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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 11 Sep 2007 3:33 pm |
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Here's one for the Amp Show ... Saturday October 6.
It's goin' in Loni's resurrected B6 ...
It's in my B6 reject body here ... just to show the fit/look ...
Loni, do me a favor ... if John Hall walks by ... let him listen to this one ... compared to your original B6 ... 
I'm shipping it tomorrow ...  |
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 11 Sep 2007 3:40 pm
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That looks really neat Rick. I like the black gloss and the contrasting brass hardware.
How many strings will your pick-up accomodate??
Regards BILL |
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 11 Sep 2007 3:51 pm
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No limits ...
Each blade is cut to the buyers desire ...
Everything else is then built around that ... |
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Loni Specter
From:
West Hills, CA, USA
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Posted 12 Sep 2007 12:58 pm
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WOW I can't wait! But where's the pics of the mounting plate adapter for the Floyd Rose?  |
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Richard Sevigny
From:
Salmon Arm, BC, Canada
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Posted 12 Sep 2007 1:07 pm
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Is that a faux 'shoe or a real magnet around the bobbin?
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 12 Sep 2007 2:11 pm
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| Richard Sevigny wrote: |
| Is that a faux 'shoe or a real magnet around the bobbin? |
I got a call from FEMA up on nearby Mt. Weather ... sayin' my house keeps screwin' up there equipment ...
That elliptical magnet is about 3X the strength of a fully charged Rickenbacker horseshoe set. |
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Gary Lynch
From:
Creston, California, USA
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Posted 12 Sep 2007 2:18 pm
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| Next, the FAA will be investigating this situation. |
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Dan Sawyer
From:
Studio City, California, USA
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Posted 14 Sep 2007 3:19 pm
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| Wow, that's a great looking pickup Rick! |
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 14 Sep 2007 3:29 pm
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| Dan Sawyer wrote: |
| Wow, that's a great looking pickup Rick! |
Just wait till you hear it ... |
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Richard Shatz
From:
St. Louis
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Posted 14 Sep 2007 3:42 pm
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Rick,
I'm about to acquire a model 59 without a pickup. If I do, could I get you to make me a potbelly for it? |
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2007 4:29 am
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Sure ...
Be glad to when I return from the HSGA Convention in Joliet ...
And my liver finishes detoxifying my blood ... |
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Loni Specter
From:
West Hills, CA, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2007 8:35 am
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Got it and it's a thing of beauty! Can't wait to drop it in.
Jon Hall wants to know if he can get a "deal" on one.
Thanks for being DA MAN Rick!
Loni
PS I held it too close to my pace maker and it start my heart beating backwards. The good news is the doctor said I'm now getting younger with every beat!  |
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2007 9:42 am
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| Awesome Rick! I love it when your in your "mad scientist" mode. |
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2007 1:32 pm
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Glad it made it safely ...
Enjoy ...
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Dan Sawyer
From:
Studio City, California, USA
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Posted 18 Sep 2007 10:38 am
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| Rick Aiello wrote: |
| That elliptical magnet is about 3X the strength of a fully charged Rickenbacker horseshoe set. |
That magnet is 3 times the strength of a Ricky?!! Incredible, and it's thin. That would probably overload a lot of amplifier's preamp stages, no?
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 18 Sep 2007 12:01 pm
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All my magnet assemblies ... H-Shoes/Convertible in the Cruztones, MRI and these ... feature a matrix of neodymium-iron-boron ...
And all of them are in the neighborhood of 600 gauss (midgap - halfway between the upper and lower magnet banks).
Well, except for the Bass Guitar H-Shoes I made for Jason Lollar / Mike Lull ... they were much weaker.
With the MRI ... which is an aircoil (no ferromagnetic material inside it- except for the strings themselves) ... you get less of an amp "drive".
It delivers incredible sonic "beauty" (in my opinion) ... but really isn't the unit for driving rock/blues type steel guitar.
On the other end of the spectrum ... this "Belly" ... well, you'll hear what it is capable of at the Amp Show ...
The bottom line is ... magnet strength plays a pivotal role in my pickups ... but the characteristics it imparts is less about "drive" ... and more about clarity, signal to noise ratio and harmonic response.
I caught alot of $&!% when I first started experimenting with it all ...
Q-Tuner pickups were the first to utilize NIBs ... but they have about 15-20 grams of NIB in one double coil pup.
I use a whoppin' 400 grams (close to 1 lb) of NIB in my assemblies ...
There are enough units out there now ... to quiet those original Nay-Sayers ... 
As they say ... The Proofs in the Puddin' ... |
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