dragonbat13

In the tech section all of the stickies have images that are dead.. Which makes the stickies rather useless. Do you have to donate or something?

Yea there is no way of seeing the pliers. What the name of them so they can be searched on the HF site?

I wonder if it would be possible to put a bandaxall type setup in a strat. Something like running a volume pot that will allow more treble through (I think that would be a 500K) and then having a bass and treble for the tone knobs.

Most likely the preamp all the way to one side is the input and tone stack tube, the other is the tremolo driver. As far as spare tubes, untill I found what I was looking for I would get a couple of cheaper 12ax7s for the preamp and a JJ6v6 for the power. Try the JJ even though the original still works. You may have a nice Blackplate RCA or something in there, which you wouldnt want to damage, so take the JJ on the road and leave the old tube for studio and home use. Especially if you like the old tube better than the JJ. For the first tube you can run a 12ax7 or put in a 5751 for 30 percent less gain. If you really like the amp, then a good idea would be to replace the power supply capacitors. If you know how to solder it would be easy to do. If you amp has a slight hum it will probably go away. Also, above all else install a three prong cord. And if it has a ground switch on it then you probably need to remove the "death cap".

Cool, thanks. Im not gonna start a thread and then have it sit with everybody waiting. Im just gonna get everything rounded up and then make a complete build. In the meantime I'll try to help others out.

I havent been here in awhile but Im back.. This use to be almost soley a ibanez forum but now it has seemed to have changed somewhat. Would there be any problems with anybody about me posting my Kramer Pacer project on a thread? I figured I would ask before going against the norm on a forum I am not used to Thanks

there are a number of things to consider.. One is exactly how much material you really need to take off, and the other is contact area. First off, decide how much material you can leave and get away with. The less you take off the best. You can always take off more later. One area that is gonna be affected is neck angle. If you move the front screws back, your distance between the fulcrum of the front screws and the end of the neck where shims go is gonna be reduced, which will make it alot harder to set and stabilize the neck angle. If you want to really get crazy, find a short scale neck, deepen the pocket back towards the bridge till the scale length is correct and carve away. You would have to look closely to see the wrong length neck on a strat body without the guard on it. I dont know for sure since I really dont know ibanez guitars that much, but I would think they would have put the neck pocket further back in the body to allow a deeper trunion surface. That would allow all four screws to be moved back. If you want the aanj setup, try and install one of those anchored stud kits. That allows you to put a metal insert in the neck and have a machine screw to screw into it. I heard it works really well. Or you could do the older RG type of access where you dont change the pocket at all, you just thin out the back of the body and use shorter screws. Good luck...

Learn 12 bar blues, learn the pentatonic scale. Practice pentatonic scale on top of a repetition of an e chord then an a chord back and forth. After that put in a CD of whatever blues musician you like. Try on every song on the CD. You will find one that is easy for you to mess around with the pentatonic scale. Also dont worry about learning all the blocks of the scale, just the one used most, which is the only block pattern where half the notes are on the same fret on each string (in a straight line). If you try those things and are rather sucessful, then just keep practicing and maybe find a few licks you like. If it makes no sense to you then your gonna have to find some sort of lesson on DVD or something. I learned it off of a very old lesson that you could get in guitar for the practicing musician called "Metal Method". I doubt you will find it. Good luck.

So if I were to wire the reverse wound coil on a humbucker in the bridge with a single coil with the phase switch in the neck position I would have a noise cancelling signal with the neck in phase and a good usable out of phase type of sound with noise right. Is this possible to do with a HSS setup?

Whats the difference between a reverse pole single coil in the middle and a phase reversal switch in the middle. I was under the impression that the poles reversed when the phase reversed on the switch. I don't think I know the whole picture.

Vintage Guitar had a article in their amp tech section last month that tells how to build your own power attenuator. It should cost about 80$ to build and didn't seem like to hard of a project. I plan on building one for my twin reverb.

Hi. Just joined the forum but have been looking at the site for awhile. I am building a strat with a HSS pickup setup. I am using a Mexican Strat body with a Maple Neck/Board with compound radius. It will also have a Original Floyd Rose on it. I plan on spraying a thinskin nitro laquer finish. I need some opinions on pickups. This guitar is going to be used on a wide range of tones. Hard rock, Texas Blues, Chicago Blues, Metal, Classic Rock, Ect. I plan on using a JB Duncan in the bridge position. I prefer Duncan Pickups but I am not partial to them. What do you guys (and Gals) think would be a good Mid and Neck pickup for this guitar in this situtation. I know I will have some limits but I built a Tele for some of my more cleaner sounds. Also the body is already routed for three micro switches. I plan on using one to split the humbucker and maybe one for a phase reverse in the middle pickup. Also I plan on having a tone knob on the bridge and neck pickups instead of the normal strat tone controls. Sorry about the long post but I want to make sure everyone has a good idea of my goals. Thanks Mark