Recent content by Seashore

These look cool. I have to say I'm totally sold on the Chicken Picks. I'm playing with different shapes to see what feels best for me. They're ridiculously durable compared to Tortex/Ultex and the like. I'm going to repost some pick pics, since it looks like my earlier pics have now...

Rex_Rocker and anyone else who's interested, here are some magnet pictures. Here's a 70mm 7 string magnet from a BKP: Here's a 69mm 7 string magnet from a Duncan JB7: Here's a 64mm 6 string A8 I got from Philadelphia Luthier: Here's how the 7 string and 6 string magnets line up...

You can either permanently alter the pickups, or permanently alter the guitar... your choice! Looking at it closer, that guitar isn't a good candidate for mounting rings. There's no room for the ring at the top of the neck pickup. That means you'll either be cutting the mounting tabs down on the...

I'm moving away from Tortex after preferring the orange and yellow standards for a long time. The biggest new issue for me is grip. Since moving up to VT, my skin gets incredibly dry during the winter and my customary picks just slip right out of my fingers. But I'm also not loving the standard...

New used pickup day. I finally got my paws on a set of BKP Warpigs in 7 string soapbar format, for an EMG-routed guitar that can't take rings. This is only the second used set I've seen on the Verb in the 2-3 years I've been looking, and at a great price too (for Bare Knuckles, anyway). Love...

This isn't urgent for me, but I'm considering getting a small power amp to replace the 100W power section I'm using in my upstairs practice setup. I don't need much output volume - conversation-level solo practice - but I do need it to be clean for the preamp pedals. I'm not looking for an early...

I made myself one out of some 1x12, 1x6, and three lengths of 2x4. It holds seven guitars. Put together with screws and glue, it's not fancy, but it's worked great for 9 years through a few moves. Materials were less than $50. The one thing I will probably do at some point is replace the...

Edit - keeping the pedal for now.

I have a Wampler Phenom (5150-style distortion pedal) in great condition - perfect working order, top and sides look flawless, scuffs on the bottom. Comes with the box and bag. Looking for a reverb pedal - Holy Grail, TC HOF, JHS 3 series, Joyo Atmosphere, etc. Something in good shape that...

That ought to work for the center magnet. The spacer magnets on the sides are narrow. Maybe this image will help: I'm not sure offhand where to find double thickness spacer magnets. You could start by swapping just the center mag and see how it sounds. What are you trying to get it to sound...

I just made another hybrid experiment that I'm pretty happy with. Not sure it's worth its own thread since I don't have clips, but I'll drop it in here. 500T/Invader. Only for the discerning connoisseur of high output ceramics (some might say "tone-deaf delusional moron"). The 500T is great in...

I've got a Schecter E1 "Evil Twin" with a reverse headstock. I've never been 100% happy with the sound, and I wish the neck was chunkier, but it plays like a dream.

This isn't right. Fretboard radius is indeed measured in inches - if you extend the curvature of the fretboard into an imaginary circle, it's the length of the radius of that circle. So a 12" radius is an arc taken from a circle that's 24 inches wide. The longer the radius, the bigger the...

Here's the latest iteration of my upstairs practice rig board: The point of all this kludgy nonsense is to let me dial back the input volume for the Bogner pedal while having a separate clean channel at normal volume with its own independent effects. The Memory Toy is set to mimic a reverb...

Grey Mountain is an online collaboration I started working on a couple years ago with Jon Higgs, a member of another forum I post on. He's a prolific writer and had most of these songs mapped out with rhythm guitar and drum parts. I contributed track 4 ("Hermitage"). He and the drummer laid down...