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juicy_J: Jun 25, 2004; I.O.U. one gmail invite

The Apathy Party posted:

I just got one of these for my 21st birthday.

It sounds as good as it looks

What is that? The top wood looks interesting.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2006 07:38

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 02:38

juicy_J: Jun 25, 2004; I.O.U. one gmail invite

RizieN posted:

my brother and I just got gibson double neck guitars for christmas, it says les paul on the headstock, but its clearly an SG body, i dont know, it still looks and sounds sick.

Wow! What year? As for the Les Paul on the headstock, the SG body style was orignally just another Les Paul signature model. I'm not sure when and why they started calling them SGs.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2007 02:59

juicy_J: Jun 25, 2004; I.O.U. one gmail invite

Pablo Gigante posted:

What make/model is that hollowbody? It's gorgeous.

Looks like a Washburn HB15.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2007 01:01

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82Daion posted:

Should arrive within the next month or so. It's a 1975 Alembic Series I, owned in a past life by fusion trumpeter Donald Byrd.

That is a beautiful bass. I can't believe someone would disrespect it by stringing it so poorly.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2007 01:21

juicy_J: Jun 25, 2004; I.O.U. one gmail invite

Clicktrack posted:

Check. Out. THIS. Motherfucker!

Back-view (+ hosed up eyes on my part)

Slap Double-Bass. I came up with a design concept and fed it to the painter at alocal shop who specialises in instrument-artwork (i.e. paintjobs etc.) After showing him about 3 square cm of my idea, in his loving genius he made the design in whole.

And I must say I like it.

Just got back from playing it for a show my school puts on to show everyone what the music-students are doing for their final exams. Good fun it was.

Why did you ruin your bass?

# ¿ Aug 22, 2007 16:03

juicy_J: Jun 25, 2004; I.O.U. one gmail invite

GrumbleGrumble posted:

I am completely undeserving of this guitar, but my family has an (awesome) friend with Gibson who helped get me this:

...Which fell over literally seconds before they gave it to me, partially breaking the neck. I'm going to talk to him later, and hopefully we'll have some repair options figured out soon. We took the strings off immediately.

Anyone had any experience with this? My poor baby.

Don't worry, that is a very common break and it should be relatively easy to fix. Just contact a good repairman or luthier.

# ¿ Dec 25, 2007 23:41

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Darth Fungus posted:

My 12 string acoustic has the coolest thing ever. Adjustable bridge height. Its got these two big screws on either side of the bridge that you can turn with just a guitar pick, and you can adjust the action from nice and low for fretting to really high for slide playing. I've never seen this on any other guitar, anyone ever see something like this?

Adjustable acoustic bridges are really common on older cheap guitars. Although handy, they absolutely destroy your tone.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2008 20:56

juicy_J: Jun 25, 2004; I.O.U. one gmail invite

You paid $140 for that? You got ripped off big time.

You could have gotten a brand new GSR200 for $200, and it wouldn't have had a terrible relic job

juicy_J fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Apr 26, 2008

# ¿ Apr 26, 2008 02:36

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Alfa Tard posted:

Only the pickguard and covers are new, but I thought they'd look better than the black on red that was there before. Had to custom order the pickguard so that the screw holes would line up (it's only an '81 but there's no extra holes or routing anywhere). Normally this would have an extra knob and a switch but the preamp is not installed so it's currently wired like a traditional Precision, the holes were cut so that I could add 2 more and the knobs would be in the correct places.

What's with the hosed up tuning machine alignment?

# ¿ May 10, 2008 06:18

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cylyk posted:

CIJ '52RI Telecaster:

It's not that new, but its innards/4 way switch are new. Is it normal to hear a tiny little buzz whenever the guitar is plugged in and the amp is on, and then it goes away if you're touching a metal part of the guitar like the strings? This happens with my mexistrat aswell and I have never fiddled with its insides.

Also, any suggestions for bridge pickup replacements? I have decided that the texas special bridge pickup is kind of lovely.

edit: vvvv fender blues deluxe reissue amp vvvv

if it fries me to death I leave all my guitars to whoever finds my corpse

Yeah, all single coils will normally buzz a little.

# ¿ May 10, 2008 07:37

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Alfa Tard posted:

hosed up alignment? You mean why aren't they turned the same way for the picture or am I missing something?

Well it seems like the shaft for the low E tuner is not properly aligned with the rest of the tuners. It may just be the angle of the picture, or you might have gotten a counterfeit Fender. The finish seems a bit suspect as well (looks like orange peel).

# ¿ May 12, 2008 02:01

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Dragon Eye Morrison posted:

It looks perfectly fine to me.

Well maybe I'm blind then. And I do trust your word since you're the only other luthier/tech around here.

# ¿ May 12, 2008 02:48

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Synonamess Botch posted:

Yeah, it would probably solve most of your tuning problems.

The floating tremolo is most likely the cause of tuning problems, especially since Fender usually doesn't set it up right.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2008 00:15

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ZombiePeanut posted:

I doubt it would even make it faster at all considering how I tend to do my strings. I just pull it taut through, wrap around and crimp it over with pliers. The only string that ends up going around the peghead more than once is usually the high e.

Unless you're using staggered locking tuners this is not the correct way to string a guitar.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2008 18:08

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ZombiePeanut posted:

The pickup cover doesn't affect tone in any meaningful way unless it's so cheap that it's made out of something that is actually interfering with the magnetic field. It's more likely that the pickups are just crap. Something has to give with cheap guitars.

Metal pickup covers create capacitance, and thus take some "bite" out of the tone.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2008 13:56

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Carbohydrates posted:

Check it out, previous owner put a graphite nut on it. As much as I like Gibsons, those stock plastic nuts they use are horrible, horrible garbage, and I'm glad the previous owner knew this, too.

Gibson uses bone nuts.

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 02:38

juicy_J: Jun 25, 2004; I.O.U. one gmail invite

Side Effects posted:

Nope, they use corian.

When did they switch?

# ¿ Aug 10, 2009 17:32

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