Can you get a SRV/Texas tone from a Super Sport?

[millifoo]

Not sure, but I can get great tone with this....just something I knocked up over Christmas!

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Yikers! That's amazing. Did you really do that on your own, or is that some Fender custom shop job where they age the heck out of it?

All -- thanks for your guidance on this. Unfortunatly I live nowhere near an Ernie Ball dealer who actually has the SS w/M90's in stock, so I can't check out how it plays/sounds.

Do any of you luck M90 owners have a demo song you could throw me?

 

[robelinda2]

cool lookin SRV relic job!!!!!

 

[sandman@midlife]

I heard last night that you can put the 5 way switch in between positions and isolate one coil, any truth to this?

 

[Knox]

Milifoo,

No its a replica! The Fender Custom Shop released 100 official SRV replicas in 2004 at $25,000 each! Using authentic Fender parts I managed to make this for just under $600....and it looks identical and sounds the same if not better as I used Nitro paint rather than Poly which doesn't let the wood breath as well....don't know why Fender didn't use Nitro?

Thats what I do as a hobby (my other passion is cars) - check out my others here:

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I'l give you 3 guesses as to what they are replicas of!!!!!

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

Milifoo,

No its a replica! The Fender Custom Shop released 100 official SRV replicas in 2004 at $25,000 each! Using authentic Fender parts I managed to make this for just under $600....and it looks identical and sounds the same if not better as I used Nitro paint rather than Poly which doesn't let the wood breath as well....don't know why Fender didn't use Nitro?

Thats what I do as a hobby (my other passion is cars) - check out my others here:

tdl5150 - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

I'l give you 3 guesses as to what they are replicas of!!!!!

Nice work!

 

[millifoo]

I heard last night that you can put the 5 way switch in between positions and isolate one coil, any truth to this?

I just stumbled into this quote on Harmony Central:


Great neck......excellent sustain and harmonics......and very useful pickup wiring scheme.
5-way switch:

pos 1= bridge HB
pos 2= split singlecoils [2] Tele
pos 3= both HB in parallel
pos 4= split sglcoils [2] strat-quack
pos 5= neck HB

....and check this out,
you can balance the 5 way swithch in-between any two positions and get 4 other true singlecoil [1] sounds.


Can anyone confirm?

 

[robelinda2]

doesnt work for me, millifoo.

 

[millifoo]

Thanks Rob (or is it Linda? Or Robe? Or E-Linda?). That's good to know. Myth Busted!

I'm still not sure if I should go with the HH or MM90. Anyone willing to do a little demo with some mild overdrive in all pickup configs and record to mp3?

 

[robelinda2]

man i'd go MM90's for sure, they are just great.

Rob it is, my wifes name is Belinda, but the two names work together!

 

[Colin]

....don't know why Fender didn't use Nitro?

maybe it's to do with Californian law?

 

[robelinda2]

yeah california law prohibits use of nitro i believe, its been explained plenty here in some threads. dont know hy anyone would want a nitro neck when you could have the awesome feel of the EBMM oil//wax finish!!!!!