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i bought this fender vibro champ years and years ago, and while its neat, it sorta just collected dust. the amp sounds nice, but its too clean, and the vibrato makes me sick. amp dates to 1978, the speaker is a 10" from some other fender. i guess i was bored the other day and printed out...

i just played my worst strat and my best strat back to back, and i have to laugh, the difference between the two is so small, and i actually ended up tweaking the "good" one to sound more like the crappy one.... the good one, 2007 MIM body, big trem block, warmoth neck; which i really like, its...

well sorta... i had this junky body, on the bottom of a stack of junk bodies. i found a can of white lacquer spray paint, dug up a neck, my bro donated a GFS mean 90, and um that's it. no craftsmanship was involved, it even still smells like wet paint! i think its going to be my pickup...

so i took a 2003 MIM strat apart to refinish, i should take pics. anyways its wine red, and i was looking at the body and my nail caught a paint edge and took a quarter sized piece of paint off down to the wood! so i got excited and a pocket knife, and it seems like about half the poly finish...

the easy way! idea came from a carl verheyen vid. carl says he likes to set the bridge so when you pull up on the bar you get certain notes/intervals. he also says string tension = spring tension. i've always found its hard to get it all equalled out and have it stay in tune when you touch...

i had an idea to be able to run a big amp, and 4x12 cabinet, but at reduced volume. so what happens if you wired 2 of the 4 speakers backwards? in theory would it not cancel out the 2 other speakers? and thus be quieter? actually i can see this wont work already, but has anyone ever tried...

so the other day i blew a fuse in the 5150, i just popped a new one in and everything seems fine. can the glass type fuses just die of old age?

its an 82' 504 50W model, HOLY ****E! i think i saw god, i can't find my socks, they got blown clean off.... its awesome, sounds GREAT! POWER, dynamics.... its pretty clean but sounds HUGE and full, high end is really well defined, but not harsh at all, really pleasant. my bro's strat...

just happened to have both, so i got a shot

i was inspired by the tone on this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q58ggVIKAY&feature=related sounds like a teeny amp thats cranked i unplugged the silly 5150, and plugged in the mini twins... nowhere near but fun anyways

my brother just picked one up, seems like its really neat so far... anyone know anything about em?

when i put the duncans in my LP it had been so long since i played it, i had forgotten where controls were supposed to be. i ended up with the neck pickup controls on top, which seems to work out pretty well. anyone else tried this? i have to go in there to fix something anyways, so i was...

picked this up with some another body and we ended up using the other one anyways the date stamp is feb 16 1996 (could be the 6th too) looks like its a MIM, to me finish is very good, i got it with those routes, i have no idea what they were used for i'd like to get $100 shipped, but make me...

so ive got a bunch of guitars, my brother thinks i should sell a some off, and then i'd have a big stack of money. then maybe i could get some new ones or something. i'm thinking even though i have a couple i don't play much, the only thing i'd change is i want to get rid of a wine red one...

the biggest thing i have trouble with when i switch guitars is the PICKING. for example my LP is lower slung than the tele, going between the two, i'm picking wrong strings for a little while. the LP is lower slung, just cause its more comfortable there, tele is in the middle, strats are...