SubscribeEpiphone Les Paul Custom upgrade. Custom guitar & handwound pickups. Upgrading an Epiphone Les Paul.
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Upgrading an Epiphone Les Paul – Pt.1
Epiphone Les Paul Custom upgrade. Custom guitar & handwound pickups. Upgrading an Epiphone Les Paul.
Butcher’s Block Telecaster – Specs
There was just something about it. When tapped it had that ‘ring’, that sound that was far more than the usual dull thud you get with many woods. Maybe its the many blocks of birch laminated together under pressure. Maybe its the 40mm thickness. Maybe, maybe, maybe. One thing’s for sure – it sounds good.
Vintage Telecaster Neck Specs
1950/60 – AWG 43 PE wire – 8,000 CCW winds – 7.7k – Alnico 5 – South pole
1960/70 – AWG 43 PE wire – 7,800 CCW winds – 6.9k – Alnico 5 – South pole
Vintage Telecaster Bridge specs
Telecaster bridge pickups had a zinc plated steel baseplate until early 1951 when Fender changed it to copper plated steel (.05″ thick)
Shielding a Telecaster
Telecasters hum, there are no two ways about it. The nature of a single coil pickup generates cycle-hum, this is one of the man reasons Seth Lover invented the Humbucker. I was preparing a page on the new Creamery site explaining how to shield the cavities of a tele, and the reasons why but someone [...]
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- @rawguitardesign What do you have planned?
- You'll be glad to know I've scrapped the planned Ltd. Edition Royal Jubilee 'Britpop' pickup range - Too be honest, it was a sh*t idea ;-)
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