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I've only had one experience with Corsa before and felt they're extremely underrated. He came up with this two years and it still isn't publicly available. I haven't asked why, but given that COVID happened that seems like excuse enough.

He literally has a whole page about this guitar: https://corsaguitars.com/from-little-dog-to-dingo/ since it's the prototype of a line he's presumably going to release at some point. Apparently there's a swamp ash proto 2 out there that sounds a bit more like a Tele.

I didn’t want to use just a P90 on the guitar. Many Junior owners from back in the day switched to a humbucker, not only to get rid of the 60 cycle hum, but to get a little more juice out of their guitars. So I wanted to do the same. But, I was after even more. I thought about doing a coil split, but I’ve never liked the sound of a split humbucker. 4K is just too weak for my taste. Then I had the thought, why not wire one of the coils at 6K and the other at 2K, giving average humbucker total output of 8K? I would then split to the higher output coil. 6K is decent. Not as strong as the typical P90, but in Strat and Tele single coil territory. So, from that the Manalishi “SplitBucker” was born.

Being the Peter Green tone freak that I am, of course I was disappointed that this new creation couldn’t be out of phase with only one pickup. I discussed this with someone and I was told about the “cocked wah” tone. This made sense to me because way back in the day, before I learned how to do the “PG Mod,” it was possible to simulate the out of phase tone by finding a sweet spot on a Wah Wah pedal. I found a schematic showing how to wire two different caps on a push-pull to get the cocked wah tone. This schematic was using a .0047 cap for the cocked wah, so I wired up a push-pull with a .022 for normal tone, and a .0047 for cocked wah. It had the”quacky” tone, but it was much too bassy sounding. I tested a bunch of different value caps and decided that .0027 was best.

The first Little Dog proto I made was just remarkable and so much better than I thought it would be. Resonance and sustain were off the charts – reminiscent of a great sounding 335. The tones I could get from the single pickup were incredible, thanks to the decent split and the cocked wah. So much goodness from one pickup! Between the two Protos, regular Little Dogs and Little Dog Customs I made and sold, my customers raved about them. Most had the same great feeling about them that I did.

I then decided this stuff was so good, it made sense to make dual pickup variations using the same body construction as the Little Dog. Having the success of the higher output coil splitting, thanks to the SplitBucker, it made sense to use them on the new two pickup guitars. And, since the cocked wah is such a cool little trick, I carried that over as well. Phase changing was also added, and this whole wiring scheme is what I dubbed, “Mass.Effect.” Four 500K push-pulls to control everything in a smart and intuitive combination.

One surprising and very welcome thing happened. I was really happy because with the two pickups I could have true out of phase. But, activating the cocked wah cap while out of phase added a lot to the tone! It makes for a much beefier sounding out of phase. Not that this is true to Peter Green’s screeching out of phase, which is important and doable. “Cocked Wah Out of Phase” just adds a whole new dimension to it, if that’s what you want.

So, from the Little Dog, “The Pack” grew to include the Big Dog and Fury models. So satisfying tonally that I wanted this to be my main focus going forward. At the risk of shooting myself in the foot, when it comes to tone, there’s nothing that can touch these guitars, including my own carved top models, in my opinion. If a player absolutely must have a LP style guitar, of course the Manalishi is the only choice, if tone is the most important factor.

Now, onto the…



The Dingo will be the next offering in “The Pack.” I made this Prototype with the same body construction as the other Pack models, chambered mahogany body with 1/4″ maple top, but with a bolt on maple neck. Using a standard Fender Tele neck pickup and a Manalishi SplitBucker at the bridge, the pots are master volume and master tone on push-pulls. The volume push-pull splits the Splitbucker and the tone push-pull is set up for “cocked wah.” On this one, it is wired permanently out of phase in the middle position of the typical Tele style 3-way switch. It has the typical massive resonance and sustain of it’s siblings.

I’m in the process of making a second prototype, this time using a chambered swamp ash body with 1/4″ maple top. This time, though, for the electronics I’m going to try doing phase change on the tone push-pull, which would make it possible to be more “Tele like” when in phase with the switch in the middle position. The out of phase tone on the first prototype is sweet, so I’m thinking having this option is probably more useful than having the tone pot do cocked wah. We shall see!

Once the 2nd Proto is done I will compare and see which of the body woods, mahogany or swamp ash, sounds closer to a Tele. As soon as I have the time, I’ll make a post a video of the 1st Prototype. In any event, I think the Dingo will be an important addition to “The Pack!”

"Perhaps a dingo ate your' baby."
Thats from something.

I recall it's from a case in Australia where a mother told authorities "A dingo ate my baby". Of course, they didn't all believe here until they found the body quite a long time later.

I guess I'll just admire the nice guitar.

So am I the only one wondering when preorders and production start? That guitar looks and is spec'd like a perfect model for me...

bleys21 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 1:38 pm So am I the only one wondering when preorders and production start? That guitar looks and is spec'd like a perfect model for me...

I was considering asking just out of curiosity. I haven't seen a new Corsa in a while.

I guess I should add that I'm still waiting for the shop to ship this. I thought shops would ship as fast as I do. Apparently not.

Bolt on neck.
Shite sustain



I'm joking of course.......It's what I do.....

That is one bad-a__ lookin' guitar. That tele pickup looks sharp .Thanks for the review.

Someone PM me when the double cut version with a neck P90 is available.

Bought it on Friday. They shipped in Monday afternoon/evening. Still waiting for it. UPS delayed shipment another day. Presumably because of the weather.

Got it. It was described as mint condition in the posting. It's so far from mint that I'm tempted to name and shame. I'm pissed. It's hard for me to see how this could be an oversight. How can one take pictures that good and then conveniently not take any pictures of the defects and scratches.

golem wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 3:28 pm Got it. It was described as mint condition in the posting. It's so far from mint that I'm tempted to name and shame. I'm pissed. It's hard for me to see how this could be an oversight. How can one take pictures that good and then conveniently not take any pictures of the defects and scratches.

Humans suck!

They accepted a return and apologized. But I'm still just shaking my head that any music shop could have thousands of reviews and not have noticed issues like that.

Getting misrepresented gear sucks. I don't even consider buying unless they state a condition like mint, like new, great, excellent, etc. It's too easy to hide issues in photos. Even when they're not hidden, sometimes it's hard to see them for poor quality pictures. Even worse is when they claim to have not known the instrument had issues - how do they not know?