NGD: Schecter C-1 Blackjack ATX

I'm happy to report that I've managed to install DiMarzio ClipLock straps with no issues and the neck has settled down and is playing great today with no buzzes. I have spent much of today and yesterday working on my Explorer and my Schecter Omen Extreme 6. I am in the process of swapping pickups between them and have removed the stickers from the Explorer to get it ready to put on the market. It was a sad moment but I'd rather see someone else playing it and have the cash because this C-1 has usurped its former #2 status as a live guitar. So my Omen Extreme will now have pickups that are worth more than it is (a chrome-covered Bare Knuckle Nailbomb set). I only use the Omen Extreme for scales exercises (it replaced the Peavey Predator, which I sold to my cousin) but I knew I would lose a lot of money on the pickups if I tried to sell them in an Epiphone.

I took a photo of it in the Explorer's old stand.

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We're working on more stuff at present, we have at least three new songs that haven't been recorded but we hope to record them in October/November. We are traveling to Melbourne at the end of November to represent our state at this national doom metal festival.

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Our sound and style have changed a bit. We now have a different vocalist who plays lead guitar as well, and has taken a leading role in the songwriting team together with myself in this new two-guitar lineup. So I play the rhythm part as well as clean passages or weird effected passages and he plays lead guitar and sometimes the same parts I am playing but generally we have a more layered sound now and we are able to incorporate more complex musical structures. Soundwise we have both a Peavey 6534+ and a Peavey JSX, whereas before we only had the 6534+, but our rhythm section is basically the same. We have updated some of the old songs by adding a second guitar part and all of the new songs have two distinct guitar parts for most of the song except where Josh and I playing in unison is used for effect. I prefer stepping out of the spotlight a bit and retiring to the engine room of the band, and if anything I can play even more hypnotically slow and heavy rhythms now that Josh is playing all of these complex tremolo picked lead parts over the top to keep things interesting.
 
Ordered. Now I will have to order some 550K CTS volume pots and one of those big capacitors from BKP. I keep hoping that Boris will make the Pound tank first but our own PM is such a useless character (the 'Man of Titanium', lol) that our currency is sliding just as fast as theirs.
 
Two 550K CTS short-shaft pots, one 500K CTS push-pull pot and one Jenson capacitor cost $87-90 from the UK. Still waiting to see the spread but that's what currency converter is giving me.
 
As always living in Australia, where we have a third-world manufacturing profile, means that we get shafted on everything that has to be made overseas. Somehow we manage to get shafted on natural resources like gas too. Lucky country. All up I've paid something like $40 shipping for this stuff.
 
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It's costing me pretty much the same as last time for the BKP components, around $460 once you include all the shipping.

This time I bought an extra pot, last time I bought a switch but I have one left over here from all the stuff ups last time with the switch.

I didn't want to buy pots from a local supplier as the tolerances can be quite high, and I could end up with something as low as 420K. I'm happy with the capacitor and pots I got last time so sticking with those. Expensive though.

I still need to make an order to Australian Luthier Supplies for a new jack, a treble bleed circuit, and some screws.

The stuff has all shipped already, which is the big improvement on last time. They were snowed in and had a huge backlog due to the launch of their lower priced line, so it took something like four weeks to ship last time, six weeks before I had them. I might be able to install these before we play in Melbourne, and maybe even let Josh use this guitar on stage and keep his Hellraiser with the EMG 81/85 set as the backup.
 
Dave Sloven said:
Two 550K CTS short-shaft pots, one 500K CTS push-pull pot and one Jenson capacitor cost $87-90 from the UK. Still waiting to see the spread but that's what currency converter is giving me.
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$86.39 but there will be a conversion fee from my bank, just wait ...
 
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