Let's see your guitar and bass gear!

How do you like the Greta, David? I have not heard good things.

Anyone looking for some bass gear? I just bought another bass & need to clear out some things! I have:

A Hartke LH500 head, used less than a month & never gigged with. I still have the box and all paperwork. $275

1977 S.D. Curlee bass, s/n 321, bought from the 2nd owner and refretted last year. Nearly mint condition with case. $550

90's Korean Dan Electro Longhorn bass in an unusual Perrywinkle(?) color. $350

This pic doesn't really capture the hue, I'll update it soon.

Low-end BC Rich Warlock guitar, black with red/white tribal graphics. It actually plays & feels really nice though. $110

And a couple more things I forgot...

Lefty P-bass, "Davidson". Presently strung right-handed with fresh DR strings. I have the lefty nut & can restring if needed. It's fully setup and sounds/plays nice. $100

EHX Superego pedal. $150

In reply to petegossett:

I know some folks who might be interested in the Longhorn. I'll ask them tonight when I get home. Got any pics?

In reply to Ian F:

Yes I'll post them after work tonight. Thanks!

Edit: I added some pics above & will get better ones of the Dano.

Well here's the new bass. I got the strings flipped over to right-handed last night & briefly played it. I need to tweak the setup a bit, but so far it's pretty amazing. It fits me perfect and plays great, I need to work with the tone a bit to get it to sound right through my rig.

Lotta movement in my guitar world this weekend. First, I sold my Martin D28 and Guild F20 at a guitar show:

Then I came home and bought a Martin D19 from my dad (Sorry, no pictures). I then traded my brother an Orpheum Mandolin and $150 for a Fender Aerodyne Stratocaster. So at the end of the day, I'm down one mandolin, down one acoustic, up one electric, and up in money.

I'm also thinking about building a Tele.

I picked up one of these at Guitar Center a few weeks ago. I've been wanting an electric hollow body for awhile and it plays/sounds really nice - especially for the price ($329). The flat finish is kinda cool as well.

Evidently I hate my back, so I just got this guy:

Best I can tell, this is a mid-80s "Skunkworks" cab. This was back when Ampeg came back to America. Shame the guy didn't have one of the 500 hand built SVT heads that matched it.

It sounds awesome. It's a shame it will never leave my rehearsal space.

In reply to Gimp:

Badass! What are you powering it with?

I may be on the hunt for a new amp this summer, not very happy with either of my Hartkes presently.

petegossett wrote: In reply to Gimp: Badass! What are you powering it with? I may be on the hunt for a new amp this summer, not very happy with either of my Hartkes presently.

I've got an Ampeg Portaflex PF-350 hooked up to it now. It's plenty loud for what I need, and if I crank the gain to 11 it starts to sound like a nicely driven SVT.

Ian F wrote: I picked up one of these at Guitar Center a few weeks ago. I've been wanting an electric hollow body for awhile and it plays/sounds really nice - especially for the price ($329). The flat finish is kinda cool as well.

Nice! I've got my eye on the semi-hollow body in that line as a budget alternative to a Gibson ES-335. My brother has one and I like it.

Bought another amp tonight.

For the past year or so I have been taking bass lessons from the owner of our local shop. We leave it loose due to my travel and his gigs, but usually it's like twice a month. We talk music, share stories, and he teaches me a thing or two.

Last week I restrung my Strat, so for this week I asked if we could work on some surf techniques. I just can't get the sound I want. He used to play in a surf band, and turns out that my technique was really close. Long story short, it's my amp. It's a nice tube amp that does metal and punk just fine, but for whatever reason it just doesn't work with any kind of reverb pedal.

So he demoed his '69 Princeton Reverb for me. Sounds awesome but at $1200 maybe I should pass. Then he showed me a used Vox AD30VT. It's a modeling amp with a tube. Right off the bat it delivered the tone I wanted. Then we found more cool tones. Plus it was a tenth the price of the Fender.

Been playing it all evening and just love it.

By the way, I think my next guitar purchase will be a P-bass--black, white pick guard, maple headstock.

David S. Wallens wrote: So he demoed his '69 Princeton Reverb for me. Sounds awesome but at $1200 maybe I should pass.

I remember going and buying a Princeton Reverb with my roomate from college, which he used with his Herb Ellis for his jazz guitar studies. The dude was asking $50, but we got it for $40.

DILYSI Dave wrote:

David S. Wallens wrote: So he demoed his '69 Princeton Reverb for me. Sounds awesome but at $1200 maybe I should pass.

I remember going and buying a Princeton Reverb with my roomate from college, which he used with his Herb Ellis for his jazz guitar studies. The dude was asking $50, but we got it for $40.

I still can't believe we sold my Schwinn Pea Picker for like $5.

Last weekend my Grandmother gave this 1951 Supro Spectator to me. This little amp belonged to my Grandfather and he used it to play various dance halls throughout the 50s and 60s. I built a current limiter to protect old electronics like this and surprisingly the amp works. Needs a cap or two but I couldn't be more pleased.

In reply to Apis Mellifera:

That is amazing!

What tube set does it use?

6V6, 5Y3, and 6SL7; one of each.

I personally like the sound of a 6SL7 preamp tube, even the metal cased ones.

That is pretty much a 5C1 champ circuit (or more accurately the sample circuit in the tube data book that Leo copied)

I love it!

In reply to Apis Mellifera:

If it doesnt already, get rid of the "death cap" and install a proper 3 prong plug.

David those little Voxes are very sweet modeling amps, no doubt, but you a good Princeton is a desert-island amp, and you just haven't lived until you've got one really cooking. Absolutely delicious 'verb and tremolo on 'em, too. And 1200 for a vintage one isn't bad at all.

Or, for about the same money, get a DeLisle like mine, with BF Princeton, brown Princeton and tweed Vibrolux circuits in it. Three of the all time great circuilts in one amp. Hell of an amp. Makes me wish I could play better.

Changing it up. Swapped out the PAF's for some GFS surf90's. I will use the long weekend to give them a proper test.

Starting the new amp today.

The donor PA is a gem. A pair of 6BQ5/EL84, a pair of 6EU7 and a 6X4 rectifier. The eyewash station sign is the source of fiberglass sheet for the eyelet board.

The circuit will be somewhere in between a Matchless spitfire and a Marshall 18 watt.

A leather supply shop provided the 1/8" brass eyelets. These were set into holes drilled in the old safety sign.

Of course using scavenged materials has its limitations and this board is a bit small. It will make it a pain to do a really clean layout since it is so cramped.

And component installation has begun. Looks like I messed up about 30% of the part numbers on the digikey order so I have quite a few pieces to try and get locally next week.

I will fold up an aluminum chassis at work monday. Thinking 8"X16"X2"

I think you should complete the "scavenged" theme and put it in a found box about that size. I've seen 8 x 16 x 2 toolboxes, for example.

Tim Baxter wrote: I think you should complete the "scavenged" theme and put it in a found box about that size. I've seen 8 x 16 x 2 toolboxes, for example.

Agreed. That would be really freakin' cool.