Recent content by cardinal

@1984_5150 Let me know if you ever want to sell yours. Here's mine, refretted with stainless 57110s

Wes Borland can throw down. He's a fun player. Even Durst maybe starts to make sense once I realized that (I think) his whole cringy thing is an intentional shtick.

The OG versions also have rather small frets. Narrow and about 1 mm tall. I'm pretty sure even the current USA Wolfgang "vintage" frets are taller and probably wider.

I have an OG. The neck is very slim and narrow. I replaced the nut with the narrowest Gotoh available because the 10" Floyd nut felt terrible to me with the 16" fretboard. (Gotoh is 14" ish). The neck is definitely narrow: I had to grind off some of the Gotoh so it didn't hang off the end of...

I don't think it matters to me. I've had some with the Floyd decked to the body and some recessed where the trem is flush with the body once set up. If it's flush, I tend to rest my hand on the guitar body just above the bridge. If it's non recessed, I think I sit my hand on the bridge itself...

Damn

Never met a Japanese Ibanez I didn't love. I should get another RG. Just fun guitars. Charvels look good too. I just wish they used the taller frets like some other companies do. They are really wide but not as tall.

I think there are still ways to get shipments into the US. For example, DHL's website says that DHL Express still works. But expect a significant clearance fee for customs.

These look really nice. Congrats!

Absolute shit to get taken out just by another driver's carelessness. I get that it may have just been a momentary lapse in concentration or whatever at just the worst possible time, but damn that sucks.

Jumbo frets are The Way. Wish Gibson would make at least some LPs with them from the factory (other than those ridiculously expensive Slash and Vivian Campbell guitars).

So the finer tuner works by screwing down a spring metal plate that would otherwise lift the back of the saddle (if not for the fine tuner pushing it down), which in turn raises the pitch. The D Tuner inserts between the fine tuner and the spring metal plate, and essentially toggles between...

Most 24-fret guitars are going to have recessed trems. It's not hard to route a channel for a D-tuner (and paint the route black) and block the trem. To avoid modifying, you'll need a top mount trem like 80s Jacksons or Charvel Model 5/6 etc. Those are likely over $1000, but you might get...

Off hand, a floating trem and a D tuner don't work together. You'd need a trem stop or Arming Adjuster type mechanism. That why you don't tend to see that combination. Some of the recent N4s do it, but Nuno's guitar is actually blocked I think.

The vast majority of the time I play, I use Nano Cortex captures of my fav amps (2204, Rectifier). The real amps somehow are more fun, but I couldnt really explain why. The captures sound very good and the convenience is undeniable. I can footswitch between 2204 low in put, double boosted hi...