Music near and by Doug Cassidy Anacortes, WA 98221

Guitar

Guitar Hangers on Amp

Just a couple cheap hangers from Wally World and a couple pieces of 2X4, weighed down by the Bassman 100 head (the Bassman was heavy enough, the Peavey PA was added after)  

Pignose Roland FrankenHog

The Pignose Hog is a portable battery powered bass amp. The Roland Micro Cube runs on 6 AA batteries or AC. The good thing about this is the amp modeling. I took the guts out of the Roland, built them into the Hog to create a small guitar amp with lots of different sounds. The FrankenHog!

Bridge on Series & Out of Phase

Stratocaster Mod, featuring,Parallel,Series,Out of Phase, Special Tone Control.
Neck and Mid P’ups: Fender Texas Special single coils;
Bridge: Seymour Duncan “lil 59” humbucker;
Volume & Tone pot: 500Kohms; Tone cap 22nf;
funky capacitors, ‘tele’ mode, neck and brige

Splitting Pickguard For Easy Mods

After playing with the wiring of my strat, as i was winding up and tuning my strings for the umpteenth time, I was thinking it would be cool to cut the pickguard in two. Be able to leave the pups’ half on the guitar and play with the wiring by unscrewing the other half. Kinda… Read more »

Strat Mod 1 (Out of Phase and Bridge Override)

Phase switch (puts neck in opposite phase.)
Bridge Override or “Blower” or “11 switch” (Engages bridge pup only, volume and tone out of circuit)
5 way switch:

  1. M
  2. N+M
  3. N
  4. N+B
  5. B

Master Tone, Master Volume.