Any guitar players on TW?

I was futzin around with the pedal array, and was less than excited with tones coming from the Peavey C50 212 I was going through. So, on a whim I plugged up the C30 112 and hooked it in to an open back Peavey 410 ext cab. It sounded amazing! the Nobels, and a Boss TR-2 makes for such a large and warm sound. I just kept playin and smilin for about 2 hours. Experiment! the sound you get is dramatically affected by all items in the chain. Hammer ons in Maj7 chords were made for Tremolo!

 

What is the girl saying on the black guitar?

 

It's not pretty. Basically made it out of spare parts to see if it works. It's a attenuator that can work for 4 and 8ohm speakers.

You can push your amp hard and not let the entire neighborhood know your favorite Black Sabbath riff.

Really handy little device.

 

I picked up a Boss GE-7. If you leave the EQ flat and drop the gain slider below unity, it does nearly the same. Tubes are still getting the goods but the output is lessened by nearly 20dB if you so chose. It does a pretty good job of boosting in the other direction, too.

 

Picked this rack up. Converted it to hold 4. Pretty happy with it.

 

naked and famous. it's a denim jean brand.

 

Well, I decided it's time to make a strat.

 

Always have liked Les Paul's, but I recently made a Telecaster and that just makes me want a Stratocaster. I like the bolt on necks. You have an issue, just shim it. Done.

 

I assume, you build the bodies and purchase the necks?

 

Found this picture the other day, thought you guys might like it.

 

Holy Smokes those are beautiful. Just discovered this thread and glad to see your post!
Here is a VERY old photo of when I first got my ESP approximately 2012. Great instrument and has been my designated *the one thing I will grab in a fire* since then ! Cheers

 

Welcome to the thread...share away

 

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The latest! Started playing the bass, really like having the perspective to learn more genres ! Insisted on the 5 string, sorry to any old heads

 

Here's one I picked up at Christmas time - a '66 Gibson SJ200 but hadn't had time to touch it until this week with a fret dressing and polishing, correct truss rod adjustment and setting the intonation on the so weird adjustable bridge and saddle getup they used back then, along with some String Joy 80/20 Brights.

 

love me some String Joys. that Gibson ain't bad looking either...

 

NGD!
Sadly, had to sell the G&L, she and I just couldnt gel.
So I picked this up new, and I am in absolute love! The action is a mile high, and the frets are a little gritty, several are a touch high. Beyond that, and even with those shortcomings I absolutely am more enamored with it every time I pick it up! Hunting a good fret guy now..

 

It's surprisingly easy to learn how to level and polish your own frets, use a good tuner app (like Petersen) which will read in cents plus or minus to help you set up your bridge/saddle situation, and just as important, to properly adjust the truss rod for optimal neck relief, but these are all things a good setup guy/gal can do for you fairly reasonably, y'know, hopefully.

 

it is a true Neck-Thru, and the neck relief appears dead flat when "eyeballing". If it were just the frets to be polished or leveled, I would likely attempt myself. But the nut is really tall, and the strings are already filed down flush to the top of the nut. I would prefer it to be reset and setup by a qualified tech with the correct tools on hand. I will be tooling up, so to speak to perform these myself for periodic maintenance. But I'd like a "Pro" to set the initial starting point. The acoustic resonance of this guitar it outstanding! Now I want a Gibson to compare. If I had paid $3-4K and got what I did, I would have been quite agitated. For what I did pay, I will gladly pay the upcharge for a good tweaking to optimal and still keep a pickin and a grinnin!

 

You can either use a straightedge or just use your low E string to measure neck relief far more accurately than just eyeballing it. To use your string, making sure they're all tuned to pitch, put a capo on top of the first fret, directly on top of the fret and not where you'd normally put it just behind the fret, then hold that string down at the 14th fret and check the relief at the 6th/7th fret where you should have a very slight gap - about .005 in. which is about two thicknesses of typing paper. You can also use an automotive feeler gauge or the Stew-Mac digital string height gauge to check that.

As far as the nut is concerned, where the strings are in relation to the top of the nut is not what's important. What is important is the actual string height of each string at the first fret which can be somewhat variable depending on how you want your guitar to be set up, but generally somewhat in the vicinity of .008 on the low end to close to .020 on the high end, all of which is easily measured with that Stew-Mac tool, but there is an order to doing all of this where you take all the strings off and set the neck relief to zero with the truss rod, then check for any high frets and address those and checking for any abnormal fret wear like divots in high traffic areas and determine if you need a fret leveling, and if so, is there enough height left to accomplish that safely or if you need a re-fret. Then you deal with nut slotting and finally re-setting relief and then saddle height for optimal action and saddle placement for optimal intonation. And of course there is some back and forth as string height will affect where the optimal saddle placement/string length as well.