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Comment by Unseen on Monday

You know that ad "I don't always drink beer, but when I do...it's Dos Equis"? Well, I don't listen to much heavy metal, but when I do, it's Dimmu Borgir because they blow just about everyone else out of the water:

Comment by Noel on November 5, 2013 at 11:31pm

Almost forgot; check out this guitar. My wife won it at the High School Music Boosters raffle a few years back. It's a ESP Sambora, limited edition, and it's signed by the entire Bon Jovi Band. I played it once. The rest of it's existence has been in that coffin:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21742821@N07/7879748634/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21742821@N07/7879749078/

Dual Humbuckers and Floyd Rose Trem. Love the Floyd Rose.

Comment by Noel on November 5, 2013 at 11:01pm

unseen: Learning chord progressions; I-VI-IV-V, I-IV-V, etc., figured out intervals, scales, hammer on and pull off's, and Travis picking. I think I'm getting more of a kick learning theory then actually strumming.

My daughters Strat is a 2005, USA made American Standard. It came with single coil passive pickups but I found them noisy and annoying and switched out the entire pick guard with EMG SA David Gilmore active pickups. What a difference!

[img]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8295/7879750010_d9ef6ee30c_z.jpg[/img]

Fender makes the U.S. made American Standard Stratocaster and a Mexican made Standard Stratocaster. Differences are in the wood used for the body of the guitar. The U.S. made guitar uses one solid piece of wood and the Mexican uses wood that has been glued together to makeup the body of the guitar. There are also differences in the frets and tuning gears and the bridge. Playing the two guitars side by side the feel of the American Standard is much nicer. The neck is smoother and the guitar stays in tune. Better tuning gears.

Comment by Tim Halle on November 5, 2013 at 6:58pm

Thing is a boutique amp will cost you big $$$'s but you can build something pretty close for much cheaper, esp older stuff where you're paying alot for the fact its full of 50 year old components.

Comment by Tim Halle on November 5, 2013 at 6:56pm

Well I started about five years ago with the stuff at ax84.com so Ive built all kinds of stuff over the years, a 180 watt hypermarshall, Fender input sections into vox output sections. Lately Ive been working on small class A amps around twenty watts. Just finished an amped up 1952 Princeton input section into this output section.
Recently decided to stop doing repair because even though I got to see some pretty exotic stuff, id rather be working on my own stuff.

Comment by Unseen on November 5, 2013 at 6:12pm

@Tim - I'm guessing you build amps. Tell us about them.

Comment by Tim Halle on November 5, 2013 at 6:05pm

Any of you folks build your own amps ?

Comment by Unseen on November 5, 2013 at 5:53pm

Great, Noel.

BTW, "Fender Standard" is a lineup of guitars that includes the Stratocaster, Telecaster, and the Jazz and Precision Bass guitars.

I'm thinking you have the "strat." Am I right? 

I have a Squier surf strat. It looks exactly like a Fender strat but it has the lipstick tube-style pickups most associate with Danelectro guitars. Squier is a Fender budget brand, but the guitars are generally very well made and can safe on 2 or 3 hundred bucks over the "name" brand.

So, how are you coming along? I learned how to read music when I was a kid playing clarinet. I taught myself to play guitar by ear and don't really read music. 

How many of you guys are readers?

Comment by Noel on November 5, 2013 at 4:48pm

Teaching myself how to play and read music.

Like I shared in the "Musicians Group" my daughter is the musician in our family. All the instruments in our home belong to her.

She took one guitar to college, her Martin GCPA4R acoustic guitar. She left behind her Fender American Standard and Fender Blues Junior amp, Ovation acoustic, and Ibanez acoustic. Which gives me a great opportunity to learn!

Play her Ovation a lot. Teaching myself Travis picking to Simon and Garfunkles "The Boxer". Reading everything I can get my hands on concerning theory. Downloaded an awesome book that has helped me understand guitar set up, "Guitar Player Repair Guide Third Edition by Dan Erliwine. Purchased it from Amazon and read it on the Kindle app on my iPad. Other apps that I recommend are Chord Wheel, a great way to figure out chord progressions, 7 Chords - A plethora of chord fingerings and diagrams, and Guitar Pro- Tabs out the wazoo!

BTw: Installed the EMG Gilmore SA pickups and pick guard on her Strat and love it. A lot more silent than the single coils it came with and the expander circuit makes the bridge active single coil sound like a humbucker.

Comment by RobertPiano on September 20, 2013 at 6:45pm

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