GodBlessTexas

Well, I guess it depends on which one of "these Furmans" you are talking about, because Furman makes voltage regulators/line conditioners and UPS. A Furman voltage regulator, which are the units most of us know and love, can take an input anywhere from 97V to 141V and condition it to 120V plus or minus 5V. A conditioner/voltage regulator will protect against short term power sag and brownouts, but nothing more than a couple of seconds. A UPS will do the same, but will also keep working when the power fades or sags for a longer period of time because it has a battery backup. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

Because I have a voice that would curdle milk? GBT

Depends on which songs you heard. The new album has good and boring songs in my opinion. But some songs are exellent: "Living Dead Beat", "Trashed, Lost & Strungout", "In your Face" for example. That said I think it's their worst album so far, but still a very good record. ← So far I've been enjoying the entire album. I'm still trying to find a copy of Hate Crew Deathroll, but it's out of print in the US. As for the V, I think it's awesome. I'm generally a sucker for blue guitars (I currently own 4), and the Rhoads design will always have a spot in my heart since he's one of the reasons I picked up the guitar in the first place. GBT

My criteria for voting is now and has always been "Which guitar would I want to own?" This is the rare occasion when the answer has been "any of them." But ultimately, I love the WOMD. The aged hardware, the cool cammo/metal plate finish, the tricked out bomb control cavity. I've never seen that before, and that's one of the little things that got it my vote. But there isn't one of them I wouldn't want to own. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

Man, voting this month was hard. I like them all, which is rare for me, but Perry's WOMD just does it for me. That's what I get for growing up loving heavy metal I guess. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

Happy Birthday.

Kevan, I did make an attempt to do it first via PM, though my concern was that he wouldn't get notified of my PM. That's not an excuse, as I realized I could have handled it better the next morning, and the reason for my post on the morning of the 21st. I take full responsibility for the mess this apparently became in the public perception. Again, my intent was never to make anyone think badly of Jeremy. My only intent was to get his eyes on the problem, and I assumed he'd get an e-mail notice of a response to his thread. I wasn't sure if there was any insurance on the shipment, but it doesn't appear that was the case. I certainly didn't think Jeremy sent me something non-working. Either way, Jeremy went above and beyond the call of duty to make things right, going so far as to offer to return my money back immediately, though I don't think that's fair to him. The item was well packed and in decent phyiscal shape when I got it. Apparently the postal system just did its worst on the package. I do not believe he was ever at fault, so the only option left is for me to suck it up and attempt to repair the pedal if I can just find the right vertical mount pot. I'm getting closer. Jeremy, I want to publicly appologize to you, as I never thought it would get taken the way it has/was. That was never my intent. Joseph/GBT

And just so everyone knows, I didn't think Jeremy sent me bunk gear. Out best guess is that it was damaged somehow in shipping. And he's been on the since he got my PM. I wouldn't hesitate to buy from him again. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

OK, I got it on Tuesday, but couldn't find any of my patch cables. So, I went and bought a new cable on Wednesday, only to hear it distort badly last night, so I assumed it was my old cable. So, today I went and bought another new cable and the problem was still there. Unfortunately this one is broken. I first thought it was my cables, so I bought new ones and still no dice. The pedal assembly was wobbly, so I took off the back plate and tightened the screws down that hold the pedal in place. It still didn't fix anything, but it turns out the mini-pot for the Input Level is busted, as in the backing board is shattered and the pot goes more than 360 degrees, sometimes going more than 720 and sometimes less, and there's a lot of gain on the signal because of it. The clip light lights up anytime the signal light does. It sounds horrible. Jeremy, I sent you more info via PM. I was really looking forward to this. The package didn't look bad at all, and the pedal was padded well. I'm not sure when it happened, and I'm not sure what to do about it. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

Nice job Godin. That's exceptionally beautiful. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

That is simply gorgeous. Very, very nice. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

Yep, and the one Izzy was playing was an ESP custom carved top. ESP still makes some awesome playing Teles, i.e. Ron Wood's model. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

I got it today Jeremy. I'm hoping to get a chance to play with it after I get back from soccer practice. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

You're putting the cart before the horse. The fine tuners are there because of the locking nut, not the other way around. The original Floyd Rose didn't have fine tuners, but were added later because it made tuning easier with the locking nut. You can use a floating bridge and locking tuners. I've done it. But given my druthers, I prefer the locking nut. GBT

Thanks for looking. Mods, please lock at your convenience.

The only issue that I can think of is that you can have tuning problems if you wrap excess strings around the tuning pegs. The more string around the pegs, the more likely for slippage and loss of tuning, thought it's probably negligable with a locking nut. I put my strings on backwards by threading them through the pegs then down to the bridge and cutting off the excess on the non-ball end, then threading that into the bridge. I cut the extra string off because it just gets in the way when youc change strings, and only takes a second to clip. On non-locking trems like my strat, I run it through the block, up through the bridge, up through the pegs and then cut off anything that goes more than 1" past the peg hole. Again, the more excess string you have around the peg, the more likely the chance of losing tuning stability due to string stretching and movement around the peg. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

I love how he says he had it made in the early 90's with a Wizard II Joe Satriani neck. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

What Chunkie said. In the future, if you want to put a sticker on and would like some measure of safety before commitment, do what the car guys do: Mix some water with one drop of liquid dish soap. Spray the surface to be stickered lightly with the water. Place sticker on surface, and move it around gently until it sits where you want it. When the sticker is in place, press it down, driving the water out from underneath it. You can use a credit card or semi-hard straight edge to drive out any air bubbles. Also, you can tape off/around the area you want to put the stucker on so that you have a good idea where to put it before applying it. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

You need a picture hosting site, and then you can link to your gallery or the individual pics, though you should probably spend some time learning the forum rules concerning picture posting in the Announcements and Testing area. Welcome to the board, and I look forward to viewing your photos. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

Here's the neck and body. It's going on the bay tonight. GBT

OK, this is going to ebay. Thanks for looking. Mods, please lock this if you see it. Thanks! GBT

Charvel Model 7 - Courtesy of ChrisGuitars.com (a great guy to deal with, BTW). GBT

Whats interesting is no manufacture would make something like that because it's to "specialized". But just about every guitar player I know would start drooling if they saw an amp like that. If a company could make one like that for a reasonable price they would sell them like crazy. ← I think that's the problem though. Such a specialized piece of gear would probably demand a premium because they likely wouldn't seel enough to make it worth it as a production amp, so it would be outside the range of most "mortals" who don't play professionally. Of course, if you understand the technology and the concepts, you can DIY. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the finer points of tube amps. GBT

I had a Lace Blue (which is currently for sale in the classifieds) installed in the neck of one of my Strats with two regular pickups. I had no problems, probably because the Blue is more like a PAF than a single coil in sound. It sounded as it should have (posted sound clips in the Electronics tutorial section), and pots were 500K stockers that came with the guitar. The only issue was hum when neck and mid-pickup were selected together. Here you go. For schematics, I always check Guitarelectronics.com since they have just about all of the basic wiring stuff. If you don't have a Lace wiring diagram, just remember that white and green are ground on the lace sensor and Orange is your hot wire. Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

I've never seen a Candy Apple Red, but I have seen a darker wine red, and I must say that a candy red would probably be beautiful. GBT