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.

Welcome, Frank!

Very cool! HNGD!!!

Just trying to be neighborly...and oh BTW, the lady next door works for the Immigration police so maybe a good practice anyway....ha ha ha ha Lol. i was lucky in my first house, which was a single home separated by 20 feet. I had a sound-proof basement studio, but occasionally opened the windows on...

I have a friend who is obsessive with being quiet. He lives in an 1800 Sqft single home with his GF, who works from home. He typically plays at 65dB (a conversation, whispering for my Northeast buds). I suggest an experiment I did with him to show his loudness wasn't as much as a nuisance as he thou...

BatUtilityBelt wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:55 am The fretboard radius is 16" across the entire fretboard.

Too flat for me! Thanks for he review!

Tonray's Ghost wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 11:36 am

Rollin Hand wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 11:31 am 2x15? That looks like it also has a horn tweeter the size of Rhode Island.

On closer inspection it may actually be a heat radiator in the old fireplace hearth...an old NYC apartment who knows..ha ha ha

That would be Stroudsburg, PA if Mary Ford is in the picture.

First, Chandler ( golem ), I commend you for your integrity and wanting to keep a spotless reputation. As Partscaster said, the moment a buyer recognizes the item isn't as described and chooses not to send it back fora refund - the item is theirs and they lose all rights to bellyache about the deal,...

tobijohn wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:53 pm I spend an inordinate amount of time at my desk too. What's the make and model? TIA...

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