Recent content by Kivitel

Here is my strat project. Sliiiight relic, mainly just took the shine off the plastic, rounded the knobs a bit. Body from guy on ebay, light ash. Guitar rereanch coral nitrocellulose lacquer, thin coat. Lace sensor holy grails. Ebony fretboard from allparts, graphite nut. Tremolo not really in...

Does anyone have any experience with these? I'm thinking I might get one that has the blackface preamp running through 6L6s, and maybe one other preamp. How good or bad do they sound?

Hi there. I need an amp. Here are my requirements: 1. Has to have good reverb 2. Has to sound great with a strat, especially clean. 3. No need for distortion/crunch, maybe a little OD but it really isn't my bag 4. Has to have transparent sound, be good with pedals 5. Needs good reverb 6...

I play a lot of ganster rap and sort of krunk-inspired stuff as well. Mostly your standard ice-t, early ice-cube, DOC stuff (hey no one can do it better...) I have an alder strat 50s RI with a brass nut + maple neck, and was wondering if anyone had any pickup recommendations for a more updated...

I just thought I would ask for some input from the community on this. I have a strat which I made from parts. I always felt it was a bit on the heavy side, although I don't have any other strats to compare it to. Anyway, I had the neck off the other day and decided to weigh it. It clocks in at...

Okay, so I recently obtained a nice alder tele body. Black. Simplest thing in the world. Not a fender or mighty mite, but seems to be of respectable quality. Anyway, it has a tele neck pocket. Problem is, I have a 21 fret strat neck I want to put on it (maple, 70's headstock). Now, I know that...

Hey, this is a two part thread. First, guitarfetish is selling off a whole bunch of necks and bodies and so forth from a factory they bought out overseas. Some pretty sketchy stuff, some legitimately nice stuff too - all very very cheap. You'll want to act fast, the last sale got swept up in a...

Hey, some of you might now about this, but I just found it: http://www.dougyoungguitar.com/pickuptest.htm It has really good sound samples of a huge number of acoustic pickups. Magnetic, piezo, mic, mixed ones. All in different sorts of guitars with identical musical passages played on 'em...

Does anybody know where you can buy the speakers used in a Roland JC 120? The big shiny ones? I can't seem to find any of them anywhere. And in a related story - can anyone suggest a good speaker for undistorted cleans? I'm trying to build a very hi-fi cab - so I don't want the sort of speakers...

Okay, a while back I started making guitars. One was a cost no object (within reason) gorgeous neck thru telecaster. That thing has been a pain in the ass but it's almost done, pics to follow. The other was a 'what's the best instrument I can make from cheap parts on ebay' - a beater that can...

Hi folks. I've been having some weird issues with my old amp here, which is basically a fender twin with a solid state preamp. I've been detaching it from the cabinet and I tried to connect it to an external cabinet today, and I noticed that the output was really low...like, turned up all the...

Okay. Telecaster. Custom. I made it. Maple thru neck. Chambered ash wings. Totally badass. Covered in perfectly tripped canvas, airbrushed to perfect speckly, ambery textury perfection. I put paint on the canvas and then polished it by hand, leaving alternating dark / light and shiny diagonal...

I was playing my acoustic the other day, when I realized I would be really annoyed if I damaged it at all - it's a bright orange gretsch, and I find it way to 'pretty' for an instrument that I really want to curl up with. I've decided to sell it on ebay and buy the best, ordinary dreadnaught or...

So after months of the sound clips playing at the back of my mind, I bit the bullet and ordered up a kit for the OLC Supreaux pedal kit. Comes with a box, PCB, parts. I think it's going to cost me about 62 bucks after shipping. Anyway, the story is that it is pedal made to sound like the...

Hi folks. I have a guitar with a dimarzio virtual vintage tele bridge pickup (output = 161, by whatever standards they use). Anyway I want to swap the neck out with a hum cancelling soap bar I have (output = 280). Now, this is a tele, so obviously I don't have space for another knob to wire...