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Toronado · **Joined:** Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:05 pm **Posts:** 2333

The Sharpie artwork - what a fantastic idea! Do you coat the pickguard with anything to prevent the drawing from smearing or wearing away over time?

Smokin' Frets · **Joined:** Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:33 am **Posts:** 1247

chromeface wrote:

That tuxedo maple neck with its black binding and blocks would look way better with a large headstock and black CBS-era decals.

Beautiful huge-sounding beast, though.

I believe you've installed a push-pull pot to split the humbuckers.

Well, I don't like the big Fender Headstocks, I prefer the smaller ones. Just a matter of taste

The pickups are P90-style PUs from Tonerider, that means they're single coils with a little more output. The small switch between the controls is not connected. It was for coil split when I still had the previous humbuckers installed. Now it's just sitting there disconnected.

Smokin' Frets · **Joined:** Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:33 am **Posts:** 1247

bluesstrattone wrote:

Loving the pick guard, the neck looks cool, not my cup of tea.
But the pick guard looks awesome.
Where did you find that one?

I did it myself.
I was kinda bored one evening and simply started drawing after having seen the famous "Sharpie Lamborghini" online. I thought it might be a cool idea to have a sharpie strat but wanted to try painting a pickguard first.
What can I say .... when I was done 2 or 3 hrs later, I liked the outcome.

I like my sharpie pickguard and yes, I'll do more of them.

Smokin' Frets · **Joined:** Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:33 am **Posts:** 1247

Toronado wrote:

The Sharpie artwork - what a fantastic idea! Do you coat the pickguard with anything to prevent the drawing from smearing or wearing away over time?

Yes, it's clearcoated with 1 thin layer of clear paint out of a spray can. After that it got polished to remove possible dust grains which might disturb the clean surface.

THANX FOR ALL YOUR KIND COMMENTS, FOLKS!!!

ZZDoc · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2012 5:33 am

Xhefri wrote:

Love the 70's style artwork...cool! Reminds me of some of the old Jimi or Doors posters — type artwork. The whole scheme of the guitar is tasteful. Nice job!

You get a 'plus' like that from Jeff, it's quite a feather in your hat. The new guitar has a far better esthetic effect than it's predecessor and really shows off that great scratchplate to it's credit.

bluesstrattone · **Joined:** Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:08 am **Posts:** 2265

Smokin' Frets wrote:

asgeirman wrote:

Really nice & interesting guitar. Stands out from the crowd! Fantastic pickguard ! I like the writing besides the pots- is it 'Trouble' and 'oil' ? Sweet. Now -enjoy! Play the crap out of it :lol:

Thank you!

Yes, it says "Trouble" over the volume pot but the "Oil" is in fact just some fantasy symbols which look like "oil" from a little further away. But dang, "Oil" would've been a great idea!!

)))))

Here's a close-up of the pickguard, when it was still mounted to the black strat. I clear-coated it now:

So you did this artwork, man that is a fantastic Dali like job.
That is a way better canvas to showcase ur artwork.

fender0426 · **Joined:** Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:46 pm **Posts:** 107

Very nice. Love the inlays and pickguard.

ZZDoc · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2012 4:47 pm

So with cudos on the art [ and a nod to where some of that could fit easily into Pink Floyd inspiration] tell us how you've got that pickguard wired.

Smokin' Frets · **Joined:** Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:33 am **Posts:** 1247

ZZDoc wrote:

So with cudos on the art [ and a nod to where some of that could fit easily into Pink Floyd inspiration] tell us how you've got that pickguard wired.

Standard wiring. Three way switch with position 1 being the bridge single coil, position 2 (middle) with both single coils hum free, position 3 with just the neck single coil.
The mini switch is without function.
One Trouble control (volume), one master Oil control (tone). :wink:

@asgeirman :wink:

The P90s don't do very well with crunch or higher gain settings. I think about installing a chrome Gibson Burstbucker (humbucker) into bridge position (non-splitable).
Clean sounds are nice but these Tonerider Rebel 90 pickups are a bit strong on the bass side. I tilted them so that the bass side is very close to the body and the treble side is closest to the strings, that sounds ok. These pickups also deliver a pretty hard attack.

It was an experiment and I think they'd do better in a hollow body jazz guitar and played with pretty soft picks. I'm not fully satisfied with the sound yet and I want a more defined sound with crunch settings for dirty blues rock.

Another alternative would be a vintage PAF in chrome (to keep the looks).

Robinstrat · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:29 pm

Smokin' Frets wrote:

Another alternative would be a vintage PAF in chrome (to keep the looks).

Yeah, you could put in a Gibson T-Top - great pickup for crunch/clean and overdriven sounds.

Cheers,
Robin

ZZDoc · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:08 am

......how about a set of Hetfield EMG's. Would that give you what you're looking for??

chromeface · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:16 am

@ZZDoc

EMGs require a battery. I don't think he would put active humbuckers.

ZZDoc · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:06 am

chromeface wrote:

@ZZDoc
EMGs require a battery. I don't think he would put active humbuckers.

A suggestion of something in line with what he's looking for. We know how to hide the battery inside the trem rout if he's willing to forgo the middle spring.

chromeface · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:08 am

There are also LiveWires from Seymour Duncan, Metal and Blackout.

These pickups are most famous for their endorsing pedigree (Dave Mustaine).

Drop & Gains and Arenas from Lace are also a nice alternative.

Smokin' Frets · **Joined:** Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:33 am **Posts:** 1247

ZZDoc wrote:

......how about a set of Hetfield EMG's. Would that give you what you're looking for??

Not really, I don't use active PUs.

What I'm looking for is a nice crunch/rock tone rather than high output metal pickups.
I have my Ibanez guitars for that.

The Bridge pickup should deliver a nice clean tone as well. That's not one of EMG's strenghtes.

I don't mind having a battery in my guitar, my American Buddy Guy Signatures has one for the active mid boost but I think the EMGs are way overpowered for what I intend to play with this strat.

Additionally I'd like to keep the look of the guitar as it is, which means it's gonna be a chrome covered pickup. I've never seen chrome EMGs, are there any at all???

I don't want to make a heavy metal axe out of this strat, it's used for blues and bluesrock, maybe some rock as well. Not too much gain will be used.

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