^^^^ niceeee checkout my Pau Ferro tele or at least the top half;D

I made an EMG pickguard with two SA 'single coils' and a 89 in the bridge position.

I've always liked Steve Lukathers tone a lot, but it doesnt really work for me and especially not when playing dumble style amps.

I guess the EMG's had the hey days back in the 80s when we used a lot of noisy effects in racks and TOTO was THE band.

These days, I prefer Duncan antiquities in my strat with a telesounding Duncan twangbanger in the bridge position. It really makes my strat sound like a RF tele in teh bridge pos.

It's great that your are respectfull and in love with your EMG's.......

'Steven' aka Steven_nl, just happen to be one of the king people at this forum, who tries to help a Dumble novice like yourself, by answering a lot of questions from newbees.

I'm sure it's not your intention to insult anyone, but we like to keep a good tone in our posts on this forum - not only in our amps. If you get my drift.

Oh don't worry, I absolutely meant it in the most respectful way - I had a pretty good idea who was meant, and I was pretty sure he would understand where I was coming from. Don't worry Steven - I love you man!

Steven said it best - "Tone is a very personal and subjective thing". I find I'm happiest as a musician when I'm using MY ears (and those in my immediate vicinity) to develop my sound, and not coloring it with opinions from magazines or forums - in fact, my involvement here has been quite an anomaly, and I'll probably fade away fairly soon. I've got a new amp that I'm thrilled with, and want to learn lots about it, but eventually my interests drift, ifyaknowudImean.

I haven't properly introduced myself here - while I don't play guitar gigs anymore, I started out as a guitarist back in the late 60's, and played in lots of bands in the 70's and 80's, nothing big, just average rock stuff. My last gig was a country pickup band for a songwriter here in Nashville in 1990. I was usually the hired gun flash lead guitarist, and have always been good about learning songs fast so that worked out pretty well. My day job is also as a musician - I'm a symphony cellist, playing with the Nashville Symphony for the last 26 years. So I've been around guitars for a long time, and some of the great ones at that. One of my huge influences for guitar tone is Vince Gill, who's someone I've played with a lot, and I've played his guitar a few times even. He uses a fairly similar EMG setup, and a pair of blackface Deluxes. If I knew him better I'd try to get him to try my new amp - I'm sure he'd be impressed, although I doubt we could pry him away from the fenders.

For a laugh, take a look at a list I made once of all the guitars I've owned - warning - this web page was originally created in 1993 (!!!) before there was such thing as web page editors, and was (and is) very primitive - although I've updated it sporadically, it's still extremely primitive looking - http://home.comcast.net/~sduck409/Stevesguitars.html

So anyway, I didn't mean anything - just showing off my guitar, as per the thread at hand, and responding in an off-hand way to an off-hand comment - nothing serious meant!

Man you should have kept some of those guitars you had... you would be rich at this moment...

 

Damn. it seems I have to install a pickguard on my quilted maple body strat
 

Thanks

Yeah I agree. it was a thing of the time I guess (Lukather etc). I would get rid of it if I could and install a wilkinson or somehting simple, but that would mean drilling new hole and closing the existing ones. I guess I have to keep it like this.