Recent content by Colma

After having some serious GAS and doing a great job on putting some extra money away im about to reward myself with a warmoth lespaul :]. the body will most likely be black korina with a flame maple top, and a birdseye maple neck with ebony fingerboard. whenever i need pickups for a new guitar...

Hi i just got a new Jem and the 5 way switch on it is verrry stiff and im curious if there is a way i can change the ammount of pressure it takes to change positions ?

ive had this neck and body sitting around for quite a while and ive been wanting to put it together so i decided to come here for some suggestions on pickups!. first off its a jem neck, maple on maple with the pyramid inlays, and the body is a mahogany RG fixed bridge with a hum/hum setup. ive...

hi. i recently purchased one of the new 07 RR-24's, but i need to sell it because im getting ready to buy my first car and need the money for tax beyond the loan and help with registration yada yada. anyways. i figured i come here before i go to the bay with it to maybe get an idea of what i can...

Im looking for the quietness of an active system but i dont want it to be to bright. right now i have an 81 in the bridge of a black korina les paul and its wayyy too bright. i listened to the samples on the emg website and the 85 sounds even more so. any suggestions ?

i have a serious problem with the volume knob on my guitars that are close to the pickups and up past the bridge. with the way i hold the pick im always bumping into them and rolling off the volume 2-3 notches every time i do. im curious if there are some kind of knobs that are a lot lower...

i dont know if its the weather or what...but ive had nothing less than hell from all of my trem equipped guitars this week. pissed me off so bad today that i e-bayed a mahogany fixed bridge RG body :] ive got plans to route out a single coil in the middle, other than that ill be refinishing...

hey im wiring up one of my new project guitars. this is my first H/S/H guitar and i wanted positions 2/4 to be hum canceling. the problem is that my single coil is already a humbucker ( i believe its a DiMarzio HS3 ) http://guitarelectronics.zoovy.com/product/WDUHSH5L1101 thats the wiring...

im curious about the tuning stability of the ibanez trems that also have the piezo pickups in them ? im having a custom jem body and neck built right now and would like to add one of these to my guitar if possible. id probably use the piezo more than id use the trem but i dont want to have to be...

looking to buy a jackson JE1000 gainboost. name your price.

what would be the difference between an emg-81 and an emg H4 ( the 81 version without the " active " and their pre-amp ( i assume making it active ).

i've been going at it with sand paper for a while now...havent got too far... its a '91 jackson. should i dremel it ?

is there anyway i can purchace a jackson pickup brand new or is it pretty much an ebay thing ? ( im searching for a J-50-BC humbucker for the bridge position if it helps )

soooo i've been looking for a rhoads guitar for a while scored a pre-fender rhoads ( decent condition ) from ebay. ran into a huge problem. i want to replace the jackson trem ( old and rusty ) with a floyd i got laying around. so i took off the trem. and holy mother of rust on the pivot...

im in the market for a rhoads v and im fairly picky so heres what i've been able to come up with for options. ideally id like something with : ebony fingerboard / 24 frets / floyd rose ( or similarly routed so i could drop my own in ) and rear routed controls, neck through. the first thing id...