Partscaster (Short Scale HHH S-Style) 2023 - Turquoise stained maple

NEW PHOTOS- HAND-BUILT PARTSCASTER:

• “The Blue Fluke”

Based on the concept of an S-Style player, but with a shorter/quicker 24 inch scale (like an M- or Jag-Style neck)

TUNERS: locking 21:1 black

SADDLE: HT adjustable, top-side string placement

Pickguard: hand cut to fit the modified scale length to the shape

Body: MAPLE (bought from a Canada supplier), routed the neck pocket a bit deeper as one adjustment to the desired scale length.

Neck: MAPLE (bought from a separate Canada supplier with a different order)

2-way Truss-Rod (access to the hex-adjust is at the Heel end, under the pickguard plate)

PICKUPS &

ADD ON MODS:

Wired with a 5-position typical switch arrangement, and an added momentary-off Killswitch for Stacatto/Trem-Rhyhthm effects

The pickups STARTED as stock manufactured pickups, disassembled and modded / rewound for desired characteristics:

NECK: adjustable, standard Humbucker;

MIDDLE: adjustable ; single-coil sized 2-rails humbucker; Although a humbucker, turned out with a distinct pick-responivesness, a little like playing a P-90; gets pinch-harmonics pretty easily as well, I think by fortune of its position along the scale length. ADDED TO THIS PICKUP is an onboard Fuzz/Clipping circuit, activated by a small-sized on-off click-button switch on the pickguard. On its own in switch position 3, or in the combos of positions 2 & 4, click-on adds in the assymetric-clipping circuit for Dirt/Crunch/Grit (depending on pick attack and the adjustable intensity/volume).

BRIDGE: adjustable humbucker; kept the higher output intact, but made the resonance a bit “warmer” by way of a small position-shift, balanced with enhancing the trebly-chime via added intrinsic-capacitance achieved by some re-winding with scatter/traverse & re-wiring/re-potting

In positions 2 & 4, the added middle PU pushes the output up to have force, but clarity at low gain. Breaks up easily with medium gain played on a Marshall 12 inch cab

In position 3 with the narrow Humbucker alone, has dynamics that change by pick attack that feels pretty similar to the feel of playing a P90 set up - clean to crunchy- based on how forceful vs finessed the pick attack.

The NECK PUP has generous output, but with low gain has a warm, clean tone, not unlike “woman tone” when the gain is down - but pretty easily exposes the higher output when Gain is added

BACK CAVITY: was available “empty” because of using the Hard-Tail, so contains some of the added-on mods wiring.

That makes it a LIGHT instrument— On request, I’ll add metal or wood WEIGHT to the space as well, this 5-pound instrument (to facilitate more Sustain)

Updated Photos 2/19/24: Further updates : changed more components to Black (speed-knobs, Nut, Screws).

… More like a Reef Shark (pictured also).