Recent content by C-Martin

I have another thread in the guitar section about the guitar, but I'm trying to ID this bridge pickup that came in this MIJ Strat (modded by original owner in the 80s). I know it's a cool rail or a hot rail from my search, but with just the "1B" I can't seem to figure out which model it is...

I ended up making to trip to try this MIJ E series ST57 Strat. Talked to the guy for a while while trying it, he was a pretty cool guy and told me his history with the guitar. He’s been holding on to it since the 80s, he even remembers it being very white when buying it. You can see the original...

Hey guys, might be able to score a decent deal on this “E series” MIJ Strat. I don’t know much about MIJ so I was a bit skeptical when I saw a few things like the pick guard being a bit off on the horn and the neck plate. Everything else seems in order according to my research, but could not...

Re: Which Of Your Guitars Has Seen The Most? This guitar has been both my main and guinea pig for since i started playing. It's been gigged, experimented on with countless pickup configurations, different bridges, different nuts, scalloped neck, different guards, springs, knobs, pots, etc. It...

So I've been tracking some stuff lately and wanted to use the Fuzzface on a specific part. I was running a Les Paul into the fuzz face and into a 'cranked to 11' JtM-45. When I had everything dialled in and hit record, I was greeted with this squealing sound whenever I wasn't playing. The squeal...

Re: blues gig tonight with guys i dont know I vote for keeping it simple as well. I have a small travel board I keep for this kind of situation. I would grab a clean boost, a versatile OD and a delay. That's usually all I need really. Maybe throw in a phase or tremolo if you want, and maybe a...

Re: Lets see those pedal boards you are using right now. Recently got one of the newish FuzzFaces and ended up reconfiguring my travel board. Never been into fuzz much, always found them muddy or overwhelming, but something just clicked with this one and now I love it. Since then I've been...

Hey all, I recently started doing setup on my friends old MIM Stratocaster and I noticed one of the frets looked "kinked" so I suggested it would be best to replace it. The fret (12th) was basically slopping towards the 11th fret on the high E side, it looked like it had been hit or something...

I love strats and been wanting a true to vintage spec Strat for years. I tried an original '59 long ago and thought it was the most amazing thing I had ever played and been wanting something like it ever since. I can't really afford a Fender Custom shop or AVRI at the moment so I recently...

I recently been itching for a vintage styled 3 single coil Strat because i have WAY too many super Strats and humbucker guitars, I wanted something different. I've never really been interested in buying a new pre-relic'ed guitar, much less a mexican and for the price they go for, but I ended...

Hey, so i have an old strat i fitted a vintage OFR years ago and the low E saddle's pivot has started to seize and is very hard to move. This makes fine tuning basically impossible, or requires excessive force on the thumb screw to get it to move (IE. once the saddle was removed, i was unable to...

Just a Simple question. I am tying to find a '59 neck (with short legs) with a matte looking nickel cover. Not aged, I don't necessarily want it to look reliced as it will have uneven looking aged/dirty look. I just don't want a shiny nickel cover for the guitar it's going on. I had seen one a...

I've got some rusty pole screws on a couple of really old SD pickups and want to swap them over for new ones. Can i order them directly from SD, and what would be the best way to do so? I found some on eBay but there seems to be different alloy choices and i would like to just get the exact same...

Still have this Seymour Duncan '59 neck pickup with nickel cover, long legs, brand new in a box never installed. I could post pictures if necessary, but it's literally brand new and still has the plastic protector on the cover. Comes with the box - 80$ I also have a Dimarzio Evolution and a PAF...

I have this Nickel covered 59 i want to put in my new guitar, but not really thinking about it i bought this thing used with long legs. When i went to install it in the guitar, the routing wasn't deep enough to allow me to place it at the height i want, it's basically a little too close to the...