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by sizzlingbadger
Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:53 pm
Forum: DIY BUILD YOUR OWN - Guitars
Topic: recommend me a drill press
Replies: 35
Views: 28982

Re: recommend me a drill press

StrummersOfThunder wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:15 pm https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... tid=HHaHfI


Any thoughts ?
Looks great, shows "Out of Stock" though ?
by sizzlingbadger
Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:00 am
Forum: Tone and Style
Topic: YouTube goodness
Replies: 6647
Views: 1339611

Re: YouTube goodness

by sizzlingbadger
Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:29 am
Forum: Tone and Style
Topic: YouTube goodness
Replies: 6647
Views: 1339611

Re: YouTube goodness

StrummersOfThunder wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:57 pm Abbey road but Dutchmen anyone ?

Soooooo good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCG6faO ... RalphSmits
Seriously skilful musicians, I went to have a quick watch and ended up listening to the whole thing, couldn't stop :thumbup:
by sizzlingbadger
Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:28 am
Forum: Artists
Topic: Steve Harley Rip
Replies: 3
Views: 317

Re: Steve Harley Rip

sounds of my childhood - Make Me Smile
by sizzlingbadger
Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:43 am
Forum: Artists
Topic: Philip Sayce joined PRS!
Replies: 10
Views: 579

Re: Philip Sayce joined PRS!

I miss my Silver Sky SE, it was such an easy guitar to play, I'd seriously look at selling/trading my LP Special for a USA model Silver Sky.
by sizzlingbadger
Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:26 pm
Forum: Guitars
Topic: Return of the Gibbons shocker thread!
Replies: 937
Views: 204643

Re: Return of the Gibbons shocker thread!

I thought NFT's were an April fool joke when I first heard about them, I'm not so sure I was wrong even now.
by sizzlingbadger
Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:29 pm
Forum: Guitar Mods
Topic: Gold Hardware restoring ?
Replies: 18
Views: 1181

Re: Gold Hardware restoring ?

Personally I wouldn't use an ultrasonic cleaner on those parts, they look pretty clean generally. You can polish the parts very lightly with Autosol and they will come up shiny, you may start to lose the gold finish though if you are not very careful. A proper setup and raising the tail stop will so...
by sizzlingbadger
Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:31 am
Forum: GAS
Topic: Looper…is it worth spending up ?
Replies: 54
Views: 1672

Re: Looper…is it worth spending up ?

I have the Boss RC10-R, very happy with it.
by sizzlingbadger
Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:15 am
Forum: Guitars
Topic: Return of the Gibbons shocker thread!
Replies: 937
Views: 204643

Re: Return of the Gibbons shocker thread!

JoeBlow wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:11 am Looking at the present and future guitarists, I'll stick with the past thanks. Audible dreck, 90% of it. Although there still seems to be a plethora of youngsters on YouTube playing Sabbath and Zeppelin material, so maybe there is hope.

I'll fetch my cardigan.
Is it a Gibson cardigan ?
by sizzlingbadger
Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:36 am
Forum: Wow!Rare!Collectible!!!!
Topic: The Knopfler Auction
Replies: 19
Views: 2886

Re: The Knopfler Auction

Yeah I watched it on Youtube. There were some interesting pre-auction video's with Mark too. I learn't that on Money For Nothing he used a re-issue LP and he got his '59 later.
by sizzlingbadger
Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:36 am
Forum: Guitar Mods
Topic: lower output p90
Replies: 35
Views: 2149

Re: lower output p90

StrummersOfThunder wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:11 am Ordered a Glynn cool 90 this morning.

Also this is important ->

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d9QZFd ... sdrwho2007
Never really noticed that early tape echo before :-)
by sizzlingbadger
Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:17 pm
Forum: Guitar Mods
Topic: lower output p90
Replies: 35
Views: 2149

Re: lower output p90

That would be good try out, pretty sure the seller is a member here Dano_NZ ?
by sizzlingbadger
Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:30 pm
Forum: Guitar Mods
Topic: lower output p90
Replies: 35
Views: 2149

Re: lower output p90

It's a dog ear P90...


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by sizzlingbadger
Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:14 pm
Forum: Guitar Mods
Topic: lower output p90
Replies: 35
Views: 2149

Re: lower output p90

One thing I am pretty convinced on is pot taper. I recon the old CentraLab C2/10% taper is pretty important. At half way a 500k C2 will measure about 50k. They give you a lot of clean below 6ish. Lot of modern pots are 30%+/- taper - a lot of the "vintage correct" pots are 15-30% too - th...