Lets look at our guitars thread

[nikaiyo2]

Thanks for the advice guys will send off a few emails and see where I end up

[languagetimothy]

nikaiyo2 said:

Thanks for the advice guys will send off a few emails and see where I end up

One other, new kings road guitars Fulham. They have lots vintage equipment, they sold some gear for me on commission a few years ago.

[rlw]

[epom]

Hello Slash, is that you ??

[slopes]

What brand are they?

[singlecoil]

My guess is Feline (if you click on the pictures and expand the Thumbsnap image you can read it on the headstock).

[chemistry]

Yep, headstock/logo checks out:

https://felineguitars.com/pages/feline-guitar-rang...

Not cheap!

[singlecoil]

chemistry said:

Yep, headstock/logo checks out:

https://felineguitars.com/pages/feline-guitar-rang...

Not cheap!

As a former guitar maker I can guarantee that even at those prices they or he won't be making a lot of money.

[rlw]

I had been using Feline in Croydon for all my guitar issues and got to know them quite well. I promised myself one at some point but could never really afford it.

Then we moved to York so I had to find another tech to sort out stuff for me and I lost touch with Jonathan for a while. But I did get a hankering for something a bit different.

I bought the first one - the green one - used, from a chap on thefretboard.co.uk in January and just fell in love with it. Lighter than a Gibson and with great upper fret access, it's so easy to play.

Then the second - red - one came up in a dealer's secondhand sale at a silly price so I thought, why not. Sell a couple of other things and cover the cost, no problem. Again, light and so easy to play with a belly cut too.

Then I realised that Jonathan wasn't going to be making any more, after over thirty years, so I grabbed the yellow one. A Lion Supreme '59 PG. Again, light and so playable. Bare Knuckle PG pickups with out of phase option via the neck tone control. Totally nails the Peter Green sound.

I was thinking of getting an R8 or R9 but the prices just strike me as being too high. The yellow one cost less than half what Gibson charges for a Murphy Lab Greeny and is unique. It might not hold it's value as well as some but it ain't going anywhere anyway.

From Feline....

A "unburst" lemon drop finished guitar with a fine fiddleback top and with some BARE KNUCKLE PG BLUES pickups for a Peter Green / Gary Moore inspired guitar


BODY

African mahogany body - some light chambering
Fine striped Maple cap
Thinner than a Gibson LP but not super skinny
A non sunburst faded amber finish with Ivoroid binding
All access neck joint

NECK
South American mahogany 3 piece quartersawn neck
Width: 43mm at nut - 57mm at last fret
Depth: 22mm at 1st fret - 24mm at 12th fret
Neck shape: med C shape profile
Radius : 12"
Rosewood fingerboard with ivoroid binding
Dunlop 6000 fretwire
Mother of pearl block markers on front and black tahiti pearl side markers
Earvana compensated tuning nut

HARDWARE
Chrome hardware
Tuners: Graphtech Ratio Tuners
Strap Buttons: Jim Dunlop straplocks
Bridge: TonePros locking Bridge & TonePros locking tailpiece studs
Lightweight aluminium tailpiece
Anomaly Pickup mounting ring

ELECTRONICS

Pickups: BARE KNUCKLE PG BLUES set
The PG Blues humbucker set features Alnico II sand cast magnets, scatterwound bridge coils of 42AWG plain enamel wire and uniquely wound Heavy Formvar neck coils for the famous “out of phase” mid-position, when both humbuckers are on together. Vintage-correct solid nickel silver baseplates and covers, along with totally unpotted coils, all add to the vowel-like vocal delivery, bright yet sweet highs, warm bass and trademark “out of phase” tone.(we have this option via push/pull pot)


Screened electronics cavities
CTS 550k pots and switchcraft jack and 0.022uF 0.01uF SoZo tone capacitor
Push pull on neck tone pot to allow user to choose whether to activate the out of phase setting.

WEIGHT
8lb 8oz

[W124]

Using this today. It’s my main session acoustic. A Brook Teign. Best acoustic I’ve so far found. Gets used day in, day out. And not just by me. Rock solid.

