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Low A! Low B C or even A are somewhat common. My contrabass has a low B extension if I use the extension bridge and the right stops, it will do low A. Guitars have been tuned more ways than I want to count!

Back in the day 11s were light gauge. Fender staggered pole pieces, and Gibson lightning bar bridges are all set for wound G strings. Thank you Ernie Ball! I am using Carvin T Bolt hard tails for this style music, and a Tele American Deluxe 3 pick up, or for special occasions I will dig out an ol...

Doing these exercises using an acoustic with Kleenex tissue stuff between the neck ans strings as mute works as well as left hand muting, and you can do it while watching TV or whatever. It also keeps your house mates from wanting to kill you. This brings back memories of high school classical gu...

@infosoftify Actually we used to have refillable UPS and emergency battery pack lighting batteries in the USA. Unfortunately the non sealed lead acid batteries would sometime leak, and eat carpet, floors, hands, etc. It was rare, but I have seen it happen. When distilled water won't work they use...

This is too cool. I bought an APC XS 1000 that was kind of out of date. went to New York and trained to install "BIG" UPS systems for Leibert. The kind that have a special room filled with batteries, x formers, inverters, curt key dual services, and a gen set control. I also installed APC, Tripl...

Is that an Ibanez Artist solid body? They did not call them Les Paul killers for fun.

No need to ask me again why I love my National Model 80 amp loaded with USA Tung Sol 5881 tubes and one of my guitars with a slide run through it. The termolo don't work with Substitubes so I get to run it at it's full 35-45 watts. (never counted em) Mom's old ES 330 sound great through it as do ...

@Satchmoeddie How the 7 got in there I have no clue. I play better than I type! The Ludwig sold for $250 and needed a new head. I have neck blank curly maple, and misc parts. This Crossfire looks like a lot of fun. How is it amplified? I mean what type of pick up?

The Devil "Right this way Maestro", The Maestro, "Ahhhhhhhhhhh! No Please NO!"

@allinaday I was at Goodwill the other day and bought an Earl Scruggs album from 1973. It has some songs that really need posting on YT. Man his kids could really play. I have to admit I get the impression they may have drank too much coffee, or something when I heard a couple of songs played at ...

@vodtap I can let him practice at the court ordered anger management classes held down the street

What is the oval shaped neck? Assymetrical? How about compund radius, or Novax scale? I have small hands and the 24 3/4 to 25 1/5 is no great probelm, but the 23 1/2 " Byrdland is good for Dim minor chord stretching across 6 frets, I still can manage with a 25.5 though. What is a "boat neck Fende...

Without the celebrity ownership these are mostly just used guitars. What a rip off. I was hoping for something like Advanced Jumbo Gibson, Super L-5 (first or earliest Super 400, Broadcaster (maybe) but more like early Paul Bigsby stuff. Drop the guitar player idol worshit and show some master pi...

@bufumofo223 First and foremost, IF you were going to play over seas a Fender amp was a piss poor choice. You either have one that is an Export model with 220-240 VAC input, but no 120. Fender made good stuff, but it was not as great or flexible as other mfgrs. You need two amps if you played a F...

I would give a testicle for Cropper's rosewood Tele. Maybe not one of my own, but still!

@Cesarr93 There are a whole lot of countries that speak Espanol. (Spanish to you morons who think Spanish is "Mexican") The first university on this hemisphere (2 continents called "The Americas") was and is a Spanish language university. Soon the USA will have more people Speaking Spanish then E...

@Satchmoeddie Pardon my typing. It is late. Ed was a character. I could name other guitar shop guys who were "holier than thou jerks" too, but sometimes you just get that way after a while. Remember guys who get on stage and perform have in your face personalities a lot of the time. 10+ years of ...

Ed was opinionated. He reminds me of my late dego Uncle Klesi. I loved them both. They had no problem speaking their mind regardless of how people felt. I think both actually enjoyed F'ing with people. Until you play to eat, or sell, fix and or make guitars to eat, don't judge! After so many know...

@BIGBABYZIP The deluxes with the minibuckers are cool as can be. I am seeking a MIJ Elitist Sheraton I. I have the MIJ ES 335 and like it a lot. I have had the MIJ Elitist Sheraton and it was a screamer when used with some preamp gain. I put 1980 Shaws in the Es 335 CTS pots and real vintage POI ...

I need to say THANK YOU Jr BROWN. I was going anyway. My father has family in Fruita (18miles away) and two have passed of his generation. Dad got to see his brothers and we had some quality time visiting. Dad passed away 12-11-11 and so he got to see family one last time that year. My mom is ver...

