Happy New Year Everyone. WOW, when describing your tone as "Sounds Great" is a lame compliment. I've gotta say, the work you're doing with pickups is brilliant. Thank You
THIS MAN IS A TREASURE! HARD WORKER, GOOD MAN, AND THEEEEEE BESTTTTTT PAF MAKER IN THE WORLD, THESE NEW SETS ARE BETTER THEN MY REAL ONES......TAKES HIM 2 WEEEEEEEEKS TO MAKE ONE SET! 2 WEEEEEEKS! I CANT EVEN IMAGINE.....AND HE LOVE MUSIC, AND MUSICIANS......IF YOU BONAMASSA, SLASH, FORD, EVEN CLAPTON, THEY ALL HIS NAME AND NOT BC ITS A SMALL WORLD WITH INTERNET, ITS BC HES THE BEST THAT EVER DID IT! AND MORE SO HES A GOOD MAN...TAKE IT FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOWS, ME LOL ITS A FACT!
Wow, it has the same hair raising scream to it as the Peter Green recording. I love that sound, and it seems rare. Great way to start out the new year, thanks for posting a video Dave!
I completely agree that it matches the Warehouse gig tone perfectly. I was always told that he was using a twin reverb here and I do own an 65 and 73 and even modified with TW T2 PPIMVs they never saturate in the same way. IMHO you are bang on the money that it was a Vibrolux. PS: I still can't afford your pickups. :)
One of my friends read a comment somewhere that he was AT that show and it WAS a Vibroluxe. What a coincidence! I thought it might have been a Dual Showman Reverb, but maybe not.
Yeah could have been a Twin, hard to tell. I owned a Twin around '68 or so, loved that amp to death, but I was never in a band back then and would just take it to a friend's garage when his parents weren't home and cranked it all the way up with a wah. Fooled around with Hendrix songs with that setup....Later in about '79 I again bought the very last Twin Reverb they made, with the cool push pull boost knob, it made it much more playable at lower volumes.
GREAT SHOT WITH THE SANTOOOOOCH, LOOKS LIKE ITS GLOWING, THAT TONE IS GLOWING TOO.....TONE ASIDE, YOUR AN TRUE ARTIST, I EVEN SEE IT IN SOME OF THE VIDEOS YOU PUT OUT, WOW WHAT A SOUND THOUGH! WHOEVER THINKS DIFFERENTLY, GET YOUR EARS CHECKED...GOT THE REAL PAFS BACK IN THE LP, YOUR REPROS MAY BE EVEN BETTER, NO JOKE...
Thanks as always! Thats not the Santucci, thats one of my Elitists Les Pauls made in Japan. Has real Brazilian board, long tenon neck joint, full maple cap, no veneers, a fantastic guitar. I have 6 of them plus the Elitist SG. Japanese are krazy good builders.
HAPPY NEW YEAR BUDDY, IM PRETTY SURE GREEN LIKED THE VIBROLUXE, WITH A FENDER REVERB TANK....NICE REPLICA, REALLY NICE WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT VIBROLUXE..
I'm pretty sure he was using a Dual Showman Reverb now that I think of it. I forgot those had reverbs. My Vibroluxe is a 1973, I've done a lot of videos with it for years, but I always plugged it into a Celestion Alnico Gold, so its own speakers almost never got used. I haven't used it in a few years, had no room to use it so it sat, and because of that it now needs to be serviced, but still sounds fantastic. Its a whole different thing than the Marshall sound. I was thinking of selling it until I played it again.
JUST WATCHED AGAIN, GREAT VIDEO, WHEN YOU COME UPSTATE, YOUR GONNA HAVE A WORKSHOP, JUST AS NICE, IF NOT NICER......AND IF THE TRUSSROD IS STUCK, YOU HAVE TO DO THE CLAMP TRICK, WHICH IM SURE YOU KNOW, IF NOT, YOU CLAMP THE NECK, IN THE DIRECTION, YOU NEED TO TURN THE TRUSS ROD ON TO A WORKBECH, THE IDEA, IS TO HELP THE ROD DO ITS JOB......SO DONT FORCE IT.....SOUNDS AWESOME!
