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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Anybody here into custom wiring for electric guitars?
Fez-Parka mod versus treble bleed? I'm going Fez-Parka this week to make the volume roll-off more useable without impacting tone as much. I've tried treble bleed before, too finicky for capacitor values and sounds tinny and unnatural if you don't get it right. Which I didn't.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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No Lap Steelz in this thread yet. So here are a few...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 23, 2015 - 10:44am PT
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"Tales from the Wildwood."
Quite a pitchman, here, for Wildwood Guitars.
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"Nice job, Greg."
"Snot all that hard, Mouse."
http://www.wildwoodguitars.com/
I haven't seen my buddy, Bruce Hamilton, who used to work at TNF back in the day, since about 1984. He went from a down-filler to the plant's efficiency expert, to VP in charge of production, and he helped to design several geodesic tents, among them their first one, the 3-man Oval Intention, and soon after, the 2-man VE-23 & VE-24.
Together with Jim Shirley, he convinced management to embrace the principles of Bucky Fuller's geometry and all that. I tutored Bruce in the rudiments of rock climbing around 1978/9, but he never did much, not like Jim, with whom I've bagged many a route and summit. Well, not that many summits, but lots of rock routes.
He told me about Bruce's new job. He worked for Yakima in Arcata, the bicycle rack mfr. when I last saw Bruce and Cathy. Since, according to Jim, Bruce and Cathy are bossing the Arcata unit of Wildwood, making wooden guitar bodies.
Bruce admitted long ago to being a potaholic. When TNF set up their plant in Berkeley on Fifth St. in the late sixties, Bruce and others would go up to the roof for lunch and get toasted and listen to CCR practicing downstairs in their adjoining warehouse called Cosmo's Factory.
He and his brother, Randy, owned some Missouri land and leased it to growers in the late seventies. That Ozark Mule was some fine smoke. The first batch sent to them from MO was sent in a decrepit old suitcase on Greyhound and had about ten pounds of buds in it. Soon Randy was sporting a new BIG TV and INTENTS sound system, while Bruce just banked his share. Good old daze.
I hung with Bruce and my first wife Dolores hung with Cathy. They'd do their thing and we went golfing, fishing, & XC skiing. That era culminated in the Hamilton's first child's birth and one year later, our own baby's birth. Things went south for me and my wife in '80, I left the Bay Area, and so lost contact eventually with Bruce. I saw him last at Jim Shirley's wedding in LA, circa '84.
Now Jim's twin daughters are attending college. How time gets by!!
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climber bob
Social climber
maine
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Dec 24, 2015 - 04:54am PT
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Dec 24, 2015 - 07:07am PT
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Nice lookin' stuff C, a little too over the top with the pointy stuff for me. I am kind of looking for a neck-through. No offense, but if I'm paying >$1k for a neck-through, I'm getting a Gibson Firebird, or something else that I can turn around later for what I paid for it.
I do, however have a pristine set of Quarks that have never seen a day of ice (bought them shortly before I moved from Alaska, and I've "retired" from ice climbing ). Also a set of Rambo Comps cramps, some screws, probably a spare set of picks if I go digging. So if you want to work out some kind of trade, hit me up.
Here's a few of my stable:
That strap in the pic was handmade by a friend when I was in grad school, braided out of hemp cord. She must have spent dozens of hours on that, and it looks almost new after 20 years.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Dec 24, 2015 - 08:22am PT
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Right on ECF, your inlay work looks fantastic!
I'm kinda sorta looking for a LP Melody Maker (a dual P-90 MM with the jack in the side rather than face, thin body w/tummy cut, maple cap on a mahog body, maple set-neck). Stupidly passed up a 2014 on CL a couple weeks ago. They're relatively cheap, especially for a USA Gibson, $350-$450 on the used market.
I want that lightness of a SG (some of my LPs weight 10lb) with a little more sizzle from the maple. And almost all the SGs I've played have a funky resonance cancellation thing going on where you get a dead spot on the G string around the 11th or 12th. I don't notice it anymore, but that one note has about half the sustain of others. Go to a guitar shop sometime and play some SGs, you'll find a few, if not all of them, have the same thing.
Good point about scale length etc. That's one reason I'm still after a PRS, want to play on a 25" scale for a bit and see how that treats me. All mine are 24.75, had a loaner strat BITD and couldn't get along with that 25.5 fender scale. Then again, I was playing a lot more open chords and generally lower on the neck back then, these days it's mostly single note soloing and riffing so I might enjoy it more.
Lately I've been playing one of my cheaper things, a 90s korean made Epi Sheraton II from the old Samick factory, more than the ones that cost 3x as much. It's got a really wide flat c-shape 5-piece maple/walnut neck that feels better to me than anything I own.
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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Dec 24, 2015 - 10:50am PT
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All these electric guitars. Where's the love for nylon and wood and 300 year old music? :)
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Dec 24, 2015 - 04:57pm PT
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BOOM!
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EP
Trad climber
Way Out There
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Dec 24, 2015 - 06:46pm PT
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After 33 years, I had my Melody Maker restored by Laurent Brondel. He did a refret, rewired pots and discovered the Humbuckers were PAFs, refinished the neck and headstock, and installed new old style tuners. I bought it my Junior year in high school. Hasn't played in tune for 25 years. Now it is perfect.
http://www.laurentbrondel.com/Site/Pictures/Pictures.html
Laurent builds acoustics and the best Strat style guitars. I have one of each.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Dec 24, 2015 - 08:09pm PT
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^^
What year is your Melody Maker? Something not adding up in what you wrote for me. Actual PAFs were over by '62, patent number sticker pups followed through '66, then T-tops in '67, etc.
Didn't start making MMs with dual humbuckers (they were single coil prior to that) until mid '80s IIRC, and by then it was probably the Bill Lawrence pickups (which are badass and highly sought after today, not as sought as actual PAFs, but coveted nonetheless)
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EP
Trad climber
Way Out There
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Dec 24, 2015 - 09:24pm PT
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When I bought it in '72, the pickups had been added. The stickers show 1965. No matter, it sings.
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