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...

I bought my first PRS (1992 pre-factory CE24 with HSC, below) from Sam Ash in Cherry Hill, NJ. I remember the tag being $1,100 and the store manager exempting sales tax by logging in the guitar as a mail order since I was from PA at the time. The price was about $200 lower that other stores and the ...

I tried a few origins, one which @golem had and they are not my cup of tea. Good amps mind you, but having worked on plexis and steel-fronts, the genuine sound includes punishing the speakers.

The second Headfirst mod sounded better, IMHO, than a stock Origin.

HNGD!

Update: He left me negative feedback on The Gear Page yesterday at 4:30 PM. It's slightly less than 3 months since the transaction. He has my cell phone number and never called me about it or texted me an update so I can only assume the shop probably got back to him yesterday and told him something...

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HNCD!

By the way, how are you going to repair the hole? I am leaning towards the JB Weld 8217 method, since the surrounding steel is rust free and the hole is literally pin sized. I'd be afraid to try a screw, as I do not know the tank's steel composition. If the screw I use was a dissimilar metal, it wo...

You can't make this stuff up. I have an expensive 10500-watt back-up generator for when the power goes out (note that my power has not gone out long enough to use it in ten years). The gas tank sprung a leak and I was expecting to find that it rusted. When I took it apart to begin the repair or repl...

I feel like I'm going to explain it poorly, but Mike had a side project that he thought called for a more Gretsch like guitar. He bought this and a Richard Fortus, who I think he knows, signature Gretsch. I'm not surprised to hear that he prefers the Gretsch as it has higher output pickups I was at...

golem wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:53 am Mike.

Odd that Mike would by that guitar.

Cool on the amp! It has a few of the mods that I do, with negative feedback. It also has a mod toswitch it to Class A output (Tweed Champ) from a 15w (Tweed Deluxe).

golem wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:09 am

Buying one of these. @andrewsrea knows the seller as he's local and he now goes to Rob for a lot of his amp and guitar work (thanks to me!). Pretty sure I got a price I won't lose my ass on if I need to sell.

Hennig?

@andrewsrea can attest that I briefly had one of these (an original one). Probably because of age the finish was a bit more subdued than this. It wasn't the greatest guitar but it wasn't absolutely horrible either. The finish aged on yours and was actually 'cowboy cool,' IMHO. If I recall, it was h...

Half the time, they were like playing a luan door.

RIP Mr. Betts. I enjoyed your music.