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mrbrown49

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  1. This years freshman class has the all-time high % of guys at 30%. :eek:Sounds like you picked the right school!
  2. They're both great. I much prefer the studios with the glossy finishes and hotter pickups. They're still available new, but they cost about $400 too much, and good used ones are common as dirt. The "standard" studio's are a great buy used. I see them every now and then in the 600 range.
  3. Hmm, my winered Studio is definitely not flat top He's probably thinking of the faded studios which are an entirely different animal. Anyway, what's wrong with them you ask? Trolls don't like them.
  4. Now you just need to find classroom full of bored school kids.
  5. Learn what you wanna learn. {censored} the peanut gallery. b..bu......but.... How will I know if I'm doing it right?
  6. Of course not, but I love the sound and feel of finger picking so that's where I'm focusing my practicing at the moment. There's a lot of interesting syncopation type rhythms that you can do with finger picking that's damn near impossible with a pick.
  7. Sounds like your friend needs therapy. [YOUTUBE]U8BWBn26bX0[/YOUTUBE]
  8. Ill wait till he calls me and figure out what he sounds like and what neighborhood he lives in. If it seems safe Ill dress in solid black bring my girlfriends Cannon, then have her do my makeup to look like " some puerto rican guy". Ill do a full investigation like never before! Take a camera crew. Reality TV at it's best.
  9. He wants me to come look at it this afternoon ha. Are you going?
  10. Lemon Oil is also a myth. It works as a cleaner, but adds nothing to the wood in terms of conditioning. Regarding the natural sweat, mine is not good for the guitar. I prefer a few thin coats of Tru-Oil on the back of the neck, and a little Roche-Thomas Premium Fingerboard Oil once or twice a year.
  11. I've an update on the Temp/Humidity controlled storage units. They are designed to store wine and maintain an average temperature of 15 degrees celsius ( 59 degree Fahrenheit) and what they term "moderate" humidity levels of 55%-75%. How does that sound for guitar storage? That's just about perfect.
  12. But you're the one that just contradicted what you just said: "However, you shouldn't completely detune the guitar or remove the strings--guitars are designed to have tension on the neck from strings, so completely depriving your instrument of that tension is a bad idea. Just detune the guitar slightly." No, it is not a bad idea if the truss rod is loosened. Or are you still against that idea as well? Seems like we are all agreeing and arguing the same point. Why are you being so confrontational?
  13. It's not simply that the strings are off, it's that most people don't remember to loosen the truss rod as well. The vintage and replacement necks were fine because they were never set up and the rods were never tightened under string tension. Right, I would like to hear Hecticone comment about how replacement necks don't get warped if they don't get mounted to a guitar sometimes for years. For example some of those vintage Kramer necks circa 1988 or so that were uncovered in that buy out back in 89 or 90. Those necks would be trashed according to Hecticone's logic that they must be kept under constant string tension. Never heard anyone complain their vintage virgin 1988 neck was warped or unplayable when they did string it up 15-20 years later. Same thing goes for a vintage Charvel Model 6 sans pickups and trem and bare wood. It was already fretted and the Model 6 is neck-throughso it was built as far as body/neck. IIRC someone on the Jackson/Charvel forum bought that a few years ago set it up and it was like a factory new Charvel. I'm not convinced you totally thought your argument through as I have pointed out flaws. Heck I even have a Kramer neck I bought in 1988 from Victor Litz I never installed and that neck has been stored in an SKB case along with a Kramer body blank. No warp or bow to that neck at all and it's never been installed.
  14. That would have to be a hell of a lot of back bow for the frets to start working their way out. I would only expect to see something like that in a defective neck, a neck that is stored somewhere with extreme environmental fluctuations or in the cheapest of cheap guitars. It absolutely depends on the amount of backbow and the quality of the fret work. It IS a possibility even on a quality instrument so I'd rather play it safe and either leave the instrument at tension or take the strings off and loosen the rod. Wood can take a set as well if left in the same position for a long time. Once that happens it's really hard to break the woods will and get it to do something different. If it's left with a back bow and the wood sets that way it may bend to a slight S curve once strings are put on. I've seen this on some neglected vintage instruments.
  15. Even then it's not dangerous. The strings just pull the neck back to where it was before. The truss rod isn't going to continue bending or twisting the neck after you remove the strings. Once you remove the string tension, that's it. The truss rod is where it is and it can't apply any more force than it already is applying. Many people seem to think that guitar necks are made of wet noodles. They are not. They can be stored long term or short term, with or without strings or with the truss rod loosened or not loosened. Just don't store them in a bath tub or a sauna. If the back bow is too severe you could eventually have issues with frets loosening and lifting out of place.
  16. It's no more dangerous than leaving the strings on. If the neck could be damaged from being without tension, then strings on the guitar would be just as bad for it if not worse. It's only dangerous if the truss rod isn't loosened to compensate.
  17. I've done some more research and they do offer temperature and humidity controlled storage along with ordinary storage. To quote their web site: you can "set temperature and humidity range". So I'll put the guitars into temp/humidity controlled storage and the furniture in normal storage. So what would be the best temperature and humidity range? That sounds like a good plan. About 65 to 75 deg F and about 60% humidity will be fine. In my experience it's best to keep tension on the neck and I usually keep them in standard tuning but I've never stored guitars for five years. Longest I've stored a guitar was two years and i left that at standard tuning. Still needed a bit of a setup when i took it out of storage, and new strings of course but everything else was fine. Suprisingly it wasn't that far out of tune either. To fight rust you may want to put a light coat of mineral oil on the strings. Fast fret or mineral oil from the drug store will work.
  18. Temperature fluctuation would be 10-40 degrees celsius (50 -100 degree fahrenheit) depending on the month of the year. I'm looking for tips on storing the guitars (up to 5 years). I wouldn't leave any guitar's I'd care enough to store for five years in a place that fits that description. Humidity will probably be varying a whole bunch too. Especially since one is a semi.
  19. Get 500k CTS audio taper pots. Alpha pots are a close second in terms of quality if you want to save a few bucks. If I may ask though, why do you want to change your tone pots? What do you hope to accomplish?
  20. Vox ac4? I suggest going with head and cab with 12 inch speaker.
  21. Just finished a flawless sale with mrbrown49 for my Guild Starfire. Great guy all around and definitely worthy of a +1. Likewise.
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