Owned about 7 single pickup guitars over the years. How many are you up to? Go tell Seymour Duncan and Larry Dimarzio "tone wood isn't real", in the 50 years they both have been jn businesss selling pickups, they never claimed such a thing. But some poutine scarfing greasemop claims it's debunked on TH-cam, so it must be true.
@@rocketpigrecords3719 I'll be real, I've played many many guitars over the 15 years ive played, and if wood affects tone its too minimal to matter. That doesnt mean I want cheap scrap wood, but the corksniffing needs to fuckin end with the tonewoods with electric guitars.
@@SocksworthRiffs I think wood (or to be more specific: the materials of the body and neck) affect the final tone. The strings ring differently depending on the construction of the guitar. You can hear the tone difference of amplified archtop guitars, you can hear the difference of a bolted on neck or a set neck, same happens with wood, the strings sound different even not plugged in, and that initial tone is then amplified. How much the difference to care about woods? Not much
The bridge looks wider than a standard ABR-1, I've got a hunch it's got piezo saddles. Also looks like there's a jackplate hiding behind the stand it's on.
Love the white Maton Fyrebyrd in the background at the 10 second and 😅20 second mark.. Australian icon. My first guitar was a red version of this with a Bigsby tremolo.
In the late 80s they had a particular type of midi controller Les Paul custom, it only had the midi pickup ,, there's one for trogly to find info on i believe it was the photon midi System,,, it didn't have magnetic pickups because that midi system only used the high E string for all 6 strings
IIRC it’s a prototype from the late 80s with similar electronics as a Chet Atkins of the time. The controls are in a dish on the side. It’s in The Ultimate Guitar Book 1991, alongside similar models from Washburn and Godin.
I'm curious if those LPs are supposed to be acoustic? how could they be without being hollow body guitars? acoustic guitars are hollow body guitars even thin line acoustics. and LPs are solid body guitars. even the Fender acoustsonic guitars are hollow body guitars. even though they have body shapes like Telecasters and Stratocasters. all acoustic guitars have to be hollow. so I can't see how an LP can work as an acoustic guitar unless it's hollowed out also.
The guitar at the top of the video could have a passive piezo pickup. Those don't use volume or tone controls on the guitar and require a separate preamp to control the volume and shape the tone. Lots of players say they sound better than the active type.
The Fender Marauder (Type I) prototypes had four pickups under the pickguard. Never made it to serial production though, because Leo sold the company to CBS and the project was cancelled. That's why we can't have nice things: Corporate assholes.
Why would the guitar necessarily need a volume control? Plenty of people play piezo-equipped acoustics with no controls on the guitar and a volume pedal or mute switch on the floor. Some of my acoustics don't even have a preamp in it. Just a piezo strip in the bridge, hardwired to the output jack in the back strap button, straight into a preamp pedal/box on the floor. No batteries, preamps, potentiometers, switches on or inside the guitar.
@picksalot1. Agreed. I have several and must say that in my 40+ years of live performing, nobody ever critiqued me on my pick up selection or coil tapping applications.
As far as I know a piezo also needs a pre-amplifier / impedance conversion. I theory you could make that without any controls or do it outside the guitar using one in a pedal but that would be not very handy. My Music Man Majesty has also a piezo next to two humbuckers.
@@cataclysmicconverter I could have bought a green Fly Deluxe for like $1200 About 7 years ago. Still wonder about that. Parkers were something else, and it seems that their unappreciated era is over.
Salutations Austin! That Les Paul that had been photoshopped would be particularly useful if it had a piezoelectric hexaphonic pickup built into the bridge so that it could be used as both an acoustic pickup and also to drive a Roland VG-8 or a Roland guitar synth, or both simultaneously. With a separate volume knob for both the acoustic and hexaphonic pickup, and a volume and tone and coil split for a 57 classic pickup in the neck position. Also the gold top Les Paul without any visible pickups could be equipped with a piezoelectric hexaphonic pickup built into the bridge, and all of the controls could be accessed through a preamp and a volume pedal, and it too could be connected to a Roland guitar synth system or a VG-8, so you could have a variety of possibilities. Thanks for sharing! Please have an excellent and awesome day! ☀️✨🌟🎸
Hmmmm.... Interesting , I'd love to see a Les Paul Recording model in TV Yellow , or Ebony with three of those slanted devil dog pickups ! thanks Trogly !