@@SDPickups YEAH, ITS A GOOD TRICK TO HAVE IN THE BACK POCKET...WORKS LIKE A CHARM.....MY HOUSE IS ALWAYS COLD, MAYBE THATS WHY I BARELY HAVE TO TOUCH ANY NECKS...DIDNT KNOW ABOUT THE COLD GARAGE TRICK EITHER LOL TY
Its funny, I recorded that with a cheapie Zoom Q2N. But I made a mistake. The speaker cab had the Royer Ribbon Mike and an SM57, blocking the voice coil, to some treble in the recording was a bit lost. I never even thought about that before and now I know why sometimes when I play and those mikes are still there, the pickups lack treble. I thought my hearing was going bad, DUH. The set is sold, and I got a really nice Zoom H6 hand held recorders that doesn't kill batteries in 15 minutes like the Q2N does, batteries last for 20 HOURS or more, so tonite I recorded the 40's set, and moved the mikes away from speaker cab and its magical in how it sounds.I'm gonna miss this set, its absolutely perfecr PAF tone. I may post that video I made with the H6 at some point, but wanted a record of what it sounds like. I have enough wire for another set too. Maybe more.
@@SDPickups JUST PLEASE REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID FOR MY SET....THATS A GOOD SET FOR SURE, WELL BALANCED....YOUR SETS USUALLY HIT YOU RIGHT IN THE CHEST LIKE THE SET IN THE BEAST, MARDSENS 59 WHICH IS MY FAVORITE..., VERY STRONG, THIS ONE WAS SUPER BALANCED MORE SO THEN YOUR WORK PRIOR.....JUST A YES OR NO? DID YOU DO SOMETHING NEW?
@@johnmirabile3535 Your set is the OLD Platinum Set. They were well received, but there was more to learn about real PAF's, the more of them I restored and dissected during repairs or rewinds. It was a good set but they got more authentic as time went on.....Somewhere in my massive papers, I wrote down how they were made, but that was probably 15-16 years ago ;-)
Hi Dave! Happy New Year! In vintage '50S PAF humbuckers, does the bar magnet touch both the keeper bar on one side and the 6 slugs on the other side? Or is there a gap between the edge of the bar magnet and the 6 slugs? Or perhaps a slight gap on each side of the bar magnet? Depending if the magnet touches the metal parts or not, I presume that it would change the tone of a humbucker pickup... Thank you for your interesting TH-cam videos!
The magnet touches the slugs and the keeper bar. If the coils are really fat though, it can cause a slight air gap. Most vintage PAF's don't have over filled coils though. Does it change anything, not really, the gauss readings at the pole screws might be a tiny bit less powerful is all. DiMarzio seems to think this happened on all PAF's, but not true. As I remember, they put a brass or plastic spacer to keep the magnet from touching the keeper and slugs, but its not a useful thing to do, and more "magical thinking" than reality. The TRUTH is that the old magnets were all very weak to begin with, so I guess DiMarzio did it to decrease the gauss readings on modern magnets. I am able to low charge my magnets to specific gauss levels that match the old magnets, so I don't need to cram spacers in there, LOL.
Bridge mag is an old Sensmag A2, neck is an A5 old stock from a few years ago. All the alnicos sound different depending on which company made them. Thru the years I've bought a lot of alnico magnets from several companies, all of them sound different from each company. I have A2 thats super bright; this A2 is one of the more warm ones I have. Thanks for the comment.
