Recent content by El CHupacabra

NGD: Ovation Model 1111•1 Hola SDF, its been a while. But I got a nice piece O' guitar to share w/ you today. This is an Ovation that my uncle had for years and years, and when he recently lost his battle with cancer, the family sent it to me, knowing that I'd appreciate it appropriately. It's...

I'll just leave this here for your amusement.

Knowing how the internet has a niche for everything, is there any forum for double bass? Any kind of style? I think the double bass may just be my instrument I mean look at it! It's manlier than a violin by far, less finicky than the cello, not as neglected as the viola, and it's got that...

So quick story and then question for those more well versed in Pickup Technology: I was talking with a jazz guitarist, John Stowell (bleeping brilliant!) about his guitars and his sound, and comparing pickups. As you may or may not know, I love the Alnico 2 Pro in the neck, and he liked it too...

As some of you may or may not know, I'm building a ukulele right now in my free time, and I've approached the time to hammer in the frets. I don't have a fret hammer, and I'm wondering: A: Can you use just a normal hammer, or does it have to be a fret hammer? I don't plan on going into mass...

Yes it's true, I am interested in getting a shredder-type guitar. THought i'd expand my horizons, and it might be good to spice up the indie-rock-blues-jazz-rock band I'm soon going to be lead guitar for. I've been partly inspired by my own curiosity with something so blatantly un-blues and by...

Hey all, it's me again. I've recently been tinkering with my strat to try and find a balance for the Vintage Vibrato system that is easy to depress but able to stay flat against the body when not in use (in other words, I want the bridge to be flat against the body if i'm not using the vibrato)...

1st off, El CHupacabra has returned from winter hiatus! WOO Celebrate me! 2nd off, what's the "standard" gauging for bass strings? My uncle got me a Fender Steel core-nickel wound that goes .045, .065, .085 and .105 Any clarification would be helpful!

Sorry to steal the pics, please don't sue owner. well, would ya? It's either awesome or absolute donkey crap.

OK, some of you may remember my band director looking for $500 jazzboxes a while back. WELL we got them but the pickups aren't to his standards, SO we're looking for neck buckers that work well in JazzBoxes. I was thinking A2P first, seeing as it does Jazz so well in a strat, but not everyone in...

Well, at what age range? I'd like to see how early most of us started. I started at 14, after seeing Paul McCartney's Violin Bass on display at the Beatles Cirque Du Soleil.

To fit ALnico II Pro Neck and Pearly Gates Bridge. I tried a normal set from a LGS, but the E-e polepieces don't line up exactly. NOt a huge issue, but I wonder if anyone knows what parts will fit it correctly. I haven't soldered the current covers on, so I wouldn't have trouble getting new ones.

so, this week Mr/Mrs Sammler handed the Well off to me. So a little about me to get the ball rolling: I am in actuality a 16 year old person in Portland, OR. I done a bit of posting around here in my short time of being here. Where the Well Goes now, who knows. So Bring it on.:firing: It's...

has anyone got a strat with covered humbuckers? if so, how's it sound? I'm contemplating it, to warm out my Pearly Gates bridge a bit and to add the bass-mid to my A2P. It is after all, used primarily for blues an Jazz. How would it go? Opinions/ideas/experience requested!

Is it possible to put Normal Humbucker mounting rings (http://images.miretail.com/products/optionLarge/DiMarzio/545010jpg.jpg) overtop a strat pickguard like the Dave Murray Signature Strat (http://www.fender.com/products//search.php?partno=0118802806) or is that specially built? Wondering...