Bordering on infamnia, I know... (Silvertone 1448)

[Michael Ambrose]

...but its still sexy.



Someone else routed it for a bucker... I guess thats why I got it so cheap.

Not going to lie... this is not how I wanted this thing to turn out, but I really just wanted to play this thing. Its been on my project shelf for too long!!

I have a bridge-position GFS Retrotron Nashville up there. I like it, but not for this guitar. its REALLY fucking ballsy. like, gut-crunching ballsy... Great pickup, but it totally belongs in a Les Paul (which is where it'll probably end up when I finish this thing).

Don't worry, I cut a fresh pickguard (masonite with a pearloid cap) that will house an ORIGINAL lipstick from a '59 Dano... once I get around to it, of course.

[cheepaxes]

Or you could go all the way perverse and install a DeArmind Mustache at the neck and come up with away to switch pickups. Then you've got ballsy when you want it, plus "chimey" and the combination of the two.

That pickup does look kind of sexy in that guitar.

-Scott

[Michael Ambrose]

[johnnyb]

[cheepaxes]

[johnnyb]

a rough photoshop with the double lipstick

[Michael Ambrose]

I'd really thought about it... but I just plain old don't like the look of double lipsticks.

Plus I'm a single-coil kind of guy.

I put the Hilo'Tron in there earlier, and its really getting close to the sound I want... REALLY close...

But honestly, I thin the final solution is going to be to put a real Lipstick in there. I'm hoping I'll have time on my day off on Sunday to rout the new pickguard I cut... I cut a PG that is basically identical to that which you'd find on a 1457 without the "hole" in the center, but instead of painting it I applied and a sheet of white pearloid self-adhesive PG material (like the kind you would find on an acoustic guitar)... definitely looks cool... and I know it'll sound hot with an original lipstick in there...

man, its just been one long journey with this axe!