Recent content by Bludave

Hello all.... It has been quite some time since I've been here..... I've been using graphite saddles on my guitars for a very long time and they work great... Can't remember the last time I broke a string. Last year I bought a Firebird in Pelham blue... great guitar and I have broken a few...

Re: Silvertone Barn Find This is a 1956 Harmony H44... My wife bought it at a yard sale for $15.00, it had a broken pickguard, and needed to be rewired, but it works great, has a nice dark tone and loves a slide!

Re: Les Paul owners: advice...? Consider a Guild Bluesbird.... They are chambered so much lighter. They have a slightly different shaped cutaway then a Les Paul does, but they sound pretty damn close. I have a 1990 Standard & the Bluesbird. The Bluesbird sounds surprisingly close to the...

Re: Category #6 Submissions: Acoustic Best Martin, Gibson, Taylor I have a few more that I could have posted but I couldn't find the photos. The Martin D18 shade top is my newest acoustic. Great sounding and playing guitar, Obviously a D18 is Mahogany back & sides with spruce top. The...

Re: Slide players, recommend a glass slide As you can see I have a bunch. I really don't play too much slide anymore, but I prefer the Mudslides by Dunlop. They have a nice heavy wall and a reall nice warm tone. I have a California Telecaster that I play most electric slide on tuned to...

I have a Telecaster that has a Firebird minihum in the neck and am planning on replacing the bridge with a Jerry Donahue(I have this pickup in another Tele and it kills). I am trying to determine that the magnet polarity is the same direction as I don't want to have to disassemble the pick to...

These are some new picks I made. I've been pretty happy with the picks I use but a friend gave me a rosewood pick and it was cool but a bit too small. It had a recess for your thumb making it easier to hold on to and a little groove for your index finger but I like a standard size pick. So I...

Re: Picking Picks (Thats picks, not pickups) I made these out of some rosewood scrap. The bottom one I used as a guide as I liked the pick boy but felt it was a bit too small and hard to hold onto when I "chicken pick". I traced out a full size Dunlop pick, then used my dremel to cut out a...

Hell all, I am planning on installing the JD in a Telecaster that has a Seymour Duncan Firebird minihum in the neck. Can I just drop this in or will I need to reverse any of the leads? Thanks in advance. I have the JD in another Tele that has the JD i in the Bridge and a vintage 54 in the...

Re: "Best bang for the buck" semi-hollow? I have a 185 Dot RI Gibson 335, a 2009(I think) Gibson 359 & last year I had a Canadian Builder build me a carved maple 335. Here is a pick of that

Yesterday proved to be an interesting day to say the least. I was visiting my friend Cris Mirabella's guitar shop yesterday because I had planned on replacing a pickup in one of my Telecasters. When I got to the shop Cris was working on a very cool 1934 D'Angelico New Yorker. It was recently...

Well I got a chance to play through one of these last night. My band rehearses at a music store that also rents out a few rooms. I know the owner fairly well and he said to me I just got this in today would you like to use it tonight? I said sure I thought it would be a bit different then the...

In early March of last year I ordered this great guitar from Brian. For those of you who are unfamiliar with him, Brian is a great Canadian builder and is known for doing great vintage restoration work as well as building his own line of "Gibson" style guitars. http://www.montyguitars.com/...

Title says it all. I have the 57 classics in my 359 & I really like them. I just got a Custom made "335" style guitar but feel the pickups are a touch too bright(A5 magnets) and am leaning towards replacing them with 57 classics, but if they don't work out I would like to have a headsup on...

I am really considering this and thought I would ask here if anyone has some experience with this pedal. It looks pretty cool. Currently my board is pretty sparse. I use a Boss CE2(this is similar to the Strymon), a Boss DD3, Ibaneze TS9(modded), Wah & tuner. I have a few tunes that I think...