***The Official Guitar Thread***

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common sense prevails. These leeches making cases on behalf of dead people's estate. If the guy didn't see fit to pursue it when he was alive why does this even get court time after the event?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54423922

Zeppelin are my all time favourite band, I don't think I've mentioned I saw them in 1971, 1975 (twice) and 1980 but they haven't half plagiarised everybody.
I have a double CD somewhere of everybody they ripped off with the best one being Jake Holmes.

 
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RIP EVH :'(

Not my absolute favourite guitarist by any means but can't deny how much he did for the craft

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Thought I’d upload a quick and dirty video in memory of EVH... haven’t played the Frankenstrat in a few days but it always puts a smile on my face.

RIP :(
 
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So, I bought this Guitar, with a plan to rebuild it for a friend for Christmas. I don't play guitar, have no experience with fixing instruments, have no idea where is best to get parts from, and would love some advice from this fine group of people :D


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And advice, ideas, or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Mostly, I need to know where I should be buying parts from and what sort of parts would work for this guitar, and any pitfalls that I should be aware of!
 
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Ooh that's nice!

So first I'd make a list of parts missing and work needed to prevent too many individual orders. There are loads of suppliers online, from specialists and shops to eBay and AliExpress.

There will be a few steps you might need specialist tools for - or it may be worth taking to a guitar tech to finish off e.g. cutting the string slots in the nut (at the head end of the fretboard).

Immediate parts missing that you'll NEED:

Tuning machines
Nut
Bridge saddle

You may well want to add in:

Electronics (preamp)
Jack socket and plate
Strap buttons

I'd say you want to give the fingerboard a clean and polish the frets. Then it's mostly a case of fitting all the parts and seeing how it plays. You could do a lot of the adjustment with sandpaper and files.
 
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Ooh that's nice!

So first I'd make a list of parts missing and work needed to prevent too many individual orders. There are loads of suppliers online, from specialists and shops to eBay and AliExpress.

There will be a few steps you might need specialist tools for - or it may be worth taking to a guitar tech to finish off e.g. cutting the string slots in the nut (at the head end of the fretboard).

Immediate parts missing that you'll NEED:

Tuning machines
Nut
Bridge saddle

You may well want to add in:

Electronics (preamp)
Jack socket and plate
Strap buttons

I'd say you want to give the fingerboard a clean and polish the frets. Then it's mostly a case of fitting all the parts and seeing how it plays. You could do a lot of the adjustment with sandpaper and files.

Wow, brilliant :D Thanks! I will get cracking asap. Just to have the names of the parts will help a load!!
 
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1) steel or nylon strung then what kind of pickup and bridge is the first question. Is it intended to be a piezo pickup in the bridge or concealed magnetic pickup? Or is the void for a preamp and a permanent piezo transducer still in place?
 
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1) steel or nylon strung then what kind of pickup and bridge is the first question. Is it intended to be a piezo pickup in the bridge or concealed magnetic pickup? Or is the void for a preamp and a permanent piezo transducer still in place?
There's a piezo undersaddle doodad still in the slot, see the individual bumps for each string? It might not be working though...
 
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so it needs a compatible bridge placing over that. The strings presumably don't pressure that directly. Is the finished guitar meant to sound acoustic then?
 
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Last night I plugged my Fender Valve Super Champ XD using the Valve channel not he FX channel into my Marshall 1960 AHW 4x 12 cab...Put a Electro harmonic Soul Food before the amp and what I got was a tone from god...:lol:

8ohms amp into 16ohms cab...

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Last night I plugged my Fender Valve Super Champ XD using the Valve channel not he FX channel into my Marshall 1960 AHW 4x 12 cab...Put a Electro harmonic Soul Food before the amp and what I got was a tone from god...:lol:

8ohms amp into 16ohms cab...

ShkHtxU_d.webp

valves are best as voltage amplifiers rather than current amplifiers. The lower the ohm impedance the harder a valve finds to drive it even with an output transformer.
Probably why the tone sounds better is your seeing a more parallel response from the valves and therefore more even harmonics - the sound tube lovers love.
When a valve is driven at a point the response is not parallel you start seeing odd harmonics.

High ohm = better with valves, voltage amplification.
Low ohm = better with solid state, current amplifications.
 
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I have two but not in colour, I wonder if they are easier to read?
I did 3 outdoor gigs in September and it was quite hard to see the display on the older model so I've just ordered one of these.
I've used one in the garden over summer and had no problem reading it, I'm tempted to get another for my son's ukulele so I don't have to find my phone every time I touch the thing!
 
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