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by tobijohn
Sat Sep 14, 2024 11:49 pm
Forum: Projects You're Working On
Topic: New neck for my Harley Benton Cabronita style tele
Replies: 4
Views: 213

Re: New neck for my Harley Benton Cabronita style tele

...probably into a storage box at this point, maybe put it on my old Douglas body I got from Rondo that I had converted into a Nashville tele and have since left sitting without a neck. Same body as this one.douglas.JPG I was not a big fan of the reverse headstock either and swapped it with a membe...
by tobijohn
Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:13 am
Forum: The Water Cooler
Topic: Gibson ES-120t
Replies: 3
Views: 155

Re: Gibson ES-120t

FWIW, $150 in 1961 is the equivalent of $1578 today. And not to be a buzzkill but $150 worth of the S&P 500 in 1961 adjusted for inflation would be worth $7657 today...
by tobijohn
Wed Sep 04, 2024 6:44 pm
Forum: Deals On The Web
Topic: Lefty SX ISIS
Replies: 2
Views: 188

Re: Lefty SX ISIS

That is a good deal, but I've already got one too....
by tobijohn
Wed Sep 04, 2024 2:06 am
Forum: Projects You're Working On
Topic: New neck for my Harley Benton Cabronita style tele
Replies: 4
Views: 213

Re: New neck for my Harley Benton Cabronita style tele

Do you have any plans for the original neck?
by tobijohn
Sun Sep 01, 2024 7:41 pm
Forum: Projects You're Working On
Topic: Buddha's mod projects
Replies: 208
Views: 23145

Re: Buddha's mod projects

I wish they had phone cameras back then too as I don't have pics of any of them but it's quite a list. I might forget a few but this is the rondo ones I can remember. Agile 3000 p90 tobacco burst Agile 3000 hsbf Agile 3100 rootbeer Agile 3100 spalted Agile 3100 tribal green Agile 2800 silverburst A...
by tobijohn
Sun Sep 01, 2024 2:49 pm
Forum: Projects You're Working On
Topic: Buddha's mod projects
Replies: 208
Views: 23145

Re: Buddha's mod projects

Buddha Pickups wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2024 9:34 am ...I've sold so many I wish I still had ...
I wish I could say that. Unfortunately, I've still got just about all that I've ever bought.... :oops:
by tobijohn
Sat Aug 31, 2024 3:52 pm
Forum: The Water Cooler
Topic: Is it just me , or was AGF down for most of the past 24 hours?
Replies: 6
Views: 295

Re: Is it just me , or was AGF down for most of the past 24 hours?

It seems it went down sometime after 10am, I contacted Patrick a few hours later when I tried to log in, he contacted the hosting company immediately but they took their sweet time getting the issue resolved
by tobijohn
Sun Aug 18, 2024 2:35 am
Forum: Projects You're Working On
Topic: Buddha's mod projects
Replies: 208
Views: 23145

Re: Buddha's mod projects

Looks like a SX FURRIAN RN ALDER HH TBR . I have one, too, but with a maple fretboard! I've got the Hadean version in Antique White with a maple fretboard. I upgraded the wiring harness and swapped in a set of Schecter Super Rock pickups which have the same offset screw pattern as the Fender Extend...
by tobijohn
Wed Aug 14, 2024 8:57 pm
Forum: Projects You're Working On
Topic: Buddha's mod projects
Replies: 208
Views: 23145

Re: Buddha's mod projects

Buddha Pickups wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2024 7:15 pm

I'll be in FL this November for disney. Election week. Hoping to avoid either direction it goes ruining my week.
How long will you be down here?
by tobijohn
Wed Aug 14, 2024 6:57 pm
Forum: Projects You're Working On
Topic: Buddha's mod projects
Replies: 208
Views: 23145

Re: Buddha's mod projects

I'm pretty much doing this thread for me and you at this point 😆 Notice the custom poker chip from our very own awesome Ryan...not sure if he has posted recently or not though It's either my eyes or my monitor but just about all I can make out is that it isn't a standard poker chip. I haven't notic...
by tobijohn
Wed Aug 14, 2024 5:08 pm
Forum: Projects You're Working On
Topic: Buddha's mod projects
Replies: 208
Views: 23145

Re: Buddha's mod projects

It seems a Gotoh bridge is a popular upgrade for you. Are you buying them in bulk? :)
by tobijohn
Sat Aug 10, 2024 2:22 am
Forum: Others Manufacturers And Imports
Topic: Tobi still buying?
Replies: 1
Views: 432

Re: Tobi still buying?

I'm still tracking what's out there but have kind of been off the boil for a while. I've probably bought less than a dozen in the last couple years or so (the most recent was an Agile CSBF AS-1000 a couple months ago). Honesty though, there really hasn't been much that has blown my skirt up. This on...
by tobijohn
Thu Aug 08, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: The Water Cooler
Topic: Shopping for casual headphones... recommendations please!
Replies: 11
Views: 1782

Re: Shopping for casual headphones... recommendations please!

