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did you buy the S470 which was on 'the tree' ...seller Motherwell in the last few days ? S470s are superb guitars, very comfortable and you can do ridiculous things to the trem without going out of tune, great choice. ( I have 3 and use them as workhorses, lot of guitar for the money, even without the Di Marzipans) anyway - learning guitar - what's good for you etc. Worst thing I did when beginning was trying to learn from a book (no youtube then),.. the theory / notation was not helpful in teaching me what I wanted to play (metal). I had a mate who could play well, he showed me basic chord shapes/tricks like 1 fingered A / E chords etc. Got me off and running. Tablature / youtube vids, lots of help available for free. I got caught up in a load of technical stuff at one point and forgot just how satisfying it can be to jam along with one of your favourite songs. good luck, andrew

excellent, I could literally walk to that. Better not tell mrs Waldflote that one can trade/sell things too.

That Pacifica is very nice,.. I've often been tempted by them (more basic versions ) in the small ads for a project base, assuming a good basic build quality etc. A big + for the Artcore,.. I have an 83 the exact same finish as the one in the picture and it is a great guitar, really nice tone,.. I used it in a Rush covers tribute thing for a while and was spot on to cover their older (pre 1980 material.

Hi, I would confirm by using a straight edge, but you may have some uneven bowing (twist), Do you have a picture of the neck directly from above with the strings on ?

Comparing with my 4003s; my two fakers (Shine + mystery faker in previous posts) do a good basic Ric sound. Unplugged I notice a bigger difference, the real thing sounding tighter and more solid,... I suspect this will make for a bigger difference at volume. The SDs in the Shine sound pretty decent. (I have various string sizes on them too I should add)

I had a problem on a pair of Peavey Windsors,.. sort of irregular crackle/pop,.. small,. not like plugging/unplugging a guitar/bass with the amp volume up. It turned out to be the bias circuit, replaced the pot in each of them and fixed the problem. I had to track it with a scope, but when I narrowed it down to the bias circuit I was able to make it do the noise when pushing on the pot with an insulated chopstick.

Just looked at their website,.. dangerously close to Brno,.. (one of my regular haunts)

cheers, the black one has a pretty terrible finish (+ wear n tear),.. I thought that someone had re finished it with a brush to begin with Maybe have it fixed now.

oooh, that's very nice. What is it branded as ? (Bach ??)

A sister for my rather beat up black original. I was amazed at the range of tones - to the point of checking that it was really passive, big difference from the all mahogany black one.

good to see some Eggle affection, I love mine to bits: left to right; Vienna, Berlin and Berlin plus, 1992 - 94

quite - I've just been trawling through a big chain of posts relating to fakers (which I didn't see first time around) and just when you think that you are narrowing it down a bit,. there's a contradiction. Just need to enjoy it as a mystery faker I guess, cheers..

here are some detail hardware shots:

better state first that I was referring to my own faker, sorry if I have confused things. Here's a bigger picture I looked around a while back and by elimination, arrived at a Maya, or Kasuga,..... others like Ibanez, Hondo etc. seemed to have more obvious faker errors (pickups, bolt necks, binding, bridge holes) From what I have seen since though there are a load of variations, so I am not much the wiser.

thanks,.. the Maya/Kasuga was the best I could get at the time, also based on elimination,.. it doesn't seem to have any of the more common faker giveaways (incorrect binding, pickups, bridge holes etc.) comparing it with the real thing - sounds authentic too. Single truss rod and 4 pc body are most obvious differences.

interesting to read these recent posts about Mayas/El Mayas. I have a mystery faker too and my best guess to date was a Maya or Kasuga. Unfortunately no stamps or other identifying marks. Let me know if you want me to go look under/behind this/that/the other. Appreciate anyone's ideas as to what this one might be. (apart from a clang stick or any other Ricabuse ) cheers Andrew

nice, should sound very tasty through that rig.

First time I ever saw him, was a picture in one of the old music papers,.. he had his hand down his speedos and the text read that he was searching for inspiration,.. if he does indeed have the Midas touch then he'll be in the sequel to Goldmember. Ahhh, I wish to $£@# I hadn't remembered that.

He seems to have largely been Boston, playing a lot of the parts himself,.. ?? Boston in Edinburgh, 1979 was my first gig,.. they were rather good

hoho,.. any pics Yes, can be a real pig but possible to do a reasonable job. I expect that someone like Flynn in the city would do it - possibly a good idea if using an expensive or awkward tolex. If doing it yourself just watch out for charged caps when removing the chassis. You shouldn't have to touch any components/boards, but it's amazingly easy to grab the wrong bit when manhandling that heavy chassis out and it falls on your knee or ...

A mate of mine had a similar request and I ended up making him a strat neck which was 46mm at the nut,.. seems to be a lot of guitars at 41 - 43mm ish and he was having real problems finding anything bigger (I gather Warmoth bigger ones - there's some good info. on their site about nut sizes) Superstrats are pretty versatile, I use Ibanez S470s as workhorse guitars, easy to play, comfortable body shape/balance, loads of pickup/sound options. I wonder if the trem (any trem) robs some tone ??,.. but the ZR trem is quite amazing, takes all sorts of abuse and I hardly ever have to touch/adjust it.

Interesting watching the TH2 vid, I use a POD HD500 and the editing process is similar. Being a fan of 70's Mr Lifeson I'm a bit addicted to my chorus, but often found it difficult to get a good chorus + distortion sound at rehearsal/gig volume. Better if I back everything off a bit and a great (although expensive, at £40 ) purchase recently was an old Peavey Stereo Chorus combo. Run together with a valve head + closed cab (to give some bottom end),it's doing pretty much everything I want. For recording I prefer just to multi track with much milder FX and for home/headphones - the POD with cab/mic sims etc. Sadly never had the opportunity to try some Scholtz gear,.. had Digitec racks in the past which sounded great clean but lost it with distortion. Going way back I used Ibanez chorus + tubescreamer + booster to drive Marshall JMPs really hard, great at volume, but hopeless at home.

what genre of guitar music are you hoping to play ?

I have several 30yr old + guitars with Schallers and all seem to work as new, the chrome work is perfect too.

close enough to the city, the guys at the music centre in Paisley are friendly but in general I find the shops are not so individual as they used to be, probably due to the market being dominated by certain brands and distributors ?? I think that merchant City was closed last time I was out that way. Haven't done much gigging in the city, Ivory Blacks was the last. Rehearse at AM in Cumbernauld (good place run by 2 of MacFloyd), playing our own metal with proggy bits. cheers