Recent content by Tyrannocaster

This song by Arthur Hamilton was first featured in the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It, which was mostly early rock and roll. (In fact, it was a hugely influential film in postwar England, which was starving for American music and pop stars; Jeff Beck has mentioned the movie many times in...

Guys, my apologies for not seeing your replies. I always try to answer any responses but this time I got distracted by the arrival of the first actual jazzbox I've owned in decades - an Eastman AR372-P90 archtop. So, not a Warmoth and I haven't posted here about it as a result, but it is a...

Well, you know that my stuff is unpredictable! Not sure what to call this musically; people who don't like jazz won't like it because they think it's too jazzy, while people who do like jazz won't like it because it isn't jazzy enough, lol. I called it The Three Faces of Yves as a pun on The...

This song is one of those guilty pleasures for me - Scandal's 80s nightclub hit. Thought I'd post it because I used one of my Warmoths to do it - essentially, it's a Jeff Beck Strat; Gotoh 510 trem, locking tuners, roller nut, big frets, HB in the bridge with 500k pots. Two color sunburst body...

Great! Such a good song to work with.

I never owned an XKE, just two MGs (A and B), a Spitfire, and a GT6, which was a poor man's XKE. All of them broke down constantly, but they were just so much fun to drive. But that Jag...prettiest car ever made IMO, even including Testarossas and GT250s. That is one hell of a wrench! I used to...

Here's an instrumental version of Del Shannon's monster tune, since nobody (but NOBODY) can sing it like he did. I used a Warmoth Tele for everything except for Del's falsetto parts, which I did on a Warmoth Strat. Both guitars have big necks and frets (all 4 of my regular Warmoths do; only the...

Here's a new one done with the same Warmoth red Tele. Just a great guitar, boatneck, extra wide, huge frets - I love it.

Thought I'd post these two videos since they seem to be doing well on my tiny YouTube channel. I did the music with two Warmoths I put together in 1996 and I gave Warmoth a credit with a photo at the end. I have four Warmoths now, but these two will always be special. I finished them using oil...

All Warmoth; two Teles and a Strat. The acoustic is one of those formica-bodied Martins plus some software acoustics doubling it. https://soundcloud.com/tyrannocaster-rex/epitaph-king-crimson I filled my Soundcloud page up and switched to Hearthis.at which is more user-friendly even if it has...

Yep!

After getting help from forum members here I sorted out my Strat pickup arrangements. Here's the Warmoth I assembled in August, now with Bill Lawrence Keystones in the neck and middle (heard only on rhythm in this track) and a Dragonfire Screamer in the bridge replacing the Kinman Extra Vintage...

i built a Warmoth Strat 25 years ago and still play it, but I was never satisfied with the pickups (tried various different ones) or the old vintage trem. I finally bit the bullet and put a set of Areas in it and a Super Vee. Transformed the guitar! Here's what it sounds like on this tune...

I ran out of hookup wire, but I realized that I had a potential source that's virtually unlimited available: Christmas tree lights that don't work. Everybody has a string or two of these damn things, right? They give you spare bulbs and fuses, but it's just never possible to get them working...

Up-Update: I redid the Warmoth, swapping the neck and middle, and their leads to the switch. Problem solved. I simply cannot think this stuff through, so I really appreciate the help. Actual photo of me, trying to think this through: