Recent content by Walter Broes

with all the picture manipulation tools available even in the cheapest of phones, I don't think you can really tell by just looking at an online picture

It's lovely

Not to derail, but I still want that red X500 with the Franz pickups in the pics above!

wait....ta-daa! set of screws on ebay

I'm afraid I don't. When Gretsch reissued this bridge in the early 90's, they actually came with an extra set of panhead screws. And then there was the Embiematic bridge, sort of an upscale-milled-out-of-solid-aluminium Melita copy that came with the panhead screws stock and sold them as a...

Very cool guitar! Unsolliceted advice : Melita bridges become infinitely more playable if you replace the saddle thumbscrews with flat panhead screws, but they are kind of hard to find.

If there are no extra holes under the Bigsby mounting lip, it came with the Bigsby.

Why are you selling it? You were so enthousiastic about it?

I saw that one on Ebay (I think it was posted here too) - I guess I should have kept following it! It wasn't less than a new Starfire when first listed.

On the old ones, kind of, on the 2000's the attachment to the pole height mechanism is hidden inside the pickup. I wouldn't want to mess with it, in any case.

And over here in Belgium we're on lockdown again for 4 weeks. My wife got both Pfizer shots already because she works in a hospital, otherwise vaccination seems to be moving pretty slowly over here. Not particularly looking forward to another gigless summer. 😔

Well, there you go. The DeArmond line was killed off because it didn't sell. Sometimes truth is more logical than fiction. :)

No, the Newark Street guitars are very obviously based on vintage Guild guitars, and really have nothing in common with the DeArmond guitars. Mike Lewis actually blueprinted a bunch of vintage Guilds for the Newark Street line, just like he did for Gretsch when the Gretsch deal happened. He...

No, there's only one coil in the pickup, for all six strings. The coil works, or it's shorted out, and then you get no signal across the board or very very weak signal. The only thing I can really think of is that the high E poles on both your pickups became demagnetized somehow, but that's...

It's a popular internet myth, but no. I don't remember whether it was Mike Lewis or Joe Carducci who confirmed that it was pure speculation and not the case, but I vividly remember seeing it. It wouldn't make sense either. Can you imagine what Fender's R&D and prototyping of the Newark...