25.5 inch scale length, three strings, (Ernie Ball Electric 16, 26 & 36), Cohiba Red Dot box, painted position markers, GFS P-90 wired straight to the jack.
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Hi John, thanks for the nice comment. I'm actually (finally) quite pleased with the way this one sounds. the box is very light wood and I built it leaving a bit of gap between the top (soundboard) and the neck as recommended by Wes "Moanin' Mule" Yates, so it always did have a nice, raspy sound played acoustically. I originally built this guitar as a test bed for my hair clipper / cow magnet pickup, but sadly it sounded really very weak and thin, kind of like pups that are wired out-of-phase. I think it had something to do with the orientation of the magnetic field, as the middle string barely sounded at all when amplified (see photo).
Fortunately, installing a P-90 was my "plan B" from the start, and I really couldn't be happier with the end result.
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Hi John, thanks for the nice comment. I'm actually (finally) quite pleased with the way this one sounds. the box is very light wood and I built it leaving a bit of gap between the top (soundboard) and the neck as recommended by Wes "Moanin' Mule" Yates, so it always did have a nice, raspy sound played acoustically. I originally built this guitar as a test bed for my hair clipper / cow magnet pickup, but sadly it sounded really very weak and thin, kind of like pups that are wired out-of-phase. I think it had something to do with the orientation of the magnetic field, as the middle string barely sounded at all when amplified (see photo).
Fortunately, installing a P-90 was my "plan B" from the start, and I really couldn't be happier with the end result.