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Josh is a freaking pickup genius in addition to being a genuinely great guy- knows so much about pickup building- nuances that blow my mind. Screws vs. hex vs. slugs, rough cast vs. polished, pole piece length, square vs rounded whatchamajig 😆, and of course, alnico vs ceramic. We were chatting recently about p'ups and he got a brainstorm in the midst of talking about modding pickups. Decided he was going to experiment with a certain shaped something or other and a certain type of screw pole piece and I should test it out. Just like that.

Even I have a difficult time articulating/describing the genesis of this p'up despite chatting with Josh every so often. You're correct that Eddie used numerous p'ups and it was challenging to pin down the exact one he then may have modded or had modded. But I believe this closer to the '78 ( or a Custom Custom) than anything more current.

I still dig April Wine. Check out this take on King Crimson- And then there's the 3 way jam in Roller that is as tasty as it gets, in my humble opinion.

Josh is da man! A year or so ago, he brought to my attention a pickup he was winding for another customer & he thought might interest me: a Van Halen-esque wind somewhere in the neighborhood of Ed's p'up on Fair Warning / Diver Down. Dayumm. It rocked in my HEL Spitfire 1! Then he wound a slightly different one, still in EVH territory but with a slight tweak to the high end, and I put that in my HEL Spitfire 2. Boom!! Killer! So, I ordered one for the upcoming Star Spangled Star. Tone report will come as soon as I get it in hand. Was anticipating acquiring another guitar so I ordered yet one more of the tweaked EVH. That acquisition fell through BUT... ...as fate would have it, I'm going to be acquiring another Hamer and this newest Gravelin is going in that one!!! Stay tuned!

Not anything close to a Chap expert but... I seem to recall Chaps initially were 24.75" scale and featured the top-mounted, Strat-style, angled jacks, 3 mini toggle switches and more steeply angled head stock. Around '88 they changed to 25.5" and side of body jack, 3 way blade switch, with the slightly less angled headstock (a la Cali) Not sure about the pickups. Kahlers were offered starting around '83 and were stopped in '86 though, they fulfilled custom orders w/ Kahlers until about '88. ETA, apologies for repeating most of what BillW already stated. D'oh! 🙄

I'd hit that.

It seems the industry and consumers are pushing back a bit? If so, good. I hope Fender takes it on the chin. Fender facing backlash.

Another vid on the topic.

Thank goodness I didn't see that as a lad. I had enough f-ed up notions about sexuality, (thanks to some rather twisted young ladies in my neighborhood) Not sure I needed any more disturbing imagery to add to it.

The illustrator in me tended to respond more to painted/airbrushed art more so than covers featuring photography. For instance: Richard Corben's art for Bat Out Of Hell: Or this Drew Struzan's art for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (which does feature some titties but an absence of genitalia)

That sounds like a personal, reading comprehension problem. How about now? 😆

Nope but our vocalist does wear shorts to most of our appearances. The HFC Attire Police have not yet shown up to make arrests or write tickets.

The problem seems ongoing. (See error message below) Cannot load pics as before- dragging and dropping nor choosing files, do NOT work. Even in edit mode, cannot do after the fact ... BUT... I've found that if you copy and paste existing (appropriately sized) files while constructing your text, it seems to work.

Despite having the aggregate gear, talent and work ethic of a legit, gigging band, my current line up won't or can't do legit 3 set-gigs. Instead, we have to settle for 1 set opening slots with other bands, featured set appearances or 3- 4 song sets at open mics. It ain't so bad. True, we don't get paid BUT load in/load out is stupid simple, my gear can be carried in one trip and doesn't break my back, PA & sound is always provided, I am in no danger of forgetting parts to 3 - 8 songs and I'm in and out and home in +/- 1.5 hours and get a full good night's slumber. Win. Did an open mic last night where we followed the house band and got to do 4 songs, all of which featured my C3- Checkered Cali Custom. Behold...

Only ever owned one Suhr and at the time, I was in full-on Hamer Cali fanaticism so, the 25" scale and the Gotoh Floyd didn't really sit well. Sorta kinda wish I still had it but in truth, if I was that enamored and determined, it'd already be here.