Brook are, in my opinion, the best. Not cheap though.

[Pupp]

One trick pony but a gold foil Jazzmaster with a Bigsby can’t hurt…

[vdn]

Flipping humbuckers around... what's the consensus?

A friend just had a guitar set up, with new pickups installed. Getting it home, he's noticed the bridge humbucker is the wrong way around, if there is such a thing... the poles should be closest to the bridge, no? Not sure what to say to him. He just asked if he should have it flipped around.

Pic attached:

[singlecoil]

vdn said:

Flipping humbuckers around... what's the consensus?

A friend just had a guitar set up, with new pickups installed. Getting it home, he's noticed the bridge humbucker is the wrong way around, if there is such a thing... the poles should be closest to the bridge, no? Not sure what to say to him. He just asked if he should have it flipped around.

Pic attached:

Doesn't matter in the slightest, lift it out and turn it around if you're bothered. It would need to come out of the plastic surround because that will be angled to suit the slope of the body.

Edited by singlecoil on Tuesday 26th March 19:45

[vdn]

singlecoil said:

vdn said:

Flipping humbuckers around... what's the consensus?

A friend just had a guitar set up, with new pickups installed. Getting it home, he's noticed the bridge humbucker is the wrong way around, if there is such a thing... the poles should be closest to the bridge, no? Not sure what to say to him. He just asked if he should have it flipped around.

Pic attached:

Doesn't matter in the slightest, lift it out and turn it around if you're bothered. It would need to come out of the plastic surround because that will be angled to suit the slope of the body.

Edited by singlecoil on Tuesday 26th March 19:45

Thanks for the reply. I was sure it'd affect the sound ... but maybe I'm just so used to seeing it the 'normal' way around. He's just reported back that the unique string spacing at the bridge meant that having the PU the 'normal' way around would mean that the poles were quite a distance from the strings, and turning it around this way lessens that distance a tad. Makes sense I guess but I look forward to seeing it.

[singlecoil]

vdn said:

Thanks for the reply. I was sure it'd affect the sound ... but maybe I'm just so used to seeing it the 'normal' way around. He's just reported back that the unique string spacing at the bridge meant that having the PU the 'normal' way around would mean that the poles were quite a distance from the strings, and turning it around this way lessens that distance a tad. Makes sense I guess but I look forward to seeing it.

The screws are just there for decoration really, so aesthetics is the deciding factor. It's not normally a good idea to raise any of the screws because that tends to loosen them, which can lead to problems. The magnets themselves are bar magnets inside or underneath the bobbins so all the screws could do would be to conduct the magnetism closer to the strings, which again doesn't really do anything.

[Sheetmaself]

I expect a bit of hate for hate for this, but I have just treated myself to a Lava Blue Touch in mint green.

Hopefully it will be good as the other option was a Baby Taylor BT1.







Details here

https://www.lavaofficial.co.uk/product-page/blue-l...

Picked up from Amazon for £370

[Sheetmaself]

The current selection, hopefully the Lava Blue Touch will add something to it. If not I will sell and get a Baby Taylor BT1

[Stan the Bat]

Sheetmaself said:

The current selection, hopefully the Lava Blue Touch will add something to it. If not I will sell and get a Baby Taylor BT1

Is that a classic vibe tele ?

[Sheetmaself]

Stan the Bat said:

Is that a classic vibe tele ?

No it’s actually a Squier Affinity!

Sounds absolutely awesome though. My Dad (plays in Bands you have probably heard of as a session guitarist) and myself went to a shop to get me a Tele, asked for everything they had up to £1k with prices removed. This was about 10 years ago so most Tele’s available to us.

Obviously we knew it was cheaper end as a Squier, but the sound of it was amazing. My Dad nearly got one as well but tested it and sounded completely different!

He still borrows it and it has been on stage in many music halls!

[OldSkoolRS]

Sheetmaself said:

He still borrows it and it has been on stage in many music halls!

That's cool. I sometimes gig with a Squier though you'll likely have never heard of our band. Great way to chose a guitar as well without seeing the price.