Recent content by Wolfshead

As I posted in the Slash APH-2 thread (thought it deserved its own thread) I just got one of those pickups on ebay and it looked like it had been wax potted by the seller. Looking at his other auctions he mentioned a 490R pickup being wax potted "recently" so I assume he just likes to wax pot...

I've just got one of these, used, from ebay. It looks alright but there seems to be rather more wax on the baseplate than usual. I've tried looking up photos of this particular pickup on the internet and it looks like some DO come with a bit of wax left on the base, while others are pristine...

I've reported this to ebay twice and they do nothing about it. Someone at Seymour Duncan might want to do something about it - there will be people buying these thinking they're getting real Duncans...

Well, of course, Ace! The first thing I did when I got it was play British Steel. Tonight I played some of the tunes on Killing Machine and Stained Class. And I recorded a podcast theme song with it too. It sounds good in the house and through modelling amps, but it sounded like shit through a...

Alright, thanks for the replies guys. I guess the 500T just sounds like crap then, nothing to do with the little cap! Kicking myself as a 490T/480R set I was watching on ebay sold for really cheap and I missed it. They would have been perfect for the V.

Not happy with the 500T in this guitar, thought I'd check the pot values. Found this weird little capacitor. What is this thing? Can I remove it to make the 500T sound better (it sounds full and hot, just kinda fuzzy for my tastes)? This is a 2008 Flying V that used to have the robot crap on it...

Anaconda burst. I changed the plastics, it makes the green stand out more.

Laugh it up!

As a fan of Martin Barre I wanted a Hamer just like the guitar he used in the Slipstream video. Well, I didn't quite get one like that (no crown inlays or neck binding) but I did finally get something VERY close! The story is, I had a ton of old pickups in my "Parts box" and some cheaper...

I just bought an old MIK Telecaster from 1989 which has an "expander" pickup. I have no idea what the hell that is, but when I've got the guitar in my hands I was very pleased to discover it's actually a SD Hot Stack that's in the bridge! Probably worth more than the rest of the guitar TBH...

A few years ago I had a Marshall DSL20 head, but there was an issue with the FX loop on the older models and, well, it just never sounded that good to me. I sold it and bought a Peavey 6505 MH which sounded GREAT but just didn't look very good IMO. So I bought another DSL20HR in the hope the...

After my thread about Slash's 1987 Standards a couple of weeks ago....I sold my Jackson PC-1 and bought this with the proceeds! Gibson Slash Les Paul in Anaconda burst. Of my three Les Pauls this is the best without a doubt (I have two classics, one from 2021 and one from 2005) - it just...

Does anyone have good, hi-res pics of Slash's 1987 (or 88 as he called them in a video I watched yesterday) Les Paul Standards? They were plain top ones, cherry sunburst, and "seconds". For a few weeks I've been GASsing over the recent Slash models, thinking I would like to get a Victoria...

I have a Peavey 6505MH and, even before lockdown, I was only playing at low volumes in my house (with a lot of gain though). When I was in a band, and if I ever join another, I would be using the amps and speakers at the rehearsal studio and gear provided by any pubs, as we did before. So I...

I got one of these little beauties a week or two ago but I've just noticed that, on the rhythm channel, with the volume down at zero, there's some sound bleeding through into the speakers. It doesn't happen on the lead channel - that's dead silent on zero. I'm just wondering it this happens with...