Hey everyone!
I recently finished my partscaster made from an old RG421 body and 90s Harper neck. What do you think? Painted it black with a pearl golden finish.
There was quite some work to be done, but just to name a few things I did: Fixed the trussrod, complete fret job, fixed body damage, chizeled new pickup cavities, modified neck shape, installed fluorescent side dots, complete new paint job and so on..
It certainly has some flaws like the scratches on the front that doesn’t seem to polish out and a few nicks here and there, but I‘m absolutely satisfied with the overall result!
I Learned quite a thing or two throughout the process and already began working on another guitar, but this time with a body built from scratch. Hopefully this time without messing up the paint job, lol.
Hope you like it!
I'm curious why you went with the (~~reversed?~~) angle on the bridge humbucker pickup? I've never seen anything like it.
Ah I just noticed it's a lefty. But yeah, why the angled humbucker?
It goes back to the idea to build a guitar that can create a true Single Coil signal from a split humbucker. Usually Humbuckers go to a volume pot with a higher resistance to reduce the higher frequencies you actually want with a SC. You might‘ve noticed the toggles between the Volume pots: One switches between Parallel/Serial/Split signal while the other one adds or removes a resistor to achieve original SC/HB resistance. So as a great fan of the Telecaster it felt natural to go for a position that could mimic that sound as close as possible. Which is also why I‘ve put a Tele SC in the neck position.
Ah, yes coil split makes sense. But doesn't the angle screw with the humbucker when it's in HB mode? I've always heard humbuckers shouldn't be angled.
Nah they are totally fine. Actually most Fan Fret guitars have them as well.
They might look like it from a distance, but their polepieces are lined up correctly. If slanted, the coils are just offset, like a P bass or some G&L pickups.
Ah you're right, I had assumed since it was a humbucker the two rows would be aligned straight, but now I see the coils are in line with the strings as they should be. Fascinating guitar OP. Nice work.