r/offset

Finally pulled the trigger. Is it necessary? Probably not, but I think it deserves at least a try. Installation and setup ahead.

I just finished building this Floral top Phantone!

I can finally call it my own, it took at least 1 week to setup it up to my liking.

Howdy gang! 🤠

Just finished up this triple pickup "Old Steed III" and i instantly was reminded of an almost matching Fatcat build we finished up last year. Both are an absolute dream to play and with the Bass VI style wiring and 3 pickups, they actually manage to capture a little strat style middle position quack! I think triple pickup offsets are sorely underrated and underrepresented, and this is my way of inspiring you all to consider a triple pickup future lol

Old Steed III - Alder body, maple neck, "hippie stain" brown closet clean nitro finish with matching neck. Tort guard, Custom set of 3 Tone Hatch handwound jaguar pickups, Bass VI wiring

Fatcat III - Alder body, maple neck, B&B, 3-tone "Target Burst" nitro finish, Spitfire tort guard, 3x Custom Jaguar pickups, Bass VI wiring

I feel like these just look too good side by side! Which is your favorite??

I got this guard from musiclily, I’ve always liked the quality of their parts. Obviously, not exactly a faithful recreation of a vintage Tort guard, but it really brings out the best of the desert sand on this guitar and I’m obsessed. Just wanted to ask where everyone else bought their tort guards from?

From trashy to classy (or the other way around, depending on your personal preferences) - here's a UK-made 'bucker 'tail from Gordon Smith.

Gordon Smith Guitars may not be quite as well-known as its famous namesake from Maryland, USA (Paul Reed). "The other Smith" is a significantly smaller custom shop manufacturer in Great Britain, but one that boasts almost as much experience as its American counterpart.

In case you are not familiar with the company's history: Gordon Smith has over 50 years of experience in making great guitars. The company was founded by Gordon Whitham and John Smith in Manchester, England. It is considered the longest-running manufacturer of electric guitars in Great Britain and is famous for producing no-frills, no-nonsense instruments for working musicians.

 

Specs:

• Gordon Smith-branded 'bucker with black cover (bridge) & unbranded P90 with gold cover (neck)
• CTS wiring loom
• string-through-body hardtail bridge
• Graph Tech TUSQ saddles
• 'Jet Black' gloss finish
• gold hardware
• obeche wood offset body with cream binding
• highly figured roasted birdseye maple neck
• 25.5" scale length
• 'Standard Thin' neck contour
• satin neck finish
• ebony fretboard
• 22 Jescar Evo Gold frets
• spoke wheel truss adjustment
• Graph Tech TUSQ nut with zero fret
• two-tone six-in-line headstock
• Gotoh 18:1 ratio locking tuners
• made in UK

Paranormal offset telecaster loaded body with Paranormal esquire deluxe neck (the only squier neck that I know of with a strat headstock and tele heal). Body arrived yesterday, neck today!

Thought yall might enjoy this. Rare guitars, I've never seen another with this pickup config in person.

I'm a massive shoegaze fan that's never owned a Jazzmaster or Jaguar though so I've got this one currently up for trade. Wish me luck.

Not trying to sell here just sharing bc it might be interesting to some***

Got this recently on the trade sub and fell in love with it. Has a 25.5 scale and a 5 way selector, so it sounds like a Firebird and plays like a strat. Slapped a TWT neck from China on it, shockingly good for a $50 neck.

Fitted an MIA pickguard, swapped out the maple neck for a rosewood/mahogany one

Swapped pots for 500k vol and 250k tone CTS pots and added a treble bleed with an oil capacitor

For the neck I got a used staggered strat middle pickup and a used handmade humbucker

Hi, I'm trying to mod a sonic mustang into something similar to this cyclone, but I can't find anywhere the wiring diagram. Dose somebody know anything about it?

Black pickups might be the move. Black Mass? Novak? Egc? Any other recs for a splittable
Bridge and a wide range or low
Output neck?

I’ve long been a Dinosaur Jr fanatic and have wanted one of these MIJ J Mascis signature guitars since I first played one at a Sam Ash in high school (2008). Sadly I didn’t have the $700 or so at the time and have just been sitting here watching them climb in price ever since.

There are 2 near me for sale that are ~$3500 so I was starting to give up faith that I’d ever actually own one until I saw this pop up on Reverb for welllll under that price and knew I had to finally do it.

I’ve read mixed things about playability on these and was thinking I might have to swap the pickups and bridge on it but once I started playing it I honestly had no qualms with either. This thing was setup by the shop I purchased from (The Guitar Rescue!) and plays and sounds like an absolute dream.

Thanks for reading my little diatribe, I’m just so stoked to finally have one of these after so many years! Happy to add it to my offset collection of 4 other Jazzmasters and 1 Jaguar :).

Finally got around to cleaning and treating the fretboard of my favorite guitar. This thing got me into mini humbuckers - they rule.