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Easily remedied!

@cmatthes I picked up a chambered hog body today. Something called a Fender Player II (a Mexican Strat) body. It’s HSH, so I’ll have to use the TV Jones routing template to make room for the third Classic and I should be good to go. @stobro we moved into a new church building around ten years ago. I was amazed at how quiet single coils can be with wiring done to code! The old building had been added on so many times the circuits were a spider’s web of noise. It’s been great to play a Strat again.

@benjammin308 Easy to make your own with a pot you probably have sitting in a drawer: How To Make A No Load Tone Pot — Six String Supplies Takes easily less than 30 minutes. I technically did the half-blender pot - it blends only the neck into the middle/bridge and bridge selections. Having it blend both ways (adding bridge to neck and vice versa) seemed too fiddly to me. I prefer the master tone because otherwise the choice is: 1. no tone control on the middle pickup, or 2. two tone controls in the circuit on the 4 position. ETA: my take on the @cmatthes theme: I ended up pulling the TV Jones out of this and putting in regular Strat pickups (Suhr ML). This is a fairly medium weight alder body. I am thinking a chambered mahogany body would sound much better and maybe a maple neck to offset the mahogany warmth.

No Affiliation, and I would absolutely have this but (as typical) no idea of the neck dimensions. Love the color and it's (all things considered) not too heavy. *90s USA* Hamer Daytona | Reverb $1,200? $1,300 shipped? Wow!

My recipe after being a Strat guy since 1986: first tone control wired as Master Tone - all pickups second tone control wired as neck blend control 50's wiring (eliminates the need for a treble bleed) neck and neck/middle position great for rhythm when accompanying most any other instrument middle position - contrary to popular opinion, the funk lives here. You'll find your 2/4-position devotees, but middle is the funk. Also works great for accompanying rhythm when the neck is just too honky and dark middle/bridge - anything 70's Clapton, Gaines-led Skynyrd and 80's chorused rhythm. Works great for a lead tone when you're not trying to be over the top bridge is great for lead when gained up some. I almost never use the bridge if playing clean, but I don't play country at all I used the old (non-Custom Shop) Texas Specials for years but then started exploring more vintage flavors. I didn't think I cared for the Fender 57/62's, but that ended up just being the guitar. I like Suhr ML pickups a lot (more than the V60LP) and the Gilmour set is fun for a change of pace. @cmatthes will attest to the fun of TV Jones/Gretsch 'Trons in a Strat and they're humbucking, to boot. [/opinion]

In nerd school I was the graduate teaching assistant to the Dean of MBA. My second year they combined all sections of Econ 100 (required Econ course for non-business majors) so I had roughly 100 kids in the class. There was no way to administer exams other than the bubble answer sheets. The cool thing about that was the grading computer gave me complete statistical information on every question and with some personal information completed on each answer sheet on the front end (age, gender, year in school, etc.) I was able to see who was missing the question, what wrong answer was most frequently chosen, whether a bad question was missed by younger/older, men/women, etc. It was entertaining for the class and taught me a lot about, as you said, writing good questions and answers and trying to see if they were getting what I was trying to teach.

Looks like a 2000. If that had a vintage carve neck I would love him and squeeze him and call him George!

Makes perfect sense on the result (and of course, absurd sense on the methodology).

Monaco Superpro CO (Ebony Board) Absolutely beautiful, but also absolutely no objective information on the guitar. What does it weigh? What are the neck dimensions? [/minirant] But here's the "Startling Revelation" I noted in the title. Check this out: Estimated Used Value between $800 and $1,325? I realize that's completely absurd, but how does this affect potential buyers when they see this juxtaposed the asking price of $3,199 (which I think is pretty reasonable)? I haven't noticed this before, but are all Hamers listed given Estimated Values based on 2010 used market prices?

This is great news (though the odds of me being in Tarzana (IIRC) are somewhere between none and none). I've said it before, Carter's is among my favorite retail establishments of any type anywhere in the world. Try this: go in there and hang out for an hour and just try not to play a guitar. They absolutely want everyone to be playing the stuff hanging on the wall. They handed my son (around 12 at the time) a $50,000 vintage Strat to play just because he said he thought it was cool. They are terrific.

