Warmoth order

Telecaster®, Warmoth Pro, Right Handed Handed, Maple, Ebony Fretboard, 1-11/16" Nut Width, Standard thin, 6150, Gotoh/Grover (13/32" 11/32") Tuner Ream, 22 frets, 10-16" Compound Radius, No Inlay Inlay, White Side Dots, Black Corian, No Finish, 25-1/2"

Boom there it is.

Warmoth order

I am ready for the biggest upgrade for my squire (to date) a new neck. There are many companies to chose from do I'm going for the biggest Warmoth. They are not cheap but it is US made and they will put together any combination of wood and metal I want.

So its going to be maple neck, ebony board with 6100 frets. Probably. I'm worried about messing up the order so I'm calling them all the way from Swansea in the UK.

Updates as ever to follow.

It's time for another humbucker

I think I've got to much time on my hands or I just don't use the neck pup. It doesn't sound good its got to go.

I got the humbucker as a pair to replace the Seymour in my Ibanez. I was already paid for so in it goes. The hole chopping was easy I drilled out the space and chiseled the rest out. I chiseled the pick guard out as well, its only a single ply and I did a reasonable job of it.

My "stuff" cupboard

There is a pick up in there somewhere.

Signal path

In my HiFi I have spent time with cables to get the optimum sound. Worrying about signal loss for hours and generally the quality of components. So should I think the same about my guitars. Cables I've got sorted and I can talk about that another day. I'm talking electronic internals. So volume pots wires and selector switches.

I'm sure the wiring in my squire is adequate for the stock pickups but I'm upgrading so time for change.

I've ordered a fender 250 k solid shaft pot, next I'm thinking a Gibson style toggle switch and a toggle switch to switch off one coil in the humbucker. I noticed that there were 2 wires one coming from each coil so I thought I'd put a little toggle switch in to turn off 1 coil sort of a coil split.  I'm thinking of losing the tone control and maybe swap to a second volume but I'd never use it.

As I write this I remember the ibanez pick up that I got as a set to replace the Seymour that's in the tell. So do I chop the tele up again and double humbucker it. Chopping the body up is fine as its got a pick guard to cover the mess but it does seem every time I do any mods its new strings time.

can you make a pod foot controler out of a pc...

well yes I am sure you can. watch this space.


OK edit time.

I do want to build a foot controller for my pod 2. Its a midi device so it could be controlled by a PC of some kind. I'm keen to keep costs So parts from maplin / radio shack.

I would like to use a raspberry pi but I will struggle with drivers. There are lots of usb to midi adaptors on eBay and the same goes for USB switching adaptors. Making them run in a Linux environment is going to be a son of a bitch.  I want to avoid having a giant multi core going from the board to the PC. I could chop up an x box controller but I want a light above what ever I have selected.

I could just use a lap top and it may start out with that. Work in progress.

Less gain was never my philosophy, fully saturated screaming compressed long delays had been me. Am I getting old or am I listening to to much zeplin. Both maybe. I purchased house of the holy on Saturday and a mixture of over the hills and no quarter (incidentally how much does Brant bjorks solo work sound like no quarter. Check out jalamanta on duna records its worth a listen). Its the lack of bite that I'm enjoying. I feel you can hear the tone of the wood coming through. The explorer with both pickups selected and less gain has a roomy quality to the sound an airyness. It has the lower darker tones of the neck both the brighter tones of the bridge. But there is a separation. It sounds like birth pick ups are working apart, together but apart. The guitar to me compared to say my rg 470 has more of the piano about it. This is what I feel I've been missing with high gain.  So away with preset 1a (which was modern hi gain #2 which is sort of a soldano) on the pod and in with Brit class a which is sort of modded ac 30.

So into a brave new world well preset 1b.

is it time for a re finish ?

i used to really like the butter scotch finish, in fact if i had an infinite budget i think that's what i would have gone for. but times change and i change and its time for a big change for the tele. i prefer the feel of a nitro cellulose finish ie what gibson do. i like the feel it feels softer no my hands less harsh. so nitro it is no idea on color i guess what ever i can get in a rattle can. id like a lake placid but that's a bit stratty. probably chose white or off white.

i assume that the tele already has a grain filler in it right now so after sanding off the polyester ill spray over unless its going to need a process that i haven't seen as yet. im sure you will hear more about this as i move on. of i could car paint it black as joe strummer did?