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Hmm. I pulled the stock MIK POS Floyd outta that a year ago and replaced it with a genuine OFR but I don't recall any ground wire at that time nor did I see any ground running from the pot to that area. I'll pull the post out and look again.

Here's a question for those with a solid working knowledge of guitar electronics- My Gibby LP Axcess w/ Floyd Rose thas been humming excessively lately. Started to do this last year during a show. I've since dug into it and even had a pro take a look, trying to uncover the reason. He claimed he found nothing and couldn't get it to hum and feed back as I did on my rig. I ended up tweaking a few levels on my FX unit and that seemed to to do the trick... for a while. Now it's back to humming and I swear it's a ground issue. So, I took the back off the control cavity and the trem cavity and there's no f-ing ground wire going to the trem spring claw. Is it safe to assume that this is what's at issue? Can't still figure out why it took several years before it started to hum like this. Thoughts?

Never any bugs (to the naked eye anyway) detected but I lent one of my guitars to a friend whose white long-haired cat decided the case was a cozy little bed. F*ckin' vacuuming out white cat hair for DAYS. Some of that hair's still there to this day.

I did until I arrived at a select few that just do it for me. Customs in the bridge, Hot Rails in the neck (on Calis) '59's on HB-equipped neck positions. For actives, it's back to emg 81/85's (or in the case of the Cali that has actives, 81/SA.) There are a couple odd balls that are just that way because I like the variety: My '76 Strat has an SD Distortion and two stock Fender SC's. My Green Meanie Diablo has active Blackouts that work real well with the practice amp I run it thru. My rare-ish Diablo w/ boomers has a red SD Distortion and '59. My Midnight Marauder setneck Cali has a JB and a Hot Rails and lastly, the Vector has an SD Custom and a Dimarzio PAF.

Great idea. I've been drawing a mark on them with metallic permanent marker. It wears off after while but it's helps to find 'em up until that point.

+1 Spent close to an hour, to date, looking for dropped V-Picks. The good news is I rarely drop 'em.

Total V Pick convert here! The V-Pick Lite Small is perfect for my needs and a welcome change from the Jazz III's that almost everyone was using for while.

I think I can sum up my 9's rationale quite easily: I allocate enough focus on just trying to hit the right note at the right time that I can ill-afford to be focusing on added energy needed to push the strings. Sure, if I had been playing bass or 10's and 11's all my life, this wouldn't be an issue. But I've always been a 9 player. I can do what (little) I can do because of the 9's. That includes my trem work which benefits greatly from the 9's.

I sold an O'Connor painted Elite to a guy in Russia. It'd be a damned shame if it did go to Russia- MUCH more difficult to get dibs on it over there.

Damn! That's so purdy I'da hit it, even without a reverse head and toggle. Just as well though. Got little discretionary cash these days and I just got word of another impending NGD headed my way.

Check out the PSA in the FS section.

This/\ I leave that shit to my co-guitarist. He digs the beef and bombast of 10's and 11's and I like my 9's for the slinky, spongy action. Makes for a killer combo, IMO. I cover the searing highs and chewy mids, he gets the growl of the lows and girth of mids that I don't hit. Fits our soloing styles as well.

Changes day to day. Today it's a 3 way tie between the Clown Vector, the CS Charvel Star and my trusty Diablo. Tomorrow? Who knows.

Looks like kidney stones and bowling balls are being passed... oof.

Exactly. Sensationalistic headline designed to lure us in. Well, it worked.

Damn females, always buttin' in with the voice of reason and tasteful restraint.

I'm sure they could get me to weep and moan.

Led Zeppelin have lost the first round of the legal battle over classic track Stairway To Heaven. http://classicrock.teamrock.com/news/2014-10-20/led-zeppelin-lose-stairway-heaven-lawsuit-round-1 The song:

Actually, on a semi-serious note: my most expensive guitar turned out to be something of a dud and needed roughly 300 dollars to bring it up to where it should have been. <cough-cough, gibson, cough> This did NOT include/involve re-paint or different type switches.

Are we to factor in costs associated with making it fully playable in addition to initial purchase costs?

This f-ing rawked!!! Dayum but those ladies can still bring the rawk!!!

Yup. Definitely were some profiles that wore my hands down to fatigued sausages trying to chord on them for prolonged periods of time. I seem to remember getting wicked hand cramps playing chords on my Washburn N4. And then there were others that I couldn't shred on to save my life. Had a badass Charvel San Dimas in Desert Crackle that sounded and looked awesome but was so flat and wide that I couldn't play leads on there for shit. I was left with: what's the point? It's like having a Ferrari and not being able to drive it over 30 mph because your feet couldn't reach far enough to push the pedal all the way down.

That's a good question for anyone/everyone. Yup. I guess if I was more knowledgable about the radiuses and profiles, I could answer more succinctly.

This is precisely why I consider myself lucky to have found 7 Cali's that all have killer necks (for my tastes). It also explains, in part, why I've let 3 go.

i got to hang w/ zen today and had a blast! JEALOUS! Would love to trade licks and stories with ya, Zen. For that matter, you too, Brooks!