Posts by nakedzen

Quote from BayouTexan

I'd like to hear the wind on an Alnico 5.

I can make a clip of the neck pickup, it's A5. It sounds surprisingly similar to the bridge.

Quote from Wheresthedug

Western Red Cedar not nice. Spanish Cedar (classical guitar necks) is one of the best smells in the world. This one took me forever to carve because I kept stopping to sniff the neck

Still haven't finished French polishing it

Yeah it smells good. It just makes me itch like crazy.

Quote from Wheresthedug

Ah, zebrano. Smells like cat piss when working with it 😖 Fortunately the results are worth it as it looks fabulous 👍

Hmm, I never noticed any smell from it. Cedar, now that's an irritant for me!

The "mistakes" one makes when doing them by hand vs. industrial machine doing every turn exactly the same will change the sound. Since the coil is wound with gaps between the turns it'll have more treble, less output, more complex and unpredictable sound. Impossible to get two to sound exactly the same.

Quote from ChuteBoxeHero

Looks awesome! What's the fret board made from?

Thanks guys! It's zebrano. Very similar to maple as material, needs to be finished with lacquer or oil like maple.

Quote from DonPetersen

that is a great sounding pickup!

have you checked out AlNiCo8?

I'll get to those eventually! These are just the first two pickups I've done ever. But I do have a sort of method/ideology of how to make these.

I have a hunch that lower output pickups with high gain settings will sound better than high output ones with lower gain. Simply because the more winds you have on the coil, you start to get more compression and lose some high end.

Not a guitar, but latest build is this obscene thing.

Got some 42 AWG wire from Stewmac and their humbucker kit. Did one Alnico5 pickup out of curiosity to see how hard it is. It was a PITA to be honest.

But got hooked anyway, since it only takes half an hour to make a humbucker, and sourced parts for more locally.

Here's the ceramic humbucker I built in high gain context against the EMG 81. Disclaimer: gain has been adjusted between the guitars, since the handwound passive is relatively low output.

These guitars need to move. Built these myself from scratch during 2021-2022.

Tele#1: 1100 euro ONO

25.5" scale, stainless medium jumbo frets, ebony fretboard, 14" radius, Schaller locking tuners, graphtech nut, Schaller TOM bridge, 8mm thick quilted maple cap, ash body, maple neck, EMG 85/60 set. Comes with hardshell case.

Tele#2: 600 euro ONO

25.5" scale, nickel medium frets, ebony fretboard, 12" radius, Schaller DaVinci tuners, graphtech nut, Gotoh ashtray bridge, Seyour Duncan Hot Tele/Vintage Tele set, maple neck. White matte/satin finish with some very slightly distressed corners.

Tele#3: 500 euro ONO

25.5" scale, nickel medium jumbo frets, zebrano fretboard, 14" radius, Schaller locking tuners, graphtech nut, Gotoh 510UB wraparound bridge, Seymour Duncan Custom/59 set, Schaller locking tuners, graphtech nut, maple/spanish cedar three-piece neck. Binding and top are in pretty poor condition, back is "heavy relic" style.

Lol. The drummer said it's because he wanted to see how well he could maintain the double bass and ended up doing the whole song with it.

Quote from V8guitar

That tele is gorgeous!

Thanks! Did I already say it's for sale?

Tone testing my latest guitar build.

Real drummer/drums. My own Mesa rev G rackmount Rectifier profile, red channel with diodes and Maxon OD9.

Couple new builds. The white V I made for myself. Tele is for sale, not really my style after all.

I'm an oldies guy. So TAL Dub-2 and Dreampoint Freeverb.

Quote from whippinpost91850

looks and sounds very nice

Thanks man!

Quote from paddyc

It's a beaut, but why did you put the neck on upside down?

Forget that - my leftie joke just backfired. Beautiful build man!

Thanks! But it is upside down. Initially I wanted to make it traditional looking, but the reverse headstock just looked so much better with the wood colors.

This is what it originally looked like btw. Doesn't show in the pic but the finish was terrible, neck inlays ended up see-through, headstock curve was way too deep, the sound was thin and awful etcetc. So I wanted to make it better. Now I'm pretty happy with it!

Quote from Per

Sounds great and that guitar OMG, that finish is beautiful.

Thanks! It's not mirror perfect, but I like it enough. I think I'll be using Britetone for topcoat in future builds as well. I'll just need to find a smoother way to apply it, maybe wet&dry sandpaper works the best. Even that kept leaving air bubbles in the finish that had to be sanded out, so mayble I'll just level sand after each 1-2 coats in the future. This time I level sanded after all the coats (12 of them! )

Redid one of my earlier builds. Made a completely new neck from maple and spanish cedar, zebrano fretboard. Changed the color of the top from blue to red/orange.

25.5" scale, maple and spanish cedar neck, zebrano fretboard, medium jumbo frets.
Seymour Duncan Jazz/Custom set with coil split.
Ash body, flame maple top.
Schaller tuners, Gotoh 510UB wraparound bridge.

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Thanks man!

Thanks! Never ice no, sometimes when I started playing ages ago I used to get wrist pains. But I think that was due to bad technique.

The wrist needs to be loose and relaxed all the time, never tense up.