and Easter apparently means Free Guitar Day somewhere.....

For guitars of the straight waisted variety (or reverse offset).
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Re: and Easter apparently means Free Guitar Day somewhere.....

Post by djetz » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:48 pm

Great score! I'm envious.

Is it actually a hollow body or a semi-solid? You should be able to see if there's a centre block by looking thru the f-holes. From looking at the design, I'd guess it's a semi, but the bridge is mounted on a piece of wood, not directly into the body, which usually indicates it's fully hollow. But the bolt on neck usually means semi-solid. It might even be "semi-semi-solid" with a solid section at the neck joint that ends where the neck pup starts.

By the way - GFS WRHP "re-issues" are just bog-standard humbuckers in a a cool cover - they're like the modern Fender WHRP "re-issues" but completely different to real 70s WRHPs.

There's a good chance that the original pickups are actually single coils with an empty place where the second coil should be... so a set of cheap buckers from GFS will help things along, but I'd spend a little more money and get something cooler, if it were mine.
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Re: and Easter apparently means Free Guitar Day somewhere.....

Post by rickenmetal » Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:16 am

(wow, those Nationals are cool)

There are actually more variations on the semi-hollow theme: some guitars have a 1 cm block attached to the top  center part only, some have a full block, but only where the bridge goes, some have little wood columns were the bridge is, some have just long strips reinforcing the wood where the pickups are...
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Re: and Easter apparently means Free Guitar Day somewhere.....

Post by stevejamsecono » Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:36 am

UPDATE:
She's still in the shop at the moment getting setup and new pups. They called me the other day asking if I wanted 200$ worth of Gibson pickups put in it, and I kind of just laughed at them, so Generic Dimarzio PAFs here I come!

I promise promise promise I will take pictures/sound clips when she returns. Really!

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It's so hard to understand
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