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ryland wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 16, 2022 6:58 am

hexes wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 13, 2022 3:47 pm

the princeton reverb lives! i have to redo the fuse and power switch wiring. mojo’s chassis designs are not great, and this is based off their cuts and punches. that said, as messy as it looks, it’s very quiet. tremolo is very intense and can move at a glacial pace. reverb needed some work. princetons get too cavernous too fast, so a log pot was used, with an added ‘dwell’ control

i love this amp. the added midrange control does some great things.

Man, that's great! I just spent a couple weeks bringing my '64 Princeton back up to snuff. The bias diode had blown out, so I rebuilt the bias circuit and replaced the cap can (which was bulging). I bought the amp in '98 with a blown speaker...as I was working on it, I realized that the output transformer looked like potting had leaked out and lacquered it on one side and the bottom. It has worked all these years, but never sounded like other examples I've heard. I replaced it with a Mercury Magnetics one. I'm not sure that there's a real difference, I may swap the original back in and give it more of a test...

garyptaszek wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 23, 2022 1:02 pm

On the fence about this irreversible mod. It already has a cut off tele bridge, but this might be a little too far. Opinions?

epizootics wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:29 pm

garyptaszek wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 23, 2022 1:02 pm

On the fence about this irreversible mod. It already has a cut off tele bridge, but this might be a little too far. Opinions?

For what it's worth, lipsticks sound REALLY COOL in parallel with a Tele bridge pickup, in a 'best-of-both-worlds' kind of way.
The caveat is that you can end up with a massive difference in output between your pickups when played separately.

From a geometrical standpoint, if the string spacing is right...Why the hell not?
From a practical standpoint, you may want to use a top-loading bridge. It is hard to tell what you will find inside the body in that particular spot, and drilling for string-through ferrules might become a challenge if you hit a hollow part of the body. But if your cut-off Tele bridge already is a string-through, no issues there.

Gordon wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 25, 2022 5:19 pm

Picture this (or remember this, if you have very good memory )... Almost 9 years ago, I posted this:
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Wed Feb 08, 2017 4:35 pm

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But don't get too eager to see it finished, I had the body for years, when I was still in France, from a Canadian luthier, then I took it to New York, then Malaysia, and now in Singapore. Quite the traveler, this piece of pine. It's the only guitar I have left, and it's still missing a lot of things, that I get every now and then (even though I know what I want, it's more a question of funds).

Gordon wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:55 am

One piece pine body (actually, there's a small strip of wood added near the jack cup), meant to become a Necksquire (like an Esquire, but with a neck pickup, hence the name), the rout is for a P90 (dogear). The body was made by Spaltking, to whom I asked for "something with knots, cracks, and wormholes". (and no,I won't fill any of those) The goal is to add an all-rosewood neck, and play the blues with this thing like I'm a hobo living in a barn. I've asked Glendale about making a regular Tele bridge *without pickup*, they said it was on their list; but still no news, so I might ask another maker (if you have names, I'll take them). The rest will be pretty standard.

I'll finish it with teck oil (which is actually a mix tung/linseed oil), but I can't decide if I take the amber-tinted one, or the regular one... Do you think the regular one would darken the wood a bit? Because that's what I'd like. I had the idea for this guitar watching Maggie's amberish Tele, but now I've got the body in front of me, I'm afraid it'd be orange-y.

Gordon wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 23, 2018 5:25 pm

I try not to accumulate too much, but something like 7 years ago, I bought a one-piece knotty pine Tele Esquire body made by a small luthier in Canada (I lived in France) to my specs. Didn't do anything with it, waiting for the right parts.

Fast forward a bit, 3 years later (!), I was to move to New York, and couldn't bring my guitars; so I sold everything, but that body. Once in the US, as my sole project, I got what I thought was the perfect pickup, a Duesenberg (which couldn't be sent to a US address for some reason, so I had a friend in Italy to buy it and ship it). Still nothing was put together.

Then I moved to Malaysia, bringing everything with me. Kept gathering parts from all over the world. Everything starts to fit together, just need to actually be assembled. Bought parts for a partcaster bass in the meantime, instead. Another move, to Singapore. Where I put together another partcaster (the silver Mustang I posted here and there).

Three or four months ago, the Esquire body was sold (at the price I actually bought it). Which, save for the few coats of oil I did at some point, was new, and still covered in the bubble wrap it originally came in.

Aaaaand, amusingly enough, for the past couple of weeks (so, before your thread), I've been thinking that I still have that pickup and those parts laying around in a box, and that I should put them to good use. Life's a big, perfect circle.

bodhi wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:15 am

epizootics wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:29 pm

garyptaszek wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 23, 2022 1:02 pm

On the fence about this irreversible mod. It already has a cut off tele bridge, but this might be a little too far. Opinions?

For what it's worth, lipsticks sound REALLY COOL in parallel with a Tele bridge pickup, in a 'best-of-both-worlds' kind of way.
The caveat is that you can end up with a massive difference in output between your pickups when played separately.

From a geometrical standpoint, if the string spacing is right...Why the hell not?
From a practical standpoint, you may want to use a top-loading bridge. It is hard to tell what you will find inside the body in that particular spot, and drilling for string-through ferrules might become a challenge if you hit a hollow part of the body. But if your cut-off Tele bridge already is a string-through, no issues there.

Depending on the economics, if it's in some way collectible probably wouldn't. But if not, one idea would be to just route out the pickup footprint if the bridge is already working, like the GFS Slick guitars do with their teles: https://www.guitarfetish.com/SL50_c_666.html . Might avoid some issues such as the ones mentioned.

Absolutely no idea what it might sound like, but since it has three pickups already, you could perhaps avoid some of the overt volume differences with wiring alternatives that would put the neck and middle pickups in series before you'd select the lipsticks individually?