This guitar has 68 frets. 68! How skinny would your fingers have to be to fret anywhere past the 5th or so. Don't even want to think of the microtonal garbage that would come from playing it. Also, dodgy paintjob.
This guitar has 68 frets. 68! How skinny would your fingers have to be to fret anywhere past the 5th or so. Don't even want to think of the microtonal garbage that would come from playing it. Also, dodgy paintjob.
Last edited by Brendan; 23-12-2015 at 09:10 AM.
'As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.'
might as well put this in the ugly thread Pabs, who has finger tips about 2mm wide ?
Agree very average paint job and is the Floyd trem cavity about 4 miles too long ?
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haha 3 nice fails there Pabs ! - the 3 pics of the last post on page 4
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Originally Posted by pablopepper
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*facepalm.
Eww.
Holy crap, that's dangerous.
I don't think the person selling those glass-less valves realized that by removing the glass they rendered the valves practically useless, the person obviously didn't understand how a valve worked much less what is required for a valve to work in the first place, I bet that person wondered why their valves weren't selling.
That silvering the person is referring to is what's called the getter, it's purpose is to absorb any trace gasses left inside the glass envelope after it has been sealed after all the air has been pumped out, this does a couple of things, firstly it ensures that the heater doesn't burn out, secondly it ensures that the valve can operate properly.
Last edited by DrNomis_44; 23-11-2015 at 08:21 AM.
Yuck.. and that fretboard makes my head spin!
This guitar has 68 frets. 68! How skinny would your fingers have to be to fret anywhere past the 5th or so. Don't even want to think of the microtonal garbage that would come from playing it. Also, shit paintjob.
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haha stick with your Kwaka Ponch. If I owned that axe I would just raise the action and play slide or loan it to DB as a spare cricket bat!
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
wouldn't the springs contact the pick up connections?
I would be careful not to let the strap get too low with this one.
God....whatever possessed that person to go and cut two huge holes out of the body of that Stratocaster?, what were they thinking?, and yep, I reckon at some stage those springs probably would short out the pickups.
And I don't see the logic in joining two trem-springs together like that either.
Been there and almost done it too, fortunately I didn't get badly burnt.
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Many years ago I stood on a hot soldering iron wearing black nylon socks, the result was a groove in the sole of my foot sealed by a melted and dried black dressing
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