rockabilly69

That is really a cool pic of him holding one of his creations!

I've always found this to be true. It's worth it to spend a few bucks to see what your guitar likes. Recently I went through that with my Martin HD28, and I didn't like 13's. so I knocked it back to 12.5s and found a happy medium between tone and playability. But I can without a doubt that when it's time to record I won't use any coated strings.

I've always found this to be true. It's worth it to spend a few bucks to see what your guitar likes. Recently I went through that with my Martin HD28, and I didn't like 13's. so I knocked it back to 12.5s and found a happy medium between tone and playability. But I can without a doubt that when it's time to record I won't use any coated strings.

I've always found this to be true. It's worth it to spend a few bucks to see what your guitar likes. Recently I went through that with my Martin HD28, and I didn't like 13's. so I knocked it back to 12.5s and found a happy medium between tone and playability. But I can without a doubt that when it's time to record I won't use any coated strings.

I've always found this to be true. It's worth it to spend a few bucks to see what your guitar likes. Recently I went through that with my Martin HD28, and I didn't like 13's. so I knocked it back to 12.5s and found a happy medium,

Pickguard ON! Always! It protects the wood from crazy picking, and helps me anchor my hand for fingerpicking!

After playing our first few gigs with 50 watters (Marshall Plexi and Mesa Fillmore 50) Ryan, the other guitarist, and I went down to 22 watters (Deluxe Reverb and TopHat Club Deluxe). Our stage sound is much better. It feels like it does in our rehersal room. It also made it easier for me to get a good acoustic sound on the few songs I'm playing acoustic or resonator. And people in the audience LOVED the sound. And bonus, the vocals came through even louder with less work for the soundman. Tube amps forever, screw modelers!

And never once have you regretted it! I'm with you all the way! The best and most simplest option. I think Heritage should just ship there guitars with FABER hardware.

My friend Troy has that '52/54' set in his '56 Goldtop reissue. He went through the stock pickups, Lollars, Tyson Tone Labs, and then the Throbaks. He LOVES them, and that is his number one gigging guitar along with his ES330 reissue. He plays that guitar straight into a 1959 5E3 and his sound is perfect for his blues band. He has some great sounding humbucker reisses (two particularly sounding good sounding R9s), and a 1964 SG Jr, but he favors that Goldtop with the Throbaks the most. When he was going through those sets though, I LOVED the Tyson Tone Labs, but he said they were a bit too high in output for him. In my R4 and my Special I like the stock Gibson pickups, they just sound too good for me to replace them. I wish I could use P90s more, but they just make too much noise for when I'm recording by a monitor.

great looking guitar!

I think the Duncan Stack pickups are probably closest to the Area T DiMarzios

Did you try Throbaks in the Collings???

That's exactly what I thought of their P90s and I tried muiltiple winds. Too polite, too hifi! I like Gibsons too, and Wolfetone Mean and Meaners.

I know crazy resistance values, but the output doesn't reflect that. It's more of a medium output due to the stacked coils and different size wire than a conventional humbucker.. I have side by side coil humbuckers with much lower DC resistance and a much hotter output. I would like to try the Hot Chicken bridge pickup. I think I'm going to put one in my custom shop Deluxe Tele which currently has a BG1400 in it. I think the Hot Chiicken might blend better with the Duncan "Vintage Stack" I have in the neck. The Vintage Stack isn't hot enough to get a good middle position with the BG 1400. And since I have the BG1400 in two other Teles, I think it would be nice to have a slightly lower output in one guitar. Beside I can stick the BG1400 I pull into the Esquire that I built:) They do sound like a single coil, but I'm more of a fan of the Duncan's tone for getting the Tele tone. I do like the Area T DiMarzio stacked humbuckers which I think get great Tele tone.

I have given them a try nice pickups! The CC pickup in the neck position is a particularly cool pickup. I'm not a fan of Lollars across the board, but they make certain pickups that do it for me. The Heritage H535 P90 that Kuz sold me has a particularly good set of Lollar P90s which generally I never liked before, buit these pickups changed my mind about Lollar P90s... My Teye La Perla has custom made for Teye Lollar low wound Imperials and I LOVE them... [img]https://i.imgur.com/HMAEORY.jpg[/img]

Must be a pretty stiff neck to jump two guages without a tweak. Fantastic.

Did you have to tweak the truss rod?

Nice Tele Kitty! I've never tried the BG1400 with a P90 because I record alot around computer monitors so I like noiseless Teles, but I bet that combo sounds great! My main Tele, which I built, has a Tyson Tone Lab Precious and Grace humbucker in the neck, and the BG`1400 in the bridge. The body is an Allen Eden Body made from Paulownia wood, and it's light as a feather. It's the best Tele that I've ever owned and one the best Teles I've ever heard. It's the one that really got me into the BG1400...

Because I've loved them ever since I popped one into a Tele, I now have the Seymour Duncan BG1400 bridge pickup in three Teles, but this is the first time I've had the set of both pickups in a guitar. I've had problems getting a neck humbucker that would balance well with the BG1400, and finally the custom shop started offering a BG1400 for the neck position. This set took quite a bit of fiddling with both pickup heights, but, I really wound up with a good balance. The trick was to get the neck pickup right under the strings then adjust the height of the bridge pickup for a good middle position. Soon as you get that middle position sounding right, the bridge pickup volume will be just slightly louder than the other two positions, and frankly, that's where I like it. In this demo I break the song into thirds, neck pickup first, middle, then bridge. I tried to use enough gain to make the pickups sing, but not too much where it would make it hard to discern what each position sounds like. The Tele is plugged straight into my Mesa Fillmore 50, and I'm also using one of my closed back Marshall Speaker cabs (Celestion Cream Alnico). The ext cab is mic'd with a CAD E350 condensor, and the Fillmore with a Sennehiser MD421. The bass and drums are guys from my band Vorraro, Martin Carle on Drums, and Jeff Aaron on bass.

nice song, great jazz guitar tone, and great playing!

those look great!

some serious flame maple on that one!

DanElectro Hodad MKIII Bass, and one more H357 on the stand on the far right!

Congrats on your new guitar. The Custom Core gold looks great. Enjoy!!!

wow that's a great looking guitar!