Oooh, Shiny. What Should I Do To It?

Send it to me.


;D

What should I do "To" it, not "With" it.

(Unless you'd be abusing it.)


So, aside from the black pickguard, what should be done to it?

OK, I moved the pictures to the BOTTOM of the post.

Everyone's gone guitar'gasmic from the pictures and can't find the words thereafter. I should'a bought an ugly guitar (oh wait, no male wants to have an actual (well, superfluous) conversation with a less than beautiful woman either).

If guitars only sounded good, they'd be a lot harder to sell.


Now, based on the words that are located before the guitar porn, what do you want to know about, or want me to try with the guitar/wiring?

Ummmmmm, maybe. I do like a black/white/black with white pickups and knobs......

I only seem to like tortoiseshell along with chrome knobs and pickups, go figure. My MIM Nash Power Tele has a tortoiseshell guard along with the chrome Tele neck pickup and a white Strat middle pickup. If I ever reassemble it (I use it as a pickup tester since it has a middle/neck pool route and the ToggleCaster wiring scheme [ye ha, 8 switches] and 1" by 1" by 2" foam blocks rule), I'll change to a black cover on the Strat pickup (and I DO have a chrome Strat pickup cover).

You may be right, I may be crazy...................oh wait, let's just not go there.................

I'll take it over to Piano's n Stuff near me (mind you, they don't sell pianos) and look at both (ahhh, a Fender authorized repair station that I can easily go to and actually HAS a bunch of factory parts).



Well, there actually IS a source for the S-1 stuff, it's called ebay.

I guess that I could wax thematic and procure two more with the knobs (although I hate to try this since many folk butcher knobs while trying to remove them, especially the S-1 ones). I don't know what I'd connect them to but....................



Well, I've put a GK-2A ONto a Tele, but never into anything. I'm not the biggest fan of the Ronald (or Yamaha) magnetic hex pickups, my Godin has the RMC piezo saddles which, back in the VG-8 days were considered to be the best.

One of the project that I thought of back in 2002, but didn't work on , was for adding piezo saddles to a "stick of chewing gum-sized" PCB that mounted to the vibrato block. This would do more than just sum the signals, it would have 8 OPAMPS for individual string buffering, active piezo summing, and combined piezo/magnetic signal buffering. There was to be individual saddle gain pots as well as a combined piezo and magnetic level pot. It's really quite simple to design, just never really needed it so I never got around to it. Many such commercially viable projects languished since I was still designing start-up companies at the time.



I've often thought of that, but the Variax 500 models were build for a basswood body and a rosewood/maple neck. Any variance from that and the model's would be less accurate. Remember, I bought the Variax FOR the models so I wouldn't have to buy all of the vintage instruments to compare against wiring dementia-based schemes. And, I was working on an analog modeling guitar at the time. Someone has filed patent applications for this, but I have substantial prior art, so if I ever get interested again....................



Yeah, but knowing me it'll end up "bedingled" and I'll still have to (re)finish it.