Recent content by jimijames

Anybody tried the bill lawrence q filter? I'm curious about using one with the P rails. Series setting is too congested to my ears and this seems like a good way to tone it down, so it's still a hot humbucker (vs. PAF which is already covered by parallel) but more open sounding.

Hey guys - it's been a while. Hope everyone here has been well. I bought an esquire body from someone on the forum like 10 years ago and now I'm finally going to build it. I had previously tried to install a bigsby and got the post spacing wrong, then had one of the posts break when I tried to...

So I've long wanted a hiwatt amp, but can't afford/justify spending ~$3,500 on an amp. Well I've been eyeing the Ceriatone and one just popped up for sale near me. Although it's not ~100%~ what I would want if I were spec-ing it out for my own purposes. Two big issues are the Ceriatone...

Hello, been a while since I was a regular here, but I do have a question that I'd like the group's opinion on. I've got a HSS routed Strat that currently has two strabro 90s and a p-rails bridge. I love the tapped sound of the strabros - best single tone I've ever had. I use the p90 mode...

Hey guys, long time no see. I was active on the forum here in the early 2000s and again in the mid teens, and now (maybe) again in the early 2020s. I have a question for the wiring gurus out there, although I'm sure I could solve it myself I don't have a good drawing software and I need to...

Hello everyone - hope everybody here is doing well! Has anyone here purchased from USA Custom Guitars recently? I tried to order via their website (and couldn't) and then sent an email to their sales email address which got kicked back. I'm guessing I should give them a call? I guess while I'm...

Re: Longest lasting pick material? Not the easiest getting the photo - and pardon the crappy camera pic. But this is about how they look after a few days. It starts to get noticeable after about 30 minutes of playing, then gets a little worse for the next couple of days, then kind of levels off...

And all I can say is wow! I forgot how good this thing is to play. Replaced the .11s on there with .10s (which I imagine is more appropriate for a shredder axe anyway, I just use .11s on everything because I like how they feel) and the thing rips. It's seriously good. I even like the 78/custom...

So, I decided out of nowhere that I wanted to do what lew did and switch my strat over to a strat neck/tele bridge (no middle pickup) setup, non-rw/rp. Neck will be a strabro 90 like the title says. I'd like a production model as I don't have the funds right now for a custom shop model (unless...

Got the mythical overdrive in the mail a few days ago, haven't really had time to play it until a little bit yesterday and a little more earlier today. For those who don't know, it's built by a guy named ken who lives on Oregon. He seems to have a decent amount of the special sauce oa126 diodes...

Well, not entirely true... I got all the parts in the mail for the new madbean 8ball (copy of the Marshall bluesbreaker, but I'm going to tweak it slightly) as well as some germanium diodes which I will be experimenting with. Other pedal is their baconbits, which I think is a copy of an ampeg...

I need a steel saddle and a compensated brass d/g saddle - is there anywhere I could buy these individually or do I have to buy the set?

Brown "western" tolex 1x12 no scratches/dings. Looks very swanky and would go well with a smaller, ~15w head. Of course you could always throw a v30 in there and rock a 50w setup that's also compact. Asking $100 shipped/paypal'd OBO

So addictionfx doesn't do this. I don't want to spend another couple of hours sitting down grinding down a rod magnet because I don't have the right equipment to cut them. Anybody know of a place were you can get custom lengths of rod magnets? Specifically I'm looking for some shorter than...

So, I got a general guitar gadgets marshall bluesbreaker a while ago. I had some MA856 diodes from a few years ago that I held on to, and I used them. I've heard on the internet and therefore cannot back up with any actual facts or what have you, that the KoT is based on the bluesbreaker. This...