You may remember this 20 quid Cash Generator find from a little while ago. Kinda nasty. The bridge pickup was harsh and muddy all at the same time...never thought that was possible...
Well, as of this afternnoon it now looks like this.
Warman HBP90 in the bridge and Vanson '57 alnico II in the neck. Pickup configuration may divide opinion I s'pose, but they compliment each other very well and it has no right to sound as good as it does given the price of them...
Erased the 'SD Standard' from the elf door and covered the headstock with an acrylic sticker. That logo looked like a bag of wank.
Had some fun with m'knob choice.
Arty farty Photobucket edit to finish. Loadsa fun for little outlay.
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Fuck all wrong with that P90 really, not amazing on cleans but nicely grin worthy with fuzz...although not quite as sexy as the Duncan Designed dog ear jobbies in my Squier Tele Custom, like those muchly.
The middle position works well with a bit of knob twiddling.
The Vanson 'bucker is surprisingly good for the cash. I wanted summat smooth for the neck and it is just that - according to the spec's the alnico II's are 7.3k, the Warman 8k-ish so my logic fancied they'd be a good pairing, although the 'bucker is a bit louder. Might lower it a wee bit tomorrow. It is a more dynamic/touch sensitive affair than my other neck 'bucker equipped planks, playing through a like-wise OD pedal, touch of plate reverb and tremolo I had an involuntary, "Aw fek - that's gorgeous" moment...
Good work
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Cheers chap, it's a Coxx (?)...yeah - me either. It has the same flaming torch-like logo as my Tanglewood LP so I presume it came from the factory, although it ain't quite as well built. A wee bit of neck whip and I have a G string binding in the nut, oo-er missus.
jd0272 said:
I don't gig fella, you wouldn't be afraid of dinging it up though, that's for sure.
I took some fine grade sand paper to the back of the neck due to the overly sticky finish, but that has highlighted some inconsistent finishing and bared a strip of wood a couple of mm thick by finger board and one other small area at the back of the neck, no bother though as it all feels much smoother
Another side effect of that sanding made the finger board edges feel sharp, so I rolled some sand paper around a permanent marker and softened the edges...which worked really well to be fair.
Once I've got that nut slot for the binding G string sorted it'll be perfect for a piece o'shite rescue mission.