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Hackubus

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  1. If I hadn't shot my wad back in October on a 93 Studio, and then again last month on a pair of friggin' Kramers.... ARGH. I've been looking for something quite like this for awhile.
  2. Am I mistaken in thinking that these Nobels OD pedals came in a blister pack and went for $25 or less at your favorite pawn shop back in the mid 90s?
  3. I guess I'll be the lone voice of dissent and come right out and say it, I kinda like the red and the black models.
  4. I think this 59 Burst Standard I had is the same one pictured in Bruce919's photo. At least, that's who I purchased it from back in the day. I moved it along to fund the Zandard purchase. Sadly, I don't remember what year it came from or even putting the set of double whites it in now.
  5. There's also this stuff. https://www.stewmac.com/luthier-tools-and-supplies/supplies/finishing-supplies/fillers-and-putties/gluboost-fill-n-finish/ Fill 'n Finish Original Black is perfect for black peghead and ebony bridge and fingerboard repairs. Fill n' Finish Black is deliberately semi-transparent for ultimate flexibility. Add MasterTint Black for more density of color.
  6. He's totally getting his Tom Jones on. I kinda enjoy this song from his previous band, Geordie.
  7. Hopefully, the poor kid that was assigned that number when ol' Tim passed on will dodge a bullet. 'Cuz they recycle SSNs when you depart this mortal coil, y'know.
  8. I meant to reply to the other thread about LC/Extreme but got side tracked. We saw the Feb 16 show in Quapah OK at the Downstream Casino. That is in the very Northeast most point in Oklahoma. The parking lot is in Kansas, the highway is in Missouri, and the casino is in Oklahoma. Location, location, location they say. Vernon played the three guitars Hamerica mentioned, but I'd say the Malcolm X Hamer got the most play time. I remember when that thing was still Pepto Bismol pink! Doug impressed the heck out of me and the wife both. Dude was a bad, bad man. Cory was wearing this awesome pink suit with a white tie. If I ever get back in a band, I gotta find me a tailor and steal his look. Great show by both bands, by the way. There was quite a delay between LC and Extreme's sets, and this was a GA event, so my tired old ass couldn't take much more standing up on my feet any longer. We checked out after about the 8th Extreme song. We were visiting with some fellow concert goers, and this gentleman who I assume was local to the Springfield/Joplin area was raving about Aranda. I guess that's how the topic got of them brought up, them opening for LC. He was talking to my wife about them while I was fading in and out of consciousness over the ever expanding pain in my lower back and legs. Ow this kinda hurts was turning into Holy Shit, I Gotta Sit The Fuck DOWN, NOW. By that point, I think I'd been on my feet for several hours. Yeah, I've gotten old.
  9. It even has a nice pic of the owner's name and SSN etched into that port for the whole world to see.
  10. That version of Black Rose two posts up. Gott. Damn. Unf.
  11. Parroting what was said about Rivera's, Bassmans and Bandmasters. I'd like to add mid 60s Gibson GA-5's to the list. I think I bought mine for $350 15 years or more back, and they're around the $550-650 mark now. The speaker sucks (well at least mine does), but plugged into a Torpedo Studio live with a good sounding 4x12 sim, makes for a surprisingly modern heavy sound.
  12. I'll have to try that one day. The Marshallheads didn't sound bad, they just didn't sound as good to me at the time as what I'd taken out. And I thought they worked better in the R9 LP. But I'm warming up to them. I played it quite a bit today LOUD and had zero complaints.
  13. I don't blame you one bit. I'd never retreat back to 490s either. Especially in a hollow body! I spent a some time playing the 79 LPC and it's original T Tops this morning into a Rivera Quiana, and these T Tops really had it going on. Was absolutely the right move to get them back in there.
  14. I'd be willing to bet it was the 300k pots holding those pickups back the entire time. It wasn't that long ago, it seemed everyone shat on the T-Tops from the 70s and now they're suddenly hot again. I've got a 79 LP Custom I acquired in '94 that I've been around the horn through the years with regards to pickup swaps, and nothing really sounded great til I put a pair of Seth Lovers + 500k pots wired 50s style. I managed to hang on to the original T Tops that came out of it though the years (which is a tiny miracle itself) and got the brilliant idea of putting them back in just to see what a 70s LP with 70s pickups sounded like with a early 70s Marshall Super Lead. Well, I went and broke a wire from the coil going to the pushback wire while I was futzing around with one of them. So, I had Josh Gravelin rewind both T Tops. Long story short, they're even better than the Seths (Seth's? Seths'? Seth's'?) were with 500k pots & 50s wiring. Especially the neck T Top. He really sprinkled the fairy dust on it.
  15. Like this? It's sporting it's original double cream DiMarzio PAF Pro now.
  16. I don't wanna yuck anybody's yum about zebras, but I'm just soooooo over that look anymore. Not all that long ago, just about every guitar I had sported a pair of zebras or at least one, and one day... I just got tired of the look. But it's a case by case basis, YMMV. It always struck me funny how one set of great sounding pickups in one guitar would not sound as great in a different guitar. The 57 Classic for instance, always sounded pretty good to me in a SG or 335, but I couldn't get them out of a Les Paul quickly enough for example. I've pooh poohed the Duncan 59 for a long time, but I did put one in something recently and it really knocked my socks off. Don't remember what guitar it was now thanks to my advanced case of CRS/CRAFT, but I'm sure I'll recall it one day. The impetus for all this rambling is that I'd been thinking to myself I haven't had anything with a Super Distortion since maybe around 1994, and now that I've got decent amps to play through, maybe it would be nice to see what all the hub hub was about. And the other half of that was, I really wondered how a pair of double creams would look in that goldtop. I think I'll live with this awhile and see if I don't warm up to the Marshallheads and actually play the durned thing instead of posting about it.
  17. 2008 Hamer Standard Custom, chambered Korina body, hard rock maple top under a Les Paul Goldtop Gold finish. It weighs nothing! My one and only custom ordered guitar, courtesy of BCR Greg. I've grown tired of the uncovered, open coil pickup look over the years, but thought I might see what the ol' girl would look like with a pair of double cream 'buckers. So out with the boring old Duncan 59s and in went some Wolfetone Marshallheads. Still on the fence about it, to be honest. I've been mulling over the possibility of Dimarzio Super Distortions, but I'd have to buy a pair and I already had these Wolfetones lying around, so I thought...why not see how it looks first. Tonally, I liked the Wolfes better in the R9 they lived in before. And much to my dismay, I preferred the sound of the 59s in the Hamer.
  18. 1961 6G3 right thar. ‘71 Superlead just above it.
  19. I picked this up off Reverb at the end of October, for what I thought was a decent price. 1993 model and super clean for its age. I’ve been holding out for a B&C doublecut Hamer for a long time, and still haven’t found The One. An old guitar player buddy expressed interest in this, so I sold it to him last week.
  20. 1000% agreed. Once someone “pointed” that out to me, I never could un-see it.
  21. Dang it. A couple of years ago, I owned an 89 Explorer and two Hamer Standards at the same time. I don’t think I ever once had two out of the case at the same time, much less even had the idea to stage a small shoot out between them.
  22. I’m with Tbone, it’s where a “Celestion Loaded” logo plate used to live. My old B’leu D’eau D’eau cab didn’t have Celestions.
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