Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: littleredguitars2 on July 18, 2015, 03:38:03 PM
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(http://i.imgur.com/xyAIOVl.jpg)
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specs
warmoth body and neck
zebrawood top over chambered mahogany (with forearm, heel and tummy contours)
"black to clear burst" paint job on front. black on back.
roasted maple neck (standard thin profile) with stainless 6150 frets
locking fender tuners
bare knuckle piledriver pickups. bridge pickup direct mounted to body
4 way tele mod for running pickups together in series like a humbucker
mastery short tele bridge.
she plays and sounds beautiful. i'll upload a demo video soon
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Very nice :grin:
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To repeat my post from the other thread(!) that looks terrific, I love the colour! I didn't know Mastery made a Tele bridge.
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To repeat my post from the other thread(!) that looks terrific, I love the colour! I didn't know Mastery made a Tele bridge.
thanks!
yeah mastery has a couple different tele bridges. this is the short one but they have a full plate version and they have optional brass saddles
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Oh, that top look sooo good. Great job and choice!
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thanks telerocker! i'm proud to be the owner of this one.
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That is a beauty. Really eye catching and original. I'd love to show up for a gig with that.
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What a stunner- looking forward to hearing more.
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https://youtu.be/InKrRQBgAHs
Here's the demo video i just posted
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Great stuff. It certainly covers a lot of ground and looks fantastic. Nice playing btw. Yep I think that would do nicely.
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2 Piledrivers in series?!
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https://youtu.be/InKrRQBgAHs
Here's the demo video i just posted
Sounds great with drive, but I in fact like the cleans too and I'm a sucker for vintage(hot) singlecoils. More modern than a BG, but still quite tele-esque. These Piledrivers sound very nice and quite versatile.
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yeah i love how powerful these Piledrivers can be while still being able to have that tele style tone in the right situation. i'll definitely be doing more playing with it in different situations to show off the versatility some more. i was originally a little worrisome about putting the piledrivers in this wood combo but its working much better than expected. i like it even better than when i had them in alder.
2 Piledrivers in series?!
to be fair, the neck is pretty low output. the tone in series is not overwhelming at all. its nice and fat.
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I'm honestly not a fan of Teles but that one's a beauty. Best looking Tele I think I've ever seen.
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I'm honestly not a fan of Teles but that one's a beauty. Best looking Tele I think I've ever seen.
i'm honored!
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Man that is pretty. That wood...oh my. Lovely one. Congrats mate!
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That's a very beautiful guitar!
I didn't know Mastery made a Tele bridge.
Well I did - and I always wondered whether it would change the tone in a way going away from the typical tele tone.
Cheers Stephan
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Having seen your guitar I went and had a look at the Warmoth website. It's not exactly a cheap way of getting a guitar but I guess that depends on the quality it is comparable to once assembled. There doesn't appear to be that much work involved once you get the parts as it seems to be just a case of bolting it together and attaching the hardware. How straightforward did you find the whole process and what sort of guitar would you say the finished instrument is comparable to?
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putting together something from warmoth is definitely not hard. the only parts i needed some help with was drilling for a bridge ground. for some reason they didnt do it for this body although they usually do on the strats and jazzmasters i've bought from them. and i just needed help securing the bridge pickup to the body safely. if you can set up a guitar, then thats most of the work right there. as long as you order everything correctly everything should be fine. you may need to do a minor amount of fretwork on their necks. inserting the string ferrules on the backs of their guitars is annoying. i wish they did that themselves but its not so bad once you get used to it.
best case scenario its only about $200-300 worth of techwork if you brought it to someone to throw it all together. depending on the guy. maybe even less. i'm still learning but the last jazzmaster build i put together was maybe only 3-4 hours worth of work including the setup. the quality is great and the options you have are much better than a stock fender.
i spent $1100 or so on all the parts for this guitar and i'd say the quality can easily rival a $2000 dollar guitar in terms of quality. maybe more.
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putting together something from warmoth is definitely not hard. the only parts i needed some help with was drilling for a bridge ground. for some reason they didnt do it for this body although they usually do on the strats and jazzmasters i've bought from them.
That is because you have a standard tele bridge route in that body. For the standard tele bridge, no bridge ground route is needed - the wire from the string ground is just put underneath.
Cheers Stephan
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looks great! time to break it in, would love to hear how it sounds
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very cool indeed