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The Fuzz of Perception in honour of Huxley???

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All this building talk has me itching to start another one. Might have to give Sykes a call next week and see what they have for me!

That's the spirit! 8)

-Nutter

Ah needs must!

I love the start of a build. A month of mentally planning your dream guitar. I'm looking forward to being reunited with my stripy towel! :D

Not sure if this one will get a thread though. One a year is enough for me. I'm not sure if it will be another strat type guitar. Fender make 'um so much better than me anyway. :wink:

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The Fuzz of Perception in honour of Huxley???

Mescaline powered I presume?

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The Fuzz of Perception in honour of Huxley???

Mescaline powered I presume?

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Yeah, cant help but think it would need a phaser effect too.

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nikininja wrote:
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The Fuzz of Perception in honour of Huxley???

Mescaline powered I presume?

:D

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Yeah, cant help but think it would need a phaser effect too.

:lol: you crack me up, lads! :D
(though not in a drug-related way :shock: )
Anyway, crack on! (there! again! What's wrong with me!?)

So, I'd better get crackin', there's stuff to be done! AAAAAHHHRGGGHH...

Uh, see ya soon, looking forward to the new builds Andy & Nick, keep me in the loop... 8)

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That's the spirit! 8)

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Pending Awesome-ness!

And that's the stuff too! Greatness now attained, after all.
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I'm not sure if it will be another strat type guitar. Fender make 'um so much better than me anyway. :wink:

Ah well, just hold on there. I can think of a few genuinely worthwhile things Fender unaccountably don't offer on the Strat chassis - and I'm not talking mere humbuckers and hardtails.

The Brighton-Victoria Line Guitar Company may yet have a thing or two to bring to the world...

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The Brighton-Victoria Line Guitar Company may yet have a thing or two to bring to the world...

Pending Awesome-ness indeed! :wink:

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Seems like every time I get posted to return to thiis thread I've a fortnight's worth of reading to catch up with. :? What a busy crew.
By the way, I once owned a TelePlus and that blue Lace is a killer. The X-man has assumed the mantle for those powerplants, much to our advantage. 8)

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Awwe man in a word awesome, a "wirer" and a woodworker, how cool are you sir!

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Seems like every time I get posted to return to thiis thread I've a fortnight's worth of reading to catch up with. :? What a busy crew.
By the way, I once owned a TelePlus and that blue Lace is a killer. The X-man has assumed the mantle for those powerplants, much to our advantage. 8)

Absolutly! The X-man's is a legend in his own time!

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Awwe man in a word awesome, a "wirer" and a woodworker, how cool are you sir!

Bows in deferance. 8)

Awww shucks, I've gone all shy again :oops:

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Ceri wrote:
The_Nutter wrote:
That's the spirit! 8)

Andy wrote:
Pending Awesome-ness!

And that's the stuff too! Greatness now attained, after all.
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I'm not sure if it will be another strat type guitar. Fender make 'um so much better than me anyway. :wink:

Ah well, just hold on there. I can think of a few genuinely worthwhile things Fender unaccountably don't offer on the Strat chassis - and I'm not talking mere humbuckers and hardtails.

The Brighton-Victoria Line Guitar Company may yet have a thing or two to bring to the world...

8) - C

Guys, check this one out for a little inspiration. I'm sure there's something in there for everybody 8)

I expect to see some self-tuning and LED-illuminated crazy stuff here soon, laddies! Of course with your usual class and taste! ;)

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Guys, check this one out for a little inspiration. I'm sure there's something in there for everybody 8)

I expect to see some self-tuning and LED-illuminated crazy stuff here soon, laddies! Of course with your usual class and taste! ;)

"Virtual capo" - what the f...?

See, my ideas are all timber based. So I'll design the platform - you electronheads can work out what to put inside. I believe in the industrial revolution that was known as the "division of labour"... :D

BTW, Nutter. I have been cogitating on your desire for slide-able pickups. What I've imagined so far is all a bit Heath Robinson. Not sure how this thing can be accomplished elegantly - so it's a challenge!

If I remember rightly the pickup on Dan Armstrong's lucite Ampeg guitar can be lifted out and quickly swapped for another, but I don't think it slides to different positions. Somewhere in the back of my memory there was someone who made a guitar with sliding pickups - but I'm blowed if I can recall what it was. Anyone know about it?

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When I was a kid I was in a country band. The bassist had a Gibson bass with a sliding pickup.

Kind of like this one.

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Though I can't be sure it was a Grabber.


What has always interested me is the idead of one pickup a string. Switch resistors in and out to emphasise certain pickups. So you could add a stronger bass or treble end to the guitar.

I suppose you could do it to one switch a pickup position with a top/middle/bottom emphasis selector.

Then again Leo did that at G&L using a far easier interface and wiring setup. :oops:

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"Virtual capo" - what the f...?

See, my ideas are all timber based. So I'll design the platform - you electronheads can work out what to put inside. I believe in the industrial revolution that was known as the "division of labour"... :D

BTW, Nutter. I have been cogitating on your desire for slide-able pickups. What I've imagined so far is all a bit Heath Robinson. Not sure how this thing can be accomplished elegantly - so it's a challenge!

If I remember rightly the pickup on Dan Armstrong's lucite Ampeg guitar can be lifted out and quickly swapped for another, but I don't think it slides to different positions. Somewhere in the back of my memory there was someone who made a guitar with sliding pickups - but I'm blowed if I can recall what it was. Anyone know about it?

Cheers - C


Well guys all this slide-talk makes me a bit fidgety - do I smell a new project? ohhhhh! :D

I kind of liked the Wilkinson self-tuning bridge in the last example of that link. nice and basic, but can be helpful in a studio environment or when you're a whammy-twister. Can keep you in tune for a whole show. Not bad.

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Well guys all this slide-talk makes me a bit fidgety - do I smell a new project? ohhhhh! :D

Erm; I admit I'm not there with it yet.

I don't quite see how the Gibson in Nick's post works and I'm curious to know more. Meantime, the way I'm seeing it is this: for a pickup to be positioned anywhere in the picking zone it would need to sit in a swimming pool type route, right? Fine so far. Then, you could make it adjustable by putting the mounting screws in slots in the pickguard rather than holes and just position and tighten them where you wanted them. Still fine. And of course you'd need to have a big gap in the 'guard to accommodate the pickup's movement. So it would look like this:

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Am I wrong? I think that is puke, aesthetically speaking.

I guess an alternative would be to have a pickup with a very shallow depth, a bit like these Kent Armstrong jazz pups:

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Those are half an inch deep, so ideally we want something even shallower. Even my non-electronic brain can cope with pickups and they are not so impossibly sophisticated to make. I believe I could construct an extra shallow pickup based on the P90 concept, set within a custom designed and built (by me) acrylic plastic housing. It's do-able.

So then we'd have a very slim pickup that would sit between the underside of the strings and the front of the guitar body. No need for the swimming pool route. Instead of the pickguard mount we'd then want a discreet little rail arrangement for it to run up and down on. Mmm: tricky to achieve elegantly, but I suppose there could be a way.

But are we sure it's worth the effort?

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I kind of liked the Wilkinson self-tuning bridge in the last example of that link.

I like it too. Much more interesting than the clunky, lumpy "robot" tuning machines I've so far seen.

As yet I've only found the Wilkinson self-tuning bridge available on guitars (his Fretking models, I think?). Do you know of anywhere to buy it as an aftermarket part? It's not on Trev Wilkinson's own website so far.

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