Thursday, June 18, 2009

Three Years Later

I've now been playing this guitar for three years, and it's still my favorite electric guitar. I added a Larrivee D-05 to my collection, which has become my favorite acoustic. Essentially all my playing is back and forth between these two. The other electric, which cost twice as much, doesn't really get much attention.

I've made two alterations since that fateful day in May 2006:

-After about three months I finally got tired of all the roughness from the cheesecloth incident and sanded it all away. Then I just put on a few more coats of tung oil and it looks like it was finished professionally. Lesson learned: don't use cheesecloth, and don't be afraid to sand away ANY roughness. You can always put more oil on. The secret to smoothness is sanding, and lots of it.

-About a month ago I finally took the guitar apart and changed the coil splitter to an always-on switch for the bridge humbucker. This is definately a change worth making. The bridge and neck together sound much better than any of the split-coil options. Plus I got to learn how to solder.

I may post another sound clip in the near future, if I wind up with the time to do so. It would be nice to let everyone hear the sound of the neck and bridge pickups together. Sort of a tele-esque sound, I think.

Until then, take care.