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Foggy Notion

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  1. It's a late 50's Gibson LG-2 with a replacement neck. He paid $300 for it. Here's a video of him talking about it.
  2. You're doing great, VAB. Three chords in two days? You'll have it down in no time. You have a good ear, you know what you wanna do with your hands. Just gotta keep plugging away. Just like playing piano, muscle memory has a lot to do with it.
  3. Here's another vote for Maratac straps. I prefer the simplicity of the 2-ring Zulu. I use those on my Seiko and on my beater Timex. I also have an oyster bracelet for the Seiko, but it stays on the Zulu most of the time. Very comfortable, and I've never had any issue with springs popping out. I also like that you can get them with brushed stainless buckles or black buckles, which they call "low light", so you can match the hardware with stainless or black watch cases.
  4. I bought an early model blue line SVT head and 8x10 cabinet for my bass player back in the late 90s when I was gigging regularly. There's nothing like it. It's a bass player's equivalent to a Marshall stack. But yeah, it was too much amp for a most of the smaller clubs we played. There were a couple times we had to lug it up a flight of stairs to play a club that was on the second floor. That sucked. We eventually got a 4x10 cab which was a lot more manageable and still sounded pretty good.
  5. Haha yup. Sounds like someone is gonna need an Ampeg SVT.
  6. Avatar and Mojo cabs are cool if you're building a clone head, but a real Plexi head demands a Marshall cab with basket weave grill cloth. You're in business now, man. Be patient and see if you can pick up a used matching base cabinet on the cheap.
  7. This right here. ^^^^ Nice job, Buckeye!
  8. Yeah, for sure man! I'll keep an eye out for both of those. I saw a Steel King a month or two ago on either San Antonio or San Marcos CL, but I'm not seeing it now. I wanna say it was around $800.
  9. Buck Major was a three-star. He's now pursuing a career in professional wrastlin'.
  10. One of our esteemed members is remotely celebrating NAD. Anybody wanna guess who this "tube amp" belongs to?
  11. If anyone needs a Marshall 50 watt plexi head, here's one for a grand... https://austin.craigslist.org/msg/d/austin-tube-amp/6864020629.html
  12. I think its ki da co that your 64 has a factory installed silver faceplate FWIW. I'd probably be more ok with it if I could confirm somehow that it was factory installed. The previous owner told me that it came back from Fender with the silver faceplate, but that was the story told to him by the friend that he got the amp from. I haven't been able to find any reference that Fender ever did this to any other amps that came in for service so I have my doubts. I think it's more likely that someone swapped faceplates in order to pass off a working silverface as an older blackface amp. I haven't tried to contact Fender to ask them about it. I'm gonna do that and see what they say.
  13. I'm not sure she even knows what all she has. She said she has a lot and is slowly going through it all, trying to figure out what she has. She's mostly been listing vintage speakers of all types in various condition. She's selling them pretty cheap too because she doesn't know how to test them, so they are all being sold untested, as is. I asked her to keep an eye out for a blackface DR faceplate cuz the guy in Thailand who makes the repros stopped responding to my emails.
  14. I thought it would never happen, but I found a 1964 Oxford 12K5-6 speaker for my 64 DR. I've been on the verge of buying an Eminence Allesandro GA-SC64 for the past couple months, but kept holding out, hoping for a period correct 12K5-6. This one popped up on Ebay last week on a 7 day auction. I messaged the seller and agreed on a Buy It Now price and bought it. 15th week of 1964 which is perfect for an amp made in May of 64. This one has been reconed which is fine with me. I'll be making an appointment soon with the restoration dude to have the baffle built and grill cloth installed. The seller is a woman whose husband built effects pedals and owned a vintage music store. He passed away about 10 years ago, and she's starting to sell all his music stuff she's had in storage. When she shipped the speaker, she packed it with a bunch of pages from a 1997 Vintage Guitar magazine. I'll post a couple pics of some of the ads in the guitar thread just to remind y'all how much the prices have gone up on vintage guitars over the past 22 years.
  15. I don't. I traded it a while back for that 64 Deluxe Reverb project that I've been slowly restoring. I wasn't planning on selling it. I was selling a different guitar to a guy, and we started talking. He mentioned that he had the 64 DR. I asked him what he wanted for it, and he said he would trade it for a good American Tele. That was a great guitar, and you don't see many of them around. $750-800 is still a killer deal for an American Tele with a nitro finish and great pickups.
  16. Generally speaking, 1968 is considered the first year of silverface. The 68s have the drip edge rail around the grill. The drip edge was gone from most models in early 69. However, the earliest silverfaces were actually made in late 1967. Although they might not have shown up in music stores until 1968.
  17. Happy birthday, Deej! I'll be on the lookout for more 69s.
  18. What about the body color? I've never seen a Montego Black guitar in person. Is it a metallic color? If so, are the metal flakes gold? One description I read online said it has flakes that look red and green in certain lighting.
  19. Maybe black tweed?
  20. Yeah those don't look white. Parchment is a kinda aged white, but it's not as yellow as cream. Fender uses a witch hat style knob on their American Vintage Jazzmasters that is listed as white but definitely looks more like parchment so those could be parchment plastic parts?
  21. What color are the ones on there now? White? I would probably want them to match the knobs, which, according to the specs on Adorama, are white.
  22. Stick with the white. Lollar makes a Jazzmaster P90 that drops in with no modifications. https://www.lollarguitars.com/lollar-p-90-pickups/p-90-jazzmaster
  23. That looks great, Mojo! That silverburst paint job really pops. It looks a lot brighter and more vibrant than the stock pic from Adorama you had posted earlier. And $999 for that guitar, or any new American Professional model, is a steal.
  24. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the main difference is the type of magnets used in the pickups. A Jazzmaster pickup is similar in construction to a Strat pickup. The pole pieces are the magnets with wire wrapped around them. A P90 is a single coil, but it has two bar magnets at the bottom of the pickup. The pole pieces on a P90 aren't magnets, they are screws.
  25. https://www.jomashop.com/seiko-5-sports-watch-srpc63.html https://www.jomashop.com/seiko-series-5-watch-srpc51.html https://www.jomashop.com/seiko-watch-sne391.html https://www.jomashop.com/seiko-watch-ssc247.html
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