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Gday, I need help identifying a guitar that Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters owns. It appears to be a Gibson 335 but the head stock has the machine heads all on one side like a strat. You can see Dave playing this guitar on the film clip for "learn to fly" and "times like these". If anyone...

Has anyone tried cutting magnets in half lengthways and putting halves of different magents into the one pickup? I read a review of the screamin demon at harmony central today when the reviewer says he put half ceramic half alnic 5 into the demon and says its his fave pickups. Is this...

Theres been a bit of talk recently about the weber mass and ive been interested in getting some kind of attenuator for quite some time. I was orginally going to go with a Hotplate but with webers attenuators being a fair bit cheaper and having selectable impendances i think that weber is the...

Gday. Ive heard recently from the Bill Lawrence forum that the dimensions for the L-500 pickups is not the same as ur average humbucker. Can u simply install one of these into a normal strat pickgaurd routed for a humbucker or will i need to do some modifications on the pickguard?

Ok this is my final question regarding bill lawrence pickups then im taking the plunge. What exactly does this Q filter do? The website says it changes the impendance of the the pickups and a review on harmony central says that can get acoustic like sounds out of his electric with this...

Has anyone played using bills single coils? In particular the L-280's and L-290's. Ive heard that the 290's are more modern sounding compared to the 280's with less highs and more mids but i would like to hear more in depth talk bout how they sound clean and when overdriven. Im planning on...

Has anyone tried making one of these? Theres something in the back of my mind telling me this is a good idea and that i have to make one. Usually when this happens it turns out that i love it cause this has to happened to me before with pickups, pedals, amps etc. If anyone has made one or...

Gday. Im buying a 250k and a 500k volume pot and the shop i buy most of my stuff from only stocks dimarzio pots. Are these any good? I was originally looking for some CTS ones and im just wondering if the Dimarzios are good or if i should just go some where and get the CTS ones? Thanks for any...

Has anyone here made hybrid pickups? like taking a coil from one humbucker and another coil from a different pickups like the 59/custom hybrid? If so how do you take apart a pickup safely and then connect 2 different coils to each other?

Gday Im planning to buy some of Eminences new wizard speakers which are new ones to the redcoat series. I wanna break them in using maybe a variac before installing in a cabinet i am soon gonna start building. Does anyone know where i can buy a variac and how much they cost? also how long...

Gday, Im looking for a good luthier in the Sydney area. Im pissed off with the nut on my strat its being nothing but trouble and i wanna replace it with a nice graphtech one. Anyone know someone that can do this and do it well? Theres a place nearby that i had a bad experience with that...

Hey there, Has anyone had any experience with this pickup? Im lookings for a neck singlecoil that when overdriven has a smooth open kinda sound and a bouncy sensetive sound clean. Im thinking about the Duckbucker because its noise cancelling and has a good output to match my bridge humbucker...

Has anyone had any experience with these pickups? These are the ones that were desinged for jeff beck.

Ive deicded to completly change the configuration of my strat. Im leaving the Dimarzio Breed in the bridge but im gonna custom order a pickguard thats only got 1 volume and a H S pickup config. Im looking for a Big open sounding single coil with a bit of chime in the top end for the neck...

Sorry about all these questions regarding speakers ive been asking recently but ive decided to go for eminence since there so much cheaper then celestion. Ive been looking at their new line of speakers and theres so many i cant make a decision without thinking "but what bout this combination?"...