Guitar Nerds Anonymous

Like the idea of that. I was going to say you’ve got an excess of fuzz going on, but then Kevin Shields...

fuzz - @1.26
https://youtu.be/Q2WBBcH6OPU?t=84

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/obituaries/glenn-snoddy-96-accidental-inventor-of-the-fuzz-tone-dies.html#:~:text=Glenn%20Snoddy%2C%20the%20studio%20engineer,by%20his%20daughter%20Dianne%20Mayo.

I’ve got a Timmy always-on to give my clean tone a bit of colour, with a boost before it to push it into overdrive. Works really well.

I tried building my own a couple of times and they didn’t work, so I had to throw some money at Paul Cochrane.

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Aha. Also a super tasty board, that looks awesome. I need to assemble my stuff onto a board, I’ve kind of never bothered as (apart from not having gigged for >20 years 😂) I always figured I used pedals both on synths and guitar. But in reality they’re kind of two separate groups of pedals.

Paint on the bottom right one looks super nice, what is it?

looks like i need to up my pedal game.

are these like vapekits or deep v's?

vapekits

Impossible to blow smoke up your arse with deep v's

that's because you don't do enough RP reps.

I never bothered with a pedalboard before I started playing lead in a band. It was much simpler on bass - just a tuner, a compressor and a Big Muff.

Paint on the bottom right one looks super nice, what is it?

It’s a ZVEX Super Hard-On (fnarr) boost. I bought it used, didn’t realise until later that they do printed and hand-painted versions, and now I’m scared to stomp it too hard in case I chip it off.

Love the board, that delay looks ace... Kevin once told me he loved my sound, we were supporting MBV pre-Bilinda at the Garage in Hammersmith, probably 85-86... I had two Tonebenders, a Big Muff and a Crybaby, what's not to love? He didn't have his big rig back then, they were still just a noisy pop band a la c86...

Both those Tym pedals have got two fuzzes in each (the Seaweed is a Tonebender and a Muff) so maximum fuzz for minimum real estate...

Crumbs, actual cool story! I would have loved to see them (and any number of C86 bands) back then, let alone support them.

I do have a couple of fuzzes (Big Muff and a Frantone Cream Puff), but I struggle to control them with guitar, so they're out of rotation for now.

I think you need to find some room on there for one of these bad boys 😉

I love it. What is it?

Now we’re talking.

Anyone looking to shift a delay pedal?

Bump before I buy elsewhere.

@Nahguavkire how's the Bronco coming along?

It's going well! I'm currently awaiting a delivery of fancy Japanese woodworkers saws and Brad point and Forstner bits from Germany to do dowels on the headstock and then drill the body for 8 ferrules on the back and string-thru. Pickup routs are completed but need to be tidied and shielded and I need to do a rout for the killswitch on the body too!

I'm going to start into fret dressing next, I've gotten a set of fret files and I'm hoping I can do some lovely rounded fret ends and give them a super polish and then I'm using some Montypresso ageing wax to darken the neck.

I've ordered a Rothko and Frost decal for it too which is going to look great...

"Squier Broncobird VIII"

Rushing out of the office now but I'll upload some pictures asap!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMu7BNmjZsr/?igshid=1lc6j5fuq6h4x

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Hahaha that's amazing! Sacha Dunable seems like such a nice guy and I can't believe he managed to make a hashleaf bong-guitar with a green fingerboard that actually looks pretty sick!

Found this in Japan, 2020 Custom Shop and same price as a bog standard new ES335... I've got a headache in my chinos...

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That’s sick. Do it!

Or this well used 2007 ESDP-335 for less than half what the one above is going for... Hmmm...

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Isn't it fucking glorious!!

winner. block inlays 4 lyf.

Five and a half Oz Gs tho'... 🤑

It's the clear winner by a country mile, but not sure I need quite that much pizazz in my life...

Oh my. That's a bit nice.

Is that a rosewood board on the 2nd? Looks like pau ferro