StratDudeDan

you will never destroy us invision!

i like the idea of one of those frankestein switches a lot...

i just wouldn't be able to do it with my foot...

and then BAM! out of nowhere comes super Brian to save the forum and maintain it's life on the internet!

you will never destroy us, invision!

i do believe (from the looks of the thing) that it's an older one. we were thinking that if we couldn't figure anything out, it'd go to the local amp guru to see what he can do with it.

sometimes a small, sometimes a medium. i like my t-shirts tight. if i want baggy, i'll wear a hoodie or button-down or something like that.

we need chicks!

...k...not really, i guess...

but still!

i don't suppose you could be cool and recommend a type of tube? i must admit, i'm an idiot when it comes to amps, so any and all advice is awesome.

no, i'm talking stomp box style. i'm not even gonna think about putting a freaking wall switch in a guitar, no matter how cool that would be...

welcome. don't talk to, feed, or poke otter. he's a scary one...

btw, i think pics of your stuff is in order.

wet stone and either some mineral oil or very small amounts (barely a drop) of 3-in-1 household lubricant.

k, i'm building an inline kill switch out of a light switch, but i'm assuming there's going to be massive problems with a hum when i turn it off. how can this be corrected or completely bypassed.

secondly, is there an impedance issue at all? or should i just pretend i never asked that?

finally, should i put the break in the hot line, or in the ground, or should i not use a simple SPST switch and figure out something cool with a little more complex of a design?

a friend of mine just picked up an orange head. he's playing it through a marshall 4x12 half stack. i don't know any model numbers or anything, but here's the dilemma:

his guitars are very toneful and sustainful axes. he's playing through an LP studio and a gibson 335. when he's plugged into this head, however, his tone and sustain craps out on him, almost like the amp is choking it instead of sweetening it and adding that common orange grit to it.

he's come to me before with questions about guitars and how to do this and that, so he's come to me again with that dilemma on his amp, a subject i don't know much about. so what can we do to this head to make it sound better?

switch out the tubes? clean the connections/jacks/solder joints and make sure everythings good? junk it and find a new one?

not an attempt to hijack, rather share a similar story.

i've been playing in the local jazz/blues scene on bass for quite a few years now. i've helped out at high schools, the community college, small indie combos, etc. i've never had the chance to catch some of the greater players in the area, however, so i'm always looking out for when and where they're playing.

then, out of nowhere, stuff starts happening to me. i work a clinic with Mark Colby (god of tenor sax) and Vince Maggio (the guy that wrote the book on the modern rythm section, literally. he opened the rythm section area at the miami school of music by himself). i play bass in a combo for one of Kirby Shaw's choirs. i sing in one of his, too, as well as Kirk Marcy and John Yenenborough. i sit down for a jam session with Frank Mantooth on piano. i record a live album on bass while Lou Fischer solos on his yamaha silent bass over the top of one of my combos. my combo performs for Doug Beach at elmhurst college. all these crazy things happened within the timespan of 2 months, and i went from being some punk kid that can read music on bass to a respected musician that's played with some of the biggest jazzer names around here, as well as around other places as well. was pretty cool.

I added a sunburst tutorial a while back for anyone that missed it!

someone's trying to win our votes...

kidding man.

19, male, confused...

Meh...I got Mpeg2...

I really like the contrasting elements of the guitar...a very dramatic yet subdued effect...looks nice enough to me

i liked that one a lot, right up there w/ lex's and morben's. man...tough freaking month...

can't stand v's, and explorers just aren't my thing...

so tele by default. i'd actually say to mod/tweak it to make it your own style "based-on," though, but if you're going off drawings or CAD's, then hey, cool cool.

lex man, wanted to, but morben's semi-hollow was gorgeous and just looks like a happy guitar to me. thanks so much for the thread on how you built it, but i just can't take my vote away from that axe.

thank you, sir.

so you can't order off the website? i ask 'cause there are no even remotely major or even almost major music stores near me.

fretwire, but he's the only place that carries what i'm looking for, i've been looking for a really long time, too...

there's a thread about bell brass fretwire back in the solid body guitar topic, and that was the only place i was able to find it after that...

how do you order from jim dunlop? i'm looking at his site and i see no "order here" or "for orders call" anywhere on it...

there's some stuff there i need to buy, but i have no way of actually doing that until i know how the hell to order off that site.

thanks for the help!

D'Addario XL 10-46 for my strat

Elixer ploywebs 12-53 for my acoustic

D'Addario 1/2 rounds 45-100 for my razor

D'Addario slowwounds 45-105 for my foundation

btw, i'd like to see that second guitar you posted turned into a real guitar.

actually, both of your second guitar sketches were nice...

i doddled (and still doodle) in just about every single class. never anything useful. most of the time some odd cartoon character, occasionally an idea for a refinishing job or something, never anything groundbreaking or life changing. most of the time, i scribbled and jotted stuff a lot. never was too quite sure what i was writing, but i've saved all my spirals so i can see what it was. i have several favorite jr. high and hs spirals that i like to read.

one of 'em lasted me from the end of my 8th grade year all the way through my jr year (11th, for those of you not familiar w/ american schools). there were stories, notes, doodles, cartoons, class notes, poems, you name it in that spiral, and i still love to go back and read it every now and then. some very odd stuff in there. once i find it, i'll post this one thing up that i found online when registering for ebay (don't ask...i have no idea how i found it during that process...). it'll just make you think, and not about something good.