It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
soundcloud.com/thecolourbox-1
youtube.com/@TheColourboxMusic
Plays well enough but not amazing as it has a rather high 17th fret and would benefit from some fall off on the upper frets.
Halfway...
And some polishing with a new crimson guitars 1200 fret rubber
I love the look of the ebony board
Then positioned it using two E strings and drilled two slightly small 1.5 mm holes. As mahogany is soft I prefer to vaseline the screws and have them a bit tight otherwise they can strip easily with a slightly large hole.
.
I've had to back out the rear screw to accomodate the bisgby so ordered these cool screw on straplocks. However, the current ones feel pretty stable so these will remain as spares.
Check out these open gear Grovers, not what you'd expect to see. Serial reads as such:
J(apan)T(erada factory)(20)06 31507(th guitar made that year)
I've used 0.001 caps as these are much easier to find. you can see the resistor tucked underneath on the right.
I've left the master volume without a treble bleed, nice to have the option of a dark volume for the time being.
Most Gretsches come with two swiches; pickup selector & a treble roll off 3 way that has two great positions
Down- slight high cut, fatter mids, great with distortion .0039uF
Middle- no cut
Up- mud, pointless .012uF after a week I;ve realised there is no use for it whatsoever and the switch has a tendency to jump to that position by accident
So I've checked what I have to hand & found a 0.008uF cap which should be more useful & popped it in, you can see here just how hollow this guitar is, the channel at right runs all the way to the lower bount on both sides.
Duo Jet re-issues with the wide headstock used to be much more like a pure solidbody until FMIC started managing production and have reverted to the more desirable vintage spec.
Last little mod for today is to align the set screws holes on the volume pots to face me at 10, that way I can actually tell if they are up full or not.