I don't think you want to know my opinion, LOL. Lets just say that I approached a company or companies about having them make a truly authentic ABR1 replica, because nobody had ever done that. None of them were interested. Advertising slogans are worthless. I had posted for years about the lack of a bridge unit sounding even close to vintage original ABR1's which are highly important to vintage Les Paul tone. One day I was contacted by a group of 3 guys in Belgium who asked me if I would be interested in working on such a project and I of course said YES. For two years I did reverse-engineering and destroyed one of my vintage ABR1's to get the REAL information on what they were actually made of and the geometric engineering DESIGN of every single part on and in them. The guys paid for the molds etc. and we SUCEEDED! They kept calling me "Uncle Dave" and we ended up calling ourselve the "Four Uncles Restoration" group. These are all hand made like the originals and very few each month are made, maybe 30 at most. Their next project is the aluminum tailpiece, but has been stalled by recession and the high price of making them. The stud bolts and anchors were made of basically identical alloys and are a no brainer to make, even though the old steels were higher sulfur content, not available in our times. The brass bridge posts and wheels were made of brass, but those brasses were contaminated with IRON, which changes the sound. There is a company in Italy that discovered vintage brass and I was sent their replica wheels and posts, so those are the real deal, but there is a limited supply. Modern brass does quite well and Philadelphia Luthiery has those parts for very cheap. HERE is our demo video of our ABR1 Four Uncles Restorations bridge. PLEASE NOTE: that at the very END of the video there is a link to an unplugged comparison of our replica ABR1 compared to a NOS vintage ABR1, so you can hear how incredibly close ours is. There are many ABR1's being sold out there, but none of them are right and none of them sound like originals.There are so many companies in the music industry spinning hype about how theirs are "best" but none are accurate in design or SOUND. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/TwEgudEEs_8/w-d-xo.html
I currently have your bridge in my Les Paul right now along with all the other replacement hardware that you recommend and I absolutely love it. It is a completely new guitar, and the Four Uncles Restorations Bridge is a huge part of that sound. Can’t wait for the tailpiece to come out!
@@LesPaul21 Thanks!!! Yeah, the vintage ABR1 was a KEY piece of hardware, not a lot of players even know that. But you do see vintage examples selling for high money, so some do know. I read an online magazine, where they had a vintage 'Burst and they replaced the ABR1 with a modern ABR1, and SUDDENLY THE LES PAUL SOUNDED LIKE A MODERN LES PAUL. THAT is how important those bridges were. When we finally started making the 4 Uncles bridges we were astounded how good it made any Les Paul sound. There is a video back when we were testing the prototypes, and I did an unplugged demo of our replica against a NOW vintage ABR1, and ours was so close, you couldn't really hear much of a difference at all. Thanks for the comment!
I use the Philadelphia Luthiery anchors, the long ones and cut them down on my lathe to the accurrate vintage length nobody seems to make. I don't use Kluson anchors, nor their bolts, I use the Philly bolts which are the correct length.
Hello Happy New Year I was wanting to ask you about the 4 Uncle's bridges Are the guy's on Facebook in Europe legit ? I was wanting a bridge but wanted to check with you first They just have an email to pay pal to...wanted to be sure you got what you deserve Thanks man
The other 3 Uncles live in Belgium and do the actual casting and machining work. You can contact them on Facebook, I have some photos there as well: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071770557105 I just did the reverse engineering work and destroyed one of my vintage ABR1 bridges to get all the metallurgy information, so I have nothing to do with manufacturing or the big bucks it took to get the molds and other things made exactly as the vintage ones were. These are not mass produced, and there is probably a bit of a wait time to get them. They are all hand made one by one, not more than 30 are made each month, and they do take time off now and then, because they all have day jobs. You can contact them on Facebook.
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Sounds Stellar Dave!
Waking up and seeing your new video on New Years Day made me happy.
Thanks so much!
SOUNDS PRETTY FU#$%ING AWESOME!
Happy New Year Everyone.
WOW, when describing your tone as "Sounds Great" is a lame compliment.
I've gotta say, the work you're doing with pickups is brilliant.
Thank You
THIS MAN IS A TREASURE! HARD WORKER, GOOD MAN, AND THEEEEEE BESTTTTTT PAF MAKER IN THE WORLD, THESE NEW SETS ARE BETTER THEN MY REAL ONES......TAKES HIM 2 WEEEEEEEEKS TO MAKE ONE SET! 2 WEEEEEEKS! I CANT EVEN IMAGINE.....AND HE LOVE MUSIC, AND MUSICIANS......IF YOU BONAMASSA, SLASH, FORD, EVEN CLAPTON, THEY ALL HIS NAME AND NOT BC ITS A SMALL WORLD WITH INTERNET, ITS BC HES THE BEST THAT EVER DID IT! AND MORE SO HES A GOOD MAN...TAKE IT FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOWS, ME LOL ITS A FACT!
