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Manky posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyzuzvWme_Y Finally an easy way to play elevator music!
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Manky posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyzuzvWme_Y so it's fingerstyle for babies
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Nov 28, 2014 15:43
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Nov 28, 2014 15:46
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Trans Ecto Satin Cooler
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Nov 28, 2014 15:55
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ThePutty posted:so it's fingerstyle for babies combine with a chordbuddy for true no-skill playing! but idk, i don't think anybody is going to be better with that than they were without it. I mean, I'm stupid because despite only hybrid or finger picking I don't like finger picks and I can't stand having long finger nails. but plain fingers / calluses have lovely attack. so it interests me as a niche solution. id like to see a model for the five string banjo, in fact
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Nov 28, 2014 16:03
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The only thing wrong with that is the bigsby. Ugh, gross.
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Nov 28, 2014 18:14
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I love pick spergs because it makes me feel better for only using jazz iii's Honestly if they made Jazz iii's in exotic materials and space age polymers I'd still probably keep using the good old red nylon ones.
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Nov 28, 2014 18:23
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Dirt posted:The only thing wrong with that is the bigsby. Ugh, gross. no actually the whole thing kinda blows
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Nov 28, 2014 19:17
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RE this thing I'm gonna try and build when I get my christmas money from the relatives. http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_electric_guitar_kit_vstyle.htm Would it be worth looking into buying new pick-ups since I'm assuming for 70 quid they won't be very good. If so would it be easy and which ones would be recommended for playing lovely 80s worship metal with occasional OSDM stuff?
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Nov 28, 2014 19:23
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HollisBrown posted:Finally an easy way to play elevator music! might as well just get those finger drumstick thingies tony levin uses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUjXvAPjO5g IronLawnmower posted:RE this thing I'm gonna try and build when I get my christmas money from the relatives. http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_electric_guitar_kit_vstyle.htm artec rail humbuckers would be perfect and shouldn't cost more than like £20 for a set make sure to get ones with the fat rails though like these i have a pair in a lovely ltd sg and they're ridiculously loud Alec Bald Snatch fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Nov 28, 2014 |
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Nov 28, 2014 20:20
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Not the worst SG I've ever seen.
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Nov 28, 2014 20:45
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Spanish Manlove posted:I love pick spergs because it makes me feel better for only using jazz iii's the carbon fiber jazz iii is basically the end stage of pick design
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Nov 28, 2014 20:49
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John Cippolina from The Quicksilver Messenger Service had the best SG, or worst, I can't tell anymore.
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Nov 28, 2014 20:49
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HollisBrown posted:John Cippolina from The Quicksilver Messenger Service had the best SG, or worst, I can't tell anymore. Man, those inlays would probably confuse me. Now I want a neck which just has all the dots in the wrong places but arrows that point to where they should be.
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Nov 28, 2014 20:53
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comes along bort posted:the carbon fiber jazz iii is basically the end stage of pick design How flexible are they because you're starting to bust down an autism floodgate.
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Nov 28, 2014 21:06
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sout posted:Man, those inlays would probably confuse me. Now I want a neck which just has all the dots in the wrong places but arrows that point to where they should be. Put down a double dot on the eighth fret, pointing at nine and seven? I can see it.
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Nov 28, 2014 21:16
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That Scott whateverhisname is youtube guy is my favorite. I like to pretend he was orphaned by his parents at a Stone's concert or something and some roadie took him in. Living in and out of an empty amp case and that's why he is the way he is. I would totally buy the ugly Les Paul but not for $600. Mostly because I would trash the hell out of it and $600 is double what I usually prefer to spend. If it was an Epiphone at Epi prices I would be all over it. Also, I would *seriously* be willing to drop $125 on a Chinese SG kit just to make the ChestG but, I live with 4 females with a range of age of 2.5 to 33. I'm pretty sure me making that in full view of them would break some law.
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Nov 28, 2014 21:43
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make it then sew a little shirt with the most gaudy 80s fabric to cover it up while remaining in spirit to the guitar. leave enough buttons undone to expose the pickup hair
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Nov 28, 2014 21:53
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new Fender customer shop model... RELIC ALERT seems it's no longer enough to just make a brand new guitar look 30+ years old. Now they are making a brand new guitar look 30+ years old, with an amateur respray maybe 10 of those imaginary years ago?  click the link if you wanna see the price but I'm sure you can guess http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/electric_guitars_detail.asp?stock=14111910065539 sout posted:Now I want a neck which just has all the dots in the wrong places but arrows that point to where they should be.
