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Post by blademaster2 on Aug 27, 2015 21:12:31 GMT -5
Solid-chambered Walnut body, set neck. It is actually a SSS guitar with the bridge location housing two back-to-back Fender pickups in the same cover. They are switched using the 6-way switch, and the tone controls are unique (inductor with capacitor, giving "fatness" control). I still discover new sounds and settings from this thing after 25 years, and I play it more than any of my purchased guitars. Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2015 6:39:14 GMT -5
Solid-chambered Walnut body, set neck. It is actually a SSS guitar with the bridge location housing two back-to-back Fender pickups in the same cover. They are switched using the 6-way switch, and the tone controls are unique (inductor with capacitor, giving "fatness" control). I still discover new sounds and settings from this thing after 25 years, and I play it more than any of my purchased guitars. wow man, hats off. BTW this seems like a HH instead of SSS. |
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Post by blademaster2 on Aug 28, 2015 11:35:03 GMT -5
I know, it was supposed to *look* like a HH but inside those covers is a single-coil Fender pickup in the neck location and those two single-coil Fenders back-to-back under the cover at the bridge location. The tones it creates are more varied than my HH guitars (Epiphone double neck, Framus Nashville) or Stratocaster, being able to move between the two. Additionally, the 'fatness' control makes the bridge pickup sound thin and sweet even in humbucker setting.
*Recent changes*: I have in 2018 replaced the Fender Pickup that was in the neck location (it was from a 1980 Fender Lead II, if I recall correctly) with a Seymour Duncan SSL-1. The new pickup added a lot of crisp high frequencies that were missing from the original Lead II pickup. Ironically, now I find that I often turn the tone pot on the neck pickup down to less than half so that the ice-pick sound is avoided (these preferences come and go). I am finding that those extra highs are best reserved for a distorting amplifier to get that sizzley/wet tone, but it is too much treble and overwhelms the warmth of the walnut body response (tonewood deniers, please ignore this statement) that makes this guitar sound so pleasing to my ears when I am playing clean. All in all, I love the sound and the variety of this guitar even more now.
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