I have managed to heat my workshop – it is only 9’ x 7’ x 7’ – I have a 1500W oil filled radiator – the room stays above 55°F as long a the door stays shut…..  The rest of…   Read more»

Will Moley be co-starring with Mark?

We got flooded in 2007 – two weeks before the big floods round here – lost carpets and furniture but it was covered by insurance – we had ditches dug and things have stayed in control. The waters were high…   Read more»

Better pics – no covers on cavities still – just need another polish…

The Dusenberg is really well made – the action is good but the guitar wouldn’t stay in tune with it on – the bridge is a cheap one but the roller saddles seemed to work smoothly but just sometimes after…   Read more»

Yes – it was a Dusenberg – I was having tuning issues so normal tailpiece installed at present.

I am very happy with it – still working on playing it well enough though!

The tuners are from Riot – Firebirds originally had Banjo type tuners – Steinberger produced some for a while.  These work well – there are pics earlier in the thread….
See https://riot-works.com
 

A quick picture – will get a better one in daylight tomorrow…

I was having issues with tuning stability – occasionally after waggling the trem strings would have drifted….. I couldn’t find the right screws for the truss rod cove for a while…. I adjusted the neck shape around the nut and…   Read more»

I have a Bailey acoustic kit waiting to be built. My workbench is in a small room in the garage – I needed to rearrange the room to get the build board in – also I added a ceiling, secondary…   Read more»

I bought some from Cat Music on eBay – seems to work – once applied and burnished it has a metallic sheen – conducts well – it was quite expensive for the volume but as I didn’t need a large…   Read more»

Option d for me – think the maple fretboard would look good.

I was a late starter – first gig was when I was when I got to Uni at 18 in 1975 – Steve Marriott, followed by Fairport Convention and Curved Air in the same week. Cardiff was good for gigs…   Read more»

Also bought the Benedetto book – a lot to read + lots of pictures….

From a bit of research a while back the effective capacitance of pickups is quite small compared to that of typical guitar cables.   Resonant peaks of guitar pickups tend to be at ultrasonic frequencies.  Tone controls probably have a…   Read more»

My thoughts on pickup winding are that I can just try some of the variables and see what they sound like – vary number of winds, wire thickness and material, magnet type and strength, coil taps (as opposed to splits),…   Read more»

Will dive in and enjoy over the next days!
Thanks Mark!

The probe is connected to the count connections – the counter is battery powered.  You need to test the best distance for the magnet. Also it will only count lowish speeds – I found that as I turned up the…   Read more»