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Don't use rechargeable batteries. The voltage is neither high enough initially nor consistent enough to get quality sound. Unplug the guitar every time you put it back on the stand and you should get MONTHS out of a 9 volt.

NOS radio tubes aren't too hard to find if you know where to look. Lot of hams out there with boat anchor tubes from back in the day. Find yourself a good tech that can bias the beast and look over the circuits for leaking caps, crumbling insulation/shorts, and failed pots.

Three letters: BFG

Some guitars deserve to be relics. This is one of them. Make it sound and play awesome, but leave the beat-to-hell look.

I'd use a 250k to 300k volume pot to warm it up a bit. Wiring straight to an output jack and going straight across the 1 Meg ohm input on the amp is going to sound very bright with that Evo.

It will be a pure white finish. I sprayed a coat today, and got contamination again... how this happens with basecoat, i will never know. gott sand off the white and try again.

Any kind of silicone or other chemical residue either on the piece or you will cause contamination. Try not wearing deodorant/antiperspirant and wipe the body down with alcohol to remove contaminants.

Its ok. i definitely think it could have been done alot better, and definitely longer, especially with someone as reclusive as jimmy paige.

The deleted scenes add almost another hour to the movie. Mostly the guys jamming out on acoustics and Jack White showing The Edge and Page how to play "Seven Nation Army" with the Whammy pedal.

Seriously, though, I wanted to slap the hell out of White for the mini-me thing with the "Young Jack White" he toted around like a doll. The Edge going through old four-tracks and Page touring their old recording house was pretty awesome.

You could draw a tracing of the pickguard with pickup routes and send it to WD for a custom pickguard. You could also go the easier route and just install an onboard preamp/EQ from EMG, Bartolini, or Seymour Duncan. The stock Super Ferrites aren't bad sounding pickups and would probably benefit greatly from onboard electronics. Put some effort into shielding the body and the noise will go down too.

Another option would be to build your own pickups or see if Duncan would build some for you. You could also use the EMG 40 case pickups. You would only have to widen the routes by 1/8 inch on either side for those.

Rest of the items are now on eBay.

Sure, as long as it fits. Stock and replacement bass pickups tend to vary greatly in size.

Eric Johnson, Cliffs of Dover or anything by Satch live.

Here is a place to get the 6 x 19 mm bearings when yours fail

http://stores.ebay.com/VXB-Bearings-Skateb...p;submit=Search

Neato. They're already making noise and I haven't used it that much yet. It is what it is, a hobby tool. If you're going to make a mountain of guitars or other stuff on a weekly basis, go with the big Jet stuff or buy an overarm pin router. Better yet, invest in a full CNC mill so you can also carve your bridges out of pure billet unobtanium

Would anyone be willing to build me a neck-thru for under $80? It will be for my first build. Nothing crazy, just something like maple/rosewood.

Heck, I don't care if it's from some of your scrap wood!

I do not have the means to build my own neck....and I don't have enough money to buy one from carvin or stew mac.

If you are interested, post here or pm I suppose.

Thanks in advance.

Look around online and you'll find cheap bolt-on necks all over the place, like GuitarFetish and Brian usually has some on his site.

You're welcome! Enjoy.

Old thread, but I'll revive it.

I've used a Boss GT-3 for years in a church setting. I run the output to a direct box going to the PA and use the high-z output on the direct box to my amp for a personal monitor. I can put the processor into manual mode and use the patch switches as individual on/off switches for the individual effects for a given patch. I believe all Boss units are capable of that. I've had the unit for nine years and never had any issues with it. I've seen a lot of friends' DigiTech and Zoom units fail over the last decade, but my Boss just works. Good Roland stuff. Adding stuff like a drum machine would be trick, but I don't see the use in that for a piece of gigging equipment.

Use a quality processor going into the effects loop, turn off the preamp/speaker simulator settings for the patches you use. Individual pedals are good for recording and spending large sums of money, but hardly worth the trouble tracking down dead batteries and bad patch cables during a gig.

I have one of these 10 inch bandsaws. It's not bad for what it is--a hobby tool. You cannot run an 1/8 inch blade on it, 3/16 minimum or the blade hops off. It works fine for cutting hardwood as long as you take it slow and make sure the blade guide is adjusted down to the workpiece. The only thing I really don't like about it is that you can only get blades from Sears at that size.

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This is good stuff, especially the Alnico II Pro! You won't find an uncovered model for less than $80 brand new. I'm open to reasonable offers!

Given the overall quality of the piece, I'd say leave the animals alone. The grain pattern and such are pretty fugly, so scraping the gazelles off the back is more trouble than it's worth unless you paint the guitar.

Nice flea market score.

Would have been better if he would have been like "check this out" or something and launched into it.

That's pretty much how it aired on TV. I think he probably sent the whole video in and they edited it down to the cool part.

Gees...that is seven minutes of my life I won't get back...

What.a.nerd

Yeah, I guess it is a little long. They had substantially reduced the length of his video when they aired it Make TV. Just aired the 'Seek and Destroy' part.

This guy figured out how to connect his guitar to a Tesla coil, and plays a little Seek and Destroy. Feast your eyes:

I bet it'll sound good. I had an Alnico II Pro bridge in the neck and a '59 in the bridge of my LP for a while and it sounded fine. The bridge version of the PG will probably keep you from having too much of a volume drop when switching between the two.

I dig it. Very Steiny. The knots look like pepperoni.

If they're the usual petty trash that I wind up representing, they've pawned or traded 'em for drugs. Ride around to all of the local shops, the shadier the better. If you find your stuff, call the police or sheriff and redeem your property. Don't be bullied into giving the pawn shop any money to get your stuff back. It's your property and they received it after it was stolen. The police will probably just take pictures of it and give it back to you anyway.

That's too bad about the Tang Top. I remember when you built it and that's probably my favorite one out of all you've done.

To throw a bit of gasoline on the "MDF used in guitars" debate:

Over at the telecaster forum there were a guy posting a soundclip from his newly finished Tele with this "secret body tone wood" and he asked people to guess what wood it was. The sound got raving revues and every tonewood imaginable were mentioned until he revealed the truth: MDF. It was a pretty normal Telecaster sound judging from the sound clips. It could have fooled me.It did...

Here it is:

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaster-disc...sound-clip.html

It has sustain for days.

One more MDF Tele:

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home-depot...ster-build.html

and another:

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaster-disc...tml#post1000976

You are not alone...

I wouldn't say he got "rave" reviews. People were impressed by the sustain, but almost everyone agreed that there was an extreme lack of TONE. I thought the sound clip sounded terrible, but with an MDF body, cheap pickup, and a POD used to record the clip, my expectations weren't very high anyway.

MDF is good for practice and template making, but I'd never use it on a guitar that I was going to gig or record with.