CHAPIN pic’s
an Clips
This is all from the VERY long thread at the Gear Page, I
thought that some of you would like to see and hear Bill Chapins
guitars in a more digestible format.
Enjoy,
Anders
Some pics follow and a second page is here
I thought you might enjoy
a pic of one of the Houlas
we tested against the '62. The photo is decent, although the actual guitar
looks much "warmer" in person. I took this in the case just prior to packing
it for shipping.
anyway , enjoy
houla burst pic
depends on how you feel 
about
this here... 
(pic by d-o-c)
Jeff's 'houla and 'bird
The rustic hawk
so a clip of one of our 24"
inch guitars would probably be totally unfair.. hey
who dropped this here? 
24"
scale hawk clip
that was both p90s together, here's
another clip of both pickups together except distorted and I'll throw in the
clams for free distorted
clip 24" scale two p90s
The distorted clip was:
the rustic hawk
the Komet through Vox blues
fast mode
6l6s biased to 18ma
volume at 10:30-11:00
a single cad e-350 about 1.5 ft away into a mackie
board for phantom power delta 1010, no eq
Neal’s Houla
ok here are those clips. These were
done very fast so please bear with them
The first one is a clean sample which is an improvised
opening going into a tune of mine called Jimology.
The neck pickup I dialed in a bit dark to get a warm rhythm tone. I can roll it
up to get the brighter tones but I really like the way it has the darker end
without losing the strat character. I added a bit of
verb to the clean sample which was done dry originally run straight into a komet with 6l6 with the volume set at 9:00 on gradual mode
with everything else at noon except the high cut which I had set around 3:00
neck pickup sample
The second sample is clean bridge pickup dry
Neal's Stratahoula bridge clean
the 3rd one is a bit of dirty single lines bringing out the smoother rock
bridge tone by rolling off a bit on the bridge tone control (mine have the tone
control on the bridge instead of the middle) I added some delay just for the
fun of it.
Neal's Stratahoula bridge
dirty
Here's the middle pickup
of the other Strata-houla that Amitar
checked out against his '62
Middle pickup clip
here's a very quick clip just for
laughs, played on neck middle.
neck/middle clip
ok, here are the neck/bridge and
neck middle samples
I did a quickie multitrack of 2 parts. The rhythm is
the same track on both clips and is Neck/Middle
Neck/middle
Neal Houla
middle/bridge
Neal Houla
Bills red T-bird
my new bird
Ok, a quick take using my
new red t-bird bridge pickup and the same quick backing track I did for the houla clips
T-bird
bridge
Ok here's a quick clip of
the neck pickup
Red
T-bird neck tvtron
Ok, here's the neck and bridge in parallel.
Red
T-bird TVtron neck + hybrid tele/90 bridge parallel
the bit where it gets bright at the end is me picking fairly hard with
my nail very close to the bridge. I love the range of tone I'm getting just by
changing the attack (the TV jones in particular
really seems to help bring this out)
now the next clip is neck and bridge in series
Red T-bird TVtron neck + hybrid
tele/90 bridge series
Finally here's another take of bridge alone using the same setup for direct
comparison
Red T-bird bridge
Random Pics
ok here's a couple of random pics as teasers.
hawk pic 1
hawk
pic 2
neck blanks roughed
neck in progress
FAf's houla
just thought some of you might want a
glimpse of FAf's new houla
Red Houla
Honduran mahogany body
and neck, 25.4 scale, African Blackwood fingerboard, Early prototype Blackdog neck pickup, Blackdog
design bridge pickup with baseplate and ferrous cover
which both reduces the noise and makes amore tele
like bridge tone. "stealth" middle pickup
only selected with other pickups. selections are Neck nec/mid, neck/bridge, Mid/Bridge, Bridge. Tux and tusk saddles vintage 6 screw trem.
Black Cherry finish
as promised here's a quick clip of
the red mahogany houla. the
playing isn't much but you get a bit of how it sounds. red houla clip
ok, here's another clip this time
using the neck /bridge, bridge/middle and bridge settings.(last was neck and
neck middle)red houla clip 2
Ok, this is with just a
bit of overdrive houlaclip 3
houla test clip – (Shades) I
used 3 methods to achieve this. the first was a
Anders’ Hawk, The Blue Rider
The
Blue Rider and the Hawk Rod
A pic
of the Blue Hawk Twins (Amitar and Anders) (Bottom
one is The Blue Rider upper one Amitars Hawk Rod)
Sound clips of Ander's hawk.
