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Dunno. I'd probably go for this:
DS-4 Walnut # 32114 - New Vintage Guitars
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11-18-2014 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by rpguitar
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Originally Posted by Patrick2
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Originally Posted by rpguitar
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Getting dizzy here. The walnut is just stunning, as is the rest of it. Oh man, what a guitar! Never seen that adjustable CC. Is that something new from Lollar?
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Originally Posted by Woody Sound
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Originally Posted by Greentone
Greentone, you've forgotten more than I will ever know but a word to the wise: please don't pay sticker...
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Probably MAP. $3400 more than a standard CES in natural. That CC is a very expensive pup!
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The cheapskate solution:
I'd just install a full-sized CC and controls into the top of a beater '50s L-7C.
Plenty of them have laminated backs, and I'd be willing to live with a carved instead of laminated top.
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Originally Posted by Ren
Last edited by Jabberwocky; 11-18-2014 at 09:45 PM.
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Hammer beat me to it. Scary, Hammer, we have equal great mindz.
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Why is everyone gassing on this pick-up?
I'm just gonna speak my mind here so bare with me.
It doesn't sound that great, its a monster and involves some serious guitar butchering. Not to mention the loss of tone and resonance plus the added weight.
There are many many pickups out there, that can get close too or better than, so why this obsession? Is it not going back to that 'desirability + mystical' thing.
I mean how many of you have heard one and thought, thats the best pickup by such a way, I'm willing to butcher my guitar for it and still not be sure of the result afterwards.Last edited by Archie; 11-18-2014 at 10:20 PM.
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Originally Posted by archtopheaven
Last edited by pubylakeg; 11-18-2014 at 11:03 PM.
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Originally Posted by Drifter
Charlie Christian Pickups - New Vintage Guitars
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Originally Posted by ArchtopHeaven
Last edited by pubylakeg; 11-18-2014 at 11:15 PM.
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Originally Posted by pubylakeg
The beauty of a CC pickup comes from driving an octal-based flea-watt valve amp or a Fender Tweed style amp with AlNiCo speakers. It sounds best with a bit of hair on the fat warm "clean" tone i.e. a touch of distortion. It doesn't acquit itself well in a totally clean amp. David Barnes' Vintage 47, Supro, Fender Tweed style, Vox ACs, SeQuel Ravine/Tribute/Tributary, overdriven Fender Princeton Reverb...
If you have an old valve driven radio and patch the CC pickup into that, it is a little bit of magic, I suspect. Hope to test out the hypothesis when I find one.
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Originally Posted by Jabberwocky
My bad pub, cheers Jab
I guess me and this pick-up were never meant to be, since I can't stand Fender Tweed types. Plus If I wanted distortion, I wouldn't be playing a hollow guitar. Not my kind of sound.
I really like the old Guild pups though and the RC's
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Originally Posted by Woody Sound
I can't tell by the picture alone if that's the case in this replica.
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Originally Posted by rpguitar
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Those are the two cobalt magnets.
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I have gigged with a '37 ES150. It is the best sounding electric ever...through any amp. I was using a Polytone in those days. No hair/grit. The pickup is amazing.
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Originally Posted by Greentone
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Originally Posted by Jabberwocky
daniel@slamanguitars.com
Ps. My photo is my own, UK made, CCpickup, made by Colin Cosimini.
No affiliation to either.
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I can't comment on the post war CC pickups, as I haven't tried them [I did play a 70's ES-175 CC once and a 60s Johnny Smith that had one that didn't impress me] but to my ears, the original prewar 150 and 250 CC pickups are the best sounding pickups ever. Only a really good PAF or Pat # is as good, and is kind of an apples/oranges thing anyway [single coil vs humbucker]
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Originally Posted by ArchtopHeaven
What's happening at the end of this song?
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