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  1. bgmacaw

    Honest question >> How do people afford very expensive guitars?

    Credit is the way most people make luxury purchases today, be it guitars, golf clubs or ritzy vacations. If you have a reasonable income and decent credit score you can easily get a card with a $10k limit or so. Keep your score up and you can get this limit extended until you get into serious...
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    Gonna change my LP Special II bridge looking for for wisdom!

    I had the same issue on my LP Jr. I went back to the original bridge since the intonation wasn't that bad anyway.
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    NGD: 3 String Cigar Box Guitar Build

    I finished this cigar box guitar build last night. I built the box and neck (25.5" scale) from oak and finished it with Minwax charred wood stain. The pickup is a MGB Mini Box Bucker 4.0. The Sinclair 'Dino' sign was bought on EBay.
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    Epiphone builds / restorations / tweaks

    I bought this 70's Epiphone FT-130 at a thrift store. It had a collapsed neck and warped back, essentially beyond worthwhile repair. These acoustics have bolt-on necks so I took the neck and attached it to a GFS closeout travel guitar body. I ended up with a nice little guitar I could take along...
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    Occupations?

    Quick bio.. During college summers, toured as a roadie and backup musician/singer for a touring choir. Basically, I got to load and unload a lot of Peavey PA equipment and set it up and break it down. I'm not a good singer but standing around on stage smiling, essentially pretending to sing and...
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    multi effects pedals

    In the past I used a number of multi-effects pedals but I've moved away from them. I found them to be too limiting in how you could configure the layout and combine effects. Also, on the ones that had amp and cabinet sims, I often found the tones produced were lacking. This was in the pre...
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    CoVid-19 Thread.

    One of my in-laws recently tested positive for antibodies. He had a what he thought was a mild flu in early March. Interestingly enough, no one else in his immediate family who were around him while he was sick, about a dozen or so people, got sick at all. He suspects he picked up the virus at...
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    Show your Other Guitars

    Here are just a few... Modded SX STL-50 The Fretwire Mosrite JR style kit build [/url] 1963 Fender Strat, stripped and modded by a previous owner who was on a drunken tonequest. A 2 string jewelry box guitar and whisky bottle diddly bow I built.
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    Show your Epiphones

    1998 LP Jr. Bought new that year (a production run for GC that featured the pearloid pickguard) 2015 SG Special, new pickups (SD Seth Lover bridge and Guitar Madness Alnico II neck) and new nut (brass compensated) 70's FT-130 neck attached to a GFS travel guitar body, GFS Gold Foil...
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    deadbeat pedals

    I got their Modulation Station for Christmas last year. It seems to be well built and does what it say it does but I'm not a fan of how it sounds on most settings. You can find the same circuits for less money and in a smaller enclosure on eBay going by the CoolMusic brand.
  11. bgmacaw

    Probucker Pickups on ebay from Asia - Legit?

    I've bought a set as well as a set of Casino P90's. They seem legit, the specs seem to line up correctly and they sound decent enough. I suspect they may be extras or rejects from a OEM production run that someone bought (maybe at the back door of the factory) and they're selling them.
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    Agile Guitars

    I have an Agile LP Jr DC style that I bought around 2005. While it was decently built with good parts, it was very heavy and sounded rather dull as compared to my Epiphone LP Jr. I've also bought 3 of Rondo's less expensive SX guitars and I've been very happy with them.
  13. bgmacaw

    Let's see your Juniors

    Here's my 1998 LP Jr. I bought at Guitar Center that year. Made in Indonesia, bolt-on with a maple body and mahogany neck. Nice pickup, coming in below average for Epiphone bridge P90's at about 8.0.


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