That photoshopped guitar reminded me of the electric Les Paul Memphis, which was hollow with a center block and had the 2 F holes. It sounded amazing when not plugged in.
Tagima makes an entry level piezo-only guitar called a Modena. Their other guitars are reasonably decent quality. Not Gibson level, but maybe an intro to the oeuvre.
I would consider purchasing this if I were only a singer-songwriter and didn't play a lot of overdriven leeds. Meanwhile, Trogly, did you revise the exit music to a slower tempo?
is possible put the pick on the back, and with very thin maple cap or just take much wood out of cavity as possible, make the pick up cavity very deep, because the space between string and pickup magnet just so big, probably need a very high out put pickup right??
Hi Trogly, I can confirm it's real. I've seen it at Haydock park racecourse guitar show st helens 2024 merseyside England, I spoke to the person that owned it, he ordered and requested this unique guitar to the specs he wanted.
There's some dude out there 100% convinced that the resonance and sustain on this is better because all the tone wood is there.
Owned about 7 single pickup guitars over the years. How many are you up to?
Go tell Seymour Duncan and Larry Dimarzio "tone wood isn't real", in the 50 years they both have been jn businesss selling pickups, they never claimed such a thing.
But some poutine scarfing greasemop claims it's debunked on TH-cam, so it must be true.
@@rocketpigrecords3719 Tell me how wood affects magnetic fields, I'm waiting.
@@rocketpigrecords3719 I'll be real, I've played many many guitars over the 15 years ive played, and if wood affects tone its too minimal to matter. That doesnt mean I want cheap scrap wood, but the corksniffing needs to fuckin end with the tonewoods with electric guitars.
All the. Nigel Tufnels out there
@@SocksworthRiffs I think wood (or to be more specific: the materials of the body and neck) affect the final tone. The strings ring differently depending on the construction of the guitar. You can hear the tone difference of amplified archtop guitars, you can hear the difference of a bolted on neck or a set neck, same happens with wood, the strings sound different even not plugged in, and that initial tone is then amplified. How much the difference to care about woods? Not much
I’d call it a “Fools gold top”
haha- LESS Paul
It has the special Gibson noiseless "Clean Fingers" PU's
Piezo might be the most fun guitar- related word to say. Humbucker is a close second.
My last 2 builds were bridge pu, single volume. I love simplicity.
Mine not even a volume
@@aquenture I did that on my very first build but I’ve found I like using the volume to clean up sometimes. I respect the simplicity.
The bridge looks wider than a standard ABR-1, I've got a hunch it's got piezo saddles. Also looks like there's a jackplate hiding behind the stand it's on.
The early Line 6 guitars were pickup-less, just had the piezo bridge tied to the built in modeller to produce different tones.
Next you need to find a no cutaway les Paul 😂
Slowly reverting to an archtop one feature at a time
Killer.
YES .. that is a piezo saddle bridge.
Adjustable wrap tail piezo woulda been extra kool
You can almost hear the parents not bitching….
Love the white Maton Fyrebyrd in the background at the 10 second and 😅20 second mark.. Australian icon. My first guitar was a red version of this with a Bigsby tremolo.
In the late 80s they had a particular type of midi controller Les Paul custom, it only had the midi pickup ,, there's one for trogly to find info on i believe it was the photon midi System,,, it didn't have magnetic pickups because that midi system only used the high E string for all 6 strings
You can see an output jack in the picture
IIRC it’s a prototype from the late 80s with similar electronics as a Chet Atkins of the time. The controls are in a dish on the side.
It’s in The Ultimate Guitar Book 1991, alongside similar models from Washburn and Godin.
Ever checked out a Gibson Chet Atkins SST? Would love to see a review on one of those!
