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Figured some of you might like to see the guts of my new black and tan... There's no doubt about it, Bad Cat does make amps that are built to survive nuclear attacks. If you ever figure out how the Brilliance, Level and Edge knobs can be manipulated to get different tones effectively, please let me know (I HATE them with a passion).

What is the heaviest guage I can get for an electric guitar?

I just bought a used Boss Turbo Distortion DS2..... Anyone use one of these? Are they just a DS1 with an extra boost of gain? I have yet to plug it in... I just saw it at the store for $39 Canadian and thought it would be cool to add to the collection of Boss stuff i have. I wonder what it is like set up with the Remote switch?

I just pulled the trigger on the body for my project. They 1/16quot; thick aircraft grade aluminum with a frame built inside. They will be routed for P-90s. Sprucehill guitars makes them. I'm stuck on these two bodies. I really like the double cut body, but I am worried about the neck stability because the pocket is so shallow. Which do you guys like?I've always been partial to Tele bodies.

Ok so what quot;must doquot; task do you string slingers most hate. For me it is tuning.

I've always wished that Duncan humbuckers came with phillips head bolts, rather than slotted. Most stock OEM bolts are phillips, so is it a patent issue, or is there another reason why they'd be opposite?

Today I finally had the opportunity to CRANK my Peavey C30 with a newly loaded G12H30 and see if my past criticisms of the speaker were hogwash. Well, I cranked the Post, cranked the Pre and tried to do my best early Clapton on my SG Standard w/ 59's and the verdict was...the amp is history.
The last time I was able to crank the amp was with it's stock Blue Marvel speaker and I wrote on the board about how the amp did not handle loud volumes well. It sounded like it was loose, was inarticulate with gain and sounded like it was going to crack up. I figured maybe it was the speaker so I installed the Celestion G12H30, and I got the same results. The amp sounds really nice with PRE at about 1 or 2 o'clock and POST at 9 o'clock, but once I start bringing the POST up the amp sounds like muck. I don't know how I can articulate this, but it just sounds like it's about to derail, like the sound isn't tight anymore and is coming apart. I've played through cranked Marshalls at GC's loud room and they seemed to hold all of the tonal nuances of a cranked amp together. This piece doesn't. I just bought a Vox Valvetronix for my apt, so I'm covered there, and once I want to spend on a LOUD tube amp again, I am going with Marshall, no questions asked.

I'm building a custom 7/8 size, 24.75 scale Warmoth strat, H-S-S configuration. (I'm a small framed woman and wanted a shorter scaled neck/body). Looking for pickup options since the smaller body/shorter scale may rob me of some tone. I do not care about preserving the 'strat' tone on this little bastard of a guitar......I already own PG (b), classic stack(n) and lil/59(n) and was thinking of installing that combo for yucks. Thanks!

...remember that black strat I bought a while back? I gave it a slight makeover with a cool pickguard and some pickups I got from XSSIVE.

Well, I just got back from the damn guitar center. I had to drive an hour each way to Baton Rouge since the New Orleans one is still closed. Despite telling the dude that I had a ONE HUM CHARVEL, he gave me a damn '59 Neck pickup. I didn't notice until I got home, of course.