In a little rowboat

Man I am really excited...ive been a Farm Aid member for years, just got my tickets...and then they announce Wilco for the event...plus Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Dave Matthews+Tim Reynolds http://www.farmaid.org/site/c.qlI5IhNVJsE/b.2723647/k.2B7B/The_Lineup.htm tickets general public on sale Sat july 25 at 10 am est

Absolutely such a thing...more common than not on import guitars...the catch is the incredible amount of glue in the instrument coupled with a lack of human craftmanship and poor quality control...most asian factories turn out a fairly consistent product which is often lacking in many qualities...short cuts and shoddy hardware are also common...yamahas generally have a decent rep, but i prefer other brands in that price range (takamine, seagull)...

I should have referred you to Oceanman in the first place...what was i thinking...wish i could go to luthiery school Hey man, do you have a preferred french polish technique you favor, ive really wanted to get into that...beats the crap out of spraying, and tru oil is only good for some projects

These really are timeless work horses...i think Gibson acoustics are about as inconsistent are any brand out there...the whole 60's-80's period you could buy 3 of the same model, and have sometimes drastic variations in construction...i have owned 3 vintage Gibsons and while i enjoyed them, I decided i was a Martin guy, and let them go... Clunkers, yes, but thats sort of their charm, I love the chunky fat sound of a gibson, while some folks think the extra wood is a tone killer, I rather think it adds to projection and the stability of the guitars...if it were me, id go with the mahogany sid

whats you got?

If she only knew...

man there are so many to add to that list...im suprised not to see the Fender Blues Jr on there...amazing value! Same with the Orange tiny terror

tung oil or gun (tru) oil will give you the opposite results...sanding in general is a iffy proposition Never heard of using a brown bag...seems like youd get better results from just playing a whole lot Id stick with the steel wool until you almost get to wood (im still speculating a bit on what exactly you are going for)...and as i said you can get rougher grit wool which might speed things a bit...wipe the neck clean with naptha in between rubbings, this will clear the metal residue and keep the dust from mixing with the oils from your hand, making it tacky...

Entirely possible, noting Jeff's preference for doing live takes...could be mic bleed causing that sound...

I use a Sony minidisc Hi D system...its small, the discs are re-recordable, and you can choose your own microphones...granted its 5 year old technology, but i love mine...in the right mode, the HiD recordings are drag and drop on top my Mac with USB With recorders you basically need adjustable record level, good battery life, long record time (memory), and a bass roll off...i prefer units that allow my to select my mics and have phantom power... My set up: Minidisc faq site Example of microphones Im sure there are newer models that use flash memory and are smaller, but they genera

I have done this...steel wool is definitely the way to go, you can get harder grit pads at Home depot...the trick is to wear it down with the least amount of pressure so as not to scratch or scar the finish...it takes a while because you have to go almost down tot he wood...im not sure why youre using the polish, im going to assume the finish on your gibson is nitro, some polishes react badly with nitro Absolutely bad idea to use sand paper, even small grit, youll spend too much time resanding to cover the mistakes and scratches you should inquire here: reranch forum j

yup...RTB was around $100 when i got it over the holidays...id consider scanning it for you, but itd take me a year to do it... I get a kick out of all the old stories, and even more a kick out of how some of the little details change depending on which '60's refugee is telling them j

not old, just out of touch...those are cheap compared to most bigger bands

I have gone exclusively to GB for all of my recording needs after messing around with so many others...it is my opinion that GB is more than most folks recording at home need, it has a shallow learning curve and never crashes...i have done 3 albums on my GB/MacBook Pro setup with stellar results...there are alot of snobs out there (man i seem to be saying that alot lately) but if you get results you like, who cares how you got them? Some people outgrow GB, but I haven't...I do have to gripe that the new version of GB has a bunch of crap built in to generate revenue for Apple (like downloadabl

Not to hijack this thread, Yes, the Lewisohn book is a must read, i have it as well, and the Recording the Beatles book is its natural successor--600 pages of amazing details, way beyond the scope of any other beatles gear/studio reference ive ever seen, and i learned so much, it was like taking a college level recording class...the Geoff Emerick book Here, there and everywhere is also very good, although not as technical, but oh the stories!

ugh sounds like it could end up being like my other impulse buys, the ones that get one use and then sit in the closet (prunes and custard, moogerfooger, dod 404, modded RAT, subdecay)

DI gets a bum wrap...while i by far prefer micing guitars, DI can be really useful, especially with tube preamps... Yes there are a lot of snobs out there, but i always point out that a good third of the guitars and easily half the bass tracks on the beatles albums starting 1968 went DI into the board...if its good enough for them... Before someone calls me out on that statement, this book is my source, Ive read it twice: http://www.recordingthebeatles.com/ j

Are you the Bionic Man? I can barely see cab...however i am still sure as stated its a twin or something similar...

angle is hard to determine exact dimensions, im thinking that looks more like a tweed tremolux, circa 56...although it could be a twin or a bandmaster from same era...

im sorry i did i miss the pic of this amp?? link??

Nice...good luck... I just bought a jazzmaster, and am about to get into a vintage martin, otherwise id be looking harder at your casino

looks like i need some polish...my two electrics Ive already named the jazzmaster Mr Hanky

well...i went take some pics and my battery need recharging...so screw that I wasnt sure how to start out playing it...i knew i needed to doo some mods, but i had decide whether to pull a before and after, or to just go ahead and mod it, then play it... so...put a mustang bridge on it (although there are ways to make the stock one work, i play with .11s and real heavy low strings (Slinky heavy bottoms, .52-.42.-.30.-.22wound-.14-.11)... The biggest grip about CIJ jazzmasters online is the pickups are too strat-like, so i swapped the neck pu out with a novak p-90, and put a new cap in on t

Arrived today (damn ups, late, and the day after my record release party)...ill get some pics up...to my surprise, it turned out to be s*** brown, not black, hahaha, kind of cool... I have replaced the bridge with a mustang set up, not sure about the buzzstop yet...its much more resonant than a strat, not as loose feeling as a tele... ok what i am hating is the trem bar...it is too close to the body to push down much, i really can only use it by pulling it up and vibrating it...i cant pick and hold the bar at the same time either...part of it might be that im used to a bigsby on my les pau