Recent content by WoodGrain67

I recently bought a real Gibson Les Paul 2016 Standard T in heritage cherry burst, but the sustain was lacking. I wanted to share that what I found was that there was a lot of sawdust in the tune-o-matic bridge and tailbar bushings in the body. I wiped the screws off and cleared the holes out...

I've got a build underway of a 5150-style guitar that has the red/black/white striped paintjob using Duplicolor paint from AutoZone. The color coats have been applied, dried for several months, and sanded/buffed to a decent shine – though one can see the troughs where the stripes run due to...

Been messing with this song lately and I'm really glad that I tried out this tuning. Are there any other cool songs out there that use DGCGCD?

I'm getting ready to choose inlay material to install on a maple fingerboard and I'm thinking of using black MOP shell inlay. Will it become a smudgy mess when I proceed to sand the installed inlay with my radius sanding block? Like will he shell particles embed into the maple and be...

OK, so EVH released the $900 Striped series MIM guitars. Not that I'm going to do it, but I wondered how cheaply one could make their own that didn't suck. Here's my hypothetical list - critique it, rip the flaws, expose ignorance - I'm cool with it. And yes, everybody knows that the tone is...

Is a neck ever really straight? I've removed a wizard neck from my Ibanez to do a fretjob and put in new inlays, but no matter how I adjust the truss rod, it is never truly flat from end-to-end. If I get 0-position to the 14th fret flat, then 15 thru 22 start to fall away. Any degree of...

Are Hamer Explorers made in Korea around the year 2000 any good? I'm spying a used one for sale that's got me GASing... It has Duncan-designed pups, and a red flametop with binding. $300 Hit it or pass?

I saw a used Epiphone Nighthawk at my local GC tonight for $220. It made me think that it would be a nice upgrade for my 13yo son, who is playing open chords on a $169 Epiphone LP Special II at Church these days (Fridays at Catholic gradeschool.) He has a "gift event" coming up. Sound like a...

Mine is a NOS RCA that look like it was made in Yugoslavia. One plate goes left, one plate goes right,and they both have three holes in the plates. They have the best spirited grind I've heard in both my Tweaker and Kustom Coupe 72.

Is it true that one generally doesn't get the value back by selling a midrange guitar with upgraded pickups? I want to sell a blue Epi LP Plus top that has SD chrome Blackouts in it, and I also want to sell a Michael Kelly Patriot custom that has black P-rails in it with silver mounting rings...

I have a S470DXQM with a bound rosewood 22 fret Wizard II neck that uses the AANJ pocket and is 56mm wide at that 22nd fret. Unfortunately, the neck has warped over time and gradually twists up toward the high E string at the nut. I went looking around eBay and Google, but the results have...

Hypothetical question for those with electronic expertise: if a guy had a set of hot active pickups and wanted to lower their maximum output signal to the amp, could a resistor of some appropriate value be added to do so without hurting the quality of the tone? Maybe solder the resistor at the...

Triple GAS: So my 15 watt Tweaker is nice an all, and so is my Kustom Coupe 72, but lately I've been thinking:scratchch, wouldn't be nice to have a real Fender, a real Vox, and a real Marshall? I mean, I keep getting amps that "sound like" something, but why not sell that stuff and get the...

Is a P90 style pickup sufficiently wide enough to be in the bridge position of a guitar equipped with a Floyd Rose type tremelo?

Does anyone have experience with a triple P90 setup? I'm thinking of getting a pre-routed body blank from Warmoth and making my own custom guitar this year. I've seen but never played a 3xP90 guitar -- like a Reverend for instance. Reverend's also have a "bass countour" pot, which sounds...