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Same to you, thank you!
Excellent stuff my friend ... excellent stuff ... Thank You !
Wow, it has the same hair raising scream to it as the Peter Green recording. I love that sound, and it seems rare. Great way to start out the new year, thanks for posting a video Dave!
great tones with the classic rock/blues playing..its definitely sounding vintage
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it ;-)
Sounding great, as always. A healthy new year for you. Keep those clips coming.
Same to you, thanks!
I completely agree that it matches the Warehouse gig tone perfectly. I was always told that he was using a twin reverb here and I do own an 65 and 73 and even modified with TW T2 PPIMVs they never saturate in the same way. IMHO you are bang on the money that it was a Vibrolux.
PS: I still can't afford your pickups. :)
One of my friends read a comment somewhere that he was AT that show and it WAS a Vibroluxe. What a coincidence! I thought it might have been a Dual Showman Reverb, but maybe not.
Yeah could have been a Twin, hard to tell. I owned a Twin around '68 or so, loved that amp to death, but I was never in a band back then and would just take it to a friend's garage when his parents weren't home and cranked it all the way up with a wah. Fooled around with Hendrix songs with that setup....Later in about '79 I again bought the very last Twin Reverb they made, with the cool push pull boost knob, it made it much more playable at lower volumes.
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Great video! Happy New Year to you and yours, young man!
Good to see ya Dave! Happy New Year!
JOEY!!!!! Glad to see you here ;-) Hope you have a good New Year too, thanks!
GREAT SHOT WITH THE SANTOOOOOCH, LOOKS LIKE ITS GLOWING, THAT TONE IS GLOWING TOO.....TONE ASIDE, YOUR AN TRUE ARTIST, I EVEN SEE IT IN SOME OF THE VIDEOS YOU PUT OUT, WOW WHAT A SOUND THOUGH! WHOEVER THINKS DIFFERENTLY, GET YOUR EARS CHECKED...GOT THE REAL PAFS BACK IN THE LP, YOUR REPROS MAY BE EVEN BETTER, NO JOKE...
Thanks as always! Thats not the Santucci, thats one of my Elitists Les Pauls made in Japan. Has real Brazilian board, long tenon neck joint, full maple cap, no veneers, a fantastic guitar. I have 6 of them plus the Elitist SG. Japanese are krazy good builders.
@@SDPickups COULDA FOOLED ME..SOUNDS FANTASTIC....AND YOUR PLAYING WAS ON POINT AS WELL.
Happy new year and great video to start the new year off!
HAPPY NEW YEAR BUDDY, IM PRETTY SURE GREEN LIKED THE VIBROLUXE, WITH A FENDER REVERB TANK....NICE REPLICA, REALLY NICE WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT VIBROLUXE..
I'm pretty sure he was using a Dual Showman Reverb now that I think of it. I forgot those had reverbs. My Vibroluxe is a 1973, I've done a lot of videos with it for years, but I always plugged it into a Celestion Alnico Gold, so its own speakers almost never got used. I haven't used it in a few years, had no room to use it so it sat, and because of that it now needs to be serviced, but still sounds fantastic. Its a whole different thing than the Marshall sound. I was thinking of selling it until I played it again.
They sound fantastic and nice playing btw!
Thanks Martin!
Love every thing you do! Amazing sounds. Happy New Year Dave.
Same to you!
JUST WATCHED AGAIN, GREAT VIDEO, WHEN YOU COME UPSTATE, YOUR GONNA HAVE A WORKSHOP, JUST AS NICE, IF NOT NICER......AND IF THE TRUSSROD IS STUCK, YOU HAVE TO DO THE CLAMP TRICK, WHICH IM SURE YOU KNOW, IF NOT, YOU CLAMP THE NECK, IN THE DIRECTION, YOU NEED TO TURN THE TRUSS ROD ON TO A WORKBECH, THE IDEA, IS TO HELP THE ROD DO ITS JOB......SO DONT FORCE IT.....SOUNDS AWESOME!
