Recent content by torpedovegas

Hi Guys, I have a roasted maple neck on my strat and it's getting some 'gunk' on the fingerboard.  I was wondering what you guys recommend as far as a cleaning solution.

Unfortunately, I hate the neck profiles on Epi

Hi Guys, So I've been musing about a Mooncaster build.  I've always wanted an ES-335 but the vintage ones would be recklessly expensive for me and I'm fairly unimpressed with Gibson's build quality as of late.  Plus the mooncaster offers me the option to have some custom features and slap on a...

I may ultimately try building an isolation booth for recording guitars and vocals and just do my best to mitigate and work around the ambient noise for mixing.  Obviously not mix when there's a load of laundry in, haha.

Ambient noise from the utility room

Hi Guys, I know this is a guitar forum but I don't really feel like asking gearslutz.  I'm moving back to Detroit from Nashville (before I get all the "why?" questions, there's too many guitar players here, I hate hot weather, I don't culturally fit into the south etc).  Anyway, the nice thing...

Yeah, unfortunately the gentleman I'm teaching has been playing guitar for a while so a new tuning would be pretty hard especially since it would mean re-learning all the chord shapes we've gone through.  Another struggle would be finding a tuning that would equally accommodate chords as well as...

Hi Guys, So I have a guitar student who is 82 years old.  Sweet old guy who just wants to learn chords and melodies from 30s/40s jazz/country tunes.  He had a stroke some years back so the ring and pinky fingers on his left hand don't work as well as the other two.  Therefore, he generally has...

Hi Guys, Yes definitely, there's a lot more to Brian May's tone than the tonewoods of the Red Special (not the least of which the sixpence coin that he plays with... not a habit I think I'll be 'picking' up). If I'm honest I'm not looking for something I could use in a "Queen cover band" but...

Hi Guys, I'm in a nostalgic mood....  My favorite band when I was in the 5th grade through junior high was Queen (still are one of my favorites and I've always admired Brian May).  I've often thought about making a Red Special inspired strat (considering they sell pre-loaded pickguards with the...

So I've been searching the internets to no avail.  I have a wilkinson trem on my strat: http://www.warmoth.com/Gotoh-Wilkinson-Tremolo-VS100-Chrome-P621C699.aspx I really like it, I've even replaced the trem arm with a Floyd Rose arm which I like a lot better, however I can't help but think I...

One thing I will say about teles, if you're looking for the traditional tele bridge p/u sound.  The pickup being mounted into that large nickel bridge is a huge part of that tone.  In my warmoth strat I originally had a retrofitted telecaster pickup in the bridge by Harmonic Design, which I...

Well, hopefully there will be a few different options.

Well, I'm sure by the time it's all unveiled I'll just be getting that Starcaster body and I'll have my answer then.  Worst case Ontario, I'll just get an a la carte starcaster neck and have my guy shave off the finish.  Roasted maple would've been ideal...but hey I'm mainly a guitar player anyway.

That is some clutch info.  Hopefully it's completely identical to the neck pocket on the Starcaster bass I posted and the neck will work  :icon_thumright: