Did some tinkering yesterday with 3 guitars.
My SG is now sporting a Tony Iommi pickup (Gibson version) in the bridge, and a Duncan Pearly Gates in the neck. Both pickups are hooked up to Duncan triple shots, which gives me the follow options for each pickup:
* Both coils in series (typical humbucker)
* Both coils in parallel, like the 2 & 4 positions on a Stray
* North coil only
* South coil only
I also rewired my Epiphone Slash AFD special. It's a cheap guitar, m9ade made really well other than the shitty electronics. And it's beautiful, amber finish with a nice flame maple top. Anyway I went with cheaper import pickups for this guy, a Dragonfire Gates in the bridge and GFS VEH in the neck. Both are also wired to triple shots. I also replaced the nut with a Tusq nut, which is like synthetic ivory. Now the high E is buzzing. I can't find my needle files so I haven't fixed that yet, but it will only take a few minutes.
I also (mostly) stripped the finish on my hamer Echotone, which is like a 335. It had a polyurethane finish which you can scrape off with a heat gun and putty knife. I still need to sand it, as there are some small gouge marks from scraping and some little pockets of red from the finish. It's much easier to scrape a flat guitar than an archtop (obiously)... It's made of nice maple, so instead of a typical guitar finish I'm going to put a bunch of coats of Tru Oil (a product for guns) on it so it can breathe. This has been my #1 for 20 years. I've had Harmonic Design Z90s in it for most of that time, and holy **** balls, it sounds amazing. I'm looking forward to getting it going again.
I just sold the 490 pickups from my SG and ordered a bare bones Epiphone 339 Ultra from reverb. It's like a Les Paul sized 335. It comes with Grover tuners and most of the wiring, but no bridge, tailpiece or pickups. Once I get the Hamer all finished, I'm going to start working on this guy. I'm thinking a pair of Duncan Seth Lovers, but haven't decided yet.
Other guitars:
A partscaster with an offset Jazzmaster type body which I finished with Duplicolor auto paint and put together
A Strat style guitar with GFS Alnico 2s and Brian May wiring which I put together for my son.
An original Teisco Del Ray, which is a crazy looking Japanese guitar from the 60s. It is totally beat to hell. I think I'm going to sell this to fund the high end pickups for the 339.
Several other cheap electrics.
The only acoustics I have right noware a Fender 12 string and a cheap resonator with a Paul beard cone which I have set up with a high brass nut so it can only be used lap style. I sold my Ibanez jumbo style (never bonded with it) and 8 string square neck Paul Beard (too many strings for the way I play) in the past year.
I need to get a regular 6 string acoustic at some point... I'm not in any big hurry though, I'll wait until I find something reasonably affordable that I love.
Amp-wise I use an Ampeg SJ-12T combo, which is glorious. I also have a Monoprice 5 watt tube amp which sounds surprisingly good for its size / price.
I also have a tiny amp that runs on a 9v battery which I built for fun. I used this:
https://www.cbgitty.com/kits-guitar...-box-guitar-amplifier-kit-build-your-own-amp/
I mounted it in a baby wipe container for shits and giggles. I call it the butt wiper. It sounds terrible but is still fun to play through.
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