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The best real one-man band I have ever seen was this guy. Old friend of mine and is sadly no longer with us. Built his set-up with his dad its unique was a very special guys.

Thanks will check that stuff out!

Would throw the Saturday night specials in the mix also. Both run together clean have a unique almost acoustic like character. They work very, very well in a semi Hollow. I just pulled the set I have had out of my Carvin AE 185 I am about to sell, and I am going to drop them into my Carvin SH 60...

Found the email, thanks.

Two of the best sounding low volume amps I have found are my pair of US built 50 watt PRS heads. My first gen Archon 50 and my Custom 24. Both will absolutely kill at a whisper. The Custom 50 cleans in particular are amazing at super low volumes, but the crunch is not shabby at all either. Much...

Could not find the email on the new site for some reason but will call again on Monday.

The Surfers in the Sunburst 94 Silverado are very clear clean and are one of the best sounding sets I have heard for classic glassy Strat tones. With the Custom bridge that is slightly overwound its are just a little fatter in the bridge. But really nails that classic vintage Strat tone. That...

I picked up a twang Banger for the bridge in my 95 Washburn Silverado. I knew it would be on the bright side but didn't anticipate that it would be as much of a tonal mismatch with the Scooped Strat neck and middle. Never had a chance to play a guitar with the Twang Banger and had not played one...

You can stuff more box foam in there, but it still doesn't work well. It's using the denser foam that makes the difference. It's not just about the look it sounds different. Dampens the vibration to the pickup from the body and lets the pickup catch the tone differently from the actual strings...

Several here have talked about trying to use the foam from the box on a Duncan pickup. Does not work well at all, it's too soft. What Washburn used for the Grover era guitars that direct mounted was much denser. The only thing I have found that is close is the foam used for exercise mats. They...

Lemon oil is mostly just mineral spirits with a smell. I use it regularly to clean fretboards it's good stuff. However, it will do noting to bring back color to help with fret sprout from fretboard shrinkage and help close open grain from a board being super dry. I use the Howard on antique...

Not my experience at all with Locking tuners. My Washburn USA guitars plus several floyed Carvins and my Kiesel Delos with a Ghoto 510 with locking tuners and no lock nut are all as stable as any guitar I have ever owned with a locking, nut. That is even under extreme trem use. With locking...

For what you do, I would stay far away from an evertune bridge. Because of the design you will always be fighting the guitar on bends ect. It will always feel very stiff and fight you as the Evertune resists bending. On the trem vs hardtail any floating trem is going to detune slightly on the...

Lockers by far. The absolute best I have ever used are the factory tuners on the mid 90's Washburn USA guitars built when Grover Jackson was running that shop. Pretty sure they were built to spec by Ghoto and are unique to those guitars. Size of a Schaller mini lock from the top of the post and...

Church rig is my PRS Custom 50 head into a Captor X. I run a wah into my Keelie 4 knob compressor into a Nobels ODR 1 to the front of the amp. In the loop I’m running a Xotic Super Sweet boost buffer into a Boss DD 7, Strymond Blue Sky and an old Rocktron Deep Blue Chorus. For my play out rigs...