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TOURING??! In my dreams! Practice and small-venue stuff. I really don't want to buy cheap crap unless someone has had good luck with one of the budget-brands. TOURING would definately ROCK!

I hope you will bear with me on this. I need to buy 8 folding stands w/booms and can't tell the difference between all the brands. They all look the same! K&M seems to be the top choice but they are expensive. I also will need to get three clamp-on mini-booms for acoustic guitar mics. Any and all opinions welcome. Opinions ROCK!

I use a razor knife and a sharpened bent screwdriver to get the last 1/8" of depth cleaned up. Keeps me from going too far too fast also. I cut a clean edge around the inside of the route with the razor and scrape from the center to the razor cut with the screwdriver. Takes time but poor folk got poor ways. Razor knives ROCK!

If you can find one to try, the BBE Bmax is just about as flexible as a preamp gets without effects. Might be a bit tame for what you want, though. Bass rocks!

Actually, a tiny amount of power is still dissapated by the input impedence of the input section of your amp. Not much current at all and will cause no harm.

Just pickup one of the many guitar restoring/cleaning kits made by Fender, Gibson, etc. and follow the instructions on each bottle. 1.2" is within .003 of 1 13/64" on a steel rule. I use denatured alcohol on the fretboard with a very coarse rag. Terrycloth towels work well. Make sure you don't use too much. A soaked rag is too much and might leach oils out of the wood. Hand polishing with a very clean, soft rag is about the most rewarding method for an overall shine. IMHO. Shiny ROCKS!

The piezo was NOT the pickup that worked best. The electret capsules from RadioShack ($2.99) were hands down the best. I shall now attempt to post pictures. http://57south.net/cruise/nfpicturepro/thu...ils.php?album=7 Pictures ROCK!

Boy, do I have too much spare time! We set up the wine glass with a RadioShack 273-073 transducer element (disassembled) and a RadioShack 270-092C electret condenser capsule and the Pintech AP-10. The pintech is WAY fussy but has nice tone: good bass. The pieso element is WAY trebly. I put a .022 cap from red to black to trim off some highs but it didn't help as much as I hoped. I made a little power circuit for the electret to run off a 9-volt battery and found a beautiful signal that got a bunch better with that .022 cap put from after the coupling cap to ground. WAY cool. Now comes the good stuff. We put the pieso under the base of the glass and got a weak but quiet output. Put it on the stem and it got some better. After messing around it ended up taped right at the largest part of the globe. Then I tried the electret. Amazing! Beautiful full sound! Your finger technique needs to be good as it picks up squeaks from your finger if it is too dry or you press too hard. Mount the glasses anyway you want because it doesn't hurt the sound. Tape and the mass of the electret capsule mounted just below the fattest part of the glass has NO affect on the output! We ran it through the Valve Junior so we had no tone control at all. Didn't need it! Very little feedback trouble like we had with the pieso. Wine glasses ROCK!

Yeah I tried it while drinking wine with our drummer several months ago. I just graduated from SIU and now have lots of time until I report to reality at Dahlmer-Chrysler. I am going to set this experiment back up this afternoon wilst we celebrate. The Pintech is a piezo that likes to be mounted to a flat surface with double-sided tape. A cheap electro cartridge might work and would be a whole bunch cheaper. By the way, Dago red is the best liquid to use to tune. C-K Mondavi Fortissimo is my personal fav. Pray for sharp notes! Sharp notes ROCK!

That Carvin you asked about is a fine amp with great speakers but make sure you buy the optional(grrr) pedal or it isn't of much use. Those Valve Juniors can be made very quiet and killer for about $15.00 and 2 hours. A tube change helps a WHOLE bunch with the sound, also. Little Epiphones ROCK!

I would ohmeter the leads to each other and to the case of the pickup. The blue may be ground as it is allowed to be in some European portable cordage. Tell us what readings you get.

I don't know how I missed this thread! I tried this about 6 months ago with a cheap set of Kmart wine glasses that "sang" a little when rubbed with a wet finger. I used the Pintech pickup from our singer's kalimba plugged into our PA mixer. I held the pickup on by hand at first and it had a lot of trouble getting a good vibration consistantly. Next I put it on with some potter's clay shaped in a pyramid and it worked well at the top/center of the stem but it fell off about every 2 minutes. Went back to beer and haven't tried it since. I held it down by the base while I played and it didn't seem to hurt the sound so I guess epoxy used to hold them in place would be OK but changing a broken register might be a bit of a booger. I think a routed circle for the bases to sit down in and holding them down with 3 fender washers and screws would be better. Wine ROCKS!

