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If the Nug can make those Byrdland's sound like screaming wildcats, why not give it a shot?

The guitarist you're thinking of was Django Reinhardt - http://www.redhotjazz.com/django.html Personally, I have somewhat average hands with slightly smaller fingers with big knuckles. Mine are unique in that my index fingers on both hands are roughly 5/8" shorter than my middle fingers, and about 1/2" shorter than my ring fingers. Luckily, I never realized my hands were mis-shapen until about 8 years after I started playing guitar, so it never really discouraged me that much

My recommendation ... and just a recommendation, mind you... is to check out a Carvin MTS half stack. If you dig the tone, you might be able to snag a second hand half for about $600.

While I love the look of that thing... and I don't doubt that it's probably a hell of a player... I don't know if I could ever bring myself to pay 2G's for a bolt-on guitar. Nice find though.

2 friends and I played "Seasons in the Abyss" in our high school talent show about 10 years ago. They stuck us right in between a girl doing a Mariah Carey song, and a couple kids doing a freestyle rap tune. While I'm sure no one actually cared for the music, we got a huge reaction from the audience - and got repremanded pretty hard by the administration. I did all of the vocals and guitars... on an Epiphone Tele... through a Fender Champ. I hand-painted a devil's head on the body of the tele with watercolors to make it look more evil! We trashed the school drumkit at the end of the song, and I demolished the Champ (should'nt have done that) with a mic stand. It was so good, they actually cut it out of the school's video of the show. Luckily, I still have a copy that a friend shot from the balcony.

Glad I stumbled across this thread. I'm not from the Toronto area, but a friend of mine (who's also a very good guitar player) grew up there. His dad is a senior buyer for a very large lumber company up there. I'll give him a call this weekend and see if he can recommend any local shops or treaters in the Toronto area that might be able to supply you with a good neck blank or dry out that chunk you got out of your yard. As far as using cherry or apricot, I'm not sure... I'm still a rookie, too.

Hey everyone. I've got this idea for a finish that I want to put on a V body that I'm making for a friend of mine. The body's gonna be mahogany, slightly channeled, with a flame maple top. But here's the kicker. I want to put a satin-looking finish on it, with orange and black - somewhat like tiger stripes. Why? Well, remember those horrible old tiger-striped pants your sister wore back in '84, when she was dancin' around in her bedroom to Bon Jovi songs? That's the look I want to re-create. I've read all of the awesome information about finishing here, and it's really been informative. But I haven't been able to find any examples of this type of finish - sorta like fuzzy-lookin' trapped behind a glass wall. Anyone have any ideas on what I'd use? techniques? examples? Thanks in advance

I just bought my stepson an RP-50 to hold him over until Christmas. $60 is pretty much standard retail price for a new one. List is $100, but I got his new at Guitar Center for $60. The effects are pretty good, but I found the distortion... lacking, to say the least. I'd rate it below any of the real modelers, including the Behringer V-Amp 2 ($130 new at GC). But the best thing that I've found with it so far, believe it or not, is the little built in drum machine. It's cool to just press a couple buttons and jam to, and it's easier to get him to practice his lessons to a simple 8th note drum track than a ticking metronome. If you're in the market for something like a combo practice amp / modeler, and aren't against saving up a couple extra bucks, go check out the Roland Micro Cube. They list at $149, which means you can probably score one for about $125 if you haggle it, and comes with a full list of features, all packed into a 2-watt, 4" speakered practice amp WITH a 1/4" headphone jack. And the best part? It can run on AA batteries Check it out here: http://www.rolandus.com/products/details.a...odid=Micro+Cube Good luck in your search!

Read this in an old guitar book called "Getting Great Guitar Sounds" my Michael Ross, about Eric Johnson's live guitar tone (circa 1988): "Johnson's '54 Stratocaster sports a DiMarzio HS-2 stacked pickup in the bridge position. He has disconnected one of the coils leaving him with a true single coil. He maintains that this coil is fuller sounding than a stock pickup and the extra coil still helps eliminate some of the noise." Does that sound right? For some reason, this complicated techno-wizardry is too much for my primative mind to comprehend.

Copper is very cheap, and soft, and has a tendency to tarnish quickly, and doesn't cure well.

I'm planning on building a hybrid Stingray/Thunderbird with my step-son. So we've been researching body woods of the Stingray, but I keep coming up with a lot of different answers - Ash, Alder, Mahogheny seem to be the most common opinions. Unfortunately, the EB site just says "Selected Hardwoods". Any ideas on what they've used, especially the pre-84 models?