Recent content by markwayne

Thanks very much. I guess we all go through that speed fetish. My coming of age was working with a sax player in the house band at a strip club when I was 19. That guy would blow me away night after night and, like any dumb kid, I'd play a faster solo and then he would play even fewer notes and...

Thanks all. The fact that anyone else likes that treatment of "Both Sides Now" made me smile. I did that partly as a joke but it was informed by a huge crush that I had on Joni when I was a kid. (There is also a reggae version, a post-bop version and a polka that never made it on tape.) As...

Sorry to reply to an old thread, but I was recording a couple of things at the request of my father whose health is failing and I happened to grab the black JM for the solo on this one and then thought of this thread. So my take on Satch's Always With Me. Martin acoustic and a Nashville tuned...

I just put this together and used the Warmoth Jazzmaster (with EMGs and a Floyd Rose) on it 'cause it was already sitting out and I'm lazy. https://soundcloud.com/rawas1935_founinge/always-with-me And one recorded with the blue-burst Jazzmaster which also has EMG pickups and a Floyd...

Funny you should mention that one. That's another Warmoth build. It's an alderTele body with Variax guts and a Warmoth, short-scale, mahogany neck with an ebony board. It's a very comfy guitar to play. What's weird is how often people single out how great that guitar sounds at gigs. Even when I...

I'll vouch for Jeff Andrews as an honest guy who does top-notch work! Wayne

Cool, thanks! That looks promising. I have several guitars that I'd love to use more live and that might do the trick. I did have a tech who wired a circuit-breaker-type of protection into a couple of stage guitars many years ago. The problem with his design was that most of the current I got...

I'd have to agree with that assessment of the Dr. Z models I've played. They are very nice but they have to be pretty loud to come into their own and then they are kind of a one-trick pony and if you are using a lot of pedals, you aren't likely to use that trick so much. And I'll also second...

Yeah, that would certainly be true. Fortunately, I rarely make any physical contact with the jack plate while singing but it's really hard to avoid touching the strings. :-)

I do have several guitars that have fixed bridges with locking tuners. (Including a couple of Warmoth builds.) And I'll often take one of those to a club gig. But even the most stable of those are likely to need tweaking after five or six songs or if they have been in air conditioning backstage...

Yeah, I understand. And if you saw me live, you would be right to wonder why I even have a vibrato at all as I rarely, if ever, touch the Floyd. If I could get the same tuning stability any other way, I would. To be honest, both the EMGs and Floyd are simply crutches that give me less things to...

So after years of super Strats, I decided it was time for something different. I built a black JM with a padouk neck and ebony board and a blueburst with a one-piece maple neck (by another builder). All other parts are standard super strat fare. I'm really quite happy with the way they...

Very sweet. I have a set of old, genuine PAFs that I pulled out of an early 60's SG almost twenty years ago and the '57 classics compare quite favorably. I really love them in the neck position. They strike a nice balance between girth, warmth and air that works really well in places where many...

This is a recent build. The body was a showcase piece that I got a great deal on. The body is lightweight mahogany with a blue gloss that has really grown on me. The body is very resonant and works well with the Warmoth, one piece birdseye maple neck that I had on another guitar. The body was...

Okay, for those of you not familiar with the Variax, here's what it looked like originally: Pretty much a very, very cool piece of technology trapped in a very cheap looking, Asian-made plastic coated, soulless hunk of cheap wood. And after I got hold of it with a saw, sander, drill and...