PoodlesAgain wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 7:18 am
I got the ATH-M30x, and am pleased with it!
Same here...
by tobijohn
Sat Aug 03, 2024 2:04 am
Forum: Deals On The Web
Topic: Agile 3100 baby blue with case on ebay
Replies: 1
Views: 801

Re: Agile 3100 baby blue with case on ebay

I remember those. It was a one lot deal, probably no more than six in inventory and probably only four....
by tobijohn
Fri Aug 02, 2024 10:35 am
Forum: The Water Cooler
Topic: Submitted For Your Amusement
Replies: 4
Views: 1035

Re: Submitted For Your Amusement

Any idea what that fretboard is about?
by tobijohn
Thu Aug 01, 2024 10:36 pm
Forum: The Water Cooler
Topic: Won't be selling via Reverb Local pickup again
Replies: 5
Views: 1127

Re: Won't be selling via Reverb Local pickup again

honyock wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 8:54 pm
tobijohn wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 6:02 pm Just out of curiosity, what kind of a guitar was a left-handed rapper interested in?
This bad lad

...Maybe they are starting a left handed collection to rival yours...

Thanks, I'm getting close to the point where I might help them out with that a bit...
by tobijohn
Thu Aug 01, 2024 6:02 pm
Forum: The Water Cooler
Topic: Won't be selling via Reverb Local pickup again
Replies: 5
Views: 1127

Re: Won't be selling via Reverb Local pickup again

Just out of curiosity, what kind of a guitar was a left-handed rapper interested in?
by tobijohn
Tue Jul 30, 2024 11:32 am
Forum: The Water Cooler
Topic: Jeff Beck @ NAMM 1966
Replies: 2
Views: 591

Re: Jeff Beck @ NAMM 1966

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were using those when I saw them playing in a club in the northwest Chicago suburbs around 1976/77 promoting their first album release. Needless to say, it was pretty loud in there...
by tobijohn
Sun Jul 28, 2024 9:34 pm
Forum: Projects You're Working On
Topic: Buddha's mod projects
Replies: 208
Views: 23145

Re: Buddha's mod projects

Jeez, is cranking these out your day job now?
by tobijohn
Sat Jul 27, 2024 5:02 pm
Forum: Others Manufacturers And Imports
Topic: Sawtooth Tele truss rod hex wrench size?
Replies: 2
Views: 596

Re: Sawtooth Tele truss rod hex wrench size?

My Sawtooth Tele has nothing that identifies the model or year of manufacture, but I picked it up about 6-7 years ago and the truss rod nut takes a 4mm internal hex...
by tobijohn
Sat Jul 20, 2024 12:32 am
Forum: The Water Cooler
Topic: I'm Done...selling all my gear cheap
Replies: 4
Views: 823

Re: I'm Done...selling all my gear cheap

Really! She should be in kindergarten, not on a stage...
by tobijohn
Fri Jul 19, 2024 6:33 pm
Forum: The Water Cooler
Topic: Another Reverb scumbag
Replies: 26
Views: 3264

Re: Another Reverb scumbag

Wow. On another forum, there are several Reverb sellers mad that I bought the UV flashlight to expose the repair. One reacted pretty violently as if I was the bad guy invading seller's privacy or something like that. I'm finding this fascinating, but in a bad way now. Did they explain what the logi...
by tobijohn
Thu Jul 11, 2024 4:59 pm
Forum: New Guitar Day
Topic: NGD: Rafferty
Replies: 13
Views: 2402

Re: NGD: Rafferty

Jeez, I completely forgot about this. Are you still looking for case dimensions? I recently got a CSB AL-1000 with a HSC, I'll measure it however you want....
by tobijohn
Tue Jul 09, 2024 6:56 pm
Forum: Agile/SX
Topic: AL 3000 7 ply binding
Replies: 7
Views: 1375

Re: AL 3000 7 ply binding

BatUtilityBelt wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2024 11:32 am My early headstock AL-3000, AL-3001, AL-3500, and recent AD-3200MCC are all bound like that. I'm guessing it's a 3000 series thing. No idea on year.
Same observation here. The AL-3010SEs have the 2/1 binding but everything else that I have in the 3000 series are like yours...
by tobijohn
Mon Jul 08, 2024 10:43 pm
Forum: Projects You're Working On
Topic: Buddha's mod projects
Replies: 208
Views: 23145

Re: Buddha's mod projects

I'm glad I got a 3 pickup sg from Thomann before they switched too Ah, the good old days. I have a V, Explorer, SG, a bound and a couple unbound LPs from back then, all with the Gibson body shapes (or close enough so that Gibson asked them to knock it off). I've also got a couple old semi-hollows t...