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Love that detail.
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Killer inlay! Skills I have yet to acquire. Here is one I just finished for my granddaughter. Zebra top over basswood. The block where I inlayed her name, Lucia, is not as dark as the image appears.
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I thought it was Mary CrispNips....
At least that's how she looked to me!

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Nice grouping!
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Here's a few I built many years ago. The bass has a Peavey fretless neck, the other two bodies are sporting a Carvin neck. I still have the bodies but sold the necks a long time ago. The design is my own and the only problem being I couldn't find a case to fit them. The pics are bad, the necks are actually straight and they were very playable.

Now I play a Fender USA Jazz and a Fender Foto-Flame (Jap) Tele. Building my own was very satisfying but I didn't have the patience to make them as good as they could be.
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Silvertone Thin Twin

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Three years ago, at Christmas my brother gave me a guitar that was made the year I was born. Now I've got a twin. Thing sounds amazing with a dirt box and slide.
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Cool Silvertone!

I love the looks of those guitars.
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Goodbye, Scarface.
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Reeltarded wrote:Goodbye, Scarface.
Perfect hot cool hands to pick up.
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HEEbgb - your grouping looks like my dream guitar collection - I got weak in the knees when I saw the pic :shock:

If you had a '72 Thinline in the group, I probably would have passed out :wink:
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Ken,

The blue one is a 68' Thinline partscaster I built last year. Is that close enough or do you need the wide range Humbuckers? Now you have me thinking about another build dammit!
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Well, this is just my opinion, but there's something special about those pickups - most HBs are way too hot, and sometimes muddy-sounding to me.

...and I've never felt the love for P-90's, even though my first guitar was a Melody Maker with one P-90 in the bridge position, and the new (at that time) Badass wraparound bridge.

That guitar felt so good in my hands, but was too weak on stage without a Tube Screamer. And it wouldn't do the Fender "quack" that sounds so good on blues tunes.

I played a Thinline through a Princeton Reverb amp for about an hour, and I've wanted one ever since. Sounded best to me in the bridge position - not nearly as ice-picky as most bridge HBs but full and clear. And if you want the qwack, go to the both-pickups position.

In conclusion, I think a warm clean HB had sex with a single-coil, and the Thinline pickups (along with their ugly step-sister, the P-90s) were born :wink:

On thing I'd like to try on a dual-pickup guitar with one volume control is to put a resistor in series with each pickup (one at a time), and tweak to get a better mix between the pickups. This simulates a setup on a LP where the output is mixed, but one volume is higher than the other.

p.s. - your Lake Placid Blue Tele looks wonderful :D
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Haha thank you but it is not LPB. It is Blue Ice Metallic. LPB is darker
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