A number of you may know that I also write for the Seymour Duncan blog. I put in a request to have a Custom Shop pickup made, and it was approved, and yesterday I picked it up from the post office! I built a Frankie type Strat last year, and …
The EVH Frankenstein Humbucker has quickly become one of my favourite pickups, and not because I want to capture EVH tones. It’s a great all-round pickup, although i really wish that it did have a four conductor mode, and perhaps even F or trem-spacing. I’ve been working on a lead …
I’ve tried a number of pickups in my newly finished Strat over the past few months. I recently traded some pickups for an EVH Frankenstein Humbucker and thought that my Frankie-inspired strat would be the perfect test bed for this pickup. Sure, it has an alder body, custom brass and …
Now that Winter NAMM 2013 is over I thought I might post about the new products that really excited me. I don’t have much time to cover Winter NAMM these days on account of my wife and youngest son having their birthdays at the same time, but I do keep …