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Posted By: Evan Skopp
Please join us today as we welcome Matt Artinger to the Guest Luthier Series. Matt is at the forefront of young, American, no-compromise guitar builders. His company, Artinger Custom Guitars, has been conjuring up some of the most innovative guitar designs; while at the same time, associating with one of the oldest and most traditional guitar companies ever. Growing up in Pennsylvania, in the shadow of the C.F. Martin Company, Matt started tearing guitars apart at age 12 and building new ones from scratch at 15. In 1997, at 18, he hung out his shingle. According to Matt, "there weren't that many young guitar makers at the time who were making high-end guitars." Matt describes himself during his first years as "young, naive and full of energy."
Matt Artinger
In addition to building his own guitars, at age 20, Matt became a Martin warranty repairman and through this work, struck up a relationship with Tim Teel, Martin's Director of Instrument Design. Because Matt's guitars are so unique and innovative, Teel asked Matt to submit a new design, which eventually became the OMC Artinger 1, which has been in Martin's lineup since 2006. Since that time, Matt has been involved in new Martin designs and one-offs for NAMM shows.
Obviously, Matt's designs aren't limited to acoustic guitars. The $9,000 Artinger Nub Chopper pictured below is an electric guitar with major attitude. As those of us who watch American Chopper on TLC know, Nub is the amazingly talented painter for Orange County Choppers. Watching the show, Matt always loved Nub's incredible air brush work. They discussed some basics about a guitar collaboration
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Posted By: Evan Skopp
With more than 40 years of experience, Rick Turner has built a solid reputation among musicians worldwide as a living legend.
About Rick
Rick with one of his Compass Rose Ukuleles
The former guitarist for the ’60s Canadian folk duo Ian & Sylvia and soundman for the Grateful Dead, Rick co-founded Alembic in 1970 and designed their classic Series 1 and Series 2 bass es. He founded Rick Turner Guitars in 1979 and joined Gibson in 1988 where he served as President of Gibson Labs West Coast R&D Division.
Rick left Gibson in 1992 and ran a guitar repair shop at Westwood Music in Los Angeles where he developed piezo pickups designs, working with jackson Browne, David Crosby and others. He later co-founded Highlander Musical Audio, manufacturer of piezo pickups for acoustic guitars. He continues to design and build guitars for many professional players such as Ry Cooder, David Lindley, David Crosby and Andy Summers. His Model 1 electric guitar was made famous by Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham. Rick is a regular columnist for Acoustic Guitar and a former columnist for Bass Player, Frets and Guitar Player magazines. He teaches courses in lutherie and has a popular class called “ Build a Mandolin in Four Days” which he teaches in California and Australia. He’s currently working on an autobiography. There's more information about Rick on his site.
Turner Model 1, Made Famous by Lindsey Buckingham
A Quartet of Rick's acoustic Instruments
But most important to us at Seymour Duncan, Rick is the “T” in D-TAR (duncan | turner... Read More
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Posted By: Evan Skopp
Please welcome Hamer Guitars co-founder Jol Dantzig. Some of Jol's contributions to guitar history include:
• Design of the first 12-string bass
• Design of the first locking tuner
• Design of the first workable electric/acoustic hybrid guitar (DuoTone)
• Creation of the "Modern-Vintage" boutique guitar niche market
Jol's guitar designs have won six Editor's Pick awards in a row from Guitar Player magazine.
Jol has designed guitars for: John Lennon, George Harrison, Sting, Keith Richards, Gary Moore, Billy gibbons , Rick Nielsen, Keb Mo, KK Downing, Glenn Tipton, Lyle Workman, Mark Knopfler, Eric Johnson, Martin Barre, Johnny Ramone, Elliot Easton, Brad Gillis, Roy Buchannan, Jeff Watson, James Honeyman-Scott, and many, many more.
Jol's musical credits include recording with: Blue Guru, Wilson Pickett, Freddie Scott, Jon Tiven, Shaw-Blades, Jim Carroll, and Frank Black. His compositions have been featured in films and tele vision.
Check out Jol's Wikipedia page here. Click here to follow his blog. And click here to see a video interview.
