On the pickup I have they are red and white wires currently soldered together. Yes, that is correct (easy) wiring to achieve split-coil. When you engage a coil split, you are sending two coil to ground at their finish lead. This makes one coil 'Hot' start + 'Ground' finish (all the signal passes th...

Before proceeding full into dabbler process (which is solid), identify the associated color pairs of each of the two humbucker coils. Since Donlis is a generic Chinese manufacturer and has no problem making exact copies, I'd venture they utilized either Duncan's or DiMarzio's color codes. Using a DM...

Didn't you already have the ASABI? I thought you brought one over once.

You sure hit the deals! With the economy the way it is, do you feel good deal at pawn shops will begin to make a resurgence? That's a tough call. There's a lot of variables to factor in, including: *Large segments of the population are desperate and willing to pawn non essentials in exchange for th...

You sure hit the deals!

With the economy the way it is, do you feel good deal at pawn shops will begin to make a resurgence?

@andrewsrea I feel like I told you about that and the coin trick years and years back. I can see you're using the vibramate spoiler I got you as well. Reverend used to use Duesenberg trems but had a supply issue, figured out some tricks with the Bigsby using the springs that addressed their dislike...

What a difference a $10 spring makes. Replaced my stock Bigsby tremolo spring with a Reverend Soft Touch Spring that golem recommended (thank you Chandler). I thought for sure a lower tension spring would create a tradeoff in tuning and bending stability. I was wrong. Not sure how they did it, but i...

That is quite the score!

A definite upvote for 'caveat emptor.'

Are you sure the body isn't ash wood? I have a 2006 alder American Standard from the same factory (bathtub rout) and its grain is much tighter and less figured.

I have a vivid recollection of being at a general admission show at the Utica Memorial Auditorium around 1987 on a stop of Poison’s "Look What the Cat Dragged In Tour." They may have been opening for David Lee Roth on the Eat Em'and Smile Tour. I was right at the very front, pressed again...

1. Your closing statement helps me better understand your mad electronics skillz. 2. To what do you attribute, then, the Marshal user perception? 1.) Thank you for the compliment. Pretty much from 1985 to 2000, I was program management & finance aerospace guy by day, repairman / session player ...

I saw an interview with the guitarist from Warrant (80's hair band) and then followed up with and interview with Poison's (another hairband) CC. DeVille and sure enough, he is perceived to be a Marshall user, but primarily uses solid state Crate amplifiers. Having spent a decade or two being a STL M...

I have literally seen hundreds, if not thousands of resumes over 35 years and you have a great start. Some recommendations: - Trim down the bullet points, put them on a side check list for yourself and make sure those attributes stand out in your experience descriptions. Stay clear of descriptors wi...

Very cool conversion and that is a gargantuan variable load resistor! What in the world did that come out of? [/quote] Flea market at the old drive in movie theater . Garden drive-in, Hunlock creek, next to the Susquehanna river, RT 29. Seller had a lot of electronic stuff they had no idea what it ...

2 amp pcb eyelet boards from Hoffmans EL34 world. First a tweed princeton 5F2a, second a similar style amp with a el84 output and slightly different circuitry, Kalamazoo model 1. 2 inputs but join-able. They should sound close but i am hoping different enough to make a nice full sound. Going to be ...

HNGD!

Harm 1's are IMHO, Rondo's GOAT. No rationale needed for having a spare variant. I do like the knobs on your original, as i never bonded with the Fender Tele types and also replaced them on mine.

One of the times I saw Robben live, he was playing a red knob Twin! I've repaired a few Evil Twins and their head counter part, the red-knob Showmans. Riveria designed. Most underrated and affordable amps out there. The only down side is their complicated switching jacks got brittle and were at one...

FWIW, I have heard Robben play through what I assume was a rented backline twice, both standard Fenders, and both time's he sounded fantastic. Like Robben, if not even better than normal. And if you haven't heard him play acoustic, well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_eKxaxHc6c Robben is truly...

Got to watch it and it was a good video. IMHO, the takeaway was player 'feel' in the room. Like Tonray's Ghost said, after YouTube processing, it sounded like a nice Fender BF when clean and like you stomped on a Big Muff Ram's Head with the gain at 10 o'clock when overdriven. I've copied some of th...

I want to watch this episode, but haven't' found the time to devote over an hour. TPS videos can tend to be too long.

I think I would be interested in hearing / learning of the sonic differences of a multi-scale length guitar. That said, I could never see such a thing in regular rotation for my style of playing.

Nice score!

Can't go wrong with a Harm1. is that a Jazzmaster type baritone?

I'm not close to being a guru, just used a lot of gear over decades, so take with a lump of salt... You're not likely going to get a very good line level match between a line out and an effects return, but you're also not going to blow anything up. If you can control the level of the line out from ...

tonebender wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 8:52 am I just read the back story, or what is suppose to be the truth, about why Gibson destroyed all those guitars. Interesting to say the least.

Wasn't it an insurance payout, where they did not want the guitars resurfacing on the market?

Happy NGBD!

Looks cool and great color!

Try a drop of machine oil or teflon tuner lube on the creaky part of the string shaft. Then put on an old set of strings and drive your family crazy by working the vibrato bar while you watch TV. Sometimes these glitches wear themselves in.

An amplifier that 'got away' from me, was a Marshall small-head 2553 Silver Jubilee 50w. Well, I decided to build my own starting with an Alexander Jubilee clone PCB (which is really just a modified Guv'nor pedal). My mods include 50w / 100w mode (like the real amp) with a bi-color LED to indicate o...