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Logical Frank

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  1. Logical Frank
    You can get a wraparound from Tone Pros that has locking studs so it won't fall off. It supposedly also helps w/ vibration transfer as well.
  2. Logical Frank
    Really nice. I think I'm on the double-cut train too but you can't go wrong w/ either.
  3. Logical Frank
    I noticed the same changing the tubes in my Champ. I was really blown away by how much fuller an NOS 6V6 made that little amp sound... One day I will try some out in my real amps when I'm feeling rich.
  4. Logical Frank
    Lookin' good. Hope my first comes out that well.
  5. Logical Frank
    It still seems like kind of a good deal (vs. buying the stuff seperate). Are the Erlewine books any good? I think that would be a deciding factor for me. I've got the Hiscock book on the way and I've had Erlewine's "Guitar Player Repair Guide" for years. Would the fret fork book be useful?
  6. Logical Frank
    Ahhh... I see. I had thought all the pickups Guitar Fetish sold were branded GFS but I was mistaken. It's pretty apparent now that I look at it again. He basically says, "You want some cheap pickups? These don't suck." Still--I trust them to be reasonably decent.
  7. Logical Frank
    Seriously.. I'm actually kinda ticked they include that "Fret Rocker" or whatever in there (for twenty bucks!). It's just a fancy straight edge.
  8. Logical Frank
    Playing seven-strings ain't no thing. It feels pretty normal to me. Those eight strings seem a little wide in the neck for me though. It seems the way a lot of people use those extra strings, they just ignore the highest strings and jam heavy riffs on the low end of things, which is cool but at that point you might as well make a six-string barritone to get your low tunings. Still, it seems to really open a lot of doors for people who take the time to learn it as a new instrument.
  9. Logical Frank
    Nice. I'm glad you're getting use out of it even though it's pretty enough that you just kinda want to sit and look at it. (I hate to be the one who points this out but only the drummer is allowed to wear shorts. Rules are rules, you know.)
  10. Logical Frank
    Well--I'm not quite sure that I understand you but what's really important is the distance from the nut to the twelfth fret is the same as the distance from the twelfth fret to the bridge. As as you make sure those distances equal to eachother, you can build a neck of pretty much any scale lenth to work w/ your body and bridge placement. There's no "universal" though in practice things tend to be built to certain popular specs--Fender, Gibson, PRS, etc.
  11. Logical Frank
    Whoa--I love it. I got a plain black tele that I'm turning into a barritone. This is giving me ideas...
  12. Logical Frank
    I was happy w/ my GFS pickups (Retrotrons) but some people say the super-bargain basement ones aren't as good. I say for that price, you really can't go wrong if you need some pickups.
  13. Logical Frank
    I don't really think either one is better. Or, I should say, I like them both equally. I have to say though that the horn on the bottom there strikes me as being way to long at the minute. It just seems like it's going to cause problems at some point or another... but it's only the ones in the drawings and not the rendered pics so maybe I'm just out of my mind.
  14. Logical Frank
    You will be fine to practice on your guitar amp. It will work and you won't hurt anything if you don't blast the volume. It won't sound good but it will be good enough to practice on. Spazzyone's suggestions would probably help you sound better but they're probably too much work and expense for a small gain. Any modification you make to a fifteen watt guitar practice amp is going to be attempting to polish a turd to a great extent.
  15. Logical Frank
    Anything on our side of the input jack of an amp is pretty safe to mess around w/. The biggest danger w/ effects boxes is to your amp not to you and even that's no big deal. I'm sure you could find someway to hurt yourself but it's not easy and I can't even think of the last time I've heard it mentioned. I've never done those shielding mods but they look to be very straightforeward and simple, certainly not dangerous. Heck--I might do them myself on one of my single coil fiddles to see if it does any good.
  16. Logical Frank
    Even if you tried specifically to do so, it would be rather difficult to mod a guitar in someway that it could electrocute you under ordinary circumstances. You can mod an amp in such a way that it can kill you but guitar electronics are pretty much low-voltage affairs as far as I know. Your biggest worry will probably be burning yourself w/ a soldering iron. As far as chemicals, a lot of the finishes you might use are toxic and should only be used w/ proper protection and ventilation. Some people have allergic reactions to certain woods as well.
  17. Logical Frank
    If I were to be modifying my own tools, I would need to buy yet more tools to do that so I think I might be stuck w/ the pre-made stuff if I am to be buying tools specific to luthiery. The cost to me is not that big of an issue if I'm getting my money's worth which is kinda sounding like its a pretty good bet since it would probably cost me at least forty or fifty bucks just to have my frets crowned and leveled once at a repair shop.
  18. Logical Frank
    There's two specifically that I'm considering adding to my arsenal of random tools and doodads. Nutmaking Tool Kit: http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Special_...g_Tool_Kit.html Fretting Tool Kit: http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Fretting_suppl...g_Tool_Kit.html Together, these cost just about as much as the bass I just bought. Are they gonna save me enough trouble to be worth it or should I just figure out some other way to do it more cheaply? I figure I will probably get the fretting one first because I have three guitars that I'd like to crown and level the frets on and only one that I'd like to modify the nut.
  19. Logical Frank
    I used the soldering iron method and it work really well. Thanks again folks.
  20. Logical Frank
    You know--I rather like the tone of poplar, maybe even better than alder. It's got a nice, midrangy rock sound to it. It's not the prettiest looking wood and that, I think, is why it's cheaper rather than it being strictly inferior as a tonewood.
  21. Logical Frank
    Well--I did it. I just used a regular drillbit and w/ a bit of masking tape over the finish. Worked like a charm. Thanks. Of course, I'm not 100% sure if I got the wiring correct but I think I'm gonna deal w/ that later...
  22. Logical Frank
    Oh--this soldering iron idea sounds much better. It won't remind me of a Bon Jovi concert video as would waving a cigarette lighter around.
  23. Logical Frank
    Thanks. That's kinda what I figured. I will be going the flame rout due since I own neither a heat gun nor a a hair-dryer.
  24. Logical Frank
    I would just be worried about messing them up accidentally. Plus, I try to avoid having to do stuff w/ my hands other than just playing. I don't like to even switch pickups midsong if I can avoid it. Also, you have the disadvantage of dropping such serious scratch on a Fuzz Factory and only being able to use it w/ one guitar. Still cool as hell though. I'm probably gonna be sticking a BYOC Tri-Boost into one of my fiddles. Or, actually, what I'd love to do is squeeze a delay in there since that seems to be the only effect I ever want to mess w/ on the fly while I'm playing.
  25. Logical Frank
    I just picked some of this up since I was at RadioShack anyway. I assumed it would have instructions but it doesn't and I'm not finding anything w/ Google. So how's it work? This is what I got, by the way: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.js...tab=accessories
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