Recent content by crusty philtrum

Re: A Rare NGD. It's Groovy. Yeah, Baby. Darn it, I'm not trying hard enough ! Here's a bad (and badly colour-corrected) pic of the changes I've made so far. Black pickguard screws replaced by chrome ones, vibrato arm shortened and fitted with cream Strat tip, changed Volume and Tone knobs...

I got an email from a music store showing some sale items they had at that time. This guitar interested me, and the reviews were very favourable. I watched this video .... and did some research. Seems these were around in 2009 but are no longer listed at Hofner's website. The retail price in...

I gave my main amp a minor facelift the other day, so I thought it might be interesting to tell you a bit about it. I built all of it from scratch some years ago ... folded and drilled the chasis, had the torroidal transformers built to my specs, did all the woodwork for the head and cab you'll...

Back in the 1980s I bought this Washburn Bantam headless guitar (all-wood body/ set-neck) and played the hell out of it for about seven years, it went everywhere with me. The neck was fabulous, but I knew the wood was rubbish. In 1993, I designed a new body and (set) neck for it, and a...

Specifically the VT version, that allows for two tube amps to be switched to one speaker cabinet, but i imagine the other models (for two s/s heads, or one s/s and one tube) function in pretty much the same way. I've been rehearsing and playing with a new band and have been giving a lot of...

I remember when these came out in the mid-late 1980s, and always thought it would be ideal to have one on my Telecaster so that I could set it up to switch between, open E, open A and Standard tunings. http://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_list&c=9 The fact that they're still...

18-20 months ago, I bought this 1970's Japanese Guyatone combo amp. It's one of their amazing silver-face Fender clones from that era. This one is the GA-1050 model, named 'Reverb Jazz', and is rated at 40 watts from a pair of 6L6s. Six preamp valves, reverb and tremolo, and a pair of 12" alnico...

A while ago, forum member and fellow Aussie Gibson175 PM'd me about some issues with his Twin Reverb. Being 1,000 Kilometres away, there was not much I could do without seeing it. So, after some discussion, i recieved this in the mail .... A general inspection showed that the entire amp...

I need to be able to make some mock-ups of Jag/Jazzmaster style instruments for an upcoming project but I can't find anything ... I can find Strat/Tele/LP ones but not the Jag shape. Does anyone know if there is such a site, and how I can find it if such a thing exists ? Thanks in advance.

Yesterday I was given a Tube Works 'Blue Tube' pedal by a friend, which contains a 12AX7 valve (tube). I remember when he, and another friend, got these pedals. I wasn't impressed at all, they didn't sound any better than s/s overdrive pedals to my ears. Apparently my friend felt the same way...

Laughing Kookaburra asked me how to wire a dual-impedance switch for a cabinet with 2 x 8 Ohm speakers, to give a total load of either 4 Ohms or 16 Ohms. (This would not usually be relevant for 2 x 4 Ohms or 2 x 16 Ohms as there would be a redundant impedance for both of those, i.e. 2 Ohms for...

Most read thread ever on the forum, always stickied up the top .... I just noticed it's gone ?!?!?!?! Did I miss something ? I feel destabilised without it's presence.

Two weeks ago I got an El Capistan delay pedal. That night i plugged my 69 Strat relic (BKP Irish Tour pickups) into it, took the stereo outputs into an M-Box and into the computer ... no tubes, amp, speakers or mics. I was just fooling around. I fell asleep in the wee small hours of the morning...

In 1993/4 I designed a guitar to use the hardware from a Washburn Bantam guitar I had (80's Steinberger-style guitar), and a friend of mine who had gotten into guitar building built it for me. I had some input, including carving the top. I also ended up with another body block from the same...

I built a guitar recently with two hybrid humbuckers (Custom/59 bridge, Jazz/59 neck, both with aged A5 magnets) and two volume cotrols/master tone control. Because the instrument was a sonic unknown, I've been doing some experimenting. After a couple of magnet swaps i decided to turn my...