Didn't know that trick. I left the guitar in our cold garage for a week, neck slowly flattened out. Thanks.
@@SDPickups YEAH, ITS A GOOD TRICK TO HAVE IN THE BACK POCKET...WORKS LIKE A CHARM.....MY HOUSE IS ALWAYS COLD, MAYBE THATS WHY I BARELY HAVE TO TOUCH ANY NECKS...DIDNT KNOW ABOUT THE COLD GARAGE TRICK EITHER LOL TY
Its funny, I recorded that with a cheapie Zoom Q2N. But I made a mistake. The speaker cab had the Royer Ribbon Mike and an SM57, blocking the voice coil, to some treble in the recording was a bit lost. I never even thought about that before and now I know why sometimes when I play and those mikes are still there, the pickups lack treble. I thought my hearing was going bad, DUH. The set is sold, and I got a really nice Zoom H6 hand held recorders that doesn't kill batteries in 15 minutes like the Q2N does, batteries last for 20 HOURS or more, so tonite I recorded the 40's set, and moved the mikes away from speaker cab and its magical in how it sounds.I'm gonna miss this set, its absolutely perfecr PAF tone. I may post that video I made with the H6 at some point, but wanted a record of what it sounds like. I have enough wire for another set too. Maybe more.
@@SDPickups JUST PLEASE REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID FOR MY SET....THATS A GOOD SET FOR SURE, WELL BALANCED....YOUR SETS USUALLY HIT YOU RIGHT IN THE CHEST LIKE THE SET IN THE BEAST, MARDSENS 59 WHICH IS MY FAVORITE..., VERY STRONG, THIS ONE WAS SUPER BALANCED MORE SO THEN YOUR WORK PRIOR.....JUST A YES OR NO? DID YOU DO SOMETHING NEW?
@@johnmirabile3535 Your set is the OLD Platinum Set. They were well received, but there was more to learn about real PAF's, the more of them I restored and dissected during repairs or rewinds. It was a good set but they got more authentic as time went on.....Somewhere in my massive papers, I wrote down how they were made, but that was probably 15-16 years ago ;-)
The vintage wire replica was sold shortly after this video was made...
Hahaha ... Their Royal Highnesses Joe Walsh & Jimmy Page would love all of this ... OH YES!
Hi Dave! Happy New Year! In vintage '50S PAF humbuckers, does the bar magnet touch both the keeper bar on one side and the 6 slugs on the other side? Or is there a gap between the edge of the bar magnet and the 6 slugs? Or perhaps a slight gap on each side of the bar magnet? Depending if the magnet touches the metal parts or not, I presume that it would change the tone of a humbucker pickup... Thank you for your interesting TH-cam videos!
The magnet touches the slugs and the keeper bar. If the coils are really fat though, it can cause a slight air gap. Most vintage PAF's don't have over filled coils though. Does it change anything, not really, the gauss readings at the pole screws might be a tiny bit less powerful is all. DiMarzio seems to think this happened on all PAF's, but not true. As I remember, they put a brass or plastic spacer to keep the magnet from touching the keeper and slugs, but its not a useful thing to do, and more "magical thinking" than reality. The TRUTH is that the old magnets were all very weak to begin with, so I guess DiMarzio did it to decrease the gauss readings on modern magnets. I am able to low charge my magnets to specific gauss levels that match the old magnets, so I don't need to cram spacers in there, LOL.
@@SDPickups Thank you very much for the reply!
@@f.duranleau4416 Any time!
Happy New Year Dave, sounds great as always. Which magnets are in the pickups? Cheers
Bridge mag is an old Sensmag A2, neck is an A5 old stock from a few years ago. All the alnicos sound different depending on which company made them. Thru the years I've bought a lot of alnico magnets from several companies, all of them sound different from each company. I have A2 thats super bright; this A2 is one of the more warm ones I have. Thanks for the comment.
@@SDPickups thanks Dave!
Happy New Year Dave! What is your take on CreamTone hardware?
