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Folks, A recently purchased guitar came with a treble bleed mod installed. I noticed that the clean-up I usually get with my treble booster (Beano Boost) is very different with the new guitar vs. my others (without treble bleed mods)...as in, not really usable. I searched a bit on the forum...

Folks, I have a stock G&L ASAT with the newer magnetic field design pickups...never changed anything but the strings on this guitar. I picked it up used in mint condition and it has always been hum free in the middle position (neck and bring pickups together). It is one of my main guitars and...

Folks, I'm trying to figure out the potentiometer values on my circa-2012 Gibson ES335 Dot (300k or 500k)...thought I would check here first before diving in and disassembling it. Alternatively, is there a way to know by measuring the resistance or something? I tried looking in there with a...

I've visited Southpaw Guitars in Houston about 5 times over the past 10 years when I'm in town on business. Each time, I typically spend a few hours and play upwards of 25 guitars. As a lefty player, I am not used to so many choices, and the last 4 times I left with sensory overload/no...

Perhaps a somewhat obscure question... A few months ago, I posted about my new (to me) G&L ASAT and how much I liked the guitar and the pickups. That prompted a bout of GAS where I was toying with the idea of getting a G&L S500 (basically a strat with the MFD pickups)...but I really prefer...

Re: If you were to own signature guitars, which would they be? I have two at the moment, the Elliot Easton Gretsch and the Epiphone McCartney Texan (not one of the Montana-built ones...regardless, it sounds great). They are both great guitars...that happen to be available in left handed...

I am laughing at myself as I write this thread... I have a Tele and wanted to experiment with a Charlie Christian pickup in the neck position...but I did not really want to route my favorite Tele, so I went looking for something similar to experiment with that I was not afraid to cut into... My...

Folks, I think I know the answer to this, but I thought I would ask the collective consciousness... I tried to wire up my Les Paul (2 humbuckers) with a push pull pot for coil split, but came across an unintentional anomaly because of my extensive soldering skills (um...not). I wanted one...

Folks, I recently replaced the pickups in my Tele (blonde custom shop model, white pick guard, purchased used by me in 1998...left handed...supposedly previously owned by Cesar Rosas). I don't actually know how old the guitar is. When I bought it from the "vintage" room, Hollywood Guitar...

Folks, I looked on the Gibson website, but I could not find the pot values for the recent incarnation of the ES 335 (plain top, gloss finish). Is there a way to measure it without disassembling the guitar? I'm suspecting they are 300k, but I want to make sure. Thanks!

Folks, The new Fender American Strat I picked up two weeks ago has really impressed me on several levels, compelling me to write this (long) post much sooner than I would otherwise. 1) The fit and finish is wonderful, and the setup and intonation were great right off the shelf. Very...

Folks, After some time with the search engine, I thought I would ask the question directly...how much do you think stagger affects the sound on strat pickups? I play left handed, so putting a "normal" strat pickup with staggered pole pieces in my guitar (e.g., some Antiquities?) would result...

Somewhat random question...does a Bigsby affect the tone and/or sustain on a hollow body guitar (e.g., Casino, Heritage H525, Gretsch, or the like) versus the trapeze tail piece it might replace? And if so, how does it affect the tone? Thanks. vs

Folks, I'm a fan of the SG Classic, with P90s (think Townshend, etc.). My SG, however, has humbuckers (whatever the stock ones are...this was purchased about 2 years ago, new). I LOVE the way the guitar plays, but I would prefer P90s. 1. Has anyone tried Phat Cats in an SG? Do they come...

Hi Folks, Here's a relatively obscure question: I played one of the new Danelectro guitars the other day (two lipstick pickup model, with a more robust bridge than the typical model...looking at their website I think it was a '59 modified model). The middle position sounded pretty fat...very...