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No it gets worse. This is where I had to eat lunch yesterday.


Pardon the bad stitch in the last little bit of the right side.

This guy was having lunch too...


Took off INTO my lense, scared the crap out of me, and I fell. Cracked my 17-40L at the mounting plate, and my camera does not autofocus anymore. Canon is going to be happy about that one. Thankfully we have the wife's Rebel as well.

To soothe my bruised pride we went for food and beer:


and some chocolate:


The wife took some gear porn shots while I was browsing:




Souvenirs for friends:

Because when you combine ninja's and beer, good things happen.

Tomorrow is the Moog tour, Blackout Effectors, a revisit to Sherwood's to see if my bargaining skills have improved, there's a small 5w amp I'm off to negotiate for. They have another non-modded one as well. We will see.

Just so you know the hardships I'm enduring. I'll update as I go along.




One incident so far, no one was hurt but it's gonna require sending a camera and lense to Canon. Got the shot though! need to process it and make it forum friendly.

I've seen a couple of these. Working in the music store certainly made that happen a bit easier. Nice score Clayford!! What kind of awesomeness do you intend on shredding? I would take Rej's advice on the pick-ups. The low B does tend to gum up. Some Duncan's or DiMarzio's should do the trick.

As an aside, I have ordered a set of ZEBRA Crunch Lab and Liquifires to go in this beauty. This will be a classy looking guitar that will push tubes into singing.

I've yet to hear a stock 7/8 string pup that qualified as ok, unless you're getting into $2k+ models, even then it's a crap shoot, and you have to hope it doesn't come routed for those god awful EMG soapbars. Mr. Duncan however has solved that problem for us. Even $60 hexbuckers are an improvement over most stock 7 pups. I don't normally like DiMarzios but they nailed it just right with the CL/LF for me. Kinda like a JB and a Jazz or a JB and a '59 for a 6 string.

CL/LF 7's in Zebra(gonna keep it classy, and hide the thrashy) are ordered and on the way as of Monday. What am I shredding? Mostly originals, though God of Thunder and NIB *do* sound pretty effin awesome all the way down on a B, not that KISS or Sabbath ever needed help being heavy...

Off to play in the woods! See some rocks and falls.

Congrats on the guitar! Enjoy Asheville, it is a great town. I live about a half hour west of it and can recommend a couple of music gear shops in town if have the time. Sherwoods and Axis Guitars are both on Patton in downtown and have some great stuff. The Moog factory tour is available during the week and I think Make Noise Synths will let you drop by. Black Out Effectors has a showroom close to downtown and they host bands there as well. Have fun!

THIS. Thank you. We only knew about the Moog tour. We stopped into Sherwoods last year and I ALMOST came home with a Green Flake Gretch Jet, but I was not willing to pay what they were asking. Would be funny if it was still there...

As an aside, I have ordered a set of ZEBRA Crunch Lab and Liquifires to go in this beauty. This will be a classy looking guitar that will push tubes into singing.

All of the j201's I ordered from Aron were in spec. This was late Jan early Feb.

Right?

My trusty go to is a Jet City 22H through either a Randall 4x12(rehersal, live) or a Jet City 2x12(home).



Killer toan.

I have a cheap little rogue practice amp and a Marshall with a Preamp tube that I've been known to play pedals through during testing/repair.

Thanks all! I'm really stoked about it, I'm also really bummed it's not with me. But this week there's trails to be hiked, breweries to invade, good food to eat, and friends to share it all with. Guitar playing can wait until tomorrow.

Awesome find Clayford. On a side note I LOVE Asheville. Have done a lot of mountain biking and hiking in the Brevard area (Pisgah Nat. Forest, etc.). Got to get back there soon.
 

Guess where we're going tomorrow 
Leaving Gatlinburg today after finishing up some touristy crap(shopping) and headed to Asheville. I think dinner at Luella's tonight then we're off to the Pisgah National Forest tomorrow! I wish I was in shape enough to mountain bike, but I'm not... But that's ok I'll walk it. We're there through Friday morning.

Thanks all! I'm really stoked about it, I'm also really bummed it's not with me. But this week there's trails to be hiked, breweries to invade, good food to eat, and friends to share it all with. Guitar playing can wait until next week.

