Scott Stewart

I love the sound of Duckbuckers - twangy/quacky with moderately low mids - definitely worth trying one out, especially if you can find a deal on a used one. My beef with this one is it is an older model before they wired them with four conductors - the newer models can be wired in series for theoretically double output. This one is trapped around 2.6k, so without my compressor on (and cranked) it is literally inaudible at volumes where the neck and bridge are too loud. I'm thinking JB Jr. For a replacement, I have one In a Strat I built and it is one of my favorite pickups.

It's already darkening a bit, but that's alright - I'm going to let it age gracefully and hope it maintains its red highlights. If not, well, Padauk in any other color will sound just as sweet And the middle pickup is a Duckbucker, not Dimebucker.

Hey guys - First time poster, long time lurker. Wanted to share my most recent build (pretty proud of it). After ~2 months of work, countless hours of research, and a lot of sweat, she's finally done! And, boy, is she HEAVY. I don't have a scale, but it's the heaviest guitar I've ever played. Sustain is unbelievable. Very happy with how she turned out Specs: 2 piece padauk body. 3 slurry sandings with Tru Oil to fill the grain just a tad. 3 finish coats of Tru Oil, all shine knocked off with 0000 steel wool to a nice satin. Padauk neck/zebrawood fingerboard/abalone inlays. Neck is raw, oiled with Formby's lemon oil. GFS Vintage wound p90 in the neck Seymour Duncan Duckbucker mid (considering replacing this with a JBJr. - the Duckbucker I got is one of the old ones and isn't close to enough output to keep up with the other two pickups) Dimarzio Tone Zone in the bridge Mighty Mite hardtail bridge (This bridge is awesome - nice and heavy, has a nice unique-ish look to it) Both pots are alpha 500k, orange drop tone cap, switchcraft jack, 5 way Strat switch (wired like a Strat for now - may consider wiring like a Nashville Tele sometime in the future) Vintage tuners (not gonna lie, they're cheap, but tuning is rock solid so I'm not complaining) Abalone-topped chrome knobs TusqXL nut Schaller straplocks All of these pictures are phone camera pictures - please forgive me for being too lazy to break out the real camera, my wife and I are in the middle of a move. Y'know how it is.