Recent content by yeatzee

Love those faded reds. I feel like I made it pretty dang clear I wasn't talking in absolutes, and I acknowledged exactly your point in my post(s). I'm still confident the average does have the pickguard closer to the binding. In fact you pointed that out as a feature on the current CS reissues...

Thanks for the response. Specifically with the pickguards the biggest obvious difference besides the bridge pickup gap is the screw location and lack of space on the pickguard between the screw and the bevel edge. It's like they're shorter on that end, instead of going to the edge of the binding...

Appreciate the response! In my possession is a memphis reissue from 2016/17. Are you saying the pickguards and/or body size are different on current Nashville reissues? So far I've only been able to get 2 reissue owners to send me bout sizes, a 2016 63ri, and a 2020 61ri es335 to compare to my...

Are there any plans to make updates to the 60's reissue ES guitars? I'm holding a '64 reissue ES345, a 1964 ES345 and a 1965 ES345 right now. Some noticeable differences with the reissue, such as the pickguard being the wrong size and shape, the screw hole being in the wrong spot, the bracket...

Well a buddy ended up with one of the new Jerry Cantrell Murphy lab custom's so we decided to do a pretty indepth video review of the guitar. The good, the bad and what I call the inbetween PLUS we compared it to his '79 silverburst and '82 wine red custom for fun into a BE100 Deluxe, Mesa Dual...

Appreciate you coming on here and allowing people to ask you questions directly Mat. I've got a few, plus just some general feedback.... call it market research! Murphy Lab Hardware I was able to take a really close look at a heavy aged R0 Murphy Lab a friend bought and document it on...

I always adjust the poles, but I do it by ear. At the end of the day it makes very slight differences really

So my goldtop is about 7lb 14oz, and the Murphy Lab we didn't weight but it was a nice weight. I'd guess mid low-8's. The ML was definitely a darker guitar on the neck. The bridge I thought was fine overall, actually brighter than his other R0 if I remember correctly. We showed both in this...

Thanks for watching! I think the ML does make the goldtop sound extra bright and snappy because of how much warmer it is at the same settings. It really was tricky trying to determine how to set up the amps for each test!

Thanks for watching!

Ya, lowering pickup height has never made a pickup sound darker in my experience. It thins it out, less output less low end. That's the whole reason why people set neck pickups lower, match the output of the bridge and try to cut some mud.

And here's the guitar in case anyone is curious

I don't really see how that's going to tell me anything if the bridge pickup wiring is known to sound good and the neck sounds exactly the same attached there or on the neck volume pot. Resistance is about 7.9k, and pickup height has been messed with every which way. In my experience the pickup...

Ok so I tried swapping the neck pickup lead to the bridge volume control and that made no noticeable difference so that tells me it's the pickup, not the wiring, since the bridge is quite bright and chimey. So it looks like I'll be trying the seymour duncan staple.

How exactly would I go about that?