The Real Muldoon

Pictures on flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85009497@N00/

Not a whole lot up there now, but more soon. That would be the place to check for pics from now on. I will throw some up here tho. If you have anything you want me to post, send it on…

I am having abdominal surgery next week- wish me the best- hopefully not a big deal.  Tests for Scotia, Schenectady, Niskayuna and Albany FD next month! Don’t get bent over my flickr username, that was meant to crackup Gerald Azenaro so I could look at his awesome stuff. I never thought I’d wind up using it. Click on my contacts to view Gaz’s great photos. If you miss NBPT he brings you right back home like only a real native can.

I have been wanting a new guitar but am too broke. I had this project tele affinity on which I had previously butterscotch nitroed the neck, slapped in a protone pickup and a mini humbucker in the neck. The pickups were very microphonic and icky. The frets were sharp and overall it just collected dust. I love turning junkers into players and this was my next project. Guitar Fetish is a new company from they guy who made the Bedrock amps back in the 80s and 90s. The parts are inexpensive and I bought tuners, bridge saddles and 2 pickups on the bedrock reputation alone.  Of the 15 or so guitars I have tweaked this is a fave. The tuners are for my esquire, as the affinity has new pings which are fine. Enjoy the pics, I am hoping to save for a Xaviere XL-500 cherry sunburst after paramedic school ends. The affinity now sounds dynamic, responsive to touch and really sweet. It does lack the extreme headroom (maybe shrill) sound of the tele, but retains the other characteristics. I really like these pickups and saddles, for the price, you can’t loose. I love Bill Lawrence and his products/philosophy, but GFS is running right up his coattails. The real winner is the NECK PICKUP. Not something you hear associated with teles very often, this one is a winner, period. What I tried to do with the miniHB has been accomplished. I am very satisifed.

my shop

before

HBs old monitors upgraded with ping tuners

GFS telecaster pickups

they look like the old monstertones schecter used back in the day

A fret polishing template I cut from cardboard- scapels are an essential guitar tool.

0000 steel wool, cover you pickups when you do this- the magnets pick up the filings and can squeal.

dressing the frets ends- they were like barded wire- now smooth and silky.

new saddles, these are from GFS and they first thing I noticed was how great the guitar sounded unplugged with these new saddles.

radius gauge, I actually went with 9.5- very important to a good set up.

here it is.

pickups are in!

Abend products together!

its not a BC 75- I think its a 1200 in a voxy body. It is an absolutely kick ass amp. serial number 89 #####