Recent content by Duplex Dave

Skip Simmons. Any of you guys into vintage amps or tube amps in general should check out his podcast "The Truth About Tube Amps" with Jason Verlinde of the Fretboard Journal. A wealth of good info and no BS. Lots of myth busting as well. http://vintageamps.libsyn.com/

Yeah, this. An all too common problem for decades. Building guitars, electric and acoustic is not too terribly difficult but if you can't make a functioning neck that is "properly fretted"  then the whole instrument is just a waste of time and money, AKA, a big bag of shit!

Very nice work and website. Have a great show!

I agree!! Mike, regarding the light laying on the bench. Are you leaving that there during sanding to 'side light' the project and see the contours better? Or is it just there for the photos? Thanks, Dave

No criticism from me. The fact that there is a glimmer of rock being created by young kids is awesome. Who cares if they sound like Zepplin, the direction that pop music has being going in for the last 10 years or so has been down hill...it's time for the kids to fire up the half stacks and rock!

Best to let a pro take care of it. Any repairman worth his salt can make that disappear relatively easily.  If you're going to sell it, chances are it won't come up as an issue with the sale. Unless the buyer is super picky, and unrealistic...

There is also this possibility.  http://www.croxguitars.com/TokaiGreco.htm

Yeah man! Keepin' the eighties alive with that one! You can only play that while doused in Drakkar Noir and donning a skinny tie.

I agree with Murkat and Jeff R, we always have an assortment depending on the job. I like the StewMac U shaped that are sized for the string gauge on electric guitars, and the Hiroshima files for acoustics. The .010" gauge file is very flimsy and easily broken, use 2 hands. X-Acto has a small...

Brilliant! Yes, some things from HF actually are decent enough to use but certainly not all of it! (and no Hamer's of there IMO also) I have used several guns, the Husky gravity feed gun from Home Depot is a couple notches above the HF stuff, I have 2 HF the Husky and a very old  Campbell...

Yep, that's a question only you can decide the answer to. Keep original and fight with the tuners or swap for accuracy, both have there merits. If the 510's fit without any permanent changes to the headstock then do it for your sanity and like you said through them in a zip-loc and keep them in...

No, not something you see everyday. But, I don't think I want to see those any day...especially on my workbench. I did used to set up an electric guitar for a guy that was a Strat with a single neck that rotated about 45 degrees on a post through the body. It was triangular in a way that one...

Yeah, talk about getting the most out of a Jaguar through Fender amps, he's a master.