I don't think you want to know my opinion, LOL. Lets just say that I approached a company or companies about having them make a truly authentic ABR1 replica, because nobody had ever done that. None of them were interested. Advertising slogans are worthless. I had posted for years about the lack of a bridge unit sounding even close to vintage original ABR1's which are highly important to vintage Les Paul tone. One day I was contacted by a group of 3 guys in Belgium who asked me if I would be interested in working on such a project and I of course said YES. For two years I did reverse-engineering and destroyed one of my vintage ABR1's to get the REAL information on what they were actually made of and the geometric engineering DESIGN of every single part on and in them. The guys paid for the molds etc. and we SUCEEDED! They kept calling me "Uncle Dave" and we ended up calling ourselve the "Four Uncles Restoration" group. These are all hand made like the originals and very few each month are made, maybe 30 at most. Their next project is the aluminum tailpiece, but has been stalled by recession and the high price of making them. The stud bolts and anchors were made of basically identical alloys and are a no brainer to make, even though the old steels were higher sulfur content, not available in our times. The brass bridge posts and wheels were made of brass, but those brasses were contaminated with IRON, which changes the sound. There is a company in Italy that discovered vintage brass and I was sent their replica wheels and posts, so those are the real deal, but there is a limited supply. Modern brass does quite well and Philadelphia Luthiery has those parts for very cheap. HERE is our demo video of our ABR1 Four Uncles Restorations bridge. PLEASE NOTE: that at the very END of the video there is a link to an unplugged comparison of our replica ABR1 compared to a NOS vintage ABR1, so you can hear how incredibly close ours is.
There are many ABR1's being sold out there, but none of them are right and none of them sound like originals.There are so many companies in the music industry spinning hype about how theirs are "best" but none are accurate in design or SOUND. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/TwEgudEEs_8/w-d-xo.html
I currently have your bridge in my Les Paul right now along with all the other replacement hardware that you recommend and I absolutely love it. It is a completely new guitar, and the Four Uncles Restorations Bridge is a huge part of that sound. Can’t wait for the tailpiece to come out!
@@LesPaul21 Thanks!!! Yeah, the vintage ABR1 was a KEY piece of hardware, not a lot of players even know that. But you do see vintage examples selling for high money, so some do know. I read an online magazine, where they had a vintage 'Burst and they replaced the ABR1 with a modern ABR1, and SUDDENLY THE LES PAUL SOUNDED LIKE A MODERN LES PAUL. THAT is how important those bridges were. When we finally started making the 4 Uncles bridges we were astounded how good it made any Les Paul sound. There is a video back when we were testing the prototypes, and I did an unplugged demo of our replica against a NOW vintage ABR1, and ours was so close, you couldn't really hear much of a difference at all. Thanks for the comment!
Thank YOU, Dave!
Hi Dave do you use the Faber Tail-piece Studs or do you use the included Kluson ones that come with their Tail-piece?
I use the Philadelphia Luthiery anchors, the long ones and cut them down on my lathe to the accurrate vintage length nobody seems to make. I don't use Kluson anchors, nor their bolts, I use the Philly bolts which are the correct length.
@@SDPickups Thank you so much. What's the correct screw length?
@@SeemoreDunkan The ones that Philadelphia Luthiery sells.
Hello Happy New Year I was wanting to ask you about the 4 Uncle's bridges Are the guy's on Facebook in Europe legit ? I was wanting a bridge but wanted to check with you first They just have an email to pay pal to...wanted to be sure you got what you deserve Thanks man
The other 3 Uncles live in Belgium and do the actual casting and machining work. You can contact them on Facebook, I have some photos there as well:
facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071770557105
I just did the reverse engineering work and destroyed one of my vintage ABR1 bridges to get all the metallurgy information, so I have nothing to do with manufacturing or the big bucks it took to get the molds and other things made exactly as the vintage ones were. These are not mass produced, and there is probably a bit of a wait time to get them. They are all hand made one by one, not more than 30 are made each month, and they do take time off now and then, because they all have day jobs. You can contact them on Facebook.
@@SDPickups Great thanks man Wasn't sure about the process of buying and whatnot Good deal Appreciate
@@paulcowart3174 Sure thing, you're welcome.
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