20th Silo

[GHWelles]

I have been playing my 20th Silo quite a bit lately. I blocked off the trem with nickels because I was not using the trem much.

The guitar is so versatile. On the bridge pickup it sounds like a super articulate, bright LP kind of thing, and when I use the split coil neck pickup with treble bleed cap I can get an AL SSS sound.

Cool. Plays in tune amazingly well too.

 

[Roubster]

Nice! I would love to compare your ONE OFF 20th Silo to the actual 20th Silo. I think yours should actually be the 20.5th Silo? Bad joke...whatever. How do you have your Treble Bleed cap installed? I put it on my Silo Special and took it off the same day. It helped retain the highs when rolling down the volume, but everything sounded really thin. The bridge pup sounded like a Wah pedal in the middle position or something.

I actually have my 20th Silo trem set up to float, and it's so stable and sounds fantastic. I just want to swap the pickups to and Air Norton and At-1 and add a push-pull tone pot for parallel/series switching.

 

[GHWelles]

Nice! I would love to compare your ONE OFF 20th Silo to the actual 20th Silo. I think yours should actually be the 20.5th Silo? Bad joke...whatever. How do you have your Treble Bleed cap installed? I put it on my Silo Special and took it off the same day. It helped retain the highs when rolling down the volume, but everything sounded really thin. The bridge pup sounded like a Wah pedal in the middle position or something.

I actually have my 20th Silo trem set up to float, and it's so stable and sounds fantastic. I just want to swap the pickups to and Air Norton and At-1 and add a push-pull tone pot for parallel/series switching.

I would like to compare the two as well. Koa is supposed to sound more like Mahagony I think, and it is a pretty thick top. I just put a treble bleed cap across the pot legs on the volume pot, and I put a push pull coil tap switch in on the Tone knob. It does make it sound thinner, which I like because I can dial in the STR*T tones. My 20th silo trem was very stable, but I decide to block it for the heck of it, to see if there was a different tone. When I need a trem I just grab the JP6. I have the original custom VPAF in the neck and put a Breed in the bridge.

 

[ShaneV]

Blocking the trem like that actually increases the value of the guitar...























By about 30 or 40 cents I'd say

 

[azazael]

As long as it doesnt knock the tuning off by 30 or 40 cents