Livinloud777

Took a couple of minutes to throw this together. Sloppy but you can get the picture. I will probably put something better together next week. Full Guitar Demo.wav

The acoustic pickup is a fishman piezo under saddle run through the LRBaggs preamp. The mag pups are specially wound for the bronze strings. They still put out a good electric tone. Played with it today and got the electric tone dialed in!

Thickness is 1.75 inches total.

I have used ag ir’s with my piezo equipped Strat and it sounds okay with the Baggs x bridge but this is a whole new level. I am not sure I will need the ir’s. I might blend one in. Combination of resonant hollow body and no metal chunk of a bridge makes a ton of difference. I am also using bronze acoustic strings which makes a huge difference in ag tone. I wouldn’t put money/effort in anything less that the hollow body, acoustic bridge, bronze string combo. The trade off is the electrics but the Tom Anderson pickups are amazing! They work with the bronze strings and sound great!

Somebody got played today! Still have some more details to finish (Knobs, rear cavity cover, fretwork, etc.) but she is better that I hoped for! Acoustic tones are great! Electric tones are solid too, just gotta tweak the amp settings to find her sweet spot! I play through a Helix with 3 signal chains. Acoustic, Electric, and a very wet ambient Electric. I can layer all 3 or any combination. To do it I use a stereo cable and separate the piezo signal from the magnetic pups. Acoustic gets processed independent from the mags. The magnetic signal goes through preamp section then is split into 2 signal chains for amp modeling. I use a torpedo cab in an fx loop for the main magnetic modeling and use the helix amp modeling for the wet ambience! 2 outputs to the soundboard. One for acoustic and one for electric. End result=beautiful! Easily the best guitar I have! I feel like a kid at Christmas.

Looks like a guitar! All the credit goes to my friend Dave for the amazing finish! He nailed the look I was going for!

Airbrush it was!

Progress...

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The bridge pup will be much easier. The neck pup may get tedious but does have room.

Yep, rubber bushings between the top and the feet. They stay on the screw enough to set the screw in, slide on the bushing, move the pickup in place, and then wiggle it all around until it finds the right hole in the pickup. Something I hope to only have to do once.

There is enough space inside to feed them through then a couple of screws in the top. Basically using the top as the pickup ring.

Nice!

Getting started on the color... Going to sand this back and go after a light tiger eye look. Check out that detail in the tight flame!