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  1. Wow, my first ever 3 minute apart double post.
  2. TR2 is a trimpot that is your filament hum balance. By creating a variable (artificial) filament winding, you can adjust for the minimum filament hum. If you can't adjust that to remove the hum, I wouldn't recommend servicing it by yourself, unless you're very fammiliar with tube gear. Take it to a tech. Nish
  3. Avoid this crap too. Same crap, different name. http://stores.ebay.com/Bruceweiart-Musical-Instrument-Shop I had every problem listed along with a whole slew of others including: the spacing for the top 3 frets reversed (so 22-24 gradually getting bigger...)), many chips all over the bottom and sides of the neck, a twisted fretboard (warped along the width, not the length), and inlay so thin that in soem places the 'albalone' had just rubbed off. I only wasted $25 (won the auction with no other bids), but just wanted to warn anyone else, so they don't waste that too.
  4. To sidetrack back to the original post.... I don't think that the shape of zakk's guitar is the same as the production one. Take a look at the photo here: http://www.deanguitars.com/zakk_wylde.htm It looks as though (on there as well as on the video) the V begins and goes right alongside the string plate, whereas on the production guitar, it begins much later. I think his guitar looks nice, but the production looks horrible (funny how that maybe 1 inch difference can make....
  5. It's called the muddy bullseye, and is a custom guitar for zakk. You can find guitars of the same shape (it's a protoype called a split-tail), but being prototypes...they're...not cheap. http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-DEAN-SPLIT-TAIL-NA...1QQcmdZViewItem
  6. for me, it was an issue of stability. It was a 2x12 cab, and when I finished the first one (butt joints) I just wasn't satisfied with how strong the cab was (and I haul these cabs out to gigs all the time strapped to the back of a pickup. I decided to redo the cab with dovetails, and then it took me 2 tries to get the tolex and cab cloth right. For me, a place like avatar sells cabs for like $20 extra when compared to the cost of the drivers themselves....so I find (personally) that's it's better for me to just buy em instead of attempting to build them.
  7. That was the route I took with my first cab. a 4x8 sheet and almost a month later, I kicked myself for being too cheap to just shell out...
  8. Sounds like a YBA-3 amp to me. I'd get it inspected by a tech first, and have the tubes and everything else tested. I'm a tube tech in Winnipeg, so if you pm my your area, I'm sure I can hook you up with someone close to you. Does it look like this? http://www.yorkville.com/images/archive/yba3.jpg For a cab, look at some of the steamco music stuff. http://www.steamcomusic.com/ It's the canadian distributor for Avatar cabs. They're good quality cabs with good speakers at a great price. Try looking in the used section. I think they have a nice 240Watt 4x12 (with celestion vintage 30's) for around $500 Canadian. Cheers, Nish
  9. I agree with aidlook. Cut the body like that, and get a wraparound bridge from guitarfetish. I used one just recently, and they are very good quality, especially for the price. Fill in the humbucker routs and try again. To fill in massive holes like that, use polyfil (drywall filler and a router to give it a smooth bottom, then cut a matching plug (to the body wood) and put it in). After doing that, just use rails to make a new route for the three humbuckers again, bit this time use a pattern bit to follow the rail, and you'll have a nice square cavity to use with a pickguard. The guitar is definately not beyond repair, but will take work to get a decent finish. The key thing to remember is that no matter how hardcore or extreme the guitar is, it's still got to be clean cut and well done to be a good guitar (examples: Neil Moser or even MetalMatt from our forum).
  10. Mine's doing it again too. Firefox remembers the passwords, but the site prevents it from logging in.
  11. A lot of special microphones like that that I've seen with four prongs had the fourth prong as a power rail, and sometimes a fifth prong as an isolated power ground.
  12. Thanks guys, It seems as though the cookie was corrupt (as guitarguy suggested). Deleted it, came back, and now I'm fine. Cheers, Nish
  13. Hey guys, It seems as though the forum is logging me out every time my computer restarts. I noticed the forum software had an update done, so I was wondering if this had any correlation? I'm pretty sure it's not my browser, as it wasn't doing it before, and it's set to accept cookies until they expire. Anyone else experiencing this?
  14. ...unless you get the humbucker sized P-90 coils. Try guitarfetish: http://store.guitarfetish.com/humbuckers.html
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