MCChris

What makes you think he left? Did he post a Waterloo speech somewhere? If so, please direct me to it. No one loves a good Waterloo speech more than I do.

Also, the Floyd was inspired by Eddie Van Halen, whose trems were not recessed. Therefore, to recess them is a bastardization of the original concept by guys like Vai, Abbott, etc. who took a good thing too far. Actually, I don't care either way. I'm just trying to stir up some shit.

I think it was originally supposed to be Kizanski's.

Or use a more streamlined trem like a Wonderbar.

I call that a GOOD thing. Serial's got the market cornered on that trick LOL!

Oh wow. Very cool guitar! Doubtful Hamer would do that for you. I'm just saying that such a mod wouldn't be visible just by looking at the guitar's top.

Perhaps there's a push/pull in there somewhere and this guit has the same capability! Which guitar of yours did he do this to?

+1 Brooks needs this guitar!

I have seen and heard of this exact thing happening. Putting a vintage switch tip and pickup rings on a reissue. What kind of idiotic horeshit is that? Replacing the new plastic pieces with old plastic pieces for some mojo-factor is beyond stupid. Especially when you consider that 1 out of 100 of those guitars will actually see a stage ....

Matthes has been on a deleting spree lately ....

Built-in hinges too!

Thats interesting, never thought about that at all. Still, I think I would probably be able to balance it out with my amp I would think but who knows? The main issue would be balancing it with your other guitars. Switch from the korina to a mahogany would very likely require significant tweaking to the amp. Not trying to dissuade you, just don't expect a shrinking violet. Korina guitars BARK.

Something to keep in mind is that korina is a LOUD tonewood, at least in my experience. If you have a loud rig, it might be too much, as it was for me.

I question how big of a trend it is. I say it's fringe appeal at best. Metal music isn't all over the airwaves, neither television nor radio, like it was back in the '80s. Not by a longshot. Those companies you mention are also almost exclusively known for their metalloid designs. Hamer started out as a big power pop brand, then went metal, then went totally Gibsonesque and now is doing classic, jazzier and mellower designs. They have a wider appeal, which generally is a good thing in business. Besides, why would they want to horn in on a market that Jackson, Charvel, Kramer, Schecter et al have cornered?

Shred and metal are two different things. Certainly when you're talking about today's metal.

Mine too. Cab is long gone (gave it to my old singer to pay for the band house cable TV box that was in his name; I destroyed it for reasons I don't remember) but the head likely will accompany me as I'm slid into the crematorium oven.

It's pretty simple, really. Jol's an aging baby boomer and he's targeting his own demographic. Metal guitars will never again be produced en masse by Hamer as long as Mssr. Dantzig is at the helm.

I have an Artist 3203. Same head box and chassis, only with a pair of EL34s in the power section. PI tube only in the preamp, so I guess I do have some partially solid state gear, but you'd never know this thing wasn't all tube just by listening to it.

This has been my experience as well. A former HFC member once made the analogy that playing a ss amp is like jumping up and down on concrete, while playing a tube amp is like jumping up and down on a mattress. I concur with that. A tube amp breathes, pushes and pulls and thus is more challenging to play. Plus, as others have said, tubes simply sound better to me.

What the hell is that Best Offer/Make Offer thing? New eBay feature?

Yep. Nice piece at a nice price!

Stock hinges on that laptop or an aftermarket upgrade?

Wasn't there a lot of delay and chorus in the 'Love' album stuff? Oh god yes. The other guitar player handles all that (and does a damn good job I might add). I just bash out the crunchy rhythms.

I could get away with no FX whatsoever in the Cult tribute band, but I run through my board anyway and sprinkle in some OD, wah and trem. With the space jam band, gotta add delay in order to get really weird.

Why would you have it hooked up if you didn't want it in the circuit? That's like complaining that a pedal isn't true bypass, but you have it on all the time. In other words, so what? If you don't want to attenuate your amp, leave the attenuator in your gig bag. Or am I missing something here?