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FWIW, mine was also an original design, and we worked with the tattoo artist for about a week refining it until we had something everyone was completely happy with. Still, it was about 45 minutes in the chair, and I was charged $75.

My wife got a matching one on her calve, so that brough the total to $150, but it was 2 tatoos.

I have one tat, and it cost me $75. Took about 45 minutes.

The pic is from the day I got it.

I don't play every day, or even every week.

I can play electric guitar as long as I want without my fingers hurting, but playing an acoustic or a bass for a few hours will cause some tenderness.

Maybe he meant Variaxe, which is pictured with the other guitars.

He needs that rig so he can praise the Lord with his harp in South Carolina, and the Lord will be able to hear him in Heaven.

It's not terribly surprising. EBMM uses an oil finish on the neck and fretboard. It's cold in New England, and the store's heat has dried out the air. Dry air means dry fretboard means fret sprout.

The good news is that if you file your fret ends when the fretboard is dry like it is now, you'll probably never have that problem again.

It does suck for trying out guitars this time of year though.

It's more likely a switch problem. Since pickups don't have any moving parts to wear out or get corroded, they normally don't just go out. It's possible to get a short in the coil of the pickup, but my first assumption would be that it's the switch. My last assumption would be that it's the pickup.

I can't say I've ever sold an amp and regretted enough to buy the same amp.

The amps I've sold:

Peavey Rage

Peavey Classic Chorus 212

THD Univalve

Fender Cybertwin

Marchall JCM 800 2203 head

Never even considered buying another of any of them, though I sometimes wish I'd held onto the Classic Chorus, just because it was such a workhorse.

Yep. An EQ pedal in the loop if you have a loop, or after the OD pedal if you use a pedal for ODs will boost your leads wonderfully.

Never used one.

mmm...seems like there's one missing from those pics:poke:

HOLY CRAP. I thought you had disappeared. Haven't seen you in ages! How you been?

Is the new board less offensive to you than the original one?

I've always built my own and made them small enough to fit into the duffel bag I use to carry all my cables and mics and stuff like that.

Here are a few different ones I've built. The first couple were a little over complicated and didn't offer much room to rearrange pedals when I replaced or added one. The one I'm using now is big enough to house a few more pedals if need be, and I can arrange them pretty much however I want, but the cables aren't hidden like the older ones.

I started out on a student sized classic guitar. Played for a couple of years, then quit. Got an electric for Christmas when I was 13 or so. It was a Dean 'Firecrackle' from the Sears catalog. I then built a guitar in wood shop my sophomore year, and built another couple of guitars during high school.

My first truely good guitar was my PRS CE24, which I got when I graduated from high school in 1993.

BITE YOUR TONGUE!

(Neither are Fenders, but still).

That is sexy!

There's also a Floyd that actually mounts to the existing TOM and Stoptail mounts, so no mods are required. Those are really hard to find, and from what I understand, they don't offer the same range of motion as a regular Floyd, and you'd still have to put a locking nut on there, but there would be no body mods needed.

IIRC, a LP has about a 4 degree neck angle. A flush mounted Floyd requires about 3 degrees. So, I would think that the only problem might be that you have to raise the Floyd studs a little to make it work.

No reverb on the Bassman, no. I use a Hardwire Reverb pedal with mine, but mine's a silverface.

I'm pretty sold on blackface and earlier silverface Bassmans. The 50 watters.

Great clean amp. Loud, but it's a useable volume. Not near as loud as a twin, and gets a little dirt when you crank it up. Takes pedals VERY well.

And they are relatively cheap.

Not a Revolver Pro. Those have 24 fret necks.

There was a Kent Armstrong humbucker of some sort in the bridge position of my US Masters when I got it. I thought it sounded terrible. Really thin and very harsh. I replaced it with a Dimarzio Tone Zone and have been happy as can be since.

That's the only first hand experience I have with Kent Armstrong pickups. It may have just been whatever model I had that I didn't like.

I've got a Floyded Warmoth Strat with 10-46 and two Peavey Wolfgangs with 9-42s. Both work great, hold their tune perfectly, and intonation is fine on all of them.

I do prefer the easier trem tension on the 9-42s with two springs compared to the 10-46 with 3 springs, but that's neither here nor there. They both work great.

My two signature guitars (not counting my Les Paul).

And that's one of their more redeeming qualities.