PICKUPS (5)
A guitar player's quest for the perfect guitar tone is one of many paths or directions. Players and builders will try endless combinations of "tone woods", neck and fretboard materials, body shapes, sizes, construction. We obsess over which pickups to use; where to place them; piezo or magnetic pickup; one, two, three, more?
Forums, chat rooms, and discussion threads overflow with anecdotal opinions based on personal experience, or, in many cases, what is heard through the grapevine. The big corporate guitar companies rely on high priced marketing, sponsorship of professional musicians, and reputation. These giants of the industry shape our individual and perhaps, our collective ideal of what a guitar should look and sound like.
One refreshing ingredient in the forever-evolving offerings seen here in the Nation are instruments and parts that use materials and ideas that stray far from what mainstream guitars have become.
I am inspired.
So, enough of that.
This post is really meant to announce a new offering from Farmer Ted's Guitars. Through extensive research, laboratory tests, and many late nights of wrestling with the idea, I am ready.
Crap Tone Pickups...yes, that's right. Crap Tone.
I've dug down deep into my farm's hottest pile of decomposing matter to create a steaming heaping pile of tone the world has ever heard.
Why not try a pile in your next build? I guarantee...it will sound like crap!
Farmer Ted's Crap Tone Pickups are available in three or four string configurations, in either a single giant steaming heap, or for a humbucking experience, try the Double Deuce.
Get 'em while they're fresh!
Hey folks, coming up fast on the adelaide international guitar festival now.
got asked to do a stint in the 'meet the makers' slot, so on friday (aug 10th) i'm there, with jimbo to wrestle the crowds, and steer the rowdy ones back to the bar - or give them a guitar.
gonna talk about pickups and pickup making, the joy to the world that is cigar box guitar, and do some demos of various pickups in various instruments through various amps!
steve pederson is going to play for the crowds, and show us all how to do it really. (seriously, i gave him a fretted 3-stringer the other day, he has never played one before, and in seconds he was getting stuff out of that skinny neck i could only dream of playing - 'bastard' says i!)
all in all i'm hoping for a fine time for all, and we are just around the corner from the coopers bar, which can only help. really.
hopefully we can get a few other aussie CBG makers there too, and we can show these guitar afficionardos, that they're using too many strings.
Adelaide International Guitar Festival website
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hey, my first blog post, and i actually have something to say.
my dedicated CBG pickup website is up!
i have a few different models on offer, all of which i am very happy with, and all of which i use myself.
there's schematics and mounting details and spec's and a bit of general silliness.
all my electro-magnetic pickups (i don't do piezos), are designed and hand wound by me in Adelaide, Australia.
check it out if you can...
i am currently in the throes of putting together sound samples - which just makes me aware of my playing limitations!
nevermind,
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