Guitar Nerds Anonymous

why thank you....

Sussed out the Who's Young Man Blues riff at the weekend. Drove the household man rockin' out on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWRmsoBXAUw

^ hope you're also wearing a boiler suit with rocks of coke dropping from your nose as you play?!

Dad took a photo of all his guitars before starting to thin down his collection lol.

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Liking the Guild and the blonde Tele...

Thought my Twin was dead but it turns out the power switch problem is still there, easy to jiggle about and get it to work tho'...

Sounds fucking fabulous and I haven't even put the new tubes I got off @rickster in it yet... This bodes very well for everyone but the neighbours... 👌🐓

Reuss Effects Goo Goo Fuzz is incredible! Bit noisy but the fuzz is the best I've heard, all kinds of wild harmonics popping out... Winner...

Gonna buy their fuzz repeater when it's ready in a few weeks... Kosmiche experiments here I come...

Sorry if a repost but used to go completely mental about this one. And still do actually :)

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I'll take one of these thanks... ;P

the Johnny Wosrite
There's a guy in Brisvegas that used to make really good replicopies™ of the Mosrite

Tim of Tym Guitars fame, he still does... He's been blogging furiously this week about his favourites... I almost bought one off him a couple of years ago... I thought it had an $800 ticket on it... There was a one hidden before the eight tho'... Oh, how we lol'd...

He has fantastic taste in guitars, his faves are Mosrite Ventures models and Epiphone Crestwood Custom Deluxes... Can't fault that... :)

Like that ratty black tele and what's that thing with the f-hole at the back? to the right, leaning on the bookcase (not the one on the chair).

Playing here tomorrow at 8ish if anyone's passing. Should be fun. Three bands... three upright basses. https://www.facebook.com/tamesisdock

Its an odd archtop acoustic that I picked up a few years ago. The finish is rough, almost looks homemade. Huge action, great for slide, looks the business but got an intonation problem I haven't been bothered to sort out yet. Another project :)

Blonde tele with the rosewood neck for me! Had that been available when I got my own tele, I'd had gone for it.

Its a Philippe Dubreuille. Lovely thing.

Good choice of luthier!!

I wish I'd got him to make me one of his Epi Crestwood Custom Deluxes when I had the cash and was seriously considering it... Nicky from The Hellacopters used to play one (lefty)...

Fond memories of gigging there... What time u on?

O'Riley? I never have. 8ish I hope. Come!

Its small!! Will try. Bring yer knob ;-)

Good to see you Ollie. Fun night!

Ok, I'm after a short scale, maybe hollow body or semi hollow bass. Got a squier natural walnut finish Jazz to swap or exchange.

Any thoughts?

Aye you guys were great and the little Guild was sounding sweet. It really jumps out when you pick little solo bits, especially in the lower register.

Hah! That's good to know! Cheers bud.

Hello all, I browse but don't post in this thread much but a little advice if you please.

I've got a 20 year old Tanglewood Jetstream JV. It's immaculate aside from the original flimsy scratchplate being shaped by a randy gibbon, whoever cut the plate must have been pissed. I've put up with this for a long time, and anyway, I mainly play acoustic guitar.

I've got the hankering for a project, here's what I'm thinking, tell me if it's all a load of bollocks.

I whip off the shite scratchplate
Trace it onto new perspex / plastic / copperplate? / wood
Cut it out myself / waterjet cut at a local place
Upgrade the pickups (strat style, three singlecoils)
Upgrade pots and selector switch and wiring

Am I polishing a turd?
Does anyone know anything about the cheap aliexpress pickups?
Do metal scratchplates work? Will I electrocute my face off? Is wood tough enough?
I play strictly rhythm, barre chords and easy stuff, any pickup suggestions?

Cheers

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Jetstreams are rad. Like an insane Musicman Silhouette.

Sounds like a top project. Making a really neat pickguard is hellish difficult, it's the pickup routs that bite you. If you've got skills and waterjet access you could end up with something really unique, though I'd avoid wood at all costs.... just a world of splitty, warping problems. Best go aluminium (improves shielding, no electrocution), anodised is nice, or source a really cool plastic. Someone like jacksinstrumentservices.com could do it for you if you fancy a pro job.

I bet those Chinese Ali pickups are utter poo. They'll be sub-Squier quality. The go-to hip/cheap (okay, ish) pickups at the moment seem to be mojopickups.co.uk (£120 for three) and oilcitypickups.co.uk (a mere £99) - both brands are handwound in UK, and ace.