Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Peter Antal on April 26, 2007, 09:59:45 PM
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The parts have finally arrived! :D Cheers to Roger at THG Knobs. :)
(http://www.antals.com/peter/pics/pku_artist_zebra.jpg)
(http://www.antals.com/peter/pics/pku_artist_close.jpg)
(http://www.antals.com/peter/pics/pku_artist_trc.jpg)
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That guitar is FIT
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*DROOLS*
Sweet sweet sweeeeeeeeet
...but why have yu strung it up with no pickups in there?
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That looks really nice, i love how almost everything is wood, are you gonna try to get some wooden pickup bobbins? i know they're available, although not in the BKP range.
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classy!
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Now that looks very nice indeed!
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Beautiful!!!
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I make my own wooden knobs quiet often - but that little switch knob has me beat. . . top notch stuff
What the body wood, i like the almost bookmatched grain.
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Niccceeee. What wood you using there?
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Your guitars get more facelifts than Burt Reynolds, Peter! :)
Out of interest, what made you decide on a switch to replace one of the knobs? And are the Planet Waves tuners a new addition?
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Sweet - I've got a large block of quartersawn Zebrano stashed for making a few fretboards and maybe some sunk stripes on future guitars. The cool thing about it is it's sort of got a dual personality - on flatsawn pieces, it can have a mostly uniform colour and attractive wavy grain patterns, and on quartersawn pieces like the truss rod and pickup covers it's cream and brown striped (hence the name Zebrano). Gotta love the control knob and switch tip 8)
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wow, looks gorgeous!
where did you get them???
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Sweet - I've got a large block of quartersawn Zebrano stashed for making a few fretboards and maybe some sunk stripes on future guitars. The cool thing about it is it's sort of got a dual personality - on flatsawn pieces, it can have a mostly uniform colour and attractive wavy grain patterns, and on quartersawn pieces like the truss rod and pickup covers it's cream and brown striped (hence the name Zebrano). Gotta love the control knob and switch tip 8)
Yeah, i love the stuff. I have made quite a few guitar necks out of it, definately one of my favorites for that (except for when i am carving it - its pretty dense stuff).
It takes an oil & wax finish beautifully - and thats just how i like my necks
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Thanks for the comments! :)
...but why have yu strung it up with no pickups in there?
The Mule set that used to be in it is in my Strat now, I haven't decided about the new pickups yet.
are you gonna try to get some wooden pickup bobbins? i know they're available, although not in the BKP range.
You mean Swineshead? The AMP humbucker looks like a great pickup.
What the body wood, i like the almost bookmatched grain.
It's some kind of mahogany. The blank was old and had a nice tap tone. The darker and brighter grain patterns vary when seen from different angles and almost disappear when you look at the guitar from the neck side.
Niccceeee. What wood you using there?
The body and the neck are mahogany, I think Honduran but I'm not sure. Here's a pic.
(http://www.antals.com/peter/pics/artist_hat.jpg)
It's heavy and dense and has an almost glassy tap tone. These were very, very old blocks.
The top wood might be another kind of mahogany. The fretboard is African Blackwood.
Out of interest, what made you decide on a switch to replace one of the knobs? And are the Planet Waves tuners a new addition?
The front knob was a 500K/500K blend pot I used for pickup switching. With a 500K volume pot (the rear knob) it was like having a ~166K volume pot, which sounded smooth and jazzy with the Mules but I wanted more dynamics and attack after some time. I didn't know much about electronics when I chose the parts for the guitar. :P
The Planet Waves tuners have always been there. :)
where did you get them???
I ordered the zebrawood parts from THG Knobs. :)
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I dunno if it's the lighting in the photos or me being senile but the wood on the rear view looks even better than the front.
Once more I have to say to you, thats an excellent looking guitar, if it plays half as well as it looks, it's a good un
Rob...
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yeah the back has the traditional mahogany or sapele ribboning figure. the front doesnt realy look like mahogany - similar in some respects but not the same!
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Yeah I'd say Sapele for the body's back - being dense/heavy and having a great tap tone sounds like Sapele, it's a very nice wood for making guitars with - I like to think of it soundwise as a lively Mahogany that doesn't get muddy like other types of Mahogany.