I have noise issues when playing guitar (originating from my burglar alarm) at home which I have talked/moaned about before
So latest plan was to buy EMG tele pick ups and put them into my cheap-but-I-like-it Squier Affinity Tele. The gibbons did not fit in the control cavity and I did have trouble getting both pickup cables through the hole to there to.
So I thought, ok, why not get a new Tele into which the gubbins would fit!
So far I've been to the following shops, with no success:
FairDeal, independent but big store in brum City centre. Offered me numerous ugly cabronitas and hum bucked Teles, despite me repeating each time "I need single coil holes". Also I asked about a lovely thin line one I'd seen on their website in stock. "Nah I doubt we'd have that in stock to be honest" was the reply
Guitar spares and repaies, a good guitar tech nr brum. Shut till 22nd October
Little Guitar Shop, near the last one. I stood there for 10 minutes while the shop man saw to the person who came in just after me, then he offered me plenty of Teles above the £200 I had stated, then resolved to show me a cheaper one "but this'll have the same problem as the Squier".
PMT - they had a few Squiers but apparently the Standard one only has the same small pots/control cavity, do the only option was a classic vibe which appeared to be the colour of the fluid I produced last time I had tonsilitis. He said he'd fetch me a sunburst one but then preferred to serve a kid after a flying V so I left and went to....
Guitar guitar. Who had the same sick coloured classic vibe and nothing else under £400
This is a dual thread, both a rant and a plea...what better but nit amazing guitars are there I could try out do we here that have a bigger control cavity?!
I was getting right pissed off being turned away everywhere
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I'm not going to hate much time over the next few months so want to be able to spend the time i do get playing guitar not faffing about fitting stuff.
Plan was fit pups Thursday night, get to play them today. When the fit didn't work i thought id just get one today and fit them. Now I'll have no chance to go to shops for a few weeks so I'm guitarless
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Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
soundcloud.com/thecolourbox-1
youtube.com/@TheColourboxMusic
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In related news, as is often the case when one gets annoyed and rants such as I did, I seem to have got everything to fit. I don't have any strings to hand and the jack plate hole is a little small, but hopefully those two things are easier to overcome... Provided I've plugged everything in right of course, if not everything has to come off again haha
Telecaster lost...Telecaster regained
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