SG Sunday

Had plans to play this guitar today but the bridge pickup failed to work. There's sound coming from the bridge pickup only if the selector was in its mid position. Verdict: The selector needs to be replaced.

A quick trip to Beez to get this done. Managed a caffeine (ice blended) fix before heading home. I'm not into Starbucks, it's CBTL or Gloria Jeans for me. Had been this way all along.

Out & about

Had been spending the day with this one. This peculiar one, to be more specific. Why? Gibson said in its spec sheet, this sports a slim taper neck profile but it's somehow more comfortable to play for me especially. Then I realized that the 70s neck spec includes a slightly wider measurement as well so the slim taper + wide elements left an impression on me in terms of playing comfort. 

But Gibson equipped strange & rather repulsive capacitors in this guitar; a pair of blue, very small ones, no bigger than a baby's fingernail. It somehow made the guitar sound very bright. OK so the mini humbuckers do sound prickly by default but if I could do something inexpensive to this guitar to make it sound more appealing to me, then the capacitor consideration kicked in. These Orange Drops are the .033uf & they smoothened the top end nicely. Beez did this swap for me in under 10min.

Ended the day with a brief chill-out at Gloria Jeans (Esplanade). It was brief because there was a traditional dance event at the outdoor stage so it was crowded, compounded by the usual weekend crowd. Definitely not the environment for introverted people like me. I prefer coming here on a weekday. 

Wishing everyone a good week ahead.