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https://www.musicradar.com/news/mountain-guitarist-leslie-west-dies-at-75 The way he could squeeze so much tone out of a single P90 is a lesson to us all.

Love it! Those Lace Sensors are fabulous.

I’m going to go with JH being a bit of a knob.

All of the above please.

Looks really ‘metal’

And the two together

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Today, resistors, potentiometers and first test - “WOB WOB WOB” . Wired to footswitch and then... stop. Gotta leave something for tomorrow.

Oh my!

Today, just switches and caps.

Ah, I see, sorry. Hand sanitiser seems to strip off Sharpie ink and the like, no problem. Maybe give that a go, at least the fretboard will be germ free if it doesn’t work.

Lemon oil is the normal go to for fretboards: Dunlop, D’Addario are just two makes.

The Throb kit landed today. Just went through identifying the transistor values (painful job) and making sure everything in the parts list was present and correct. Some actual building can wait for another day.

I see that the even cheaper Yammy 012 is identical to the 112J except that it has cheaper body wood...

P/G mounted electronics worked for Leo. As to the differences beyond that, it appears to be ceramic vs Alnico (plus coil tap) and bridge type.

Now that’s done, I’ve ordered a tremolo pedal kit. Watch this space for more soldering shenanigans.

Short demo (forgive the playing). First clean, then full on (controls at 3 o'clock, 5 being max), followed by backing the guitar's vol control off a little at a time down to about 7. Then working back up again and then off/clean.

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As far as I can see the cheaper one has all its components mounted on the p/g whilst the other has body mount controls. Perhaps there’s a difference in the p/ups too. A visit to the Yammy website might clear that up.

Another one jumps the fence, welcome. I can’t help with a source for used bits and bobs, but I‘ve recently used these guys for new stuff, I’m happy with their service and range. https://www.northwestguitars.co.uk

Another vote for the separate bridge here. It just look 'right' for this style of guitar.

Yammy 112 all day long in that case https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/search/?Query=112&Filters.Ordering=7&Filters.CategoryBranch=guitars&Filters.MinPrice=&Filters.MaxPrice=&Filters.Brand=Yamaha

Welcome to the dark side (or light side depending on your primary allegiance). Same rules on cheap instruments apply here as on BC: Harley Benton, Squier Affinity, etc. Reasonable build quality, cheap electrics. First step is to decide what you fancy aesthetically, Tele, Strat, Les Paul, SG, ES type, certainly something that will inspire you to pick it up. If you really do want to be Steve Vai on occasion, I reckon a Yamaha Pacifica 112 is a no brainer. Whatever you go for (although not so necessary on the Yammy), get a pro setup, including a fret level/polish, it’ll be well worth it.

Wired and tested the main board today, it works! Still awaiting some smoothing caps, so no sound clips as yet.