There were some Fender prototypes that looked pickup-less, but they had knobs... the pickups hid under the plastic guard.
I'm curious if those LPs are supposed to be acoustic? how could they be without being hollow body guitars? acoustic guitars are hollow body guitars even thin line acoustics. and LPs are solid body guitars. even the Fender acoustsonic guitars are hollow body guitars. even though they have body shapes like Telecasters and Stratocasters. all acoustic guitars have to be hollow. so I can't see how an LP can work as an acoustic guitar unless it's hollowed out also.
Great episode. If only I knew why a single pickup Gibson is so wickedly expensive. Love the acoustic LP!
Piezo!! It is definately real!!! I posted this same one a few years ago from a shop in cali
The guitar at the top of the video could have a passive piezo pickup. Those don't use volume or tone controls on the guitar and require a separate preamp to control the volume and shape the tone. Lots of players say they sound better than the active type.
Parker Bronze Fly. There's a beauty.
Those L P Acoustics are the most beautiful things I have ever seen,
tears in my eyes, nothin in my savings account.
Hello Trogly! The guitar at 4:37 minute mark is indeed based on my 2011 Classic Custom.
There's a fender jaguar/jazzmaster with pickups under the guard
The Fender Marauder (Type I) prototypes had four pickups under the pickguard. Never made it to serial production though, because Leo sold the company to CBS and the project was cancelled.
That's why we can't have nice things: Corporate assholes.
Why would the guitar necessarily need a volume control? Plenty of people play piezo-equipped acoustics with no controls on the guitar and a volume pedal or mute switch on the floor. Some of my acoustics don't even have a preamp in it. Just a piezo strip in the bridge, hardwired to the output jack in the back strap button, straight into a preamp pedal/box on the floor. No batteries, preamps, potentiometers, switches on or inside the guitar.
All the "reissue" without neck pick up are build with short neck tenon
Single Bridge Pickup Guitars play and sound better than you might imagine. 👍
@picksalot1. Agreed. I have several and must say that in my 40+ years of live performing, nobody ever critiqued me on my pick up selection or coil tapping applications.
Nice to see you own the late great Benjamin Woods signature. Great guy that I had the pleasure to see play at the Jason Becker benefits
As far as I know a piezo also needs a pre-amplifier / impedance conversion. I theory you could make that without any controls or do it outside the guitar using one in a pedal but that would be not very handy. My Music Man Majesty has also a piezo next to two humbuckers.
Parker Concert (or bronze) Flys are a similarly pickupless design
Was just going to say.
Instant conversation starter. Was it Fripp who was using it to control his Roland rack stuff?
@@cataclysmicconverter I could have bought a green Fly Deluxe for like $1200 About 7 years ago.
Still wonder about that. Parkers were something else, and it seems that their unappreciated era is over.
@@rocketpigrecords3719 Not sure if Fripp ever did, but Belew has been a huge Parker dude for a while now
I saw Staind open for Korn a couple years ago in Chicago use one just like the first one in this for acoustic songs.
Pickup-less guitar? Parker Concert/Bronze Fly ❤
Salutations Austin!
That Les Paul that had been photoshopped would be particularly useful if it had a piezoelectric hexaphonic pickup built into the bridge so that it could be used as both an acoustic pickup and also to drive a Roland VG-8 or a Roland guitar synth, or both simultaneously.
With a separate volume knob for both the acoustic and hexaphonic pickup, and a volume and tone and coil split for a 57 classic pickup in the neck position.
Also the gold top Les Paul without any visible pickups could be equipped with a piezoelectric hexaphonic pickup built into the bridge, and all of the controls could be accessed through a preamp and a volume pedal, and it too could be connected to a Roland guitar synth system or a VG-8, so you could have a variety of possibilities.
Thanks for sharing!
Please have an excellent and awesome day!
☀️✨🌟🎸
I personally like the blue Zach Meyers PRS but this one is really cool looking.
The last Les Paul design ressemble a lot the square waves/cross sea phenomenom
Is that not an SST Studio?
