honeyisfunny wrote:

That is a thing of effing beauty. Complete with the Seth Lovers, which I would love to add to mine. Sadly it only has the cheapo humbuckers the new Deluxes come with

BadComrade wrote:

elisha wiesner wrote:Did i already mention that it is white not black now. there was a mix up. it looks even cooler. i don't have a digital camera or i would post a picture.

-e

Isn't this it?

yes.

o_d_m wrote:

honeyisfunny wrote:...Complete with the Seth Lovers, which I would love to add to mine. Sadly it only has the cheapo humbuckers the new Deluxes come with

Seth Lovers are for Gibsons...

Curtis Novak will rewind those reissue P'ups to real Fender Wide-Range humbucker specs.

http://www.curtisnovak.com/pickups_repairs.shtml

They whole sound that people "like" about these guitars is the Fender Wide-rangers. They are very different from gibson-style humbuckers. I think it's only like $50 per pickup... maybe more since they are double coils.

Anyway, the folks on the Fender and Offset guitar forum love Curtis' pickups...

Seth Lover originally designed those wide rangers for Fender no?

That's why I called them Seth Lovers.

Maybe that is a bit misleading.

I should have referred to them as the Seth Lover Wide Range pickups.

Whatever the semantics, I still want them as I think they sound great.

I'll check out this Curtis fellow. If he can turn my utter shit pickups into gold, I will be forever grateful.

Seth Lover did indeed design the Fender Wide Range humbucker. Best bit is I have a spare one in my bedside drawer just in case. Love those things.

ampeg77 wrote:

benadrian wrote:The other was the prototype, hollow aluminum 500 style bodied prototype owned by Rich of Bearclaw.

This is actually Kevin's guitar, I need to ship it back to him.

rich

Wow, that sucks!

Perhaps I can convince you to accidentally write an Oakland address on the box instead of Florida.

Ben Adrian

holmes-- i don't know about the money issue. i cant imagine that he wouldn't pay for you to ship if it actually was fucked up. if that is the case then i sympathize. i'm third-party anyway but it sounds like you are just bitching and arent even willing to wrap the thing and send it back. bitching rights are revoked if you arent willing to do anything. kevin is someone that i got to know a little bit and respect a lot after just meeting him a few times. he is providing us a hell of a fucking service and for you to blast him when i know that he would make every arrangement for you if you were truly unhappy with his product is fucking snide.

--like i said, though. if he never offered to pay for shipping say whatever you want.

but you aren't going to be able to say a bad word about it without me countering if otherwise.

I just restrung my baritone for the second time since I've owned it (almost 2 years). Breifly before that, I played it unamplified in my apartment. It was very weird. I was sitting there, playing it, looking at it a little, thinking "what *is* this thing?!?!" It looks cool. And it sounds so great, unamplified. So pretty.

I never really sit and focus on it. I'm always too busy playing it. But when I was restringing it and trying to clean it up a little bit, I saw that there are a couple more dings in the body. It makes me so happy to think that I have this instrument that is one-of-a-kind, no other like it anywhere, ever, that cost a fair amount of money, and I couldn't give two shits if it gets dinged up and scratched and whatever. Because unlike pretty much every other instrument I own, I know I will never sell it. I can't say that about any other instrument I own, even Falcon #001 which is my second favorite after the baritone. I will maybe give it away to some kid one day when I'm too old to play anymore. But I will never have any interest in selling it.

Salut, Kevin. Your business model is as amazing and beautiful as can possibly be in this world. And you are, truly you are, the maker of the finest aluminum instruments!!!

BadComrade wrote:

syntaxfree07 wrote:like i said, though. if he never offered to pay for shipping say whatever you want.

You think Rickenbacker or Fender would pay for shipping from the UK to their factory to make changes to a guitar for someone?

As far as I recall, Kevin offered to split shipping costs with him. I'm also 95% sure that Kevin even wound him another pickup that was ultra-microphonic, just like most TB500 pickups tend to be, and sent it to him for free.

I don't think they would. But I think they should if they send someone a defective product. If it was a shitty cheeseburger then it wouldn't matter. If you pay upwards of 1000 dollars for a guitar you expect it to work. It does work. But work like the other ones that made you decide to buy the product. To compare Electrical to Rickenbacker and Fender is doing Kevin a great disservice.

syntaxfree07 wrote:

BadComrade wrote:

syntaxfree07 wrote:like i said, though. if he never offered to pay for shipping say whatever you want.

You think Rickenbacker or Fender would pay for shipping from the UK to their factory to make changes to a guitar for someone?

As far as I recall, Kevin offered to split shipping costs with him. I'm also 95% sure that Kevin even wound him another pickup that was ultra-microphonic, just like most TB500 pickups tend to be, and sent it to him for free.

I don't think they would. But I think they should if they send someone a defective product. If it was a shitty cheeseburger then it wouldn't matter. If you pay upwards of 1000 dollars for a guitar you expect it to work. It does work. But work like the other ones that made you decide to buy the product. To compare Electrical to Rickenbacker and Fender is doing Kevin a great disservice.

From what I understand of the situation, the guitar worked fine, he just didn't like the tone.