Slunk Dragon
Gear Nerder
I know a couple folks were interested in seeing my guitar, so here it is!
Yes, that's a Godzilla sticker on the headstock, it's flair
Specs:
All mahogany hollowbody (soundhole on the side) with maple neck & ebony fretboard
Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro in the neck and Pearly Gates in the bridge
Volume and Tone knobs
5-way toggle switch, set up like a PRS (bridge, two outer coils, both pickups, two inner coils, neck)
Red killswitch (cuts out the sound when pressed, look up Buckethead
)
This guitar is the first project result of me and my dad experimenting with guitars. We made the body, the neck is from Steward Macdonald, as my dad doesn't like doing the necks (even though he works fulltime as a carpenter, but I digress). My dad loves the Telecaster guitar shape, as he's made several bodies before and after this one in this shape that are hollowbodies. They sound great acoustically and mine especially sounds incredible plugged in, although it's got a little something unique to it.
It's weighted pretty evenly on its own, but I like playing in a more upright position, and of course I was constantly fighting this guitar to keep it upright, so what was the solution that we figured out? Put some fishing weights together behind the block of wood that's in it for the bridge and seal it in with spray foam, the kind you use to seal windows. Sounds a bit off the wall, but it's produced the strangest result: the guitar sounds NOTICEABLY brighter when it's plugged in, like easily 20-30% more. And combined with the pickups in it, I've had to constantly lower the treble on my amp just to not destroy my own hearing. Gotta save those touchy eardrums of mine.
Why it does this, I have not been able to figure out. My guitar teacher, a very intelligent dude whom I've been taking lessons from for several years, was also baffled by my guitar's extremely bright sound. It practically sounds like I have EMGs in my guitar there's so much treble to it! Anyone have any guesses as to why it's doing that? I mean to me, I'd think that filling up part of the guitar cavity with something not extremely dense wouldn't do much of anything, but it's done the adverse.
Also any other comments are extremely appreciated!
We're working on a second guitar for me as well, another 6-string that will be a solid body with lots of awesome technical things as well.
Yes, that's a Godzilla sticker on the headstock, it's flair
Specs:
All mahogany hollowbody (soundhole on the side) with maple neck & ebony fretboard
Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro in the neck and Pearly Gates in the bridge
Volume and Tone knobs
5-way toggle switch, set up like a PRS (bridge, two outer coils, both pickups, two inner coils, neck)
Red killswitch (cuts out the sound when pressed, look up Buckethead
)This guitar is the first project result of me and my dad experimenting with guitars. We made the body, the neck is from Steward Macdonald, as my dad doesn't like doing the necks (even though he works fulltime as a carpenter, but I digress). My dad loves the Telecaster guitar shape, as he's made several bodies before and after this one in this shape that are hollowbodies. They sound great acoustically and mine especially sounds incredible plugged in, although it's got a little something unique to it.
It's weighted pretty evenly on its own, but I like playing in a more upright position, and of course I was constantly fighting this guitar to keep it upright, so what was the solution that we figured out? Put some fishing weights together behind the block of wood that's in it for the bridge and seal it in with spray foam, the kind you use to seal windows. Sounds a bit off the wall, but it's produced the strangest result: the guitar sounds NOTICEABLY brighter when it's plugged in, like easily 20-30% more. And combined with the pickups in it, I've had to constantly lower the treble on my amp just to not destroy my own hearing. Gotta save those touchy eardrums of mine.
Why it does this, I have not been able to figure out. My guitar teacher, a very intelligent dude whom I've been taking lessons from for several years, was also baffled by my guitar's extremely bright sound. It practically sounds like I have EMGs in my guitar there's so much treble to it! Anyone have any guesses as to why it's doing that? I mean to me, I'd think that filling up part of the guitar cavity with something not extremely dense wouldn't do much of anything, but it's done the adverse.
Also any other comments are extremely appreciated!
We're working on a second guitar for me as well, another 6-string that will be a solid body with lots of awesome technical things as well.
