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Post by salteedog on Mar 8, 2018 11:55:40 GMT
The infamous Geordie Snore...asleep at the wheel I guess.
..sorry I just made that up.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 12:16:33 GMT
From Byker, salteedog. Just like PJ and Duncan. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 10:11:46 GMT
Eek, it's delivery day. I can watch the van getting closer online...stop 15 and I'm 48!
Now those mixed emotions, I didn't need another guitar, I shouldn't have spent £160 on another one, will it look weird, will I like it, what if I don't, where am I going to put it?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 13:10:29 GMT
AAARGHHH!  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 13:16:15 GMT
I think the driver is having a lunch break now  then he will drink some coffee and then go to the toilet then wash his hands, ... Im sure he will come by your place soon! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 13:35:07 GMT
Double aaargh!!  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 15:25:10 GMT
It's here. It's nice and it doesn't have neck dive! First impressions are that it is very nicely finished with barely a mark on it. Even the fretboard looks unused and there is still protective film on the scratchplate. Wonder why the previous owner sold it after such little use?! Keeps in tune nicely via those vintage split peg tuners that I love so much, nut is nicely cut, low over the first fret, but plastic. Will only change it if I feel necessary but will definitely smooth some edges off it. I hate to feel sharper edges on a nut. Neck feels nice and slimmish with rather a high gloss on the back of it. That'll get a rubbing down! Most frets seem nice, well finished on the ends and quite jumbo but a few up the top end feel a little pitted and like they could do with one more round of polishing. Much better than my Yamaha Pacifica when I had that from new though. Trem is really nice with a full sized block inside, nice bent steel Wilkinson saddles and a push in arm (but how I pull it out is anyone's guess). Ll the switches have a nice clunk to them. The pull up treble knob for splitting the pickups is as awkward as they always seem to be. Why doesn't everyone put a push-push pot on these things. Just bang it and its up instead of these lousy push-pull ones that are like trying to pick up a dropped soapbar in the shower. But I like the split sound. Of course I do, that makes them single coil  . The volume lowers in split mode, naturally, but I can't help loving single coils for their greater liveliness and character. The volume pot seems to be very audio log with a sudden jump of volume at the very last notch of turn. Bit annoying to me but useful if I'm dialling back from a solo. Then comes that mysterious ATN tone control. This seems to be best used when playing the single coils at higher volumes or in humbucker mode at lower volumes where the signal is stronger. It seems to gradually darken the tone in a different way to the other tone knob. I had a go at matching an effect using the other tone knob and couldn't seem to do it, so it does add some versatility to the sound but only incrementally and I'm not sure I couldn't live without it. It seems to not give me much when playing single note runs but is rather useful when playing plectrum arpeggios or strumming with fingers as I often do. I'll see when I've played it a lot more. The f-hole reveals some internal routing that is barely much bigger than a control cavity and I can't really understand what the point is but the only way to get this pickup and switching medley is in this model. The solid bodied contoured version goes with P-90s. As the maths teacher says, "Go and do some figuring".  |
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Post by MartinB on Mar 12, 2018 15:55:59 GMT
It looks good, that Alan Entwhistle seems to have his fingers in a lot of pies, I was having a look at the Burns cobras and it seems he designed them and their pickups.
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Was reading more and now can’t find any mention of Entwhistle, am confused.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 16:47:02 GMT
Yeah, yeah, you're right. He is or certainly was involved with designing Burns'pickups MartinB . The body doesn't feel silly small as I thought it might. I have done a bit more playing and now have discovered that the volume knob behaves as it normally should swelling up in a nice way. It's only when the ATN circuit is being used that it behaves differently, being fairly quiet until position 9-10 when it leaps up. I am enjoying playing it though and particularly, unusually for me, some of the gainier and fuzzier tones my Boss ME-70 contains. Very nice all round. Now I have a concentration headache and I still don't know how to get a push-in Wilkinson whammy arm out for when it goes in a case. Do I just pull until...oh...snap! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 17:06:19 GMT
Come to think of it, there's another guitar with the downward pointing strap button like the Masquerader, MartinB: the Burns Apache:  |
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Post by salteedog on Mar 12, 2018 17:11:37 GMT
Well wear. I'm sure you'll figure out the trem. Kinda surprised you like the coil split...it's something I've never bothered with as I always reckon they sound a bit anemic - I figure if I want single coils I'll just pick up another guitar. But I can see how the option might be useful in a gigging situation alright.
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Disclosures: Everything I don't like I can modify.
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Post by blablas on Mar 12, 2018 17:25:55 GMT
Looks nice, same deep red colour pickguard as on my bass VI.... same ugly knobs too  . |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 17:49:51 GMT
Well wear. I'm sure you'll figure out the trem. Kinda surprised you like the coil split...it's something I've never bothered with as I always reckon they sound a bit anemic - I figure if I want single coils I'll just pick up another guitar. But I can see how the option might be useful in a gigging situation alright. I like single coils and these ones become like a slightly underpowered P90, although not by much. They have a grittiness to them like the ones on my Thinline tele and quite unlike a strat's single coils. I'm loving that. The humbucker mode is pretty graunchy but will clean up nicely and I'm hoping will come in handy live when I can switch on my Boss's single coil emulation with them. They sound pretty cute like that. Actually I recently shopped for the lowest powered P90s I could find for my Fanoed LP Jr so this is giving me some idea on how they may sound when I can eventually put that together. D r y i n g e v e r s o s l o w l y. I've always hankered for a Troy Van Leeuwen Jazzmaster and I thing this is ticking the boxes whilst giving me £1000 in change. Which knobs don't you like on yours blablas ? I like the chickenhead one although it would be nice if it indicated which of the 5 positions it was actually pointing to! I'll have to do something about that. The strat type ones are not ideal, especially on the silly push-pull knob, as the skirt part it exactly where you want to lever with your fingers to pull up the stupid beast. I'm going to have to shop around for something more suitable or else swap it for a more practical push-push one instead. |
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Post by Djangle on Mar 12, 2018 18:08:55 GMT
Congrats @defjef that's a fine looking guitar you got there.....some Wilkinson trems have a small Allen key screw located on the underside at the back of the bridge block. Push the trem bar down it should be located on the high E end.
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Post by Djangle on Mar 12, 2018 18:10:49 GMT
Hope that makes sense 🙂
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. The volume lowers in split mode, naturally, but I can't help loving single coils for their greater liveliness and character.
