GEdwardJones

Dude for now just buy a cheap ass Ibanez GAX seven string because if you screw up building you're...well, screwed

Worst. advice. ever.

As for pickups, Both DiMarzio and Seymor Duncan make 7-string versions of their most popular pickups. Duncan, I believe, will actually make a7-string copy of *ANY* pickup they make.

You're probably going to hate hearing this if you haven't hear it before. but that headstock is strikingly similar to the one used by Tyler Guitars

Otherwise, thanks for the link to Flames Board. I'm in the process of painting my first helmet, lots of great info over there

Ok, I thought I was just making the Lexicon part up, so I didn't mention it.

Over the course of his career he's used both extreme amounts of processing and toy rayguns to produce the effect. Obviously the easiest way is just to get the same toy gun that he used. But you can do it through processing, but I don't remember the specifics.

The "jigajigajigajiga" It's called "The Raygun Effect."

That was a comcination of a harmonizer, an echo and something else, which I forget. I read it once a way long time in Guitar World (Steve on the cover talking about the Atomic Playboys disk). I might have it at home. If not, it's at my parents' house, and I won't have ready access to it for a good long while.

No clearcoat? How durable was it?

Curious as to what you used to clear over the flat/gloss web finish. I'd think a satin finish would dull the web and a flat finish would gloss up the gloss. But maybe it doesn't matter anyway.

Southern rock is a good acoustic standby

I am genetically bound to play "Sweet Home Alabama" whenever possible.

standard or standard down a whole step.

on rare occasions drop D or C

mostly standard down a whole step, tho.

http://ranguitars.com/_en/index.htm <-- Thats the coolest looking V ive ever seen

looks like a king v to me.....are they allowed to make that and the warlock copy and sell it?

Probably, they seem to be located in Poland. International copyright laws are different than US ones. For reference take a look at ESP Japan

man, i gotta stop listening to my friend, he says prong is new school, randy rhoads aint dead, he thinks zakk wylde is randy rhoads, ohh god, why do i listen to him?

Curtis

That's because every Nu-Metal band directly ripped off one of these three bands.

1. Souls at Zero (shoot, their drummer is even IN Godsmack)

2. Mordred (first metal band to have a DJ)

3. Prong (Riggs, from Rob Zombie's band literally uses exactly the same setup as Tommy Victor did on Prong's Rude Awakening and he's not ashamed to admit it).

Prong started as a hardcore punk band, morphed into a thrash band and then morphed again into an industrial metal band. They were way ahead of the curve with their last two albums. Check this out - the last Prong studio album (not counting the new, Scorpio Rising) was in 1996.

Anyway...

Ozzy - Bark at the Moon, Ultimate Sin

Maiden - Wasted Years

Metallica - Mastertarium

Slayer - South of Heaven, Spill the Blood, War Ensamble

Sabbath - Iron Man, N.I.B

Prong - Beg to Differ, Who's Fist is This Anyway, Rude Awakening

you can have a band without guitar and still sound awesome, but you cant have a band without a bass.

Kinda depends on the type of music dunnit?

I mean, if you're doing drum & bass obviously the most important instruments are drum & bass. If you're doing classical pieces for, I don't know, violin, the drum and bass are worthless.

Personally when I listen to the music I listen to the rhythm section. If all the bass is doing is doubling guitars it bores me to tears, but to make a blanket statement that any instrument is more important than the other is silly (you also repeat the troubling statement that I hear instrumentalists make all the time, that vocals are the least important part of a band. Well, if it's a vocal band and vocals are the least important part you might want to change your band).

Finish up by quickly tuning it to an open tuning, E or A, maybe G, do some easy greasy slide licks, then hand it back to them like that when your done...hehehe...

Maybe if one of the other guys on the porch wasn't a professional blues man of some notoriety in the tri-state area.

Which is what happened to me...

It just so happens that said blues man is one of my wife's friends' uncle (and let me tell you that family is one of the most interesting ones I've ever met.)

But then the stain will fill the lines thus making the wood more stained.

I think the lines will have to be very very carefully traced.

mulmuzzler | OSSMT

well, you're not talking about a very deep vally, nor are you talking about super crazy amounts of stain. That being said, I've noticed on a couple of the tables that there's some pinstriping done along the scoring, probably to hide any minor bleeding that does occur.

It happens to everyone sooner or later.

Someone in a group of friends: Hey, you play guitar?

You: Yeah

Them: Here's my acoustic, play something for us.

You: I'm not really an acoustic player. I don't really know any sing-along type songs

Them: Awwwww, you're just shy.

You: A little, but seriously, the last song I learned to play was off the new Ministry album

Them: Come on

You fiddle around, jamming on bits and pieces of various King's X songs for 5-10 minutes.

Someone in the Crowd: "Play Me and Julio down by the Schoolyard"

You: Someone kill me.

What are your best emergency acoustic numbes. I have a couple of King's X tunes that are good for me (Summerland, Over My Head, Goldilox and Pleadies, plus Doug Pinnick and I have a similar vocal range, which is good) that's about it. Anything easily learned and strummable is good for me.

Exactly!!.

I'd guess an exacto knife or other razor so the grooves wouldn't be too hard to fill with clear when finishing

Go to a furniture store sometimes. Coffee tables with stained graphics are all the rage these days. On most of these if you look closely you can see that the wood is slightly scored around the design itself.

It's easier to hunt one of these down for referance, than an RG-Art (cheaper to buy, too.)

Right on the very edge of the back of one of my guitars is a teeny tiny little chip all the way down to the wood. It's probably 1/8 - 1/4 the size of a US dime. anybody have any good ideas as to how to fix such a chip? (mostly the filling in of the vally) I'm about to do a graphic on top of the original paint, so I'll be re-clearing the whole instrument when I'm finished.

GE- You're the inspiration behind the "patience is a virtue" post. :-) Your unit will be at your door within the next two weeks (before NAMM).

lalalalalalalalala

(Kev's afraid of me )

Lex,

My wife and I are planning to do exactly that in our office (as she says "I wish your guitars were out, they're so pretty). We looked EVERYWHERE for wall hangers and she found those at HD for $.50, they even fit my seven strings

I have a blue mirrored WD pickguard on my RG550, it's high quality, BUT (and this is a big but) when I got it done WD didn't keep IBZ patterns in stock, so I had to send in a tguard for them to use as a pickguard. Not sure if that's still the case, but anyone thinking about getting one from them might want to look into that.

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so that guitar belongs to kevan?or it is reviewed by kevan?

i don't remember that from his collection he showed us a while back

Kevan owns one.

Ironically, the RG550DY that he "owned for a long time." is in the closet in my office right now. It's no longer yellow, tho

They aired the first episode on discovery channel a couple weeks ago. It was really a huge let down, it was nothing like american chopper where you see them fabricating and all that stuff. It was mostly watching Boyd Coddington swear at his workers and complain about how long things were taking.

Yeah, I saw the first one when it first aired a couple of months ago, it was kinda lame, but I have a feeling it's gonna get better as the guys get more comfortable with being filmed all the time.

Those shows pump me up as well. I can't wait until American Hotrod airs, 'cos I love motorcycles, but I don't own one. Cars, however.....

I'll check to see if we have any autobody paint suppliers around here. It might just be that I need to go down into the city, out here in the burbs, everything's just a little bit smaller/less well stocked.