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Interesting display idea :

http://www.pbteen.com/products/light-your-guitar-mount/?pkey=e|guitar|6|best|0|1|24||5

And speaking of pedals, our local guitar shop got heavy into these: http://www.mooeraudio.com/en/Product.asp?PClassID=25

He says they have the right guts and sound good.

David S. Wallens wrote: And speaking of pedals, our local guitar shop got heavy into these: http://www.mooeraudio.com/en/Product.asp?PClassID=25 He says they have the right guts and sound good.

The dude I jammed with a couple of weeks ago from the CL ad was WAY into DIY pedals. In the same way there there is Megasquirt, I guess there are also open source DIY pedal communities.

I have seen the DIY pedal stuff, but not sure if I'm there yet. I guess I'm just learning how to drive a stick shift. Tuning my own carbs is still a little ways away.

ransom wrote: Grumble grumble. My Gretsch, which was theoretically to arrive today, hasn't apparently moved from the sorting facility in Salt Lake City it arrived at on Tuesday. While the delivery date is apparently missed, I don't know whether the tracking is more or less broken than the actual delivery. Usually USPS tracking is just "is it already there?" I was so excited that this one actually *started* showing steps the day the guitar shipped...

Ransom, you shoulda given me a holler. I coulda pointed you to the best places for Gretsch (better prices, and it gets to you when they say it will)

Bumping this up. I'm rebuilding my old bass and thought you folks might be interested. Full story is here - http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/refreshing-old-friend-mim-p-bass-rebuild-refinish-946292/

My very first bass is long gone. It was an Epiphone P-Bass copy, covered in stickers, etc. My parents got me it when I was 15, and I stuck with it long enough that they bought me my first "real" bass (the Epiphone moved to Philly and got destroyed on stage, according to a friend).

I had been working at a music store, and we had a white on white MIM P-Bass in stock that I lusted after week after week. Just before Christmas I came in for my shift and it was gone. I was totally heart broken, until that Christmas where I found it under the tree. Evidently my parents talked to my boss about which bass I played the most when I was supposed to be working, and they made a deal.

I can't seem to find any pictures of it originally, but it looked just like this:

I played this bass for years, but over time the neck got worse and worse, and it was almost unplayable, so when I was in my early 20s I decided to redo it.

Murdered out. (Rattle can) black with a "custom" (aka, homemade) blue carbon fiber pickguard, active EMGs, a snazzy LED light, MOSES graphite neck, and a Badass II bridge.

Before:

Eight color coats, two tinted clear coats, and 19 regular clear coats later:

Now I have to wait 30 days before I can put it together.

Let me start by saying I'm not a player and don't know how to really play a guitar. I picked up an acoustic bass and an amp a couple of years ago and tinker with it. This one sits by my chair in the living room. Mostly I irritate the wife with it. Yes I know, I need to replace the missing string. That's what happens when you let your son borrow it.

This is the amp.

I used it about twice. It feeds back through the acoustic so bad it's almost unusable.

But I got this yesterday. My business partner picked it up a the flea market for $5. It has a broken wire that needs to be repaired. I'm looking forward to getting it up and playing. I got it in pieces for the princely sum of $0.00

It's probably junk, but it's worth every penny I paid for it.

If I can't get it working I know where to ask.

Love it!

Dude, if that Univox is MIJ, and in decent shape, I'm guessing you could get $300 for it all day on ebay.

poopshovel wrote: Dude, if that Univox is MIJ, and in decent shape, I'm guessing you could get $300 for it all day on ebay.

True, but if it were me, I'd rather have a $300 bass for only $5.

poopshovel wrote: Dude, if that Univox is MIJ, and in decent shape, I'm guessing you could get $300 for it all day on ebay.

MIJ = Made in Japan?

Yeah, it looks like it is, but I would call it fair at best. It's got some dings and scratches around the edges.

That's still a neat semi-oddball bass. Good kill.

mtn wrote:

poopshovel wrote: Dude, if that Univox is MIJ, and in decent shape, I'm guessing you could get $300 for it all day on ebay.

True, but if it were me, I'd rather have a $300 bass for only $5.