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Nov 28, 2014 22:08
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 You rolled a three, go down 10 frets!
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Nov 28, 2014 22:13
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Spanish Manlove posted:How flexible are they because you're starting to bust down an autism floodgate. stiff as a board
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Nov 28, 2014 22:34
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Fair Hallion posted:that's brilliant. Surely a worthy addition to the goontar (but unlikely, are you using a pre-made neck WDE ? ) Yea I am, no reason I can't put in some horrible mismatched dots though.
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Nov 28, 2014 22:44
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Fair Hallion posted:new Fender customer shop model... RELIC ALERT Actually, it was pretty frequent of them to respray bad sunburst at the factory or in the early sixties when the sunburst wouldn't sell, they called them back and resprayed them. This is why you find "<sixties fender color> over sunburst" strats. edit: but you never see the sunburst that exposed, this is more like it: 
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Nov 28, 2014 23:12
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Olivil posted:Actually, it was pretty frequent of them to respray bad sunburst at the factory or in the early sixties when the sunburst wouldn't sell, they called them back and resprayed them. aaaaah I see. So it's just possible that such a 60s strat, played for decades, could end up actually looking a bit like that... makes a bit more sense. except for the knobs. Those are some stark white new lookin knobs on that, FCS
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Nov 28, 2014 23:20
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Yeah relics are stupid music poo poo nonetheless
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comes along bort posted:stiff as a board they're good
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comes along bort posted:stiff as a board hmm, I like them to have a tiny bit of flex, but I'll look for them.
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Fair Hallion posted:new Fender customer shop model... RELIC ALERT lmfao
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Spanish Manlove posted:I love pick spergs because it makes me feel better for only using jazz iii's Jazz II red! 
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Now that thanksgiving's over I can post some blurry Chickenbacker pictures. Disclaimer: I've never owned a bass, will probably just use it for Rocksmith, and have hardly played much guitar in the last 15 years. Anything I ever actually record with it will probably just be some downtuned layers of noise, so someone else can provide a more informative review. Basically I'm happy although I know I could have spent the money more wisely. The green sparkle finish makes it worth it  Soundwise I don't even know, it worked with Rocksmith and seemed to stay in tune after pounding the strings for a while. As seen in my ghetto post office   The frets and markers seem fine, I won't be slicing my fingers on sharp edges at least.   Here's where the most noticeable problems lie. The nut is looking pretty lovely, all crooked with the truss rod cover pushed up on it. If I ever bother to get it set up I'll have to have something done about it.  And the headstock has a couple dips in the surface that aren't very deep but catch in the light.  Also it seemed like everything on my wishlist went on sale within a few weeks so if you're considering buying something from aliexpress maybe wait a bit and there's a good chance of saving a few bucks.
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Snowy posted:
That's pretty much all that matters when you're buying a no-brand guitar.
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My main playability issue was the second fret being too high on one side, so I had to sand it down without proper fretwork tools. Need to send photos of the main issues to the seller so I can get a refund. That nut is awful, not sure how you can gently caress it up that badly but oh well. WDE, can I pick your brain again? We discussed potting pickups ages ago and I had a shot at it last night for reasons I'll write up a gigantic post with pictures and so on about later, but how do you stop wax pouring out of covered pickups when you want to fill them with it to completely stop microphonics etc? I managed to find my own way to do it but it's far from ideal. Nostalgic Pushead fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Nov 29, 2014 |
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Nostalgic Pushead posted:Need to send photos of the main issues to the seller so I can get a refund. Have you done that before? Maybe I should send some pictures of my tilted nut to try to get some money back. I just figured it was a crapshoot but maybe it's worth it to bitch a little.
