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This is the first time I've seen a video of one of these being worked on and I've never seen anything like it (not that I'm any kind of amp tech):

For years I used USPS Priority regularly to ship smaller items. It was always reliable and a good value, that is up until about two years ago and it has just gotten worse. I am not exaggerating when I say almost every single package I have shipped or had sent to me via USPS Priority in the past...

I think my relatively new Deluxe Reverb Reissue (It's from 2021) is already demonstrating Fender's current day bullshit quality when it comes to their amps. I started getting pops and crackling sounds and heavier than usual swooshy static sounds, as well as a faint but noticeable buzz that...

I have a guitar that has an odd intonation issue that is the opposite problem people usually have. On one string, all the fretted notes are flat compared to the open note. This is an acoustic guitar and it’s the G string. The guitar came with a graphtech tusq compensated saddle that was overly...

Curious if anyone has paid to have a refret done in the past year or so and what they paid? I have two guitars I’m thinking about having it done on, both 22 fret with no binding. One is set neck and the other bolt on, but the bolt on is a unique neck that I really love the feel of so I’m not...

Have you ever had one of these? I can't ever figure out what the deal is when you have a guitar that just seems to lack proper tension. You can straighten the neck out, raise the action, use heavier strings, and at some point it will of course stiffen up, but the compromises made in terms of...

Well this is a new neck day but unfortunately not a good one. I finally got the neck in I ordered from Parklane back at the start of the year and had waited ever so patiently for. It looks fantastic but unfortunately seems like something is wrong. This is a roasted maple neck with a richlite...

No, I didn’t get chinese fakes. I bought this set of pickups off a guy on Reverb who had pulled them from a Jackson baritone guitar. These are advertised as actually have an 81/85 set, but I could see both pickups had the silver logo so I knew it wasn’t an 85. Turns out it is an EMG-HB...

And this guy’s smoked most of it: https://greenville.craigslist.org/msg/d/anderson-mesa-dual-rectifier/7626556870.html You could say it’s a typo, but if you’ve posted on CL you know how many opportunities you have to catch an error in your post before submitting it, to say nothing of being...

UPDATE: Finally worked out a local(ish) trade. Longshot I know, but I'm trying to stay relatively local to the North GA area (i.e. within some kind of mutual driving distance) and work out a trade. Primarily looking for stuff like Dual Rectos and US made Peavey 5150s (preferably the OG or 2x12...

I'm sure this is the sort of thing Glenn Fricker would start screaming like Bobcat Goldthwait about because nothing changes your tone, but I recently went through three different bridges on a partscaster and was surprised at the difference in tone that each one had. This is even in an EMG loaded...

So I recently put together a Tele partscaster and everything is great except a weird ground issue I cannot figure out. Essentially, the guitar is dead quiet UNTIL you start playing, then, especially if you hit something like an open note or chord and let it ring, you will hear very prominent EMI...

I have a 6505 where the power tubes are running inexplicably hot. To try and figure out what going on I added the adjustable bias with the usual 10k pot and a 6.8k resistor in series. I currently have a quad of nominally matched EH 6L6's in it and with the maximum resistance of over 16k these...

Trying to put Kluson Revolution tuners on a new roasted maple neck and apparently I've chosen poorly. The name seems to refer to a revolution in how cheap and shitty your retaining screws can be. The moment these screws meet with needing just the tiniest bit of elbow grease they strip out...

I already found a lot of info (sometimes conflicting) on this kind of thing over on TDPRI and strat-talk, so I have an idea of what I think I’ll try to start out. It isn’t complicated or anything but I was curious if any of you guys had tried this. Basically I’m doing another partscaster...

Apparently this somehow escaped me (maybe because I never look at buying JJ 12AX7's) but in the past couple years JJ released a new 12AX7, the E83CC. I found some reports from people who, like me, generally dislike the ubiquitous JJ ecc83s because it's dull/dark and mushy sounding who say the...

I haven't had EMG pickups in a while but recently put together a partscaster using the 81/SA/SA combo. Now, the last time I had EMG's I also found that they were noisier than I expected them to be, but these current ones are even more so. When I say they are noisy I am talking about...

What would you do? I am putting together a partscaster and while I intend to have the neck I really want made down the road, I wanted to go ahead and get it together so I was looking out for Strat necks with ebony boards. There aren't too many of those out there but a MIM neck off a limited...

Has anyone ever bought one of these necks from Stratosphere that appear to have been assembled previously? They appear to be new necks but have tuners and in the pictures looks like they've been at least screwed to a body before. I'm curious if these are necks from completed guitars and have...

So I've been looking into putting together a guitar and I'm just wondering which all suppliers/builders are out there and which ones are the best to go with or may be considered equal quality? I'm aware of KNE, Guitar Mill, Parklane, and not really looking at the bottom of the barrel GFS stuff...