
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Nice work Rog, folks are still commercially making that type of setup. I did one myself a few years back. Currently restoring a 1943 Harmony archtop spruce/mahogany that I will do much the same for, just trying to source a cheapish Charlie Christian type neck pup. Refret tonight, and hopefully playing tomorrow.
And that Antoria is looking fantastic.
And that Antoria is looking fantastic.
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Rog, you really are amazing. You need to post more of your stories....I mean, hand winding your own pickup way back. That's great.
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[quote="k1w1"]Nice work Rog, folks are still commercially making that type of setup. I did one myself a few years back. Currently restoring a 1943 Harmony archtop spruce/mahogany that I will do much the same for, just trying to source a cheapish Charlie Christian type neck pup. Refret tonight, and hopefully playing tomorrow.
And that Antoria is looking fantastic.
That is so nice k1w1, yeah the frets on mine are just about there I did dress them and polish them up which made a huge difference I think I may have a zero fret on about the 12th fret I just hit a little softer around the area HA, but it has such a nice acoustic sound.
And that Antoria is looking fantastic.
That is so nice k1w1, yeah the frets on mine are just about there I did dress them and polish them up which made a huge difference I think I may have a zero fret on about the 12th fret I just hit a little softer around the area HA, but it has such a nice acoustic sound.
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Much LOL and ROFL.jeremyb wrote:Tell us about the days when you used to wear an onion on your belt as it was the style of the day
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These guitars look like the sort of thing we had around the house when I was a kid. One of my earliest memories is my dad's homemade guitars in the living room and him telling me not to touch while he went to answer the door. He, like so many at the time, made his guitars electric by stealing microphones from public phones and wiring them to the radiogram.Rog wrote:LOL I made the pickup (hand wound - took forever) and didn't want to drill another hole in the box, so wired it under the scratchplate. Yep, good old Philips Stereogram!
Dad wasn't a sophisticated luthier. He took a piece of paper to Rushworth's Music Store, Liverpool and simply marked the fret positions on it. Intonation wasn't much of an issue as he didn't plan to use more than the first three anyway.
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This could be a good option for the pickup if you don't want to modify the top:
http://www.guitarparts.co.nz/pickups/ja ... ickel.html
http://www.guitarparts.co.nz/pickups/ja ... ickel.html
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Yeah thought about those but seriously thinking of Jazzmaster pups top loadedbenderissimo wrote:This could be a good option for the pickup if you don't want to modify the top:
http://www.guitarparts.co.nz/pickups/ja ... ickel.html
or the others I posted earlier
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