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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1400 on: 19 Mar 2010, 21:21 »

dang dude a real vintage horn like that probably be like three grand damn
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« Reply #1401 on: 19 Mar 2010, 21:26 »

I like how there is More Troll in the average QC Forum Goer than there is in their Troll's...

and "Not Like I'm an Otaku Or anything" just became my Sig, YOUCANTHAVEITITSMINEBITCHES...

and I fuckin want that ricky.
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1402 on: 20 Mar 2010, 19:20 »

Provided all goes well, I should be purchasing one of these tomorrow off of CL-

http://www.hagstromguitars.com/Viking.html

I love Vikings.  The dark tone, the thin neck, the style.  One of the coolest 335 style guitars IMO.
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« Reply #1403 on: 21 Mar 2010, 05:41 »

Wow Chad that looks purrrrty.
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1404 on: 22 Mar 2010, 07:00 »

Thanks, Doombilly. Guitar was bought without a hitch and it's mint.  The woman who bought it just didn't really like playing semi-hollows.  I'm totally in love with it. 

A couple things I didn't expect- it doesn't have the same neck-dive issues I have with my Sheraton.  I had assumed with that headstock it would be constantly heading for the floor.  Also, the neck is really thin due to the "H" style truss rod.  It's not quite ibanez thin, but it's thinner than anything fender or gibson has on the market.  And yet, they went with jumbo fretwire.  It took a couple of hours of playing to get used to them, but after that, the frets made it a lot easier to find where I was without looking.

The only dissappointment, oddly, was the case.  Here's a picture of soe of them - http://www.hagstromguitars.com.au/775.0.html .  Though it says on the site that they are "vintage tan tolex," I for some reason took that to mean tweed.  It's actually tolex with an extremely poor photo of tweed over it, essentially faux tweed.  Plus, it's thin for a hardcase.  And, the handle is "pleather," not leather.  GC cranks out a tweed case through TKL for less than $100, I wonder why Hagstrom can't figure it out.  And I don't know if another case would fit thsi guitar, because it's a little oddly shaped. 

Ah well, all in all very happy.  If anyone has been wondering about their line, I'd say look into it.  They are really great guitars for the money.
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1405 on: 22 Mar 2010, 08:13 »

If I can sell the tele-parts caster I put together, I'm definitely getting one of these badass things and modding the shit out of it.  There's also the model with the humbuckers too.
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1406 on: 22 Mar 2010, 08:55 »

Bearer- don't forgot to check their clearance section- http://store.guitarfetish.com/spclblblsa.html  From what I hear, their blems are pretty minimal.
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1407 on: 22 Mar 2010, 16:10 »

Bearer I want one of these:
http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-50206111187217_2098_14212811

Fucking Orange Guitar!

But I might be losing my job and living in an F250 down by the river. So maybe I should stock up on hobo food instead.
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1408 on: 23 Mar 2010, 13:27 »

Great guitar ad. Plus, I can't tell if the picture is really bad or if the cutaway really goes past the neck under the strings.


http://stlouis.craigslist.org/msg/1655162443.html
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1409 on: 23 Mar 2010, 13:29 »

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plays like a wicked ass demon from hell on steriods that just got punched in the throat for fucking some dudes girlfriend in the ass.youll never find any guitar like it and will never want to let it go.it has just about ruint my life and killed me once or twice.it will be the worst fucking mistake of your life to buy this piece of shit but youll never want to put it down either.it wont even let me take a good picture so i can sell it.please dont let me die and buy this beast fuck thing right now.

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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1410 on: 23 Mar 2010, 13:39 »

Great guitar ad. Plus, I can't tell if the picture is really bad or if the cutaway really goes past the neck under the strings.


http://stlouis.craigslist.org/msg/1655162443.html



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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1411 on: 23 Mar 2010, 13:51 »

Ahhh, an Alvarez Scoop.

There's a bit about those in a book I have. The superdeep-ass carve was originally a mistake, but the carver told his boss it was to enhance sustain (how would that even work?) Then they sold them.
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1412 on: 23 Mar 2010, 22:43 »

Actually the Dana scoop was created by Dana Sutcliffe, an independent who was contracted by Alvarez in the '80s to help compete with shredder brands like Kramer and Jackson.   Alvarez was originally Westone, which was originally Electra.  He not only purposely made that design, but he actually patented it.  He's also the "genius" behind the Alvarez Dana bass with a neck join that's offcenter of the body.  UGLY.