Good grief I don't get out much. I've never seen such cool kit! I had no idea such a system even existed. Reminds me of 500 series equipment.

Explained: Seriously well-thought-out IMO.

At $570 it's certainly more accessible than a Dumble. Effects loop and dual DI outs. Nicely done!

I was watching a video of a professor showing some system that actually showed keystrokes and time between keystrokes made by his students. I can't find it to post, but the professor was grading papers posted to Google's receptacle (Docs?) and he was able to access more or less a play-by-play of the paper's creation and seemed to infer the student didn't know he had that visibility. He tracked time between keystrokes, copy/paste, pauses, and was able to access combined averages for actions that allowed him to draw conclusions about whether the paper was created by a human or AI. The ridiculous part is the professor had to actually do that assessment as well as the normal task of grading the effort, but it was interesting that capability was there. I'm so old I typed college papers. Only in graduate school did we have access to newfangled word processors - WordStar and WordPerfect, IIRC - no mouse and a monochrome monitor - first green then amber.

Fishy: but what would he have to gain? Couple of bucks if he fixed it himself. If he wasn't going to protest and return the guitar, I see no motivation for 'fishiness.' But then again, how could that have possibly been broken off while packed? Maybe someone opened it before the buyer got home and it fell over on the face, breaking off the switch tip. They then started removing the back plate to figure out if they could fix it before the buyer got home, but just as the first screw came out, they heard the door shut as the buyer arrived. They stopped and put the screw in a similar position as the switch tip and feigned ignorance. That's a lot of assumptions, but I'm guessing falling over on that switch tip was the reason for the break. Or, the guitar laid on its face and something fell / leaned on it.

The only plausible explanation I can conceive is they undid all your tape, opened both boxes, then the case, then grabbed the switch tip with a pair of channel locks, twisted the switch tip off then reassembled the entire package. Where did the black wood screw come from? Was there any damage to the finish with all that rolling around?

Oh, this is cool: from an archived thread discussing the dimensions, @hamerhead provided this as supplied by @bruce919 There's some great discussion in the thread:

Definitely variations (I am a Strat guy, so I'm used to such), but I am convinced the Sustain Block is about the best guitar bridge ever made. Photos of the @hamerhead Sustain Block on the @kizanski' Senior, a 2003 Hamer custom order: A fantastic version (all that dust was mine and not original spec).

The Cold Stares came up on yesterday's Spotify Release Radar. Never heard of them, but now I can't stop listening. Blues rock trio with just a really good vibe. Evansville, Indiana. Interesting. Enjoy.

Just for context, @cornjulio, realize Hamerhead knows deeply of what he speaks being someone who produced his own Sustainblock run over 20 years ago.

Some great help here from @Jimbilly and @Dave Scepter: totally missed the EMG element - definitely need a stereo output jack as the second element serves at the power switch when you plug in. I also (now) recall from my own late 80's use of EMGs that they do not require a ground. The HFC rules, as always!

EF86! That's too cool AND they went to the effort of providing an actual cab-emulated XLR out! Flawless execution. Really looking forward to a tone report! ETA: 500mA power supply? I'd need a dedicated supply as my Pedal Power has only one 400mA jack and it's powering a delay.

That was entertaining and she seems perfectly normal about the whole thing. I totally missed the Deftones in the same way my dad missed Hendrix: starting a family and the concerns of a new dad overriding 'keeping up.' It's interesting that my introduction to them was through my son (22) who cites them as his absolutely preferred workout music. If he's lifting, Deftones are definitely on.

Yep, those barrels go bad. Simple to replace them. I recall using the Switchcraft replacement, but someone here might have a better suggestion. Amazon.com: Switchcraft 151 1/4-Inch Mono Thick PNL MT Jack : Musical Instruments Once they start giving fits it only gets worse.