Recent content by brady

Hello all. For the second time, I caught Saliva in concert and was blown away again. My problem is that my gear is mainly blues or blues/rock based. a tele, strat and a crate vc30. what I'm after is a dist.pedal in the saliva heavy mode because the vc30 doesn't get it by itself. If possible...

hello all! I am currently painting a usacg body and final assembly should be within the next 2 weeks. However, I bought a set of pickups from a competitor that did not include screws for the traditional style tele neck pup. I have never had anything but a hb in the neck of a tele. so what do I...

If anyone has any knowledge on this please post, here is the problem. I have purchased a set of 58 Korina V templates from guitarbuilding templates.com and a nice slab of alder from guitar mill. Only to find out that there's not enough wood for the template to rest on. The template is huge...

Hey Everyone, I've got a usacg tele body to work with and thinking of a roy buchanan style build with the nancy tone pickups. I was thinking if anyone has ever put a clapton mid boost kit in a tele like fender does with the strats? It looks like some routing is involved(no big deal) and a...

There are a few tele pieces in my closet that are calling to me more everyday. I've got a nice swamp ash body from usa custom guitars that needs pickups. it is traditional tele routed. I'm interested in what pickups out there could get me a sound similar to Albert Collins and Roy Buchanan...

I have a mid 90's model Crate Vintage Series tube amp and the input jack is bad. it starts to crackle after a few minutes of playing. Upon removing the panels, I discovered the jack is soldered to a PC Board. I am asking for some advice from anyone out here on how to remove the jack to put on a...

Hello everyone. I have read the forum a couple times and decided to get some help. I have about a 10yr. old mexican tele my wife bought me for my birthday 7yrs ago. she picked it herself,gotta love her for it. anyway it has and alder body and maple fretboard, red lace sensor singlecoil shape in...