By the way, those Electras are killer guitars if you find one.  I had a LP copy that I loved.  They are one of the lesser know matsumoku brands, which is the same plant that made Univox, Aria and a ton of other brands. 
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1413 on: 24 Mar 2010, 04:53 »

Explain the THREE PART HUMBUCKER.

EXPLAIN THAT, JEEZ.
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1414 on: 24 Mar 2010, 09:46 »

Geez, Ballard.  I don't see what the big deal is- http://www.wolfgangguitars.com/Nigel%20-%20full.jpg
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1415 on: 24 Mar 2010, 12:15 »

That guitar has an exhaust system.
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1416 on: 24 Mar 2010, 16:00 »

I was being facetious.

The point: it's stupid
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1417 on: 24 Mar 2010, 16:02 »

You realize that you just defended this guy by bringing up this guy?
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1418 on: 24 Mar 2010, 17:26 »

I was being facetious.

The point: it's stupid

You realize that you just defended this guy by bringing up this guy?

It might not have been clear, but my post was meant to be sarcastic.

That said, that's a great analogy.  Rodman is ridiculous and bombastic in a knowing, tongue-in-cheek way ala the Tufnel guitar.  The Alvarez, like Vanilla Ice's career, was created without an appreciation for the inherent irony.  
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1419 on: 24 Mar 2010, 18:23 »

So in my spare time today I made this little handy Volume pot box out of a 500k pot from a disused Squier Strat and a Carvin AB box I didn't really have any use for as an AB box. The schematic looks something like so:



It's pretty handy, and I only really have one gripe--putting the volume down all the way kills the sound when the pot is bypassed. Does that have to do with the fact that I'm only using an SPST (because that was the one that came with the old AB box) or that it's a 500k pot (my guitar has single coils)?
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1420 on: 24 Mar 2010, 21:02 »

Vanilla Ice's career created without an appreciation for the inherent irony.  

I dunno if I'd go that far..
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1421 on: 25 Mar 2010, 04:24 »

I think my Black Widow is a Matsumoku as well. I can't remember because of well old age makes me hey look a bunny outside my window.
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« Reply #1422 on: 25 Mar 2010, 06:55 »

You realize that you just defended this guy by bringing up this guy?

Dennis Rodman had a portrait of Bert from Sesame St dyed in the back of his hair, all of his sins are forgiven
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1423 on: 25 Mar 2010, 08:29 »

Okay I posted this in the wrong thread last night on accident, so I'm remedying that mistake right here:

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So, uh guys.  I'm looking into investing in a PA setup this summer to kick-start actually getting a band together or just make my house more awesome to be at because at least I'll be able to have my friends' bands come play at my house.  I don't know what I'll need other than some kind of power amp, a couple of speakers and some cables.  I'm not worried about micing amps or drums, I just want to amp up some vocals in there.  Is there anything I'm forgetting?
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« Reply #1424 on: 26 Mar 2010, 19:10 »

You'll probably want a mixer too. Something with at least parametric EQ to be able to have some control of the sound coming out of your speakers.
There's actually a couple amplified mixers that aren't too shabby on this side of the pond, so perhaps you can find some cool stuff there.

Keep in mind that a PA that can overpower a loud drummer is pretty expensive. Ideally, even for a small bar, you'd want something in the thousands of Watts.
I'd recommend at the very least something with 200 Watts so you can hear a guy singing over the drums (as opposed to hear screaming).

That is, if you play with loud drummers (I sure have.). The guy I've been playing with for the past couple of years plays so low I can actually hear myself talk during rehearsals. Refreshing.
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1425 on: 26 Mar 2010, 19:48 »

They are one of the lesser know matsumoku brands, which is the same plant that made Univox, Aria and a ton of other brands. 

Yeah, my Aria Diamond was kinda rad. Too bad the neck joint was a little skeevy.

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« Reply #1426 on: 26 Mar 2010, 21:28 »

double post as not to post two pics in one post..but....

EPIPHOOOOOONE,

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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1427 on: 28 Mar 2010, 06:29 »

Guys, I've bought a BC Rich Ironbird, and I fucking love it.
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1428 on: 28 Mar 2010, 06:46 »

We'll kinda miss you here at the guitar thread, but you did buy a BC Rich on your own accord.

