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I’m more of a tweed man myself, but I can appreciate the quality. I’ve got a nice pair of their boots

In my experience you need about 50 watts to get a decent solder joint on a pot casing. A typical 30 watt iron struggles to heat the pot enough, you sit with the iron on the pot for ages which can damage it or end up with a cold solder joint - which is what I suspect might be the issue you have...

Make sure your earth connections are good on the back of the pots, you need a pretty good soldering iron to get a good joint. Gibson used to use pot shielding cans on some 50s and 60s hollow body guitars, little metal cans that enclosed the pot. I don’t know if Gretsch ever used anything...

I’d take something inexpensive like a streamliner and leave the good stuff at home. If I were thinking about spending that much on a leather jacket, I’d look at Aero Leathers. Yes they’re in Scotland but their selection of vintage pattern jackets (and other stuff) is exceptional in my opinion...

My 5210 with Guild Dynasonics sounds like I always wanted my P90 Les Pauls to sound. Fraction of the cost too. The stock P90s were pretty great too, if a bit too hot for my tastes. I don’t have a Les Paul these days. P90 sounds are covered by my Epiphone Wilshire reissue with Duncan Antiquities

Looks good - it might be worth looking at the German Faber site, they make a similar intonated wraparound bridge. https://www.faberguitar.com/

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I love clever/simple solutions like this, great stuff!

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The Rolling Stones “street fighting man” is a distorted acoustic, achieved by overloading the input of a portable tape recorder. I’ve got a Hudson Broadcast clone that’s like a Neve console preamp - I haven’t tried it with acoustic but I think it’d work well

Nice - Woodrow next?

Glad you found it!

Interested to hear what you think. I love ac30s but I’m not in a band any more, just record at home so loud amps are out and I’ve struggled to find something that’ll get me that sound

Sorry I missed this - don’t have any pics of the process I’m afraid.

Your interface comes with a free software bundle including Ableton Live Lite - that should get you started

I’d need all the help I can get I think

Crazy beast! I remember years ago at a guitar show seeing a steel guitar you played standing up similar to that, but it had pedals attached as well to bend various strings. Guy was supposed to be demoing it but was having real trouble getting it to work properly.

The first thing I’d try is a no load tone pot, then a treble bleed. Cheap and easy to do

I’ve not tried them but Mojo pickups in the UK do a P90 sized Dynasonic. If I’d seen those before I did mine, that’s what I would have done. I had a guitar with Mojo P90s in a few years ago and they were lovely https://www.mojopickups.co.uk/product/p90-soapbar-dynasonic/

Keep looking, something better will turn up eventually. Or put together a partscaster yourself, using the parts you want. Good luck!

There would be various stickers, stamps and factory marks in the neck pocket and pickup cavities, most of them under the finish. Not a serial number though if I recall correctly. The neck should have similar on the heel. I’m not a gambling man but I’d put money on those not being Suhr pickups...

That’s doesn’t look like a Fender body, non of the hardware looks Fender to me either so I’d be wary.

Hello all - yes I converted my 5210 to Dynasonics. Wasn’t a straight swap, the surround of a Dynasonic is a couple mm wider each side than a P90, so I filed the covers to fit the routes. I went with the Guild versions to be sure they’d fit without having to deepen the routes. As for the Bigsby...