WIP: The Porn Shop and Off Key Two

Well, a bit of a more productive day today...I found the camera if nothing else.

As you can see, The Off Key One is lacquered and just waiting for parts. The bluey-green corruption of the bronze top is lovely to behold in 3D and I'm really rather chuffed with myself.

The pickups and other parts will hopefully be here soonish, so Jr will be growing up before you know it.







As for the rather delish The Porn Shop One, that has turned into a bit of a pain.

Everything is together and screwed and generally fluffed within an inch of it's life. The bridge pickup sounds brilliant. Those Bare Knuckle chaps know their stuff and with the Cedar body it really sings.

With the neck pickup, I've had more of a troubling time. Hidden beneath the scratchplate that it is, it has proven tricky.

As we stand then, I'm still playing swap the pickup.

The old Gibson mini-humbucker, sadly is now but a memory as basically it couldn't cut it.

Since then I've tried a variety of other things and the best has been an overwound Bare Knuckle Boss neck pickup. However, I'm still not convinced and am therefore going to try a Bare Knuckle Piledriver (which is a bit more powerfilled), when that shows up next week.

I could just go with the Boss that is in there and to be honest if that proves to be the best, it sounds pretty-bloomin'-good anyway, but you are always looking for that extra 1% aren't you?

Plus without trying, it would feel like a bit of a cop out, so I won't.

No point it not being 100% after all.

I have also started to check out The Old Burny One, and will hopefully get a bit further with that later on. I'd almost forgotten about it, though not sure how as it is a pure delight.

Anyway...