Jeff R

Our good pal Steve Stafford (Austin TX, aka "Bruiser Brody on the HFC) and my good pal Joshua Jones (Tulsa OK) posted on their social media this weekend some absolutely killer demo vids of my Carondelet Dreambuckers I thought you guys might enjoy. Without going into a lot of the techspec that's covered ad nauseum at the Carondelet Pickups website ... Dreambuckers are my hot vintage hybrid magnet humbuckers. Bridge is A2 and A5 and 11.2K, neck is A3 and A5 and 7.8k. First, spins with BrodySteve. Steve's rig is built around Friedman offerings. Next, a spin with Joshua. He uses an Axe FX in his studio.

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Thanks to nearly 30 years on this board, it's quicker for me to list the production model Hamers I haven't owned than it is to list the ones I have owned. Guitars, meh ... some of my longest and most dear friendships were initiated via this forum. Forever indebted.

That is too cool, and the song kicks! Attaboy!

If you don't already play harmonica, you should now take it up because I bet that amp sounds like a steam locomotive crossing a south Mississippi pea field when fed by a blues harp.

I have the six-knob Tumnus as well and I absolutely love it. Its best use IMHO is layered atop an already great tone, to simply make it better. And if you treat it not as cake but as icing, it works beautifully over cleans, over gains, over gritty and pushed, the whole spectrum.

The pre-cut wood shims are superb for quelling one's OCD tendencies, but not needed. As detailed in the last reply, the last Ibanez J- clone I shimmed, I used a piece of a old expired health insurance card. It was the perfect thickness for where I wanted the saddle heights and pickup heights to sit. The wood shims are awesome but get the StewMac ones if you want angle consistency. I've read online the cheap knock-offs are very often cut uneven, aka mismatched thickness side to side, leaving you with a cockeyed neck pitch. That's why the S/M shims are so much more expensive. Here's my most common shim, a piece of my business card. Useful ID for the owner in the case of theft recovery too ... "my 'mechanic's' business information is in the neck heel."

Greg a couple years ago shared with me the specific Gregwind HB recipe he gave other winders over the last couple of decades. After reviewing the recipe and winding a few to traditional Gregwind spec, I suggested a slight revision that likely wouldn't change the fundamental tone or feel but would significantly improve durability and ultimately lifespan. Outside of us both having to warranty our work, we ultimately want our work to outlive us, I reminded Greg. He agreed and said go for it, and upon testing my revised recipe, Greg said the prototypes were actually better than any of their predecessors. And because I erroneously wrote "Gregbuckers" on the packaging instead of "Gregwinds," they got a happenstance rebrand too I absolutely ADORE your guitar! No spec revisions to the time-tested "Uncle Greg" blueprint fyi, that pickup is absolutely righteous in the ears and under the hands.

Fender's one-pickup Tele is called an "Esquire." Gibson's one-P90 LP is called a "Junior." Carondelet's TPA-90 pickup is a dogear/soapbar blueprint single coil that drop fits in a Tele bridge with zero mods. First-ever Carondelet custom "Esquire Junior." The three-way blade's positions are - pickup and volume only; - pickup and volume and tone knobs; and - pickup and volume with fixed 4700 pF capacitor for a funky cocked wah "schwa" voicing. If I may say so myself ... this guitar is absolutely badass.

with Dave Navarro's name in transfer decal on the front of the headstock That made me think ... my memory functions akin to old Echoplex tape cartridge, but in decades of hanging out here I can't recall ever seeing an artist's name as part of the transfer decal on any Daytona or T-51, aka the 6IL clear-over-maple F-style bolt-ons of the 90s. Anyone have any examples of one of those specifically with a personalized logo?

Very cool piece, love the wood choice! I actually wrapped up our first Carondelet "Esquire Junior" axe yesterday, I will share it in a different thread next week after folks have fully enjoyed this thread. Great job!

Greg has me winding one of his custom Gregbuckers for his ... he's VERY VERY excited about it!

I have an original CE-2 from May 1983 and a Fulltone Choralflange from 20ish years ago. I prefer the CE-2's voice because I'm a child of the 80s and that baby blue pedal's shimmer is seemingly on every guitar track recorded by every guitarist regardless of genre that entire decade and subsequently in my DNA. But the Choralflange is really close ... and it flanges too! More Choralflange coolness ... I got mine from my pal Joe out in Phoenix, who is both the brother-in-law and the guitar tech for the Doobie Brothers' Patrick Simmons. Joe's CF was on Patrick's board for several years before Joe sold it to me. Those tape slivers are their actual settings hashmarks. It goes without saying I can now absolutely nail that swooshy modulation during the halftime break in "Listen To The Music."

Those are superb as well. That's what I use on our fabs when people prefer locking tuners (I'm a Hipshot dealer). The Hipshots are substantially more affordable than turnbutton-lock Gotohs. They also have over a dozen button shapes/materials from which to pick for customization.