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Yeah ditto.  Weird, just took a refresh and it looks good now.  Nice to have the forum back!!!

I need one!!!

The only reason I started building amps was because I chopped up a 77 Marshall JMP 50 Master Volume.  I know, it would be worth a fortune and although it sounds better with it's Dan Torres mods it's basically worthless.  Still, this is one kickin 50 with tube fx loop, switchable master volumes, and extra gain stage.

Pedals are not so much.  I would ALWAYS recommend that a pedal of this vintage not be modded, but truth be told he's not going to retire on it so if he's good with violating it.  Have at it.

Cool gig, and if he's comfortable working with you it would be cool to feed the band some pedals too.  I got an overdrive, when I still had Laffing Dog Musical Instruments, over to Mark Knopfler and Charlie Sexton when Knopfler was supporting Bob Dylan thru their light guy.

That looks very cool!  The finish is excellent.

I think it's a bit more like the Juno presets.  You don't have direct control of oscillators but can tweak the crap out of any preset and can run 4 at a time with individual effects on each.

Whoa! Nice to see you back in these parts.

New Guitar Synthesizer Day.  I picked up a Boss GM-800 with the GK-5 pickup and slapped in on my trusty tele.  Got some tweaking to do but am impressed with the tracking so far.  This is one of the stock pads called Piano Symphony.  Me getting all fancy and such on a tele but it's pretty crazy what this thing will do.  Added a touch of reverb.

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Having had to replace a lot of rotted out Dimarzios over the years, including a pair in my own gear they were a means to an end in the 70's, I think they were a blessing back then. They have continued success even with the SD and new guy challenge.  I'm skeptical of the new wave of stuff and given that I'm a big fan of GFS I don't think my opinion counts.  I sound pretty good though.  Just sayin...

Dimarzio might have got it right thru the years.

I'm still hung up on the output blade on the jack being so close to the chassis.  Maybe it's just the photo but you're sure it isn't hitting the enclosure when you plug in?

Any chance the jack(s) are grounding out to the enclosure?

I'd forgotten all about that line Guilds.  They were/are very cool guitars!

I live vicariously through you my man.  If you can, then do it brother.  I hit this weird thing where I found my Yamaha Ty Tabor and the other guitar player in the band said exactly what I thought: " I think you finally found your voice!"  I think I've landed but will reserve the right to gas none the less.

It's weird though, I've chased the dragon for almost 50 years and I may have finally caught him.

I had, if memory serves (sketchy lately) a 68 Deluxe gold top that had the mini humbuckers.  Back then everyone routed them out and installed humbuckers.  Stupid mistake but I was the second owner.  The body was intended to house P90's but Gibson's workaround was the trim ring and mini-humbuckers.  Those guitars had a sound of their own.

I'd kill to have that guitar back, even in it's routed form.  At the time it was the last of the mahogany necks before they switched to maple.  Maple?

I've been out of the game for a while now but need to get my chops back.  I've had fairly good luck with powder coat on my diode,  especially Hammond black.  More is better in terms of power and I'd love to have a CO2.

I'm still on the fence about butting into a group buy over at PPCB so will send you one if I do.