Modulus Blackstar info needed

Started by gtrguy, November 18, 2011, 11:52:21 AM

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gtrguy

Very Nice!! It came with the fixed bridge?

bluplirst


cozmik_cowboy

Oh my, that 12er is sweet!  Love that cross-hatched maple.  Tell us more (in a separate thread if you won't to do that egregious a highjack).
 
Peter
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cozmik_cowboy

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(Message edited by cozmik_cowboy on December 01, 2011)
"Is not Hypnocracy no other than the aspiration to discover the meaning of Hypnocracy?  Have you heard the one about the yellow dog yet?"
St. Dilbert

"If I could explain it in prose, I wouldn't have had to write the song."
Robt. Hunter

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Dave, the hardtail bridge is stock, with the exception of graphite saddles. The neck has the traditional strat headstock, but the original owner swapped out the Grovers for Sperzel tuners.  
 
 
Dan, Im happy to see that the 12 string went to a club member. That is such an amazing custom piece!

dfung60

Here's my 1988 Modulus 12-string.    

  It's got a bit of an interesting story.  This guitar was built for Paul Kantner, but they made an error on the order and routed for two humbuckers instead of a single coil at the neck and a humbucker at the bridge.  You can buy EMGs that have single coil pickup guts inside a humbucker casing, but this was more about playing space between the pickups, so they built another one for him. It's a really thick cocobolo top with a maple accent layer and mahogany body.  Before anybody asks - no, there's not a giant knob sticking out of the middle of the neck, that's the guitar stand that it's sitting on!  This one has an unusual neck pickup, a "Geoff Gould special" custom made by EMG.  It's got two coils, but just one magnet (one air coil).  It sounds really cool, with sort of an "airy" tone, not like anything else.  Works really well with the 12-string. The other pickup is a stock EMG-85. The bridge was an old Stars Guitars bridge and the tailpiece was custom cut out of a graphite plate:  

  It's a really neat sounding guitar.  The bridge pickup is all rock, the neck pickup is sort of acoustic like, and with both pickups on it's got an unexpected jangly tone.  It takes forever to tune a 12-string Rickenbacker because tuning one string throws everything else out out.  With the Modulus, the neck is so stable that no string affects the others when tuning.  I live close to the old Modulus factory when it was in San Francisco, so I got a call one afternoon from Geoff asking if I could bring this guitar up for Steve Miller to try out.  He loved the sound and hated the weight of the guitar (he has a shoulder problem where he prefers very light guitars).  It's also had a capsule review in Guitar Player magazine as well.  David Fung

gtrguy

Very pretty guitars with some serious Alembic vibe.  
 
I have to post my 12 string. Made in the Kausga factory, neck-through, great tone, not too heavy and balances well. Labeled Frontier. You know where the style came from!  

lbpesq

Had to jump on the 12 string bandwagon.  Here's mine, Big Irv:
 

 
Bill, tgo