First let’s talk about the name: it comes from the guitar that I harvested the neck from, a Storm ST250 that my father bought me 20 years ago for 100€, and the fact that every piece is also either scrap from my parts box or cheap crap from AliExpress.

This instrument has been built mainly as a proof of concept to try a wiring diagram my delirious mind put together: the most versatile one-pickup guitar.

With the magic of a göldo 3-way superwitch, we have a full humbucker on position 1, a parallel configuration on position 2 for those strat-y inbetween sounds and an humbucker that bypasses the controls on position 3 for a small boost in volume and high frequencies (and an accidental killswitch if you roll down the volume all the way). The wiring looks like a plate of spaghetti, but that’s the way to do it .

As an endnote, shout out to the Donlis DH05 pickup I got for 20€: for the price it does an amazing impression of a DiMarzio Super Distortion.

Edit: I took a better picture

  • pH3ra@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    26 days ago

    Thank you! I didn’t record anything yet, 24 hours in a day are not nearly enough, but I hope I can do something in the future. I already contacted a friend that can shred to see if they have time to lend me their hands because if I had to rely on my abilities it would be slow af Gilmour-ish stuff.

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      25 days ago

      Man, you can play. More than I can say. I can barely get out the hook for “Vultures” by the Offspring 😅 Take pride in your talents, you’ve worked hard to learn this stuff and it’s more special than you think. I hope to catch your eventual videos around the 'verse!

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        25 days ago

        Would you believe Vultures was like the first or second song I learned back then. What a memory trip you gave me, thanks <3