The Reverends Guitar Buffet 1: DIY Wah Wah, semiprecious plecktrums, and whole lotta magnets.

Since landing on your planet here, I’ve been so excited about all the guitar resources available on this interweb. I wanted to start an article that allowed me to share links and pictures to some exciting guitar stuff.

I found this page about how to build your own wah-wah pedal on the DIYguitarist website. It looks pretty cool, I’d like to try and build it one day. Yeah, that’s it, now the amateur porn I produce will be even more homegrown thanks to the live soundtrack I can use this pedal in.

So everybody who’s anybody knows that Eastwood guitars are awesome. They might not be the highest quality replicas, but when they look that cool, who cares? Of course you can go look at Eastwood’s site here, but I wanted to show you the other site belonging to the owner showing off his rather impressive vintage guitar collection. It’s not just a bunch of the same old Fender and Gibson stuff you’ve seen over and over again, it’s also a bunch of awesome and obscure European and Japanese models (my favorite!).

Okay, I would probably never pay for one of these, but I would still love to hear what they sounded like and felt like. These gemstone guitar picks from Picks and Stones are certainly advertised to be fancy and worth it. Maybe they, but with the way I lose picks, I think I’ll leave this one in the studio.

I guess I’ll wrap this up with my favorite place to buy pickups. There’s a site called Guitar Fetish that sells all kinds of parts and bodies and such, but the real reason I go there is for the pickups. Now I’ve only bought two sets, but so far they’ve been awesome. Original I bought the Dream 180s, a couple of badass lookin’ humbuckers. The double exposed pole pieces gave it a pretty tough look. I purchased them for my first Epiphone, a Dot that came with awful, muddy, toneless pickups. I was looking for something much brighter so I thought I’d try the 180s. After putting them in, they did blow the stock pickups out of the water, but ultimately they weren’t bright enough. A year or two later I purchased an Epiphone SG that came with lousy pickups comparable to those that came with the Dot. It was time again for change! This time I got brave. I knew I wanted the SG to be the beefy snarly wolfhorse that many people want it to be so I intended to take the 180s out of the Dot and put them in the the SG. I then purchased the Lipstick humbuckers a la Danelectro. I own a Danelectro repop and these pickups actually come very close to the 90s era Danelectros with a distinct humbucker flavor and output to them. They were absolutely perfect for the Dot. I wired the neck as a single coil and the bridge as a humbucker. I was worried at first about the way it would look, but ultimately I like it. It’s come to be just about my favorite guitar to play.

Well that wraps up this edition of Guitar Buffet. More cool stuff next time.

-Elron

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