Recent content by Lucy Diamond

Hi folks, A few years ago I started a journey gathering parts for a Robert Smith Replica Jazzmaster project that I abandoned due to job changes and financial matters. In a nutshell, there is an entire subculture of guitar players who take the bridge pickups from 1960's era Tiesco Woolworth Top...

Have you guys seen the Fender mod shop yet? http://shop.fender.com/en-US/mod-shop/ It's HIGHLY underwhelming and I thought you'd get a kick out of it. You get to choose one of 9 readily available finishes, body orientation, Rosewood or Maple fingerboard, pickup configuration (with no H H) and...

Hello, [waves] I'm tricking out one of my strats with a Vintage mini Humbucker in the neck and a Seymourized mini Humbucker in the bridge. Is there anything special I need to know about putting these in a strat or do I just treat them like humbuckers i.e. 500k pots and a 22nF cap? Any and...

Hi folks, I have a slight issue here. I have 4 heads and a combo amp that I use all the time and I'd like to be able to use one set of time based effects in the loops. I don't really have a problem plugging and unplugging the effects into the loop of the amp they need to go into but I was...

Hi folks, There's a ticking sound coming through all of my amps and through research and trial and error I have narrowed the issue down to my new neighbor and her wireless router. Having here reset her router or switch to the other channel is out of the question, so how do I shield myself from...

Hi there, I got my '88 Floral pattern Jem in the mail lastnight and she came with the ball ends of her strings in the tuning machines of the guitar. I remember ONE guy setting up my other Jem this way in 1999, telling me "Oh...we do that so they stay in tune better." This urks me to no end...

Re: Bill Steer's Pickups?? Dude...the love is getting unhealthy :D

Re: Bill Steer's Pickups?? YO!!! HERE YOU GO DAAAAAAWG!!!! He of course HAS to be picking RIGHT OVER the freaking pickup I'm talking about!!! :smash: [EDIT] PS - This is from Last Thursday (September 26th 2013)

Hiya folks, [waves] So I'm fresh off the Carcass show from lastnight (9x26x13) at the Gramercy Theatre in New York and I've searching the web all morning trying to find info on Bill Steer's pickups. Most of the information out there doesn't seem to be provided by guitar players and people...

Re: Signature models. You're...totally welcome. :D

Hi folks, For some reason, I was drawn to the Ibanez website a couple of days ago and I saw that (for however long it has been) they are selling the destroyers again. What do we know about these reissues? Have any of you played them? Can any of you compare them to older ones? From an ebay...

Re: Signature models. Did anyone get the new musiciansfriend catalog with Lzzy Hale on the cover with her custom Explorer?? With just a few minor cosmetic adjustmenst (just for my taste anyway) I would LOVE it if they released that thing. For me....I'd need to change the pickguard, the...

Re: Greatest Funk/R&B Guitar of all time? The H.S. Anderson Telecaster used by The Purple One Himself. There is none funkier.