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  1. Hywel

    Need some help planing a conversion Neck

    If your truss rod reaches the neck pocket then that's long enough. 460mm guitar rods are also fairly widely available.
  2. Hywel

    What should i save up for?

    What about a six or seven string Mayones Setius? Close to your budget, high quality and very versatile with the right pickups and coil splitting options. A 29" fanned 8 string would not be my first choice for blues or anything approaching versatility unless I was Charlie Hunter.
  3. Hywel

    Build: Seven string multiscale Telecaster with some gimmicks

    The single action rod might not be a problem but it will give you less control over the neck just in case it ends up not perfectly straight. The hex nut can be used at the headstock (PRS SE guitars use this kind of rod I think) but it will require a larger route to fit and may weaken the...
  4. Hywel

    J_Mac build #1

    Looking good! With the neck pockets I usually like to hog most of the wood out with forstner bit in a drill and a chisel before using the router to get the edges and final depth. Same for all the cavities. Saves loads of wear on the router!
  5. Hywel

    Rethinking my pickup sets: tales of compression, output, and incoming dad-ism

    PAF style pickups are where it's at for versatility. Lower output pickups combined with an OD boost and high gain amp gives loads of uncompressed clarity with plenty of gain available but they also clean up amazingly well. A decent Alnico 4 or 5 set wound to ~7.5k on the neck and ~8.5k on the...
  6. Hywel

    Pickups Suggestion on 7string Baritone Tele

    Have both, go zebra!
  7. Hywel

    Humbucker repair?

    On Duncans the south coil (normally the one with screws in single screw humbuckers) is the red and green wires and the north coil is black and white so it sounds like you've got a problem with the north coil. I'd very carefully take the outside tape off and check resistance at the lead wires...
  8. Hywel

    Need specifics about Fender S-1 single coil "simulation"

    It's not the Fender system but PRS has been using resistors on some of their models for a while. The resistor sits between the "off" coil and ground so it keeps a little bit of the "off" coil in the signal when split. Still noisy but beefs the sound up a little bit. The exact resistor value may...
  9. Hywel

    Need help with metallic ringing coming from guitar

    Any chance the nut has been messed with or you've changed to much lighter/heavier strings? I think I've had similar issues in the past with greatly oversized nut slots. It's a bit hacky and might not do anything but try putting some paper in a U shape under each string in the nut to take up any...
  10. Hywel

    Misadventures in Swirling

    The white, gold and black one is awesome. Loving this thread. Keep it up!
  11. Hywel

    Can be sanded off the inlays on the fretboard?

    I doubt it. By the time you've sanded them out you'll probably find the fretboard is too thin or even gone completely once you've got the radius back. Some people have had success with dying the inlay and fretboard black but I assume results can vary hugely.
  12. Hywel

    SD Blackout Push/Push wiring help!

    So you want a normal volume pot with push/pull for pickup selection? This might do it. http://guitarwiring.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/george-lynchs-guitar-pickup-selector.html
  13. Hywel

    What threaded inserts are people using?

    Probably not helpful but M4/M5 metric works well in Europe. You probably need a much thinner screw than you think. The clamping pressure from even a 4mm thread times four is insane. I've used the normal Stew-Mac style ferrules, small 8mm brass screw cups (like a Blackmachine) and just flanged...
  14. Hywel

    JB with ceramic magnets. Does this exist?

    JB with a thick ceramic (5mm to 1/4") is a Distortion. A JB with a normal thickness ceramic (~3mm to 1/8") is kinda a "Distortion Lite" and isn't part of the normal SD range AFAIK. Magnet swapping is super easy and relatively safe. You may need something like a hair dryer to melt the potting...
  15. Hywel

    Fretboard crack :(

    That's certainly fixable but it might require a partial re-fret. AVH did a good photo story of a similar repair on his facebook. https://www.facebook.com/pg/ahguitartechblog/photos/?tab=album&album_id=772759709566183 Those kind of cracks tend to be due to dryness but that is the area the truss...
  16. Hywel

    Post your single pickup sixer pics!

    Home made strandy. I think the Lace Deathbucker works really well in a single pickup guitar. Roll off the tone a bit and it's great for lead, tone on 10 and it's great for rhythm.
  17. Hywel

    Need help with bkp custom slanted pups string spacing!!

    Normal unless you specify a wide spaced bridge. Depending on the bridge you're using the strings and poles may not line up perfectly but it will make little difference to the sound.
  18. Hywel

    Why are so many guitarists going to fishman?

    I love the Fluence Modern set in my 26" scale 6 string. They are genuinely decent, versatile pickups. The coil splits, voicings, HF tilt and gain reduction controls make them massively flexible and they don't sound like an "active" pickup unless you want them to.
  19. Hywel

    Fanned Fret pickups - 8 string/9pickups. Whats about?

    Dunno how helpful it is but I compared the pic to some appropriately scaled 8 string soapbar pickups in Adobe Illustrator and they seem to match so I'd put my money on the ones in the photo being 8 string sized. No guarantees though. Probably best to send Thomann an email.
  20. Hywel

    Guitars Built by Members of SS.org [pic heavy]

    Cheers! The bodies are basically Mayones Regius outlines. I've attached an outline template for the 670mm 7 string. If you open it in Illustrator or Inkscape you should be able to edit it for different scales and numbers of strings. Watch out for the bridge pickup placement if you change the...


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