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Tag: electric guitars
Introducing “This Year’s Model”
Introducing “This Year’s Model”, a Jazzmaster guitar from The Creamery
Leaving a guitar out all night…
What happens when you leave a guitar out all night
Blackguard 2 – Based on a ‘72 Custom Tele
Pine is such an underrated wood for guitars. Its seen as a poor man’s thing; cheap and without prestige. I like it, and although there are a myriad of types, it can be a great tonewood. There, I’ve said it – and I know there will be guitarists out there whose nostrils flare and eyes [...]
Three Pickup Mahogany Telecaster – v.2
The original cream coloured P90 covers are now black and the middle/neck position now wired in series.
The Blackguard Series pt.1 – The First Three
Quick progress update. Here are the first three guitars from the Blackguard series – 6 guitars crafted from 30yr old pine. A jazzmaster style with custom handwound H-cover humbuckers, a Standard telecaster and a Tele Custom style, both with sets of my handwound pickups.
Three Pickup Mahogany Telecaster
Not the best looking guitar in town due to the three pickup configuration and cream P90 covers (which I’m changing to black) but the sounds you can coax from this guitar are just sweet. The heavier gauge strings, coupled with a one piece heavy mahogany body, rosewood fingerboard and fatter sounding P90 pickups rather than tele/strat types give this guitar a real warmth.
Guitar Headstock Design
Just a quick post – Here’s a closeup pic of the headstock design. After playing around with more a few more sharper versions I finally settled on this curved variation on the traditional format.
Each headstock will have the logo, guitar name, serial number and the date on which each guitar was crafted.
Blackguard One – Custom Humbucker Specs.
Humbucker Tech. Specs.
Magnets: Alnico 5
Coil Wire: 43AWG Plain Enamel
Lead Wire: Vintage Braided
Neck Approx. Winds: Pole 4200 / Screw 4915
Neck Output: 6.7k
Bridge Approx. Winds: Pole 3718 / Screw 3412
Neck Output: 8.0k
Balanced mids, snappy lows and a top-end with room to breath. The Alnico magnet is brighter sounding than the Alnico 3 or 4, giving this pickup [...]
Esquire Style Guitar – ‘Dirty Northern Town’
Named after a comment I overheard whilst climbing off the train at Manchester Piccadilly station, as a group of guys climbed on, eager to get back home south.
A tele take on the Les Paul Junior. Whilst waiting for a batch of parts to arrive so I could wind the single P90 needed, the guitar was wired up with an old Gibson P90 I had lying around. Eager to hear a P90 in the bridge position the old Gibson pickup was only ever meant to be temporary measure, especially as this was a neck pickup, the pole spacing too narrow for the wider telecaster bridge.
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- @gribiche Been going through old vinyl for storage - Her & the girl from Curve. I had such cliched indie crushes back then ;-)
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