Yeah, I checked out your new recording in the post for Basil, that's a nice rich tone for sure.
I really love the sound I get from my strat's neck pup through my old jmp half-stack or pod's amp sims.
It's just a relatively cheap 3pup set I got from
Axes'R'Us, but it sings! It's that glassy single-coil sound & the placement really fills it out, harmonics can be a little harder to pull off though.
Anyway, have you thought of concealing a pup under the fretboard? You could rout a back-access cavity (oo-er!) to get to it, like on Fred's gorgeous New-Yorkers. Maybe a tele pup or one of those s/c-sized buckers. That way you can have a full 24fret (or more!) board on there & get a really clean look.
I'm really liking your work, Alan... I think your steels would look sweet with wood pup surrounds, or covers, but that's just me obsessing over cosmetics! You certainly have the tone thing down - I say it's time to get pretty, hehe!
But I guess that for a lot of us hobbyists time is the main restriction for creativity, what with the day-jobs and all...
Talking of which, I recently started work in a new job doing tec-support for a supplier of, amongst other things, laser engraving/cutting machines!!
This means I have acces to these machines, and part of my job is also to make interesting samples for trade-shows etc, & research applications.
I'm gonna design & cut some fretboards & inlays for my 23" scale acoustic hollowneck project, but I can just as easily do prettymuch anything you could think of, designed & cut from Corel Draw software.(.cdr file)
I'm liking the idea of a laser-etched fretboard made out of black & glow-in-the-dark plastic. ( We also sell materials
)
And so, yet another side-project is born! I need to timetable myself though, in order to progress with the hollowneck site. Maybe I'll get time to record some of my attempts at playing!
I'll keep you posted on what I'm up to with this...
Gotta go, wifey's doing the sunday-morning fry-up sarnie breakfast, bless 'er!
Regards,
Chris.