At the end of Jol's appearance today, a randomly selected participant will win a cool prize. Jol will pay to pick up their guitar and bring it to his workshop where he'll do a full soup-to-nuts setup on it. He'll intonate it. Adjust the truss rod. Dress the frets. Clean and lubricate it. Jol and Seymour will consult on a set of pickups for the guitar, based on how the guitar plays and the winner's playing style. And Jol will drop the pickups in. It’ll play like a dream when he's done with it. And the lucky winner can follow the day-to-day progress on Jol's blog.
So there you have it. Any electric guitar or bass set-up personally by Jol Dantzig. Pickup |
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Posted By: Evan Skopp
SDUGF members, please welcome one of our own, Mr. Peter Crossley of Crossley Guitars. Peter is an Melbourne Australian-based custom builder. And a UGF member. What a great way to kick off our Guest Luthier Series!
By the way, one lucky participant in today's discussion will win a free Seymour Duncan guitar strap, just because.
Peter will be on hand today, Tuesday Sept. 1, 2009, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern to answer questions.
So, make him feel welcome, Peter Crossley!
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Posted By: Stevo
This is a quick demo to try and display the frequency settings.
This is my ash tele with a custom shop bg1400 bridge pickup. I played through my plexi reissue, using a mass attenuator for the dirty parts. I used a shure 57 mic. There are no effects and there's not a backing track.
Time - Freq Setting
00:00 - none
00:23 - 1
00:50 - 2
01:22 - none
01:40 - 1
02:00 - 2
Pickup Booster Tones |
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Posted By: Stratman
Now that Gibson uses a printed circuit board with Bournes pots and fixed capacitors and wiring jacks.
Electronically, the 2008 has a BurstBucker Pro 1 at neck and a BurstBucker Pro 2 at the bridge and Bourne gold-plated pots visible through a smoked translucent control cover; also new is the Neutrik locking output jack tidily inset into the guitar's rim.
How many are willing to take that stuff out and replace all of it with Seymour Duncan pups, and old fashion pots and caps?
Come on, what do the rest of you think about Gibson's latest (2008) trend to use circuit boards that can not be changed? |
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Posted By: LesStrat
I have a great ibanez semi-hollow body guitar that has the perfect neck for me. Odie said it's because of the LP scale. IDK, I've never spent much time with LPs. It also has a narrow neck of medium thickness.
Is there a Gibby with similar dimensions? Other guitars?
I like the tone of LPs. Yet I've been spoiled by the weight of the parker Fly.
Talk to me about LP style axes with similar neck sizes to what I've described (Odie might even remember the dimensions). |
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Posted By: ronlennon
I finally made a decision on what pups to put in my Epi Les Paul Studio (2008 Chinese made).I bit the bullet and put Antiquities in. It really made a difference! Totally changed the guitar's tone and sound. Much more clarity and depth. It is hard to put into words, but when you hear it, you know it. I got a lot of opinions on the post here, Thanks, great place to help decide what you want. Ronlennon
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Posted By: RockStarNick
Once again, I was jamming on my Les Paul Standard with the C5 in it, thinking, hmm, sounds a *little* too scooped for me.
Got my screwdriver, raised up the bucker probably 1/8 of an inch, and IMMEDIATELY heard a difference.
More mids. Fatter treble, thicker bass . Sounds like a different pickup.
I'm kinda just blabbing here, but still, its amazing what an 1/8" adjustment can do for tone. |
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Posted By: BloodRose
I Just got my order of parts from Wymore today. Thanks for the quick turn around Bro!!
Anyhow, got me 4 alnico 8 mags.. So Im gonna Custom 8 my Explorer (from custom) , custom 8 my washburn MG104 and others. Maybe even my Baretta! I have a C8 in my Focus 6000 and one of my washburn Salas' already and I love them!!
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Posted By: Aceman
When it comes to PAF style humbuckers , there are a lot of choices. Let's see if we can get a fairly comprehensive list and some good tone descriptions. Then, we can reference the thread whenever someone is asking about them. So let's get a list and start adding the tone/details. Here are the ones I think of off the top:
Duncan
Antiquity
Seth
59
A2P
Pearly Gates
DiMarzio
PAF
36th Anniversary PAF
Air Classic
Gibson
57 Classic |
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Posted By: shaggyrun
I have seen that there are pick ups called trembuckers, that are meant to be used with a floyd rose and other tremelo systems. can a standard sh4 jb humbucker be used with a floyd rose or is it not suggested? I am only asking because i have it in a washburn idol 14 right now with a fixed bridge but I want to put it in my new raven which has a floyd rose. |
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