Recent content by Re-Pete

Hi folks Hope everyone is doing well... I have been watching a lot of European videos on You Tube where they are renovating old buoldings. Bringing them back to life. When it comes to the old hardwood floors, a lot of the renovators swear by Osmo Products to put a finish and polish on the...

Gibson's Brian Ray SG & Fender's Brad Paisley Esquire both use a hidden pickup, but that's mostly to have it as a humbucking agent. I imagine even pulling a hot single coil pickup down to pickguard level will greatly reduce it's input into the signal . It would enhance rather than boost. For a...

That truck is a legend. Smoke On The Water Stairway To Heaven When The Levee Breaks... plus many many more. Also, the whole Exile On Main Street & Sticky Fingers albums....

When you check out guitar repair and used guitar sites, quite often you see a certain brand of guitar starting with "G" being described as having a headstock repair. Now while those repairs, if done professionally & competently will solve the issue, the original manufacturing has been found...

I am here? Happy New Year to you all.

I'm just asking a naive question. I know for single coils they recommend 250k pots and for humbuckers it's 500k. And in cap size it's generally .047 for single coils & humbuckers .022. I 'get' that it's 500k/.022 for humbuckers because that's a double equation to the single coil formula &...

@stratamania I'll be honest, that Jansen Invader is my playing hand's comparison point. It had, IIRC, a early 60s style C shaped profile on the neck and the neck was pretty honest about what you were playing. Not much fight to it. But I was learning and hadn't laid my hands on better guitars...

I'd offer $20 for the snowblower but it would have more use in Miami cleaning men's toilet table tops than I would have in NSW Australia! Good post!

In the 1960s a NZ company did just that. The Jansen Invader. It was my first real electric guitar that was playable. My brother-in-law tried to play guitar during the Surfing Era, didn't work out so it was stuck in his old bedroom at his parents' place. When he found out I was playing guitar on...

Said in Borat voice: "Very nice".

I just opened a video from Davey's World of Fun Stuff, he does guitar repair videos. He's doing a kit guitar build, with spray paints supplied by a sponsor. I had previously seen Aaron's video for Warmoth and the trigger finger pain he got from spraying so much with a nozzle spray can. Well...

Try the JB first and see how it works.... If it is too overpowering of the stacks or it sounds too dark on a 250K pot, I can suggest a Dimarzio Super 2. They are bright ceramic magnet pickups usually used in neck position of an LP to solve muddy neck position issues. I had one for years in the...

Pete Thorn has just done a video about his experience with purchase of power tubes. He went to Tube Amp Doctor in EU, bought their Red Base EL34 and then did an A/B on the same amp, with Dave Freidman, no less, doing the bias adjustment in between. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cgR0kI3PNY

Did I do something wrong?  :icon_scratch: I mentioned the elephant in the room. There is a war breaking out in Eastern Europe and it's where the music world gets many of it's tubes from. But more significantly, it's where a large chunk of the yearly harvest of wheat comes from. China supplies a...

Honestly, from what I've read, I'd be more worried about potential food shortages due to both the Ukraine & Russia being major wheat suppliers. I have one tube amp combo that I love dearly but for home studio use I mainly use the Kemper. The combo amp is an extravagance to me. No doubt, there...