neck distorted full humbucking (Beelzebucker in
series)
neck single coil two different splits of the same neck
pickup (Black Dog Beelzebucker) the main line is the
neck side coil, the counter line is the side closest to the bridge
bridge tele pickup (Duncan Jerry
Donahue Model)
rhythm neck/bridge neck pickup split to single (neck side),
lead same but neck pickup (series)
Here's one of the neck
bucker in parallel
Blue rider neck sample _parallel full but still has the
clarity and the high end
Neck bucker series clip clean
Hawk Rod, big brother of Anders’ Hawk
Vettelover's Stratohoula
OK, this is a clip of the
Our own Vettelover's new houla
(formerly owned by Tim Volpicella) with it's new
pickups (voiced more toward Vette's rock and blues
style)
Vettelover's Houla
bridge dirty I went for some growl
Vettelover's Houla neck dirty
This one is clean
starting on the neck pickup going to neck/middle then middle for a short bit.
Vettelover's houla
clean tones
Pale Rider
BTW DOC
that's what you said before the pale rider with Jeff's Bird, etc...
It's all good. I just keep trying to push myself and come up with minor
improvements on every guitar based on what I learn from building the last. at
the end of every guitar I ask " is there any way that it could be even
better?"
BTW here's the pics for those who prefer not to
thread hop.
starting with the back
pale rider
back
a Little closer view of the neck flame
now a angled view that shows a bit of the arm carve
Pale rider
photo2
Now a frontal shot.
Pale rider
front
Cornell Clips by BILL
uickie cornell45/50 12watt plexi side clip
I simply did a quick
pass to set levels then this clip. I threw the clams for free 
Really a very nice amp. I'm going to borrow it again next
week to record with and I'll post some more clips.
Chapin T-bird
("red") bridge pickup , slight tone roll off
into DC45/50: high input normal channel,
12 watt mode, switch in 45 (tube rectifier) position
Cad E-100 mic 3 ft away
just a little touch of delay added in the mix
cornell clip
Now if
anyone is interested here's a clip of the 45/50 with a little help from a pedal
both in push and added distortion, the 12 watt setting low input, treble
channel, volume 1 o' clock, 2 clicks of an airbrake on the first one, 3 clicks
on the second one plus backed off the volume pedal a bit as well. If nothing
else it shows what you can do in extreme situations to get a tone at low
volume. despite what it sounds like this is at the level of maybe a fender princeton (later we were reduce to champ levels.) these are
snippets of longer solos from saturday's gig. Bear
with them, not the greatest playing but not too awful.
Princeton level 45/50 (with pedal)
Champ level 45/50 (with pedal)
Dr Ricos Hawk
Rico's
hawk
Rico's
Hawk both humbuckers together
Rico's
Hawk neck humbucker
Rico
bridge clip 2 different amp
Rico
hawk through several switch positions
Faf's
on it. The first set of clips were the Two rock octal proto
the second set of clips is the Gjika mini-amp through
a Dr Z Z28 into a single greenback reissue. after hearing the tone from this
setup with rico's hawk I'd name it the
"lasting-eyed" hawk. seriously though The combo of Rico's hawk and
this gjika setup really floored me...for me that's a freakin' tone.
I wasn't
originally going to even have the split coil option for the bridge...well I'm
really glad I did. I love the sound. here's the same gjika
dr z setup with the bridge pickup split
Rico's Hawk bridge split coil
ask
and ye shall receive.
Rico's
"slow Burn" hawk with Cornell 45/50 on 45 side
This one has a cool thing going butI'm going to do another because the bass end is coming out a bit fuzzy , I might have overpushed the levels a bit on the bottom. still kinda cool. Rico's Slow burn" with Komet (6l6s).
Ok,
I took a different pass on a different tune. Bridge pickup,
not hearing the bass fizz this time. Rico likes a good deal thicker neck
than my own so I'm stumbled a bit here but I like the tone.
Rico
Hawk bridge pickup with Komet 60
Rico's
Hawk unplugged. Remember this is a solidbody. rico unplugged
Rico "slow
Burn" hawk straight into the Z28
I'll tell you the Z28 is quick becoming one of my favorite amps EVER....and
with this particular Hawk I'd highly suggest Rico to check one out.....lord
what a tone!
This is the last clip I got just before packing it up to go to Rico. This is just on the verge of break-up but mostly clean through the Cornell 45/50 in 12 watt mode. Just went for a BB type feel (ok one slightly irish twist).
Slow
Burn Hawk semi-clean cornell
45 side clip