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Post by petegalati on Feb 1, 2008 8:58:50 GMT -6
I think you're right Rich. That MetalliTele isn't something I was real likely to build anyhow, because I have no feel for operating trems anyhow. But I was having a lot of fun kicking the idea around.
I was sort of adding the costs up for buying the parts to build one (in my head) and I can't build one for less than the cost of a new USA built Kramer anyhow. So the cost of getting something that's unique would just be enormous!
I'm trying to now take on any new guitars anyhow!
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Post by Rich on Feb 1, 2008 9:43:40 GMT -6
You should just rest up for a while, anyhow.. Glad to see you are back online. How ya feelin'?
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Post by petegalati on Feb 3, 2008 16:43:53 GMT -6
You should just rest up for a while, anyhow.. Glad to see you are back online. How ya feelin'? Thanks. I'm doing a lot better, but I'm sort of restricted, and I need help getting down strairs. I need an upstairs walker, and a downstairs walker! I've sort of been stuck in the middle of my FrankenStrat build. It's sort of done, but I didn't have any real need for the thing, so I never wired the PU into the control plate assy, or ran sheilded cable over to the jack! I have a Super 3 humbucker in there now, to give me lots of mids. Today, I ordered a few spare soldering iron tips, and new soldering station sponges. This is an idea I mentioned briefly at Bad Dog:  I think I might use that body I bought for a second Esquire, to make one more HxH Tele. It's the kind of Tele I do best, and I don't need a second Esquire. I have all the parts to do this one sitting around. I just checked, and it looks like I even have the pickguard. Wouldn't you think Kisekae would have a Gotoh humbucker Tele bridge?  ? This pasreup was this afternoon's project. |
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Post by Rich on Feb 3, 2008 20:46:53 GMT -6
Glad to hear you can move around. My mom fell, broke her leg close to the hip, and spent 6 weeks in traction. Sounds like you're going to make it!
The guitar you "drew" sounds like a nice project. I've done quite a few H-H teles, and loved every one of them. If you have 4 conductor pickups, a mini toggle can be useful in getting some s/c sounds, too.
Hope you continue to improve, and enjoy your guitar playing time. Looks like you are on the right road!
Rich
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Post by petegalati on Feb 5, 2008 1:56:41 GMT -6
Glad to hear you can move around. My mom fell, broke her leg close to the hip, and spent 6 weeks in traction. Sounds like you're going to make it! The guitar you "drew" sounds like a nice project. I've done quite a few H-H teles, and loved every one of them. If you have 4 conductor pickups, a mini toggle can be useful in getting some s/c sounds, too. Hope you continue to improve, and enjoy your guitar playing time. Looks like you are on the right road! Rich Sounds like your mother's break was a much more serious situation. Mine's more like crushed bone that the knee joint sits on. I can't walk on it, but if you saw Xrays, unless you were a doctor, I don't think you'd even call mine a break. By now, I've figured out how to get up & down stairs without any assistance because I figured out how to get the walker up & down the stairs by myself. So I'm feeling pretty good about that. The two HxH Telecasters that've been good enough to spend a significant amount of time as my main guitars are my hotrodded MIJ Tele (the one with the used Rice neck) and Greenie (relic'd body). I'd say they were all good in their own right. Hitting the mark is another thing though. I doubt that I'll use any mini toggle switches. I've been trying to keep my wiring as basic as posible. In fact, last time I stuck a Strat together, I sat down and figured out how to use a 3-way Tele switch to give me the two quack positions, and the neck only position. That worked marginally well. I had too much trouble getting 5-position switches to land in the right spot, so I decided to use a Tele switch instead. GFS pickups kind of wrecked the whol thing though. Probably would have kicked butt with Lollars. That's the one that's becoming the FrankenStrat. |
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Post by Rich on Feb 5, 2008 10:24:50 GMT -6
Well, yeah. Mom's break ended up healing with a 12 degree bend at the break, due to insufficient weight of the traction. She wasn't able to walk on it, so opted for a hip replacement. Unfortunately for all of us, her anesthesiologist accidentally killed her while prepping for the operation. It was ugly. Count your blessings.
On your HH project, I like the overall vibe. The only thing that sticks out to me is so much white, then the cream bobbins. You might do well to get a set of nickel covers for the humbuckers. Is that white body bound in black? If so, AllParts sells black plastic pickup covers with closed faces (no screw holes) that don't seem to change the sound at all..
