February Birthdays 
The Goya Rangemaster is a great but unusual surf guitar. Both pickups are single coils; archtop guitars traditionally bear humbuckers. I began with bridge + neck pickups together. Halfway through you can see me pressing the button to switch to neck pickup alone. In contrast, in the "Solving the Puzzle" video I used the Goya's bridge pickup alone.
This Goya model was their top of the line in 1965. With epoxy glue I fastened metal weights to the underside of the vibrato plate, increasing sustain and note stability. The guitar is a full hollowbody (i.e., no wood plank up the middle) and before the weight addition sustain was brief.
With many large movements across the fretboard, I have to think far ahead as I play this song.
The mic'd Traynor all tube YCV20WR (with internal Accutronics reverb spring) is visible in the lower left corner of the screen.
—Insanitizers! http://www.insanitizers.com
