PaulNeeds

Saw a really interesting TV documentary in the UK a few years back which suggested that Beethoven 'appropriated' many of his thems from French/german/Austrian etc folk tunes. I still think he was a genius though - possibly my favourite, but it's too difficult a call to make for me.

More details on these? bolt-on? set? price?

You got it - it's at http://www2.ebay.com/aw/marketing-uk.shtml#2004-06-07145822 Says that although it takes effect from today, items posted prior to that are ok! Good - glad you'r not going to get crap for it - which was the reason I posted so that you were fore warned, as it were! Good luck with the sale - wish I had that kind of dosh spare!

I understand! I think they'r out to stop people who do it on a regular, business sort of basis. The one I hate is the postage one. Recently paid £20 postage on a leather jacket - the seller paid 4.23 and used an old box. I sent a bleedin' Peavey amp halfway around the UK for £20!

Sure I read you can't surcharge for Paypl any more?

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All depends what you want to do, I suppose. I bought a Squire strat in an emergency. My USA Tele decided to fold in half in the case between gigs, and I ordered a replacement neck. In the meantime, I had to gig, so I went to an Argos chainstore here in the UK and bought one. I still play it - well, the neck anyway! Everything has changed - I think I caught a good neck by some of what I've read about them. Graphtech bridge piezo system, various simple electronic mods, new machines, new logo, and some texas pickups. It's quite nice, even if I say so myself!

Would it melt?!

Only ever snapped two - recently, and they've been on the guitar a LONG time. What I found interesting was that Ireplaced them with brand new elixirs, and the tone between the new and old ones is so similar that I can only hear the difference if I realy try. FWIW I love the sound of new strings - particularly on bass!

2003 PRS CU22 Fender Tele, Fender/Squier Frankenstein Strat being put back together gradually (refinishing headstock right now) - Has a variety of mods including Graph tech Ghost system and fender Texas pups Warwick Buzzard LTD 2003 Bass guitar Yamaha Bass Yamaha electro-acoustic Aria Pro II LC440 (real oldie) Custom-built Explorer Bass (in bits at present) Previously played Ibanez, Guild, Burns, Yamaha, Tanglewood, Rickenbacker, Gibson, Fender, Aria.. plus several I've forgotten because of increasing age and senility.

Still hurts to see it though! I love the story Paul Smith tells of his going onto the factory floor to make a guitar again, and his got cut up cos it doesn't meet QC the expectations! Think it's on the video that those clips are culled from.

Never used one. BUT, I got a kit from Torres amps in the UK for a mid boost/cut circuit that is really good.

Quite a few resonators have completely square necks! Purely for playing with a steel or bottleneck I believe.

Well, I think if this guitar I'm gonna build turns out to be playable, I'll call it a: "Paul Needs Myth". Signature inlaid in Abalone on the headstock, of course!

Bert.

Not tried the acoustic ones, but I love the electric ones. We all have different tastes, i guess!

Try this version...

try turning it down to 0 first.

As long as they don't roast me in a Fender 3-tone sunburst I don't care what it is they shove me in - I won't really be in it anyway! Sorry about your loss mate. Alzheimer's is a bitch of a thing.

back when I started (and I'm not finished yet!!), I used to sit down to deliberately write a song. Lyrics, music, etc. I reckon I must like about 3 or four of the 100+ songs I wrote like that, but some had good hooks or a snippet of lyric, or maybe a chordal or melodic theme that I used elsewhere later. A great tool is a cheap dictaphone to catch little bits and pieces of ideas before they fly off again to whence they came.. These days, I usually find that some 'idea' or phrase will get around to bugging the **** out of my head, I mean it drives me so nuts I cannot take it anymore - and then it has to be written out of my system. This can be either lyrically or musically by the way. I'll find a line cropping up in a solo when I'm gigging or rehearsing. I still consider a lot of what I do naive - even after being at it for some 30 years now. But I kid myself I like it as it has a naive and unspoiled charm...

It's going to be a 6-string this time. I've a terrible tendency to 'pull' backwards on the neck, knocking out the tuning. For instance, I've an old Aria I bought back in about 1980 that is unplayable for me now because it has a thin neck. So it's really a matter of "belt and braces", and should I end up making the neck perhaps too thin, it'll have more rigidity than otherwise and notbe a waste of time.

Well, summer's nearly here, so I can get to work on a couple of projects without filling the house with mahogany and basswood dust! One's a refinish of a strat, possibly with a maple veneer that I got from the wonderful guy at Universal Jems The other, much more ambitious project for me, is this. When I moved here 6 months ago, amidst the ruins left by the previous owners, I found a mantel shelf made of mahogany and claimed to be about 40 years old. I have a notion to use this as the basis of a through neck flying vee - always wanted a vee, never had one. What's more, I've never made a neck of any kind, although I've meddled with the work of others along the way! So, and I know that it's all here somewhere (but my searches have been to no avail), I've a few questions to which I'm hoping some kind soul will humour me by answering. 1. Through neck - they use a normal truss rod, or a longer one? I don't really want to take the fretboard off my warwick buzzard to find out! 2. Carbon fibre neck reinforcement. I've read here that these are well worth having. Now, looking at AlexVDL's great instructions on making an angled headstock... would I insert the carbon BEFORE making the angle cut, or after, laying them as far as where the nut will go? Will I need reinforcement (volute?) behind the nut using this kind of approach? 3. Thinking also of making a sort of semi-solid vee here, with a kind of reversed Ricky 330 angular hole to complement the V shape. Any thoughts on this? Thanks guys,

I've just sold one. It's a tranny amp with a sort of amp emulation in it - not digital. My *opinion* is that it sounds crap, but your mileage may vary. I prefer the Fender Princeton 65DSP for a good sounding cheap tranny combo that you don't need to work out to be able to carry to the car...

I use Cubase SX.

Funny - I was thinking of getting a HUGE dollar bill as a finish for a PRS kit... well, the real things do cost big bucks after all...