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L.W. Badger

L.W. Badger

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Got my tripod back so I could take a few pics...........finally!

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Family photo

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I salvaged the neck from a Yamaha RBX with a broken headstock, cut a body out of teak, installed Steinberger bridge and nut, and an EMG active PU with vol/dbl-tone/dbl-tone knobs. It's strung BEAD.

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This '96 MIK Epiphone was a wreck when I got it.......now it has a graphite nut, Ping Tuners, Distortion bridge/AII Pro neck PUs, Tone Pro bridge/tailpiece, new knobs wrapped with grip-tape (I play with my knob(s) a lot ;-), jackplate and PU covers in chrome, replaced pots with Alpha 500k with a 47 cap on the bridge tone and a 22 cap on the neck tone, replaced all the stock wiring. A few dings here and there, but I didn't get it for it's looks.

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Must have been a lot of Gibson truss-rod covers floating around Asia......and then SOMEONE forgot to tape the headstock when he was enlarging the TM holes and chipped the poly....one of these years I'll refinish it, but for now, who cares?

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HERE is the difference between Gibson and Epiphone. I just used the existing hole rather than plugging and redrilling to line them up correctly. Other than it looks funny if you look at it closely, there's no deficient to function.

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It's really a honey-burst, but the red background is throwing the color off

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Then the GAS bug hit me while I was killing time in a pawn shop I service......I HAD to have her! (and the price had come down on it significantly). It gives me a lower action than I can get with the LP, and the black-nickel hardware just looks cool. The binding is aged/cream and multi-ply, the fret dots are subdued and not pearly white, but they're not abalone. The real cool thing about this one is that it's coil split with a JB and '59 neck....not as hot as the LP......time to change that soon, and the pots need changing from vol/tone to vol/vol, the tone control really doesn't do much for me, I can bleed treble with a volume reduction.

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Graphite nut, Gover tuners. There must have been a bunch of Blackjack truss rod covers laying around Asia as well......since there's no card inlays on the fretboard.

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I must be developing a thing for carved top Korean guitars...lol! I LOVE the ultra access neck heel! About the only thing different from the Jackson I was lusting after........is this doesn't have the wide Jackson neck, or the Jackson name.......but I'll take the slutty cousin for 1/4 of the Jackson price.

Hope you enjoyed the show! :D
 
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Nice man. Tasty guitars for sure!

Interesting the way you put that sticky tape for the picks on the LP
 
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I like that Schecter. The truss rod cover is actually correct there (I'm pretty sure). The older Schecter Blackjacks didn't have the card inlay, just dots. I like it much better w/o the cards.
 
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Imo, schecters are better than Jacksons in similar price ranges.

They have better build quality, better playability, cooler more diverse ideas, and are generally more versatile too.
 
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Frantic_Rock said:
Yeah i love the bass too. It's a stealth machine from the future.
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Thanks! It's a real dream to play while sitting in an easy-chair, and the lower stringing makes for some serious rumbling w/o having to use a 5-string. Been that route before with an Ibanez, and cummulated with a 6-string Modulus Quantum......THAT one ran me about $2500.......then hard times hit, sold everything, and got back to the basics.

Reader's Digest Version: I had the end of my left pinkie finger chopped off while in the service, couldn't and still can't play proper barre chords, so I switched to playing bass. Now I'm picking up the guitar again and working around the "handicap".........Hey, if Tony Iommi can do it......I have no excuse.
 
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Nice collection, I especially like the odd bass and the natural wood very cool idea, how does it sound?
 
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Bass_Medic_05 said:
Nice collection, I especially like the odd bass and the natural wood very cool idea, how does it sound?
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I think most of the sound comes from the active EMG and preamp, coupled with the BEAD stringing.....but it's clean yet deep, can pop if you want it to...and has a thunderous rumble through an Ampeg cab.....SWR cabs relay a lot of string noise I've found out.
 
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That's the soft-side Velcro under the neck PU, and where the pickguard mounting hole is on the side (filled and glued with a matchstick, but still a "blemish"). I have the hook-side Velcro on my picks to prevent rotating in my fingers.

I tend to put down my picks down a lot since I'm just a living-room hobbyist. I play with my feet up on a computer desk...reading what's written here....but get up for another drink or whatever.....I also switch channels and picks from heavy to light rapidly..........all it all.....it makes for a handy place (out of the way) to stick a pick when you have to put the guitar down for a moment.

I've just got a sense of style and matched the contour of the tape with the cut-out....anyone "serious" would just put a block-strip of Velcro somewhere.

The Schecter has the same thing.....just harder to see.
 
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L.W. Badger said:
That's the soft-side Velcro under the neck PU, and where the pickguard mounting hole is on the side (filled and glued with a matchstick, but still a "blemish"). I have the hook-side Velcro on my picks to prevent rotating in my fingers.

I tend to put down my picks down a lot since I'm just a living-room hobbyist. I play with my feet up on a computer desk...reading what's written here....but get up for another drink or whatever.....I also switch channels and picks from heavy to light rapidly..........all it all.....it makes for a handy place (out of the way) to stick a pick when you have to put the guitar down for a moment.

I've just got a sense of style and matched the contour of the tape with the cut-out....anyone "serious" would just put a block-strip of Velcro somewhere.

The Schecter has the same thing.....just harder to see.
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I thought so. That's a pretty good idea, man! Nice collection.:)
 
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