Build Finished - First Offset Modernized

[scottosan]

I guess spec wise, is a poor man take on Novo Serus J specs.

-MJT Roasted Pine Body
-Mastery Bridge and Trem
-Allparts Select AAA+ roasted flame maple neck with rosewood board and jumbo frets 10-16” radius. Had my luthier crown and polish the frets, round the fret edges and roll the fingerboard edges. The neck is so good!
A set of Tonenerd P90s that I’m prototyping. They are A2 magnets
-Oiled Bone Nut
-Lucky Dog heavy knurled aged knobs

 

[legend71]

That looks and sounds great!!! Is that Murphy relic'd? (j/k)

 

[Shreddy Mercury]

Damn that's nice! Those frets are polished to a mirror shine. I've wanted one of these ever since I saw Ghost playing one in the Lachryma video.

 

[ChurchHill]

That neck is gorgeous! The whole thing is! Very nice!

Those P90s sound great through that Brunetti!

 

[Corey James]

Very nice

 

[BesaMoogie]

I`ve been watching several clips of P90s the last days and came to the conclusion, that my JM build will need some.
Nice guitar!

 

[mnemonic]

That fretwork looks amazing

 

[DanTravis62]

Looks killer man, what a guitar

 

[scottosan]

I`ve been watching several clips of P90s the last days and came to the conclusion, that my JM build will need some.
Nice guitar!

I will warn you the the JM routes are very shallow and won’t likely accommodate P90s in the neck without modifying the pickup or the route. I had to shorten the pole screws to that I could limit the depth of the pickup to just about flush with the baseplate. That 1/4 of screws protruding beyond the baseplate was too tall.

 

[scottosan]

That fretwork looks amazing

Yeah. He he did a refret for me last year and it became my number one. The neck is night and day difference from when I left it off. Look at the difference between the board and fret edges before and after. Also the nuts never bind. The tuning stability is phenomenal.


Before

After

 

[LPMojoGL]

Beauty!
I'd say that guitar is on par with my Fender CS Tele with P90s. Great work on the neck/frets. I bet it plays amazing.
I'd love to have a guitar like this for a matching set to go with the Tele.
Brother from another mother right here:

Clips sounds good, Scott! P90s have their own flavor.
Love the P90s in my Tele. I wanna buy whoever wound them a beer. They're noisy as hell, but every recording with them sounds perfect.

 

[japetus]

Looks like a Kirk Cobain axe

 

[scottosan]

Spun up another P90 set. Looser tension, more scatter. Really good neck and middle clean tones

 

[ChurchHill]

Sounding great! That Brunetti sounds really nice, too. Saw your latest vid on YT before you posted it here, inspired me to play my SG Special with stock P90s yesterday. For stock pickups, they're really good, better than they were 20 years ago when I got my first P90, but not as quite as good as the Lollars or BKP Nantuckets I've tried.

Are you potting your P90s? I'm not convinced that P90s really need potting, but it depends on who you talk to. Curious to hear your take on that.

Still A2, I'd guess.

I agree, I think the looser tension and added scatter helped the neck and middle. The bridge sounds similar to the first set, at least through YT compression. Both vids had a great bridge tone, I thought. For my taste, that bridge sound, and the second neck tone, with a middle with some of that slightly out-of-phase Page/Betts tone, and it'd be pretty damn perfect.

Looking forward to hearing where you end up with this! And hearing more of that Brunetti, which gives me GAS every time I hear it.

 

[scottosan]

Sounding great! That Brunetti sounds really nice, too. Saw your latest vid on YT before you posted it here, inspired me to play my SG Special with stock P90s yesterday. For stock pickups, they're really good, better than they were 20 years ago when I got my first P90, but not as quite as good as the Lollars or BKP Nantuckets I've tried.

Are you potting your P90s? I'm not convinced that P90s really need potting, but it depends on who you talk to. Curious to hear your take on that.

Still A2, I'd guess.

I agree, I think the looser tension and added scatter helped the neck and middle. The bridge sounds similar to the first set, at least through YT compression. Both vids had a great bridge tone, I thought. For my taste, that bridge sound, and the second neck tone, with a middle with some of that slightly out-of-phase Page/Betts tone, and it'd be pretty damn perfect.

Looking forward to hearing where you end up with this! And hearing more of that Brunetti, which gives me GAS every time I hear it.

These are A4 magnets this time around and bridge is wound weaker than the previous A2 bridge. Scattering reduced the voltage potential and cleans up better. A4 bring a bit brighter than A2, adds a little complexity to the top end with a little bit of scatter, at least in my winds.

Up until yesterday my HSS Strat was my favorite guitar with the Brunetti. Humbuckers and hi switch engaged on the Brunetti is glorious, then throw to the single coils turn of the high switch and roll down the volume a get the rich sparking cleans. It’s harder to do with a humbucker in the neck and both my Lollar P90s and first set I would sounded good rolled down, but not as good as single coils. The second set put me right where I was aiming.

I’m still getting used to the full potential of the Brunetti. At lower gain, it has a presence to it. Not ear fatiguing, but in a strident way. At really low volume the high gain settings are great, but you need to let it breathe a little to get the most of those clean and edge of breakup sounds. You don’t need gigging levels, but more than 10pm when the kids are sleeping levels to benefit from the clean and in between tones. I’ve also been playing with the tube rectifier setting for the last few days. I’d love to try this with some lower sensitivity speakers like scumbacks

 

[ChurchHill]

Ah, A4s, that makes sense. I go back and forth between whether I like A4 or A2 better, and as you're saying, it depends on the wind and the target.

What really floors me about the Brunetti is how well it cleans up. It sounds like it can get vicious when it's wound up but just dial everything back and it's so sweet. Especially with that last P90 set. Very very nice!

 

[scottosan]

Played the guitar through my twin reverb and Jose. For fuck sake this thing sounds good. I’ll get some clips up later

 

[pipelineaudio]

That fret polish looks unreal. Just needs to be scalloped.

 

[LPMojoGL]

These are A4 magnets this time around and bridge is wound weaker than the previous A2 bridge. Scattering reduced the voltage potential and cleans up better. A4 bring a bit brighter than A2, adds a little complexity to the top end with a little bit of scatter, at least in my winds.

Up until yesterday my HSS Strat was my favorite guitar with the Brunetti. Humbuckers and hi switch engaged on the Brunetti is glorious, then throw to the single coils turn of the high switch and roll down the volume a get the rich sparking cleans. It’s harder to do with a humbucker in the neck and both my Lollar P90s and first set I would sounded good rolled down, but not as good as single coils. The second set put me right where I was aiming.

I’m still getting used to the full potential of the Brunetti. At lower gain, it has a presence to it. Not ear fatiguing, but in a strident way. At really low volume the high gain settings are great, but you need to let it breathe a little to get the most of those clean and edge of breakup sounds. You don’t need gigging levels, but more than 10pm when the kids are sleeping levels to benefit from the clean and in between tones. I’ve also been playing with the tube rectifier setting for the last few days. I’d love to try this with some lower sensitivity speakers like scumbacks

The Naylor needed a tiny bit of volume to decongest, open up. I usually kept the gain high, and used the volume knob a lot. I guess I always do that...
I like the sounds you're getting with the Brunetti. Your new wind P90s sound fantastic. Very nice. Surprised the amp is so bright. What happens it you dial the treble back with the presence, mids and bass up a bit?
Speakers would tame the brightness and volume right down. Bet those Scumbacks would be a step in the right direction, if not do the trick.

 

[scottosan]

guitar through my Jose with the GroundZero add-a-clean