Got a new P/J pickup set from Epic Custom Shop, which get excellent reviews and are a very close visual match for the pickups that originally came with my Fender Jazz Bass Special (which disappeared somewhere along this guitar's 35-year history). I go to put them in last night, and the P pickup is t...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Agile-Les-Paul-copy-with-Slash-Humbuckers/264787711846?hash=item3da693d766:g:xUAAAOSwaPhfA8DW Ah, $1200 for an Agile LP worth about $350. Steal of a deal :lol: Whoa, that is a dead-on clone of mine with the exception of the zebra pickups. If it weren't for that, I'd think s...

I'm very lucky that my music room is full! GLWTS!

So is this the "default" display scheme, or the only one? I looked around to see if there were other options, but I couldn't find any. I don't mean to seem unappreciative, I just find purple and turquoise on dark gray kind of less readable... REREAD the top post. So is that a "no&quo...

So is this the "default" display scheme, or the only one? I looked around to see if there were other options, but I couldn't find any.

I don't mean to seem unappreciative, I just find purple and turquoise on dark gray kind of less readable...

Do not pay it. They do not have anything on you. The way this scam works is that they buy a list of passwords and email addresses that came from some site that got hacked, then send those emails out to every address on the list, with the password as "proof" that they have something on you....

Nice. I'll have you just skip the irritation with ovations and put a permanent strap on it. The rounded part will keep wanting to slide flat on your leg and drive you crazy. That's what everybody says, but I haven't actually had too much trouble with it. It doesn't sit as nicely as a regular flat-s...

And I had somebody flake out for the second time in a week. Person contacts me about a guitar, seems really excited about it, we go back and forth and make arrangements to meet the next day...that morning they email and say, "Sorry, I can't justify spending the money right now." This after...

Only tangentially related, but back when I had, very briefly, both my Jet City JCA22H and my Orange CR120H, I spent some time out of curiosity seeing if I could get the Orange to sound just like the Jet City with its Soldano-designed preamp. The CR120 is a pretty flexible amp , but there was alway j...

Had a guy contact me about a part. Did not try to haggle. Sounded like a real person. Wanted to meet up real soon. Great! We settled on meeting the next afternoon. 25 minutes before the guy is scheduled to show, he emails and says "sorry can't make it today". Does not suggest another time....

PsychoCid wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:07 am Man that avatar takes me back.

I have an old t-shirt with the logo too! A guy at a store I went into recognized it and commented once, and we laughed about how you have to be of a certain age to even recognize it.

Cleaned up and restrung! I'm not even sure exactly which model this is, although I think it's a 1990s Korean-made instrument. Apparently certain ranges of Ovations had serial numbers that are largely useless for detective work because they followed no pattern and only meant something to the particul...

PsychoCid wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 5:47 pm Sure. Hard wired. There are only two cables from the back of the amp. One goes to the built-in pedal. The other goes to the wall socket. That's it!

Gotcha, thanks! Now that I understand it's hard-wired in, it makes a lot more sense.

PsychoCid wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 9:34 pm the plugs to the speaker are the old fork types like televisions from the 70s

Can we see a picture of that? I've never seen an amp where the speaker connection wasn't either a 1/4" jack or a speakon jack.

After 30 years of playing guitar, I have finally gotten an acoustic - a used Ovation. I'm not even sure of the exact model, but it's one of the multi-hole models with the curved back, which I think makes it a Celebrity. Pictures will follow when I've gotten it cleaned up a bit, since it clearly hasn...

peskypesky wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 3:45 pm I honestly had NO idea that EVH cut his solos together.

To me, that's cheating.

I would say it depends. I'll piece together a solo while I'm composing it. But when it comes time to record the final version, I want to be able to play it all the way through.

I have a bit of a soft spot for those, because an Austin Strat copy was basically how I got back into playing guitar seriously - I had just my SG that I'd had for ages, but I was barely playing it anymore, and then one day I saw an Austin in a junk shop, and I thought "That would be fun for mes...

Ah okay, thanks fellas. Looking closer I notice they have multiple ratings. For example it says 120v input, but 10 watt. So is that still too small for 12 watt amp? With the amp straight into the wall, the volume knob has to stay on 0 to not blow my neighbors away. But if I starve the amps power wi...

Not mine, just posting for the PSA.

Just kinda getting railroaded into it for free (except for 1 out of the last 4 who actually insisted on paying me) because I know how and that's just how people act when you're "the tech guy", I'm not a professional so I don't feel comfortable asking to get paid, but some of these builds ...

Anything can be done with sandpaper, it just may take more time. The good thing about sandpaper is that you can work slowly and precisely enough to ensure that you're not rounding off edges or removing wood or whatever, if you work by hand and not with an orbital or palm sander or whatever, and that...

Last night I put my Jazz Bass Special on the workbench, because I wanted to replace the extremely janky pickup foam and to shield the electronics cavity. Despite my best efforts, I managed to break the leads on BOTH pickups where they attached to the bobbins, because these pickups (some old SD Bassl...

Rollin Hand wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:16 am Well, I had this project started on the old site. I think I got the kit in 2018.

I painted the body white last summer. Hey, I work slow.

I think you may be my good twin. I also got a single-humbucker body that I painted white last summer that is still waiting to be completed...

Yes, I have stripped an Epiphone neck, but it was a bolt-on in my case. It was not easy. The finish they use, at least on their cheaper guitars, is about an eighth of an inch thick and as hard as a rock. I don't know if they're all like that, but I imagine most of them are. I got all the finish off ...

Not worth a pic, but I just got a pair of replacement rubber rings to go on the Sure Grip II speed knobs on my Ibanez bass rebuild. One was missing, and you pay a premium for a set of those complete knobs—lucked out on finding Repro Guitar Parts www.reproguitarparts.com. Good price and very fast re...