AlanP - exactly. I've only seen these on ebay used and abused (for what I just paid for it) or in pristine condition asking MSRP.

Muddyfox: Until I had one, I said the same thing. You get one, and you learn your way around it.

Lee, Lincolnic, Josh: 1 year production guitar, flopped because it wasn't black, and had a Les Paul neck profile.


Rej: You gots PM.

[still]

While in Gatlinburg we stopped at a place called Music Outlet in Sevierville. We passed by it for the last two years but they were always closed (Sunday) We made a trip out today to hit the Lodgeware store and this place. I was met at the door by 2 labs, a golden named Hank and a chocolate by the name of Tracey. The smell of leather and wood was everywhere. Dulcimers, violins, autoharps, mandolins, and more acoustics as far as the eye could see...  The electric section was about 1/5th of the shop. It was for the most part a Country music shop. I wandered around for a bit, got schooled by a 9yo on the Mandolin(kid had some killer chops), played a rather nice tele that looked interesting with a P90 in the neck and was ready to leave. I asked for the bathroom and was pointed by towards the PA gear. As I went back there I saw a tobacco burst LP on the wall that caught my eye.



I'm freaking stoked. I *do* love me some Les Pauls. I occasionally enjoy wandering into Jimilee's territory. This one had about 7 years of dust on it when I picked it up. It's still brand new. The plastic is on the pickguard. Inspection sticker is on the headstock, and they have all the stuff to register it with epiphone for warrantee.  Yes those are pedal steel guitars in the background. They don't even HAVE the needed strings to restring it. This was a guitar that had no earthly business being there. When my wife found me she asked only two questions,

1) Is that a 7 string Les Paul ?!? (She was as shocked as I was...)
2) Have you paid for it yet, there's some cool leather straps I want you to look at.

The shop guy and I haggled only briefly. This guitar hadn't made him any money since 2000, most likely wasn't going to, and I was willing to put cold hard cash in his hand. I paid, we shook, it's a done deal. They're gonna clean it up, set it up, and have it ready for me when we pass by on our way back next Friday. I'll have better pictures next weekend. I didn't want to take it to a cabin in Asheville, NC then back to Cincinnati a week later, but then I didn't want to leave it either... but common sense prevailed.

New Seven String Les Paul Day!!!

Yup build your own. Scour your Craigslist and make it known at your local guitar shop you'll pay $XX for a busted wah. Hell contact JoeGagen, he might have a shell, pot, and inductor to sell you. I love the smooth pot, and I've heard some good things about his new Tone Tank. I have one I ordered from him with a proper DPDT dunlop. Seriously though if you can get a $40 USED Crybaby GCB-95(guitar center), Heck they're 79 new... Do the math $40 shell, $25 for pot and inductor $8 for a proper DPDT. You've got a GREAT start. New ones even come with a Red Fasel. I think the board is pretty highly modable on it's own... There's a thread or two I've responded in about mods.

I highly recommend getting a Weener and playing with it though. It's a great platform, and if you socket the right things you'll always be able to go back and play with it as you see fit. Weener with a smooth pot(gagen) and a Purple Devil(out of production) inductor are what's in mine.

No guts no glory.

Jon this is twice today I've lost beverage because of you. I'm leaving now.
Thank you Sir!

Hi folks I just thought I'd show you my first 1590a pedal builds, these pedals started for a friend and it took off from there

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202690526758571&set=pb.1060733221.-2207520000.1400177637.&type=3&theater

It'd be great to hear what other pedal builders think of them, honest feedback would be well appreciated
Thanks
Chris
Yorkshire UK

Looks fantastic... but as others have said, take off yer cover and show us some guts!

Unless you're from around here, this won't make much sense. The last thing I listened/watched on YouTube...

That said if I were a church with a $250,000 effigy of Jesus that was stuck by lightning, I'm not too sure I'd rebuild it... 

Having just watched me loose sprite through my nose at this, my wife has graciously pointed out that we are all dorks.

one could be a devout Vegetarian, which is a personal choice, not an abandonment of logic and reason.

People who renounce steak & bacon have logic and reason?!

Madness I tell you!

I'm a devout bacon and taco eater.

Me, I can't I can't usually get them cause my girlfriend wife is a vegetarian, which pretty much means I'm a vegetarian. I do love the taste of a good...