There's one for sale in a pawn shop near me.
i use bridge pickup mostly.
Hmmmm.... Interesting , I'd love to see a Les Paul Recording model in TV Yellow , or Ebony with three of those slanted devil dog pickups ! thanks Trogly !
I have been wanting to build a solid body with no electronics for years. I refer to the idea as a living room guitar.
That photoshopped guitar reminded me of the electric Les Paul Memphis, which was hollow with a center block and had the 2 F holes. It sounded amazing when not plugged in.
thanks for specifying it's the pickups trogly, I wouldn't have known otherwise :D
This kind of reminds me of the Les Paul Acoustic from 2002 but with the traditional bridge. Nevermind, you're just mentioning it as I'm commenting lol
Nice smile on the last one.
You find the coolest guitars my friend. Thank you.
The Fender marauder 1 have hidden pickups, I don’t remenber if you already talk about it
My Line6 Variax 700 doesn’t display pickups, but it does have a pickup.. I’m sure they’re not new to you…. Mine’s the trans blue…
With this one the tone wood is very transparent !
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time
F-hole photoshop guitar one should be, neck humbucker and a bridge piezo with volume and tone.
Josh Homme used one of these to record the album, Songs For The Deaf. 😂
was that a landscape scene with a silhouette centered in the neck grain of the greenish guitar ?
Tagima makes an entry level piezo-only guitar called a Modena. Their other guitars are reasonably decent quality. Not Gibson level, but maybe an intro to the oeuvre.
There was a mod collection les Paul which had a piezo pickup
I would consider purchasing this if I were only a singer-songwriter and didn't play a lot of overdriven leeds. Meanwhile, Trogly, did you revise the exit music to a slower tempo?
You can utilize a submarine pickup on it.
is possible put the pick on the back, and with very thin maple cap or just take much wood out of cavity as possible, make the pick up cavity very deep, because the space between string and pickup magnet just so big, probably need a very high out put pickup right??
Doubtful
They should make a single pick up Les Paul with a fender Esquire 3-way switch
The london Gibson garage have a les Paul junior rhythm
Hi Trogly, I can confirm it's real. I've seen it at Haydock park racecourse guitar show st helens 2024 merseyside England, I spoke to the person that owned it, he ordered and requested this unique guitar to the specs he wanted.
The pickup-less Gibson doesn’t look proportionally correct to me, as it relates to that bridge. Me thinks its edited.
Painted on soundhole would be sweet
Howdy everyone!!
If Lord Voldemort was a guitar.... no pickup no nose.
hey that’s sixty sixty sounds on denmark street
Very interesting and entertaining episode...
I wonder if one of the old “monkey on a stick” DeArmond picks ups would fit on it.
Next week on the Mod Shop: a 2x4 with a MOP Gibson logo on one end for a measly $45k. 😂
This is Peak Gold Top.
I’ve bought a couple guitars from Property Room. It was better a few years back.
The Dad Bod Mod collection
Lovely practice guitar
That PRS birds neck is the finest neck I've ever seen on a guitar.
The slow outro music completely threw me
Beautiful noodle guitar.
Ilove these guitsrs
You can hear the sustain…👂🤣
Put a P90 in the bridge…
Finally a guitar my wife would love me to play🫤
Errrr🤔 thinking smbody at the guitarfactory took a long lunch. Or left real early. Fi-yad.
i thinking PRS done something like that.
Remember when Angus protested having to fake it by going out with no strings on his guitar? Maybe this guitar is Gibson's answer for posers. ?😁
Ah yes: the Least Paul.
The guild peregrine.
If slap a goldfoil on it
Very cool…
The Least Paul!!
I bet it has a piezo pickup
Invisible pickups, maybe?😂😂
what an interesting guitar lol
I’ll guess it’s a piezo system.
Did you dox yourself here at 5:45?
pretty useless guitar to me like that
Wut?
Clickbait. This guitar is not electric.
Look at that belly!
Its a pointless acoustic guitar!
Yes!
Is there ever been one of these made without electronics?
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