It's nobody's fault but your own.
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1429 on: 28 Mar 2010, 07:10 »

I'm in a death metal band, shouldn't that give me clearance?
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« Reply #1430 on: 28 Mar 2010, 07:59 »

Well no cos you could've bought an ESP or an Ibanez or a fuckin' Jackson Dinky or something
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« Reply #1431 on: 28 Mar 2010, 08:27 »

But that's what everyone else is doing these days!

Besides, everyone and their mom was using BC Rich in the golden days of death metal (mid-90s), so I just figured I had to go get a mid 90's BC Rich. And so I did!
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« Reply #1432 on: 28 Mar 2010, 09:04 »

There's a reason they're doing it, and a reason people in the 90s bought BC Riches:

Everyone in the 90s had horrid taste in everything.
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« Reply #1433 on: 28 Mar 2010, 11:49 »

I dunno, 70's bc riches are pretty cool. They probably sucked by the nineties though. So yeah, How does it play/sound/feel?
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« Reply #1434 on: 28 Mar 2010, 12:15 »

There's a reason they're doing it, and a reason people in the 90s bought BC Riches:

Everyone in the 90s had horrid taste in everything.

Except the extreme metal underground. Those were the glory days!

I dunno, 70's bc riches are pretty cool. They probably sucked by the nineties though. So yeah, How does it play/sound/feel?

I put some strings on it, that are a tiny bit too thick for it to be like super-shreddy, but it plays and feels really, really nice. I had to do a lot of work on it though. Frets were green with corrosion, so I did a ghetto fret polish and got them shiny again. Setup was, as expected with a Floyd, a bit of a bitch, but now it is truly awesome! The electronics just need that last bit of love (new volume pot and output jack) and then it's all set to be my new main axe.
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« Reply #1435 on: 28 Mar 2010, 13:21 »

Pics?
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« Reply #1436 on: 28 Mar 2010, 13:24 »

It's pointy and shaped like death.
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Re: Re: The Guitar Topic - B
« Reply #1437 on: 28 Mar 2010, 17:12 »

The higher end BC Riches are Good Guitars.
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« Reply #1438 on: 29 Mar 2010, 05:07 »

It's pointy and shaped like death.

Oh God they look like this



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« Reply #1439 on: 29 Mar 2010, 05:09 »

Hey Lummer for all yr talk about 90s underground death metal it seems like the Ironbird was mostly favoured by leathery transvestites

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« Reply #1440 on: 29 Mar 2010, 07:35 »

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« Reply #1441 on: 29 Mar 2010, 20:56 »

"lol ur saying thom yorke used les pauls which justifies them but so did anal cunt lol"
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« Reply #1442 on: 29 Mar 2010, 20:59 »

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« Reply #1443 on: 29 Mar 2010, 22:11 »

"lol ur saying thom yorke used les pauls which justifies them but so did anal cunt lol"
Anal Cunt--Guitarists Who Use BC Riches are Gay
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« Reply #1444 on: 29 Mar 2010, 22:30 »

"lol ur saying thom yorke used les pauls which justifies them but so did anal cunt lol"
Thom Yorke used Les Pauls?
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« Reply #1445 on: 29 Mar 2010, 22:31 »

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« Reply #1446 on: 29 Mar 2010, 23:33 »

Someone in a shitty band playing a questionable guitar is not enough to warrant discrediting that guitar permanently.

I hate the low-end crap that B.C. Rich shits out into Guitar Centers nationwide but it's undeniable that their high-end models are well-built, good sounding (if questionably spiky) guitars.
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« Reply #1447 on: 29 Mar 2010, 23:55 »

I think mine is actually hella low-end, but for some reason that fucker just sounds right. The body looks a bit like it's made of plywood, but the neck is really, really nice and for some reason it sounds every inch the satanic death machine. I guess I just got lucky, because I paid more or less jack shit for it.
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« Reply #1448 on: 30 Mar 2010, 00:35 »

Honestly I just needed an excuse to post that picture because sweet fucking christ is Paul Stanley a horrifying looking motherfucker.

Like honestly I don't even care that much about the guitar so much as I care about how ugly Paul Stanley is
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« Reply #1449 on: 30 Mar 2010, 02:51 »

Okay, I just found out that mine was an entry-level model, made in Korea out of fucking PLYWOOD. So...

Why the hell does it sound good? And why is the neck so nice? Guitar thread, this makes no sense.
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