If it was a $300 bass, I would too. In reality, there's goofy this rush to pay stupid money for anything stamped "Made in Japan" that looks like it could be "lawsuit era" right now. Get it while the gettin's good, cuz in a couple years, that'll be a $50 pawn shop special again.

if i was gonna get all bonerized over a guitar, this would be the one:

that pic is how it looked in 1990 when SRV died. the linked video below is how it looked in '83, in the sickest Texas Flood ever ('83 "live at the El Mocambo")

i shore am got the blues this mornin!

poopshovel wrote:

mtn wrote:

poopshovel wrote: Dude, if that Univox is MIJ, and in decent shape, I'm guessing you could get $300 for it all day on ebay.

True, but if it were me, I'd rather have a $300 bass for only $5.

If it was a $300 bass, I would too. In reality, there's goofy this rush to pay stupid money for anything stamped "Made in Japan" that looks like it could be "lawsuit era" right now. Get it while the gettin's good, cuz in a couple years, that'll be a $50 pawn shop special again.

Good point.

I got a MIJ aerodyne Strat over the summer for $300, and could have doubled my money almost immediately. Then my little brother started falling in love with it, so I traded it for his Yamaha MIJ all solid wood 12 string acoustic. Worth about the same, so I got a $600 guitar for $300. Honestly, that Yamaha blows away every 12 string within $300-$400 of it.

Word. And I hope my post didn't come across as "holier than thou" having paid $200 for a ratty Aria SG on Ebay in a drunken "Well, it'll never go THAT cheap." a few months ago. It's a piece of E36 M3, but cheaper than a piece of E36 M3 SG!

This showed up in the mail a few days ago:

I think it's just about black enough.

In reply to BoxheadTim:

Nice!!

In reply to BoxheadTim:

Holy berkeleying awesome metal guitar!!! That inlay is ridiculous!!!!!!!

And glad you guys are bumping this up. I played my Jackson this morning. It's still holding up well.

I've test driven two different upright basses in the last two days. I really want the 100 year old carved german one for the price of the chinese plywood one.

If I do end up with the chinese one, I'll be able to contribute to the instrument repair thread, as the saddle is seperating from the instrument. It looks like a relatively simple glue and clamp repair, at least I hope so. Might also get to play with some neck shaping, as the G string has a buzz right around the octave position. I was able to get rid of most of it with the adjustable bridge, but some remains.

DILYSI Dave wrote: as the saddle is seperating from the instrument. It looks like a relatively simple glue and clamp repair, at least I hope so.

Ummmm? Saddle? Uprights use a bridge that is just wedged into place.

No glue anywhere around a bridge on a double bass.

Go German...or send me a link. We had five or six uprights when I was Orchestraldork in middle school. I dunno the manufacturer of the others, but there was one ugly gnarly beast that was my fave, and as 1st chair (pops collar,) I had first choice. She was zeh eighty year old (now 100 year old) Jehr-man.

Todays amp project. I have wanted tilt back legs on my homebrew amp forever. It appears fender is the only company that makes them and while they are inexpensive they are covered in the Fender logo's which I find distasteful.

So today I hit the thrift stores looking for something suitable to re purpose. I wound up with this for $1.50

A towel rack or something. I got busy with the tubing cutter. Some bits were to long, others too short so some pieces cut off were welded to others

A trip to lowes for ancillaries

Assembly

And I have a Vox style Amp trolley for under a tenner.It points it up to where I hear it instead of at my ankles

I love it. I need a support rod to secure it in its tilted position as it tends to vibrate down over time.

ditchdigger wrote:

DILYSI Dave wrote: as the saddle is seperating from the instrument. It looks like a relatively simple glue and clamp repair, at least I hope so.

Ummmm? Saddle? Uprights use a bridge that is just wedged into place. No glue anywhere around a bridge on a double bass.

poopshovel wrote: Go German...or send me a link. We had five or six uprights when I was Orchestraldork in middle school. I dunno the manufacturer of the others, but there was one ugly gnarly beast that was my fave, and as 1st chair (pops collar,) I had first choice. She was zeh eighty year old (now 100 year old) Jehr-man.

I didn't know you were an orchestra dork. Didn't know you had ever touched a bass.

<---Also first chair. Also with the E36 M3tiest looking / best sounding bass. It was blonde. I <3 blonde basses.

Unfortunately, in this case the german one is $3500 and the chinese one they are asking $600 for, which if I go after it, I will offer $400 on. The german one would be sweet, but there's no way in hell I'm dropping that coin on a whim. Especially a whim that will get thrown in the back of a truck and taken into bars and E36 M3.

Speaking of orchestradorks - With all of these people bitching about music programs being cut left and right, I figured there would be a ton of instruments out there on the government auction sites. Nada.