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Post by marvingers on Mar 2, 2010 21:51:24 GMT
Hi! Here is my new guitar. Last week I bought some parts and put them together this weekend. The name of the guitar is "Le diable". It has gold hardware and the pickups are Kinman AVN Hank Marvin in bridge and middle, Seymour Duncan SSL for the neck at the moment. It will be changed later on. It sounds really great. Best regards! Lars G. Vinger, The MARVINGERS Attachments:
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Post by Charlie Hall on Mar 2, 2010 23:06:33 GMT
Hi Lars,
Looks very nice. Will you use it instead of the red Fender for a while, or just for some of the tunes?
Regards,
Charlie
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Post by marvingers on Mar 2, 2010 23:19:00 GMT
Hi Charlie!
I will use it for some tunes with more heavy sound later on. At the moment I have worked out some tunes of Status Quo and I think I will use it for that. Don´t know yet what pickup I will choose for the guitar, maybe a humbucker. same as Hank used. Do you know what sort of pickup he used for his black strat, If I´m not trying a humbucker I will give Seymour Duncan SSL5 a test. I have that one in neck position on my standard strat and it sounds very good in that position.
Best regards!
Lars G. Vinger
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Post by Charlie Hall on Mar 3, 2010 0:58:50 GMT
Hi Lars,
I don't know much about Hank's black Strat. I would have thought the bridge pickup was more suitable for Status Quo sounds, and wouldn't need a humbucker. I know that Hank used a Dimarzio FS1 a long while ago, maybe in the 70s, because I remember him talking about it in an interview, so he could have had one of those in the bridge position on the black Strat. I had an FS1 for a while but felt that it was just a louder and more dull sound than the stock vintage pickup, very similar to turning the bright switch off and the volume up on my amp, which was a Fender Twin at that time.
Regards,
Charlie
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Post by 26rednef on Mar 3, 2010 8:03:47 GMT
Hi Lars. Who has made the parts, Body, Neck and mechanic, what kind of wood, from where  Just curios  Kind Regards, 26rednef |
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Post by didier on Mar 3, 2010 9:02:08 GMT
At the moment I have worked out some tunes of Status Quo and I think I will use it for that. Hi Lars, Status Quo use Teles, not Strats... Didier |
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Post by marvingers on Mar 3, 2010 15:43:14 GMT
Hi!
I know that Hank did use FS1. I have FS1 on both my other guitars and for me the sound is great. But for this guitar I wanted to test a different pickup or maybe a humbucker. I think had it as a middle pickup.
The hardware is from Gotoh, neck and body is Hosco, the rest is WD music. Pickups are old ones that I have used before.
Didier!
I know what Status Quo is using I was only saying I have worked out some tunes and of course it will be as instrumentals.
Best regards!
Lars G. Vinger
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Post by 26rednef on Mar 3, 2010 17:04:49 GMT
Ok, Lars That was hardware I did not know much of, Gotoh of course but the other ones, never heard of. I like to build guitars and amps. I have made ~10 guitars up to now. ;D A couples of Strats and Teles with parts from Warmoth, Kinman, Planet Waves and Steinberger. Warmoth guitar parts are good with corect wood choice better then Fender. I have them chambered, gives better sustain and it feels more alive and relay god sounding. ;D Wood quality is crucial for the tone.  Kind Regards, 26rednef |
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Post by 26rednef on Mar 4, 2010 8:44:31 GMT
Hi again Lars and Charlie. I funny thing I saw some years ago. ;D It was a discussion on guitar pu's and Ed Roman wrote: " I replaced every guitar pu with a Dimarzio in the 70's but when the guitars came back to me again for service in the 90's no one had the Dimarzio, it was replaced", he did not say why .... imagine. In that discussion they said many good things about Kinman's noiseless. Kind Regards, 26rednef |
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Post by marvingers on Mar 4, 2010 21:30:20 GMT
Hi 26rednef !
This guitar is made just for fun and the total cost for it is 800 Euro. I´m going to use it mostly when not playing with band at different occations, after work etc. On my main guitar I´m using Di Marzio FS1 and Seymour Duncan SSL1 and SSL5. The Kinman was used on my Squier Hank Marvin and sounded great except for the middle pickup, I´m going to replace that on the new guitar later on and maybe with a humbucker. Maybe I will giv you a soundfile later on using the new guitar.
Best regards!
Lars G. Vinger
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Post by 26rednef on Mar 5, 2010 11:11:20 GMT
Hi there no problems. I have a hollow "Tele type guitar" I made from a piece of American Walnut a piece of Mahogany from a friends boat service work and with a top from "Masur" Birch the neck from a started Hofner 5 piece neck from the 50's a 10x10 cm piece of wood with a truss rod and a pre-sawn fretboard. I found it on a Guitar exhibition for 10$, completed it and made a hollow body of the wood pieces. I have SeymourD's Jazz59 and Jeff Beck, a Srtat hard tail bridge and FatAss Bridge Pu on it. A realy good guitar but not good locking. Good locking istruments always sounds better.......not always. I never use the Kinman HMS, I had i dissuasion with Chris Kinman some years ago and both him and me come to the conclusion that HMS is a special pu and can not be recommend for a full Strat sound. They will produce a more nasal sound but some people like that, H M for example. I always uses the MK-III and before that the MK-II they are as Scott Henderson wrote to me about them "Vintage on Viagra with more Fender sound then original Fender" It is relay funny to build Guitars and Amps ! ;D Take care or ha det.......... Regards, 26rednaf |
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