Guitarists of Singletrack…

@Mikkel: not ‘relic-ed’ so shinier, but these might Kluson prestige might work:

https://www.fruugo.co.uk/kluson-prestige-181-gear-ratio-open-gear-33-rear-mounted/p-41424580-98521869?language=en&ac=croud&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlvT8BRDeARIsAACRFiWmzU66v_NhGOo7_SQCnYlfiXd4zIgCweLsbrvLxtZya3hhBTt77VwaAjfTEALw_wcB

Thanks

Xmas?

They sound really good!
I used to have an H&K TriAmp which was lovely. Can’t remember why I sold it now!

Been eyeing these up for a while – look like pretty good value (more so if you were in the States)…
https://deanzelinsky.com/

Got a tailpiece that a friend had lying around, so just done a quick test with some old strings to see if things line up and about to stick the neck back on myself as no way i got the patience to wait until lock down is over and then wait for someone to have the time to do it for me.

Wish me luck

Excellent! I can lose hours watching guitar restoration videos on youtube 🙂

Now I just need to learn how to play

You know that moment when you’re jammimg away with your 80yr old landlord and he walks back in the room with his 1961 blonde tele he’s had since new?

Oh my **** lordy!!!!!

Still not a fan of them but I felt a bit like Indiana Jones for a minute.
Last time he had it valued they said £17k. Probably three times that now.

There will be pictures over the next couple of days.

Looking forward to seeing the pictures eddie

Back in the land of 500e guitars I couldn’t play my new acoustic bass without fear of it falling off because the strap mount/jack socket only has a shallow grove. So I got my drill, files and hacksaw out and made this:

Clever eh! The bit of shock cord threaded through acts as a lock.

@Mikkel, your project looks amazing. Right up my street. Please keep posting updates.

Next step will be to make a new bridge/saddle whatever you call it, as the one I got with it is another bodged job.
(If the neck is staying on tomorrow)

Clever eh! The bit of shock cord threaded through acts as a lock.

Nice work there. And you can take it off easily unlike going down the Grolsch bottle washer route.

Have a look at the bridge on a Gibson SG 61 with tailpiece, Mikkel, I reckon it would fit. You can get copies cheap on sites such as Thomann.

Edit: the bottle washer/plastic strap lock won’t fit because the groove is too narrow, Eddie, that’s why I had to think of something else

Good idea Educator, had not thought of that style bridge bit quite sure it will fit the style though

First attempt have failed.
Not enough clean wood to get a good bond.

Does anyone have any knowledge of aftermarket Fender necks? The frets on my 1990 MIM Strat are very worn – I’m not sure that a fret file / dress will fix them and the neck itself is not so special that I want to pay for a refret (Truss rod adjust in an annoying place and cosmetically it’s not perfect). Looking at new necks but I don’t really know what to look for. Fender American necks are pretty expensive (£500+) which is probably a bit more than I want to spend.

These Roasted Maple MIM necks look cool but there’s something about Pau Ferro that’s just not as nice as Rosewood. Or there’s a Maple top one.
https://www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-dept/electric-guitar-accessories/electric-guitar-parts/fender-roasted-maple-stratocaster-neck-22-jumbo-frets-12in-pao-ferro-flat-oval-shape

eBay / Reverb?
Warmoth?
Something else?

Back in the land of 500e guitars I couldn’t play my new acoustic bass without fear of it falling off because the strap mount/jack socket only has a shallow grove. So I got my drill, files and hacksaw out and made this:

Nice. Is that also an output jack? It’s a strange shape.

War mouth has always been my go to bits company.

Yes it’s an output jack, Superficial, bigger than any other I’ve seen.

I bought a 2012 Squier classic Vibe neck from France Guitar when they had exactly the one I wanted. They have a good range of Fender necks at sensible prices.

My son has a Warmoth neck and I’ve got two. Junior has a vintage style Tele neck with gloss nitro, stainless frets and a 10″ radius, it’s a delight. I’ve got two modern style with double expanding truss rods, 10″-12″ radius, dunlop frets and matt nitro. One is a Strat with a modern C which is just like a Squier classic vibe. The other is sort of flat C Tele.

My two required a few hours work. Fenders have very rounded fret ends, sometimes too rounded and it’s easy to lose the string over the edge when doing vibrato (my vibrato is clumsy). Warmoth leave the frets with angular ends unless you pay them to do otherwise – you will probably want to spend some time with a polishing mop in the drill bit to smooth them even if you don’t fully round them (buy a fret board protector before you do so). You also have to clean the nitro off the frets youself and spend a few minutes with car polish on the back of the neck to make it really smooth. I lowered the nut slots on mine, junior left his standard. Fender drown their maple necks in thick varnish which mean that even their medium jumbo frets feel a bit low. Warmoth don’t so the frets feel full size.