He probably used the search function to look up EMGs and found the old thread. I don't always look at the date either. Search ROCKS!

The switch is still a DPDT but electrically it will function as a SPDT. My Jackson has two DPDT switches that only have one side wired up. Must have got a good deal on DPDTs! DPDTs ROCK!

I can't pin it down to one single guitar but I have gone into pawn shops and been shown their very best musical instruments. All 100 % AMERICAN MADE AND LATE MODEL IN PERFECT SHAPE. Yeah right. A couple of those boogers with the rusty high gauge strings did some damage to my fingers before I called it quits. Seems to me the worst one was an archtop acoustic made by Silvertone that had not been picked up off the shelf in like 15 years. Action from hedoubleL and tuners that were wrapped the wrong way on the top three strings. What kept those strings from breaking aftwer all these years is the real question.

The paint on Jeff Gordon's Rainbow Warrior Nascar vehicle cost about $860.00! It only looks good in direct sun also. If you can find a shaved-head nose-pierced auto body dude he can probably tell you about the lower light painting effects you can do with modern automotive paint. My bud from Chicago has a black pickup truck that changes color and has flame detail show up when it gets dark. WAY cool. Pickups ROCK!

The single-acting dual rod ones seem the be the easiest to put in and treat the neck rather gently. It is also cool that you don't have to anchor them in the neck. If you have an angled headstock and it is routed to allow it, you can loosen and remove a rod to change it. There are necks I guess that need more correction then a single-acting can do but that has not been a problem for me(yet). Have you seen a Gotoh side-adjust rod setup? way cool but I don't think they sell them to the public and they look hard to install with all the extra routing and drilling. Side adjust ROCKS!

That is SWEET!! No telling how great it sounds! Looks killer! How much is 275llb in american cash? I thought it was only like $450.00 but I don't have a clue what the exchange rate is now. 7-strings and Les Pauls ROCK!

Luvcraft, how do you do thast diagramming so fast? That is very impressive! Do you have an actual function drawing of a Super switch or do you just do this so much that you know? I hate replacing switches because every body gives you a wiring DIAGRAM of how to wire it but nobody shows you how each position works schematically. Luvcraft rocks!

Idtch and anthem both came up with the same thoughts I had. The neck should be as far into the pocket as possible before the screws are tightened. I don't think the screws are supposed to take any of the string-tension load in a shear or across their threads. The neck should sit solid in the pocket. If the screw holes are as tight as you say I don't see how this can happen. I never used ferrules for the back of the body. I only have used a plate. That might be doifferant but I don't see how. I think the screws should pass through the body without threading so that the neck sits in the pocket and the screws are purely in tension. Like the headbolts on a car engine. Cars rock!

Gorecki, you sound like my kind of player. However only listen to Mel Bay if you want to sound like Mel Bay. I am not saying that is what you said or meant. That is just an observation. My uncle made me try playing with my fingers, a business card and a poker chip. Each attempt made me see as you said there is no "right" way for anybody. I am glad that I can now play when I drop my pick and there is cardboard all over the top of my Jackson. Business cards don't last long but they are cheap. Try to find someone's card printed on that thick plastic, like a credit card. They ROCK!

A big problem with using LEDs to show selector positions is that there is no way to turn the things off without taking the battery out or adding a switch. Maybe someone can come up with that setup/schematic. I saw a guitar with neck LEDs that shutoff with the output cable unplugged but that was a lot more complex thing than what I think you want to do. LEDs ROCK!

I quit trying to clean pots because of the finish damage I was doing and the fact that a bad pot is a bad pot. My biggest mistake is getting them too hot when soldering to them. I have ruined three or four nice switches and pots because I thought more was better. If you paided yourself $4.00 an hour for your labor the cost of a new pot would be gone on the first re-repair. Could that be because I work so slow? Yes! Slow ROCKS!

I know that you need to use the Hipshot template and locate it just like Hipshot says or you will have a very poor working trem. I am going to use a Hipshot on my next (3rd) build because I don't get along that well with Floyds. Nothing wrong with anyones stuff as long as it gets put in like they made it to. You might want to call or email Hipshot with any problems you are having. If you get the right person they are a bunch of help. Hipshot ROCKS!

Gorecki said it pretty well. There are a lot of ways to do it and practice with a given style you find comfy will make you a better player. There is no right method. The rigid wrist that mandolin players and fast-strummers use works for some and not for others. I quit dropping picks all the time when I quit using my fingers to make part of the strum and let my wrist do most of the moving. Is that about as clear as bush's foriegn policy? I hope not. Foriegn policy does not ROCK!