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  1. I like 'em my brother's got an orange on black crackle finish Charvel bass it looks cool good luck with it, Matt
  2. Hi ZoSo, I do have the scratchplate the previous owner had made, it's black 3-ply with 2 strat pu holes. The original scratchplate on these was thick black with white painted edging, and the pu's were white surface mounted thingy's (you can see the original screw-holes. I don't think strat pickups suit this guitar...it's too Gibsony looking.. I've got a pair of vintage Guild mini-humbuckers that might go nicely, but I'd have to do some routing. Thanks for the tip on the BareKnuckles, I'll check 'em out. My favourite strat pickups are the Kinmans, I have them on two of my strats.
  3. I bought this old Maton as awreck about 15 years ago, it had been badly sanded and half 'estapoled'. Had to go for a sunburst to hide the previous butchery. It's interesting that this early Maton original design looks quite modern in light of recent trends. pics of front & back sealed with obvious problem visible in cutaway sunbursting done on front & back sunbursting on headstock & binding scrape...starting to look good I'll post some more pics soon when I get some hardware on...I'm thinking of making a tortoiseshell guard Also have to decide on pickups...BTW, it's a short scale neck
  4. When I looked at that Icefly site, I noticed the upper horn had a Mockingbird type cut. I think a Parker/Mockingbird could be cool, if the lower horn was sorta Parker shaped. (Mockingfly?)
  5. I don't know if this guy is normally ok, but I bought a 'rosewood' headstock veneer with flower inlay from 'inlaidartist'. It was totally warped and unusable. I'm also a nice guy and gave him a positive feedback before I'd checked it out...other people seemed happy with his stuff... but you'd think they'd trash something this warped...
  6. Hi fguiheaven, I've had few of those first Squires, they are the best of the jap ones.. I think it must have been the wood...very light Hardware wise..they're ordinary...I think I put Duncans in mine... Actually, the basses are even more amazing...my brother had a Precision... really light...just like an L-series...when you put the body upto your ear it had that real L-series tone in the wood...he put an EMG in it... You can tell that model by the neck-plate..they all had 'JV' before the number Plus I think the headstock said "Squire by Fender" with a smaller Fender logo Cheers...hope you find one
  7. Thanks Mr Churchyard, for clearing that up.. Now us old-timers know where Petrucci comes from...see his name a lot.. I've heard a bit of Dream Theater a few years back, my brother was playing bass in a band doing some DT covers.. I thought is was quite good..but a bit epic-serious sorta.. I preferred Fear Factory...now those guys are funny... I bought the album..heh Not many get the humour in this stuff...but I like it..then again, I think Pantera are pretty funny... I think it stems from being a King Crimson fan...mock evil with machine-gun guitar...heh
  8. Hi Stalefish, Sounds like not a bad system for getting all the pickup combinations... plus you can get that machine-gun on-off effect with the switch (but only on the bridge p.u.) Which is really the best choice for that effect..heh and yes, that will count as an Australian innovation..we don't mind..heh Peace
  9. Yeah, Pete it might be an Aussie thing... I didn't check all the threads in the Electronics section... I thought someone must've mentioned this idea...Kinman was doing it in the mid 80's Around the time Passac came out with their brilliant guitar midi system... Another brilliant Aussie invention destined to be forgotten... Even now, I don't think anyones doing 'pick direction sensing' (different midi sounds for up & down strokes)...heh Cheers -Dave
  10. I do know of one factory orange L-series Strat but it was apparently a one-off made for the Japanese music trade show in 1964 It wasn't a regular custom colour option, though...
  11. I don't know if this mod has been covered before, if it has...delete this I've had a few Kinman Blueprint strats (which are very nice axes), and Chris Kinman had a different wiring system on his strats... He had the bottom tone pot wired as a neck pickup volume, so whatever pickup was selected, you could wind in the neck pickup as well. This gave all possible pickup combinations (well, the two you can't normally get..bridge and neck..and all 3 together) Sorry I haven't got a diagram...Chris Kinman doesn't make guitars anymore, only pickups...shouldn't be too hard to work out though... There may have been a diagram in an old Sonics mag...if I can find it, I'll post it It's just a way of making a seemingly stock Stratocaster more versatile Cheers
  12. I've only got 2 pedals at the moment...I had to sell a bunch because of poverty... plus I wanted to simplify my setup... I've got a H&K Tube Rotosphere that I run stereo into two Fender amps...and a Mutron IV Envelope Filter... I need to get a nice distortion/overdrive pedal 'cos I sold my Dual Rat rack mount... I think I'll go for one of those G2D pedals, but I'm not sure which one... I've still got my Boss SE70 multi effects, too..which is a great box... but I'm trying to keep my setup as simple and non-digital as possible now... So it'll be...Mutron > G2D > Rotosphere > Fender Super & Princeton Reverbs Not really a metal setup but good for my blues style Peace
  13. Yeah, I tried one the other day..there was a Gilet Jumbo in Pete's Musician's Market with the fretwave fitted...looked a bit weird...you probably only need to do the first five frets..the rest would be negligible...like you say, erik..crowning them must be fun..heh
  14. Well, I'm never gonna put my ugly mug in my eBay ads...you guys are cruel...heh
  15. Thanks for clearing that up about the Gizmotron, lovekraft... I'd remembered later that Arp bought Musitronics...and then subsequently went bust over the Arp Avatar guitar synth fiasco.. If ARP had acted quickly enough they could have targeted those Avatars at keyboard players as well...they were after all, just keyboardless versions of an ARP Odyssey...with a hex pickup section (that worked badly) Because they had CV and gate inputs they worked fine as a synth expander (I had a few in my synth studio) Then to save their bacon, ARP threw all their resources into the Chroma poly-synth...which was a great synth...but it was too late.They ended up selling all Chroma rights to CBS in an effort to stay afloat I'm not surprised the Gizmotron failed...it was just too ricketty and plastic...it looked like it was gonna break at any minute...heh
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