corpse
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Yesterday I stepped into the abyss- I have put in new pickups, repaired poorly slotted nuts, including cutting slots, changed pots- but this summer a good friend lent me one of his 1959 Bursts for four months. (Yes). That is how you learn to burst (now a verb).
And I am ruint. (A great word I learned living in Atl- pronounced "rew-int". Another great word from the Southern US- "fixin"- as in preparing to do something. Just perfect. You don't prepare to BBQ- you are fixin to BBQ.)
This burst just had "it"- about nine perfect pounds- but with the dry wood it felt lighter. It defies physics- it didn't feel like nine pounds. But the biggest thing that ruint me was the middle position and the neck.
The bridge (to me) is now the easiest tone to duplicate from LP to LP- the schnazzle is the middle and the neck. These had a hint of out of phase thing going on, but it had a tremendous clarity- and campers- the PAF in the neck (a Double Black) could just get big while still maintaining it's authority. To the point I almost avoided going to the bridge.
Go figure.
So I need to have my own version of this or I will just sit and mope- a friend suggested I reach out to Yukki (jumping at shadows) which I did. He is very helpful and entirely beyond reach in terms of LP addiction. He told me something I have heard elsewhere- LSLP's are very close to bursts in terms of tone with a couple of tweaks. I own a 1969 GT that was converted to HB. It is wonderful, but has a couple tone issues.
Yukki suggested a fix to what I have been hearing in this great guitar- a strident quality that after my exchange student must be remedied, but also a compression or filtering I gathered was due to the wrong pots. So The first fix was getting rid of the tone pot on the neck PU- I replaced it with a 500K pot (the bridge actually sounds great from this standpoint). Yesterday I ordered a set of A4 magnets and nickel covers (49.2mm- I hope that is right). The humbuckers in it are pat sticker T Tops (I installed the original covers as I don't like the look of uncovered blacks on the gold). He also suggested the chrome might be part of the issue.
This is a process. I will eventually change the chrome TP and the bridge, although I will keep the nylon saddles. Hyper anal about stuff not matching.
Stuff should be here for weekend surgery. Pics to follow. And they are worth 1000 words so there will be less to read.
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