Tres Aardvarks

This one. Not afraid to let the kids strum it, I can drag it on the road without worrying it'll break, and I don't have to worry about banging it into the coffee table.

My Calis are very different from my Chapparal. The Chap has a thicker neck, bigger body and more weight to go with it. My maple Cali is a tank for the undersized body. Of all 3, the maple Cali (with stock Trembuckers) is my go-to sound-wise, and the Chap is #2 (with SD Hot Rails, Dimarzio Fast Track1, and a Super Distortion S-S-H config). I don't get the Diablos, as the two I've tried had fat necks with super flat fretboards. Didn't care for the tone either. Haven't had the chance to try a Centaura either. I'd recommend trying a couple out and see which fits you best This is the conundrum I go through everytime I think of getting one of the non-shredder Hamers. Which would I bond with? A Vanguard? A Special? Studio, Artist, Monaco? No way to tell without trying them.

In my last band, I was bringing at least my Impact and 12-string bass, sometimes another bass (a 5-string or even fretless). That kind of sucked! When I go to jams or guitar night (as a 6-stringer), I bring one main guitar and maybe a second. The last time I went to a jam I only brought one figuring if I broke a string noone would care if I went and remedied it. If it were a gig, I'd have two. Three would only be if a song REQUIRED it (like a 12-string and I didn't have any sharkfin pics on hand )

If I had the scratch, I'd go for that baby (rear control cavity and all). Plus, the rear cavity would give me an excuse to rip that god forsaken boat anchor of a whammy off it

This ^^^. Multiply the total weight savings of the different tuner heads by the length of the lever arm(the neck) from its pivot point (upper strap pin) to the center of the headstock. That's your effective change. I played Randy's duotone(which had all 12 tuners switched courtesy of BCR Greg) at a guitar jam, and it balanced phenomenally on the strap.

I'd be just fine if my Hamer basses didn't have active electronics. None of my other basses have them. I've always used either the SansAmp BassDriver or my amp to tweak the EQ.

FatDwag's site makes me desperate to actually get there on my next trip to our Berkeley office. They let you see just enough to know there's PILES of whacky shit in there, but you're not gonna be able to get it off the website!

Daaaaayum!!! There's some real lookers in there!

Newports aren't really my thing, but that one is seriously tasty!!!

hmmm, I suspect you are referring to one that will be come one of his signature models. He's only made a few of those for non rockstars. if I am on the right track, the answer to that will be an absolute yes! ;-) you're both hopeless teases!!!!

My B12M is the most expensive guitar I own, and also the one with the highest (personal) value. My wife got it for me as a wedding present, as she thought it stunk that the bride gets a ring and the groom just gets a band. After that, my flame Cali (built for NAMM) probably has the highest value, but who knows what that actually is right now??

I didn't listen to the radio for years and years, mostly because there were no stations that played what I wanted. I just stumbled into my 40s, but I listen to the radio now more than I did during my 30s. We have a local independent radio station that I dig (some of their stuff is a bit too hipster for me, but different DJs pick different stuff). It also helped that in my mid-30s I went from hating country to giving it a chance. That opened up a lot of new stuff for me. Before I left Colorado, my guitar jam buddies kept introducing stuff to me that I'd never heard (being a good 10+ years younger than them), and I was pretty open to anything.

OK, where the heck does the rest of the world get double sided tape? I've NEVER found any that worked worth a damn, and paid the price for it (chewed up router templates, wood, etc)???

Weren't the early Chapparals short-scale?

Oh holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, I think only about 100 of us bought the Riverdogs album(I had it on cassette). Not a bad record, and yeah, the songwriting was pretty good. It certainly was a switch for him (after Whitesnake), but I preferred RD over WS anyway

Cool. I don't have a clip-on yet, but it'll be more handy than digging out a tuner and cable!

He's thinking the original run will be done in 4-6 months. Considering a big part of that time will be wood setup, I'd guess he'd be starting other orders while those were working. This is one of the biggest reasons to stick to a run of a single type of guitar, just with different options. Even when it's a one-man operation, there's a big jump in effeciency when you can work on multiple versions of the same model. There's a reason most assembly lines build a single model, and when that run is done, they switch to a different model, rather than doing one model, then a different model, then the first model again, then a third. This is a really smart way for Mike to be able to kickstart his operation without getting buried under all sorts of wildly different guitars right off the bat.

I've used an Apogee Jam for at least a year now with an iPad and have had zero issues. Great for travelling, and I even recorded a complete song for my wife's photo company on it. I've got a Macbook for work now, and I can plug the Jam into that instead of the iPad. I recommended it to a fellow bass player buddy, and he just could not keep it from distorting, so he ended up returning the Jam. Not sure if his basses are all too hot, or if he got a dud.

I know that freaking feeling.....and have to remind myself of it every time you decide to sell some of YOUR project pieces(like that Tele body)!!!

As giddy as I got when I saw the news, I was damned glad it was for something I wasn't burning up to have. If this kind of deal had popped up for a Watson, or something like a B4M (that would match my B12M) I think I'd have jumped and just figured out how to explain it to my wife later down the road....I'm really glad so many people have lined up with the moolah to make it happen!

I LOVE that the limited run sold out! Also makes me less bummed that my wife would neuter me if I'd tried to buy one!!!! This is gonna be awesome!!!!

Holy hell, until they started playing I thought "so where is Vivian??" That's a pretty good tone (and yes, worlds better than the original recording), but really, that's not a very high bar, is it? (I never liked the all high end, no bass or solid WHUMP guitar tones so many 80s guys went for).

OK, now that is cool and EASY!

My son (16) and I would love to go. We would even root for them! I don't do the foam finger though. Hope to go to Sept's Richmond races also. We have to make it to our new home safely first. I picture myself rolling the U-Haul with the car on the back. Oops. Bm Ah come on, I've driven a Uhaul towing a Blazer from Colorado to Virginia (through West By God) and had zero issues. Just don't try and take it off any jumps