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  1. Florida Sam

    Traded my 2012 R9 VOS for a "new" 2018 R9 VOS.

    Beautiful!! I had a similar experience as you, tried every R0,R9,R8 in South Florida. The 2018 R0 beat everything hands down. GC also said they received this R0 in 2019 yet has a late 2018 serial number. It's the best guitar I've ever played.
  2. Florida Sam

    NGD First Historic/Custom Shop. 2018 R0

    16 years ago I sold "The One" Les Paul. The one I shouldn't have, but due to life circumstances I had too. In retrospect it saved my life. But I've been wanting another vintage style, sunburst LP for a long time. I wanted a dark Bourbon Fade. I wanted a killer chevron too. And I wanted it to...
  3. Florida Sam

    NGD! 2011 Custom Classic.

    What a difference 8 years makes. This has the *gasp* "burnt maple" fingerboard. I probably would have passed by this one then, I'm much less snobby today. I saw this at a local pawnshop today and I made a silly lowball offer, they accepted. Funniest part was the guy said, "The case is in the...
  4. Florida Sam

    NGD! 1963 Gibson Melody Maker D

    Wow. I just checked and it's been 16 years since I started a thread on this forum. I was NOT sober back then an re-reading my ramblings from back then...well, I was an asshole. 15 years sober now, wow have I mellowed a bit. After spending all day yesterday at the Tampa get together, I had...
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    Monkey Wards Amp Head

    I am a fan of the White Stripes and make no apologies for it. Jack White uses a Silvertone Twin Twelve, I believe. I had been hoping to find one of those cheap, locally but instead I stumbled upon this freak. It seems similar to the Silvertone but has only a "Tone" knob for each channel as...
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    Unique amp and guitar porn!

    The guitar is a 1999 Terry C. McInturff Glory Standard. It's a chambered solid-body weighing in at a svelt 7.4lbs. Mahogany body, Indian Rosewood board, Paua shell inlays. Pickups are custom wound Zodiac DiMarzios (Don't laugh, these pickups have changed my opinion of DiMarzios forever)...
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    STOLEN GEAR ALERT!!!

    This morning I was sickened to learn that Music and More in Davie, FL was robbed early Saturday Morning. No that I would wish this on anyone but Tom Snellgrove, the owner, is one of the nicest people on the planet and has done more for me in terms of education and guitars in general. I knw its...
  8. Florida Sam

    Hey Southpaws....

    I saw this one today. Pretty cool! He says its "probably" the only leftee made.(?) And, no I did't reverse a "normal" pic :)spin http://www.guitarbroker.com/7539.jpg
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    JBL D-120F 8ohm ("I'm going Southbound!)

    After almost 4 years of hounding I got my friend to part with 2 1969 JBL D-120Fs (8ohm). That's the good news. The bad news is one of them has been reconed with a non-aluminum dustcover cone and the other one has a few small holes in the doped area. I just spent an hour reading all the "JBL...
  10. Florida Sam

    Anyone ever see this before?

    I was given this pedal about 6 months ago in non-working condition. I tried many times to fix it but only yesterday (after many months ofreading up on electronics ) did I get it fixed. It had a cold solder joint on one of the transistor pins. This pedal is pretty strange. The pots date it to...
  11. Florida Sam

    I just want to brag......

    About the killer deal I got yesterday! Ever have on eof those gut feelings to go to a shop you haven't gone to in years just 'cause there might be somehting cool? I have been on a bug vintage pedal kick lately, the weirder the better. I go on my lunch break to the tiniest music store in south...
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    MXR Stereo Chorus (Series 2000)?

    How does the MXR Stereo Chorus, 2000 series (black metal casing, 9 volt battery compatible, stereo) compare with the yellow, hardwired MXR Stereo Chorus unit? Are these the same internally? Sound the same? and is this a good ananlog chorus unit?
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    Cathode Biased?

    I have a homebuilt Tweed Deluxe clone with Tremolo. I want to use THD Yellowjackets with the amp. I am aware that there are different version of YJs for Cathode biased amps. What do I look for inside the amp to determine what kind of bias circuit the amp is. The amp is not a pure Deluxe...
  14. Florida Sam

    Channel Switching question

    I have an amp with 3 inputs, each voiced very diiferently. I would like to be able to plug into all 3 inputs and switch between them with a pedal. What product out there does this? If ther isn't a pedal that allows me to pug into all 3, then I would at least like one that allows me to plug in...
  15. Florida Sam

    T-Top Surgery.......It's Alive!!!

    Thanks to his forum I have spent the last few months chasing the tones that the '57 Classics that came in my '59 Replica just were'nt producing in the bridge position. I came upon a nice late 60's patent sticker T-top and decided to give it a try. I have tried a '57 Classic, a Duncan Custom...
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