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mistermikev

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  1. sure does. that's exactly how it strikes me... classy. love it.
  2. shat... glad to see u r still pushing the envelope into the "path less traveled". don't ever change. gj!!
  3. many things to take away from seeing your creations scott, and this is a stunning build... but also: black lacquer - just can't get over it ever time I see it. nice work!!
  4. ah, was not aware of such a thing... i suppose that tackles the issue of twisted wire... but doesn't seem like it would handle the issue of voltage buildup/pop. still neato.
  5. is an interesting topic for sure. my issue with the "wheel" is it would seem like it's way too complicated to be functional long term afa wiring. I suppose you could have contacts around the edges that align at certain spots... but then you are connecting/disconnecting wires and have to handle potential voltage build up and "pops"... or the alternative is wires potentially getting stressed as you spin the "pickup-lazy-susan". Have oft thought about this in general and I know there are a couple of folks who have implemented something similar... but I've always thought just a removable pickguard would make sense... to me anyway. that said... no matter what you do you are doing some wiring. you can wire up 4 pickups but that doesn't give you the opportunity to plop in something new when it comes along. seems to me just having a guitar wired up with pin headers for pickup leads... and just wire the opposite female/male to the new pickup you want to try... might work ok. I've changed pickups enough in my own guitars to know that it's pretty rare (50/50 shot) for me to be satisfied with my first guess at what might sound "good" in any guitar. Also fairly rare to get the wiring right right off the bat. for that reason I just do a simple piece of stripboard with the pickups connecting in to it. If I need to swap them... at least I don't make my wiring look all "hacked" (not that it didn't already).
  6. I have not tried the canarywood... will have to get some and give it a sniff!
  7. we should really have a subforum just related to "best smelling woods". I have smelt rosewood, walnut, mahog, maple, purpleheart, oak, sapele... with walnut being a fav and cedar and oak being right up there. A while back I was hogging out walnut via forstner bit and then collecting the shavings and putting them in a pot pouri dish with some oil... is a really nice smell. might have to find a reason to do that again soon.
  8. breedlove is nice stuff. cedar is not as flashy as flame nor as cute as quilt... but it's quite fetching in its own way and short of tone sniffing I'd say I like it more than spruce afa sound. not nearly as bright in a good way. "thank you, may I have another?"
  9. "I want my baby back, baby back, baby back... get in ma belly wee man!" hehe, I bet that stuff smells glorious to work! it's on my bucket list and grows wild here but pretty few/far between stock w/o splits and/or wide enough for even 1/2 a guitar (at least in az). that is a rare piece u got there. beautiful.
  10. figured mesquite gol dang... have not seen before. lovely stuff.
  11. what a beautiful outcome. bravo. yes the offset looks like a necklace v classy.
  12. you prob already know this... but you can buy rosewood knobs online, and you can make them with a drill press pretty easy... not that I'm an expert. all that said... u r the captain of your own ship... but I suggest things, it's what I do lol.
  13. right on... I'm the sm way... I always think "well I'm gonna use this again in 3 mins so I'll just set it right here" and eventually I get to critical mass and spend too much time looking for the thing I just used... so I do cleanup! a vicious cycle.
  14. right on, it just looks like the pores are really black... looks good.
  15. you got a gorrilla helpin' you out lol? george the animal steel? seriously tho.. that mahog with the ebony looks lovely. did you black grain fill that mahog? looks really great.
  16. rosewood w rosewood... a winning combo in my book. that'll look sharp w that body. I hope you'll do something on the body to echo that rosewood... rosewood knobs, rosewood veneer over pickup bobbins... could buy some emg style plastic covers and then laminate rosewood on them... that'd look sharp. just a thought. carry on.
  17. now that's a proper dirty workbench. guitar looks great. lots to like there.
  18. i like what you did there. w the bridge. add a piezo at all? that'd be pretty cool.
  19. some nice inlay work and really nice build. cudos brutha
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