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Post by petegalati on Feb 5, 2008 17:05:22 GMT -6
Well, yeah. Mom's break ended up healing with a 12 degree bend at the break, due to insufficient weight of the traction. She wasn't able to walk on it, so opted for a hip replacement. Unfortunately for all of us, her anesthesiologist accidentally killed her while prepping for the operation. It was ugly. Count your blessings. I find that kind of thing very disturbing. I ended up in a coma for 3 days after an eye surgery. The only time I've allowed doctors to do surgery since then where I'm not awake during the operation, was with my transplant. My ortho doctor has done 2 surgeries already while I'm awake. They just give me a local blocker. My own mother died after heart surgery several years ago. And my neighbor died after heart surgery very recently. Both at very reputable hospitals. So I get very cautious about that kind of thing. Yeah, it might be kind of over board on the white. I was also kicking around the idea of using a humbucker with double black bobbins. When I started kicking around that Franken Strat idea, I noticed how much heavier humbuckers with covers are, so I'm leaning towards uncovered pickups lately. But I do like the look of chrome or nickel covers quite a bit. Looks a lot slicker, but part of me's still back in the '70s when uncovered pickups got popular. The one double black humbucker I'd probably use is a Super-2 that I bought at DJ's in Cicero back in the '70s. Nice snarly humbucker. It's under a chrome cover at the moment though. |
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Post by chris on Feb 5, 2008 20:47:21 GMT -6
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Post by petegalati on Feb 6, 2008 3:42:43 GMT -6
Are those plastic covers? I like the sound of that Jazz Tele! Don't think I'd have any use for the sound, but it sounds great. That'd be a great one for sitting back, and playing unplugged. I just went over to Kisekae, and got a double black humbucker to paste in my image. Now I'm thinking I should use 2 double black pickups  Maybe put the Super-2 in the bridge position, and a (potted) Duncan '59 bridge pickup in the neck position. (I'm just thinking of my double black humbuckers that're collecting dust) |
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Post by Rich on Feb 6, 2008 3:49:41 GMT -6
I like the black better, but it's only an opinion.. do what you want, Pete. I'm sure you will come up with something unique.  |
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Post by Rich on Feb 6, 2008 3:55:25 GMT -6
Oh.. Yes, those pickup covers are plastic. They look pretty cool, and can dress up an otherwise plain or unsightly pickup. On Andy's t style, the humbucker is a bright pink bobbin SD "Fred". Sounds great, but we couldn't have used it without the cover.
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Post by chris on Feb 6, 2008 8:29:37 GMT -6
They're plastic.
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Post by petegalati on Feb 6, 2008 14:02:56 GMT -6
The "Daddy's Little Girl" track is pretty cool. I hadn't gotten around to seeing all the youtubes yet. That guitar (someone adapted that one already(?) reminded me that I have one of the very early Duncan Hotrails pickups. It sat in my '69 Tele for years.  The store I bought it from said it was a "prototype", and judging from how the coils are wound, it was probably even hand wound. I could throw that into the Glendale bridge, and it's save me a lot of tedious woodcarving. The neck route is a lot easier, and takes a lot less precision. And to be honest, I hate working with ash. Alder and Basswood are easier for me to work with. |
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Post by Rich on Feb 6, 2008 14:22:40 GMT -6
That Hot Rails surprised me. It wasn't my choice, but it was a good call. Not a twanger, but a nice tone for many styles, including jazz, pop, rock, and blues. Yours looks really cool. I'll bet it would work really well in your white guitar, and give you a big sound. We've used a few of the Hot Rails pickups, and everyone who has them likes them. Might be a good twist to your plan. It balanced out well with the humbucker.
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Post by petegalati on Feb 7, 2008 16:25:59 GMT -6
That Hot Rails surprised me. It wasn't my choice, but it was a good call. Not a twanger, but a nice tone for many styles, including jazz, pop, rock, and blues. Yours looks really cool. I'll bet it would work really well in your white guitar, and give you a big sound. We've used a few of the Hot Rails pickups, and everyone who has them likes them. Might be a good twist to your plan. It balanced out well with the humbucker. I might have damaged the coils of my Hotrails trying to put it in my Glendale bridgeplate. Not really sure, but I'm not getting any reading on the DMM, even to the center connection of the cable. I'll have to strip back more wire, and check again because I usually get a reading to one lead or another, off the center connection, even when one coil gets messed up. It's real hard for me to do anything right now though. But I like the look of the white pickguard on the white body, with the maple neck. The Antiquity pickup fits in the Glendale bridge just fine! It's a tighter PU hole than in Fender bridgeplates. It wouldn't hurt me to buy a stack type Tele pickup made this century for the bridge position. I was sort of leaning toward using the Hotrails though, so I'm hoping it's ok. It fits just fine in a Fender bridge! |
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