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Snowy posted:Have you done that before? Maybe I should send some pictures of my tilted nut to try to get some money back. I just figured it was a crapshoot but maybe it's worth it to bitch a little. No, but this guy seems receptive. My biggest issue was the wrong body wood though which should basically guarantee it. If you're not planning on placing a tonne of purchases you probably don't have much to lose, and that nut is pretty egregious so you probably could get something, maybe enough to fix it depending how much work it is or w/e. e: I also managed to slice my index finger while working on this pickup so now I can't really play for a couple of days. I'm really good at this. Nostalgic Pushead fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Nov 29, 2014 |
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Nostalgic Pushead posted:how do you stop wax pouring out of covered pickups when you want to fill them with it to completely stop microphonics etc? I managed to find my own way to do it but it's far from ideal. If not, I don't know. If so, I've done this and it worked: Lower the adjustable pole pieces until they are below the pickup cover. Tape over the exposed holes with masking tape. I heated up Gulf wax in a pyrex bowl over a pot of hot water and monitored the temp very closely with my digital cooking thermometer, as temps around 155F and up can melt the plastic bobbins inside the cover and ruin the pickup. Some people add some beeswax (easily obtained from a beeswax candle) to keep the wax moister longer (so it doesn't dry out and get microphonic as soon over time) but I read an article about Lindy Fralin and how he has stopped using it. The article is here. Once the wax is melted (actually all of this is in the article I just linked) I suspended the pickup in the wax until the last of the air bubbles work themselves out. It can take quite awhile. I helped the process along by tilting the pickup several times.  It was a little nerve-wracking the first time because the wax temp tried to run away on me more than once. I had to babysit it and stare at the thermometer constantly and react to any creep upwards in temp. I aimed for 135F but once it started creeping up a reduction in heat wouldn't stop the temp going up for quite awhile. I almost had to abort a couple times until I got the hang of my particular heat source. Removed the pickup and placed it on newspaper to cool overnight, did the other one and set it down next to the first. Next day, I removed the tape, raised the pole pieces back up, and started wiping away the wax from the cover. Cleaning the wax off is a pain but it's not so bad. I had to do the bridge pickup twice before I got it right. That was fun, wiring all those tiny connections to the push/pull switch. Hi, microphonic feedback. You're still here. De-soldering all those connections and doing it again. Wiring all those connections back to the push/pull switch. Ugh. But no more microphonic feedback, problem solved. Only cost me a few bucks for a pound of paraffin and a lot of time. I'd be a lot more confident next time I wanted to do it.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Do the covers have holes to allow adjustable (screw) pole-pieces to be raised/lowered? Thanks for that. I tried masking tape but it came off in the wax, but I might not have had the pole pieces low enough.. I think a lot of my problem aside from that was that the container I was using was a tin can and not large enough to place the pickup upside down. I can always redo it later if this hasn't fixed the problem. I didn't have a thermometer on hand (I know, I'm the worst), but I was using a slow cooker with a double boiler set up so the temperature was pretty steady throughout - the first one I did has some plastic that would melt well before the bobbin and that had no issues at all. Might have something to do with the mix of candles and wax melts I used (have trouble finding paraffin here and had a lot of candles lying around), as some of them have a lower melting point than regular paraffin. As for fralin, if beeswax darkens your tone then I'm sure the honey and vanilla scent of the wax mixture I ended up with will make mine kind of generic but with sweet highs, gooey mids and syrupy lows. e: uurghh it was working, and then I moved the capacitors for the 50's wiring to between the two pots rather than connecting them with a wire and the soldering the cap to ground, first the bridge pickup stopped working and then the neck pickup also stopped without provocation. Arhghghghghghghghgh Nostalgic Pushead fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Nov 29, 2014 |
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Hey, you're good. This is how pretty much all of us learn this poo poo. By setting out bravely to attempt something we haven't done before, loving it up somewhere between "moderately" and "beyond repair," then backtracking and figuring out what we did wrong. Hell, I've put new electronics in a ton of guitars, mine and those belonging to my friends, and I often still approach each one trying to remember how to read my wiring diagrams and decoding what color wire is which wire based on the manufacturer. I rarely get anything right on the first try, because I just don't do it often enough to keep it fresh in my mind. From your post I'd say your #1 issue is not having the pickup up-side down. Also, I happened to have a roll of very wide masking tape which nearly covered the entire surface of that nickel cover with one piece. It didn't go anywhere. I bought Gulf Wax paraffin from the canning section of a grocery store. I bought the thermometer because I wanted to eat chicken breasts that were baked just to cooked but not dried out. I might have spent as much as $15 for it at WalMart. The pickup was suspended from a couple plastic rods that were taped together and some black thread. It isn't exactly the safest way to do it but it was extremely cheap. To be fair, though, DiMarzio is awesome about this. I asked what it would cost to pot my Eric Johnsons (I bought and installed the covers myself and HELLO SQUEAL) and they said if I paid to ship them they'd do it right for $25 a pickup. That's a pretty good deal. I just figured if a lunkhead like EVH can wind his own pickups (if he's even honest about that) and pot them himself, then I should be able to do it, too. The article just gave me the confidence to try it.
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Anyone recognize this guitar?
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tacodaemon posted:Anyone recognize this guitar? No, I'm too busy recoiling in horror at the rest of the photo.
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