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Solid-body "Cutting Board" Electric Bolt-on Maple neck, White Ash body, dual Seymour Duncan Humbuckers Completed Sept 5th, 2005
Don't be fooled by the photo. You may only see a pickup selector and two knobs, but this guitar lets you select eight distinct different sounds directly from the pickups (no tone controls). These pickups are wired with leads off each coil giving a ton of options as to how one elects to wire up their guitar. This guitar has the standard 3-way pickup selector switch, and separate volumes for each pickup. Each volume also has a push/pull switch selecting series or parallel wiring for the pickup. Parallel give a brighter single-coil like tone while still providing noise canceling (but with just a bit less volume). Select the pickups to series when you really want to Rock. With the pickup selector in the middle position (with both pickups on) you can roll the volumes to any intermediate position to give a whole range of different tonal combinations.
Update, Oct. 29, 2007: The event was the "I (heart) the Escarpment
Too" fund raising concert, with proceeds going to help protect the Niagara
Escarpment (a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve) here in Southern Ontario. Sara
Harmer (A Juno
winning Canadian singer songwriter and founding member of PERL)
and the Barenaked Ladies
preformed at the Johnston's farm for a group of around 500 people. Part of
the afternoon included a live auction of art items donated by artist living
along the Escarpment. That would include me. This guitar was make on
the Niagara Escarpment at my home here in Kilbride, and thus was one of the item
auctioned off. Both Sara Harmer and her band as well as the Barenaked
Ladies signed it and then let the price rocket up. So that's the long way
of getting to the point - "it's gone" - and it's contributing to an
important cause as well. Thanks Sara and Dan for asking me to contribute.
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