Have replaced the plastic PU cover and truss rod cover with rosewood ones, I like it a lot better now
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFnaAwnp6Y3/?igshid=azgh05aikl6s

My continued idle thinking about something affordable and Gibson-shaped continues. I do like a Junior (single and double cut) but really want a bridge humbucker. (Or do I?)

I’ve randomly found the shortlived Les Paul CM from (the fateful Gibson year of) 2015. One humbucker, some had robotuners, and a black stained finish, but still a maple cap, so a ‘proper’ Les Paul rather than an all mahogany Jr or Special. Anyone try one? Only they seem to ebay for about £500, which is what the similar-vibe Jared James Nicols Epiphone goes for…

http://legacy.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2015/USA/Les-Paul-CM-2015.aspx

That looks nice.
The Jr above us my first ever guitar, it got picked by going to guitarguitar and filtered the solid body guitars from low to high price and went down the list until I found one I liked the look of 🙂

Don’t have to worry about sound yet as they all sounds bad when I play them lol

Just turn them up a bit more and they’ll all sound great 🙂

That Junior is a great first guitar though. A proper guitar and nothing that’ll break or date it in years to come.

Haha good advice but not sure neighbours will like it.

After all the gear chasing in the pursuit of tone last night I played my Variax into a Line6 Stagesource L2m FRFR speaker. And for the all important tone I programmed a few patches into my Korg Pandora PX3.
A 20 year old pocket sized FX unit. Gosh it was fun. The basic addition of a smear of reverb added to the acoustic guitars and for the electrics a couple of lightly distorted sounds fitted the bill.
It’s been used a couple of times a year over the last 15 years but I had forgotten how much fun it was.
Anyway 4 of us had a socially distanced jam in the Very quiet village local last night. It was great to be playing with mates again. We’ve done it a few times after lockdown 1 eased and I’ll be sad and will miss it. Emailing files to and fro isn’t the same.
Beer helps too.

And this great little mini amp build just came up on my feed

A question – bought a 2nd hand trem pedal and despite the power running through it and the signal through when on and off, the effect isn’t actually generating – i.e. the knobs are not doing anything.

I’ve had the back off to check there isn’t anything unplugged/broken and it all looks fine (it’s one of those budget amazon ones so all PCB and nothing to go wrong)
I’ve tried a variety of cables and the same outcome – the power and cables work for other pedals i have.

the only thing I can think of is that the PSU isn’t generating enough voltage to drive the pedal but that seems unlikely?

is there something else I’ve missed?

The input/output sockets aren’t the wrong way round are they?
I can’t think of anything to be honest.

the signal is running on bypass and when active so it’s not the order, all the connections are solid, the light turns on and off… I’m stumped !

found the specs, which says that it needs 26mA which is nowt

If anyone wants a pedal to experiment 🙂

As it’s an Amazon pedal, don’t they have pretty good return/refund procedures? (Not that they’ll fix whatever you send back…)

Doing the idiot check – you’ve got cables you know work, a guitar that makes noise, with the volume up… and you say the pedal works in bypass. So when connected, you get bypass tones and then when you engage the pedal, the sound cuts out (and the light comes on)?

Not sure what to suggest. Is it a two-knob job? That’ll just be rate and depth, so there’s not even a volume knob to not be working… Unless anything’s obviously wrong (check the chip is seated if it has an IC) – then I think you’re on returnsville… EDIT – Just seen it’s secondhand. Hmm…

it’s odder than that – everything fine in bypass, then when activated there is still sound to the amp but the knobs just don’t do anything ?!?!

I’m not too worried as it cost peanuts (and I don’t think the seller is trying to scam me fwiw just one of those things) so I’ll have another fiddle with it and it’ll either work or go in the recycling…

Oops! 2013 Les Paul LPJ is on its way inbound…

You just can’t help yourself can you? 😁👍🏼
Pics will be needed.

Nice!

I bought a 2010 Les Paul previously owned by Tez Robert’s from Discharge last year. Took it on tour to the Alps the day after. Day three of ownership I did my first Apres gig with it at Cocorico in Tignes (awesome gig) Day four of ownership, got it out of the case at my next gig and the headstock was snapped off 😥

With people selling off their highend gear for peanuts I pickup a lovely ‘new to me’ amp

65amps Lil Elvis

I already have a 65amps ventura which is great and with this is stereo greater

Don’t suppose anyone has a strat pickup for sale?
Looking for something to go in the bridge of mine that has a bit more oomph than the USA standard that is in there (5.5kOhm)

No, I can’t help myself. Always after the next hit… 😜

I’m on a one in, one out though these days. Anyone need a PRS SE Baritone soapbar?

Nichetastic but no.

But think of the Twin Peaks theme tunes you could play!

Edukator, What’s the issue with your Kingsman’s strap button? I haven’t had any issue with my strap coming off at all.