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Played one (at best buy)....what a piece. Good bedroom amp maybe but really sounds like kaka. Get a Roland Cube if you want an SS amp with built in efx..or maybe even a line 6. Transtube blows.

I hear Fisher-Price has the "my first soldering iron" gift set. jk jk, Seriously, a Weller in the 25 to 40 watt range would be great for your needs. Soldering to the back of a pot for a proper ground does take a little bit of heat, and its better to have a larger iron with a shorter amount of heating time, than vice versa. If you are just doing basic soldering you may want to check out the coldheat soldering iron tools...they are great for little jobs and you can easily throw them in your gig bag in case you need it at a gig! I also have a butane soldering iron but I would stay away because they heat up waaay too hot ..but the portability is key! Good luck!

hmm.. maybe he works for guitarfetish? plugging xaviere guitars lol

Carvin V3! I have one and it rocks!

Wow man thats awesome. I really want to build a paul now. How do you attach a set neck with a tenon? Glue?

Cool guys, seems like the diamond one is the way to go. I will have to look into that sooner than later! Very useful tool im sure, for all my guitars.

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Anyone use the Stew Mac crowning file http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Files/Qu..._Fret_File.html ? I am going to pick up a crowning file soon but i was wondering what type to purchase. There are even some on Ebay from a luthier school? You guys have any opinions on this?

Generally the pulldown resistor is the way to go. I modded my cry baby with the buffer removal, addition of a LED on the left (to indicate status) and internal trim pots that change the output gain and the Q factor of the wah. I really love my cry baby now that its all modded out. I would reccomend this mod to anyone! I can tweak the wah till im happy with the sound, I know if its on or not and its true bypass to boot! All parts are availible at any radio shack (with the exception of the 3dpdt switch). Just break out the soldering iron and go for it!

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Sterile and bland. Either I am talking about chick peas wrapped in gauze or a Marshall Valvestate.

+1. The Floyd Rose is a system. While you can get reasonably close with a well made nut and some locking tuners, a Floyd is designed to have the "double lock" ensuring you can do silly little backflips on your whammy and not go out of tune.

Nitro all the way. Easy to spray and won't KILL you like poly. Unless you are going to have it taken to a paint shop where they specialize in poly then I would say nitro. IMO the gloss is awesome when finally buffed out and you can get nitro fairly cheap if you buy it by the quart rather than using like 10+ deft spray cans.

+1 titebond!

Metallic finishes can be pain in the neck sometimes. You may already have done this but here are some tips: 1. Have a good sealed, smooth base. 2. Prep with a compatible white coat first. 3. Add your metallic color coat but spray very lightly..almost misting the cloud of paint above the guitar and letting it fall onto it. This will ensure maximum sparkle. Do just enough to cover the body with color and have those sparkles shine through. 4. Topcoat (lacquer) with clear until you have a really thick layer of clear. You want to make sure you have plenty of clear on there otherwise when you sand through the clear coat you will wreck that part of the "sparkle" and have to start over to make the whole body uniform. 5. Final sand and buff. I share this knowledge with you because of the few times I have tried to strip and repaint my am std. strat metallic silver. Good luck! I don't think that color is that awful btw. You really need to clear it with either flat or gloss...i think gloss would be a good choice. Just be aware that black guitars pick up fingerprints like a mofo.

I'm not sure you really mean this as "absolutely" as it is written. There are quite a few pedals out there that use a positive ground design. It works better with PNP type transistors. Just one example: http://www.geocities.com/j4_student/rmclassicfuzz.gif True, the RAT seems to be one of these types of PNP pedals! Thanks for all your info guys!

Sounds good! Will I have any issues using the same ground for the signal as I do the power?

Sounds good, but what about power (9vDC)?

I have a standard Cry Baby which I heavily modded and love. I have made it true bypass and also added a LED for status, as well as 2 trim pots for the output level and Q sweep. Anyways, in the interest of streamlining my setup I was considering using a 5 (or 7 pin) MIDI/DIN cable to allow the wah to be plugged in with only one cable. Currenlty I use a Modded FCB1010 (painted truck bed liner black) that has one cable which supplies phantom power as well as MIDI out. I would love to drill out my CryBaby and have only one cable that connects that bad boy. Do you think a 5 pin would be enough to carry the "in" "out" and 9v DC power to the Wah? Could I share the same ground with the input/output as i do with the DC? I have no problems soldering or modding pedals but I would really love to make this the way I envision. If I could share the same ground then I would enjoy the simplified setup of my MIDI board and my sole wah pedal with only one connector! -Ben

The large fluffy white ones are for use with a "buffing arbor". Stew Mac sells those for shop use, although they are rather expensive (and also needs a seperate motor). You should return them and get the ones specifically for use with your hand drill. Or you could even go to say, Sears and get their hand drill buffing set. Hope this helps!

That was part of the understanding I had for a while - but ive seen it work for other guitarists. I was thinking along the logic of that If I set the threshold right I could stop the feed back before it gathered too much volume, which is the way I would expect it too work. I just dont really want any unneccessary digital devices in my signal chain unless I have absolutely have to. It will stop feedback my muting your signal when you are not playing, but won't do a thing for feedback while playing. Does it do it with all your guitars? What kind of cab do you have? What type of other effects are you using? When does it feedback? Is it controllable or just an instant high-pitched squeal....controllable feed back is fun!

If you are worried about destroying your tone because of digital effects you should be thinking about what that GT-6 is doing to your tone. Think about it, you have a DIGITAL pedal which converts all of your analog guitar signal to digital, then procesess it, then converts it back to analog to run to your Guitar amp (unless you are using the 4 cable method of hooking up your GT-6 which does let you have a amp preamp stage first). Why worry about a noise surpressor when you already are digitzing your signal. A noise supressor is nothing more than a gate which lets your signal come through when it senses you push it over a certain threshold (when you are playing). So to clarify, a noise supressor will not 'destroy' your tone any more than the GT-6 you already have hooked up. Don't get me wrong, I have a GT-6 which I mainly use as a backup nowadays and it is powerful..but I am just sick of the distortions and massive volume changes when switching from patch to patch (soundguys hate that). I think you should be looking at perhaps replacing your pickups (which may not be potted). Cheaper quality pickups will squeal like a banshee when near an amp with high gain and volume. You should have some feedback, but not uncontrollable feedback. You may find that standing farther away from the amp helps too.

There is ALWAYS room for one more!

Uh, this was like the 1st post man.

Yeah. F the rules. Perhaps a cost limit. But it looks (for now) that the 2x4 project will be the winner! Can't wait to do it. I'm already thinking about some great ideas!