Recent content by Inkstained

I've got a 2001 American Series Double Fat Strat. Great guitar, I love it. But the Pearly Gates Plus bridge 'bucker is just too bright and biting and I want something warmer. I'm looking at a Custom Custom to replace it. Some questions: Do I need F spacing for this guitar? If so, does that...

Re: NSD - Celestion A-Type I put one in my DRRI a couple of months back, and I guess the jury is still out. It replaced a 40-watt alnico-mag Jensen, which was beautiful, but afraid of distortion and fuzz sometimes. PROS: Volume, can handle overdrive, distortion, dirt, all that, like a champ...

Re: What do you know about the Fender Strat Plus? I've had mine for 20 years now. I removed the hipshot tremsetter for four springs in the back last summer.

Re: Which is your favorite Fender 1x12 tube combo amp? DRRI, wine-red, bordeaux blues edition. I traded the Jensen alnico for a Celestion A type a few months back. With my 339 or my Strat plus, it's probably my best amp, although I'm also addicted to my Bassbreaker 007 with Fender Bassbreaker...

Re: Fender Bassbreaker 007 but with more power? The awesomeness of this amp is difficult to dispute. There are times when I find myself wanting "more."

I have a 2014 Gibson Les Paul Melody Maker. It has the P-90 "slug" pickups. I want to get an SD Custom Shop P-90 under humbucker for the bridge slot, leaving the neck pickup stock. (Here's an earlier thread about my guitar and the pickups.) My questions: Is there an "optimal" wiring kit for...

Re: The Warmoth Club Warmoth one-piece maple neck, satin nitro finish. Fender 2001 American Series Double Fat Strat body.

I'm thinking about getting a Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Humbucker under P90 Soapbar for my 2014 Gibson Les Paul Melody Maker. I'm eyeing the Alnico II, single conductor version for the bridge slot. The current "P90S" slug pickups in my MM are OK, but I'd like something a bit more powerful and...

Re: Designing a custom Strat neck: All the vintage feel without the vintage problems. Just got my custom Warmoth neck for my 2001 American Series Double Fat Strat. Looking forward to putting it on Saturday.

These are the four-knob 339s. Wine red or ginger burst. The price is high, no doubt, but I don't see reviews of these guitars anywhere. Does anyone here have any experience with them? Thanks.

Looking at a new Gibson SG Standard (traditional). I know these pickups have been around for a while and are quite widespread, but I personally have no experience with them. I play "classic" rock, jazz, beer-and-cues blues, etc. No metal. Amps include a DRRI, Princeton Recording Amp, Marshall...

Thoughts, opinions, threats?

... of buying a Marshall Slash combo. Tell me why this is a bad idea. It's not handwired. Made in China. We're supposed to frown on that, right? It causes cancer of the ears, yes? Talk at me.

I'm looking at an Egnater Tweaker 112 15-watter combo. I play blues, classic rock, some jazz, with Fenders and Gibsons. The middle-class white boy trilogy -- SRV, Hendrix, Clapton -- rules my world, for better or worse. I don't gig. I play in a basement in our own single-family home, and I'm...

Re: TB59 Bridge in a strat for classic rock, ACDC, Thin Lizzy, LED Zepplin, I play "classic rock" on all my guitars, electric and acoustic, but this is my only one with traditional humbuckers: A 2001 American Series Fender Double Fat Strat, the successor to the "Big Apple" Strat, Fender's first...