@kevinhifi Why not make a tiny preset fuzz? I bought a M15A. The foot switch was lost, and some depressingly suicidal guy named John had it semi restored on a tight budget. The case for the footswitch is just an oddball skinny shape that is useless. I use steel "monkey bowls with cottage cheese l...

Reminds me of the old Organ Stop Pizza in Phoenix Az on Central Ave. That theatre organ is in a Las Vegas millionaire's home now. I bet his neighbors LOVE him. Mesa or Tempe has another large theatre organ with piano, percussion, etc. The one in Phoenix was in an old storefront building. You coul...

@Satchmoeddie I do play guitar, and so does my 75 year old mother. We were both Beatle fans, but with her teaching guitar from 1960-1972 how could you avoid it? How much did this sucker cost? (before you lost track) I have done more than one project that had huge price tags yet I still lost money...

I missed this night. I was kinda beat after the 500 mile drive. I did see Jr Brown, and David Lindley who is playing Burgin Guitars now. (the other Burgin from down under, no relation, but a fine luthier)

Are we a half step flat as far as tuning goes?

Mine has a humbucking sized PU wired in parallel and I replaced the .022 cap with a .047 wax paper and foil, and put a .0033 on the volume pot to keep the crispness happening when cutting the volume. I am thinking of putting a pull pot with series parallel wiring. The parallel is darn loud on my ...

@marinedoc92 Long hair drove me nuts. It was always in my face. I started playing at age 5. Unfortunately talent has little to do with success anymore. I hope this kid makes it into a band where he can learn some song structure. He sure as hell has the chops for it! I had my left index finger alm...

@BigMikeatChicago1 Wow the cassette was almost as advanced as the 8 track FM converter! I remember those days. I was very young, but have memories from when I was very young of a pirate hippie commune radio station playing Hendrix's 1983 in a Colorado mountain valley very late one night, and my d...

An exercise like this is great for guys to learn where to find notes and work the fret board more efficiently. AWESOME JOB AS A TEACHER/INSTRUCTOR! I still have my eyes peeled for a used USA Musicman, but in Arizona anything made in USA that has strings is rare, and I am against buying an Asian i...

What make of guitar is that? Are the F holes paint on false ones? I have no problems with fake F holes by any means, and reject a lot of Gretsch stuff like Chet Atkins Nashville models that have the big open "F"eedback holes. This jazz box you have sounds more like some of the guitars I have elec...

@Factnotfictionpeople You got it. It aint no contest. As long as it is well done and we enjoy it it's all good. I saw Jr in Colorado. I posted Jr Brown Surf Medley Apache Bulldog which came out great for a pint and shoot Canan Powershot. I was right by a PA speaker kind of up front. Great show! I...

@zazw3 It is a feeler gauge. I recognize it. It is also a waste of a feeler gauge. I used to make mine from caddy clips which are spring steel clips for electrical work in the USA. Hack saw blades also work OK. I suppose a cheap feeler gauge might be OK to destroy.I was an electrician and had (HA...

@MrReaper2030 Piss off! This guy does some of the best Hendrix covers I have ever heard! Maybe you are one of those Garth Brooks fans of pop C&W BS.

@MegaGristle The suit kinda gives him that Bonamasa thing & I would love to see both in the same show! I saw him in Colorado in a dink town close to the Utah border off I-70. It was awesome! Hearing people cheer for a song written in 1928 while they are toking up is too cool for words! Everyone c...

Who's KT66s did you use? I made a Marshall JTM 45 from some Mercury Magnetics iron I bought fairly cheap, and then I used all Sozo caps which are like the Mullard used by Jim Marshall in the late 60s, and opted for metal film Legacy resistors. Naturally dropping the best stuff I could get into th...

Why do you think they took all the CO2 fire extinguishers out of government, public utility, and company trucks? I know they were chilling things other than sodas too! The boss gets really irate paying a $55 refilling fee on the fire extinguisher just so the guys can have a cold one! I shudder to...

I drove 10 hours one way to see Jr. play at a small town called Palisades Colorado which is near where my father grew up. I'd do it again. Some fools pay $2000 to see some pop star center stage front row. $55 and $800 for gas and a rental car, and I still have the better deal! To see young people...

@kevyk135Danny has an ES 350. The ES5 had 3 pick ups, and different inlays, and Billy may have an ES 295, which was used by Elvis' guitarist on most of these songs. It might be a gold 175, or a 295 with a Bigsby. I am quite sure on the ES 350 as it has split block inlays from behind 1st fret up. ...

@FlipsidesBand I have seemingly inherited a collection of Byrdlands. All have a curved tail piece that has "Byrdland" scrawled into it. I mean engraved or stamped. The 350 has a Venetian cut away, (Usually) My uncle used to play with Johnny Smith regularly, and both owned music stores. I saw more...