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Recent content by Wally

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    Dimensions for the Gen 3 Chainsaw case?

    I am looking at a Protector that was original with the 1982 LPC that sits in it. 42 1/2” L x 16 1/2” W X 6 1/2” D.
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    1979 Gibson humbucker with four wires

    A 1982 Les Paul Custom has come to me with some work done by unknown people. One oddity is a Gibson pickup dated to January 12, 1979 with four wires. I am not familiar with such a pickup. This is a three pickup LPC, and this pickup has been installed in the middle position. What guitar would...
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    The importance of pickup height!... GOTTA HAVE MORE CHIRP!.... Demo: '57 Goldtop, '69 Plexi, '69 G12H30 Cab

    LeonC, I have been at this a long, long time. I show players what their guitars are doing as part of the work I do for them. Not one of them has ever failed to hear the problems that occur when magnets are too close to the strings and/or out of balance with regard to output. I also have NEVER...
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    The importance of pickup height!... GOTTA HAVE MORE CHIRP!.... Demo: '57 Goldtop, '69 Plexi, '69 G12H30 Cab

    Following this advice will without a doubt cause the magnets to interfere with the strings’ vibration…resulting in weak signal, weak sustain, and pitch ‘modulation’...ime. Radius of the poles: with a plain G string, the two E strings and the G can be flush with the top of the pickup. The A needs...
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    1969 Special

    I thought I would share this 9ne with you….clean one owner guitar. Great player, fantastic All,original but for a refret and a new bone nut sometime in the 1980s…as near as the original owner can remember.
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    Anyone gig with an original 5E3? And if so…

    Fender builds a ‘57 5E3 Reissue amp. How loud? It will not keep up with a heavy-handed drummer or a loud bass Player, imho., unless it is mic’d. If one had somethinglike a Fryette power station that has a 50 watt power amp for reamping a small amp, then one has a great tool….attenuator, rea per...
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    Anyone gig with an original 5E3? And if so…

    Plug into the Bright…volume and tone above halfway. I set the ‘off’ Normal channel to somewhere at 7-8. Everything is available…lively cleans to nice distortion. the best speaker I have heard for a 5E3 was a P12P…from the same tweed era.
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    Gibson ES 345 players

    Natural tops usually have figure. I enlarged the oic…and can see the birds’ eye figure. Kind of rare…nice!
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    Gibson ES 345 players

    That would be one rare guitar, I am thinking….custom order, probably.
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    Gibson ES 345 players

    Great picture there! Varitone position #1, bridge pickup…..one of the greatest players ever! I love this guitar! Hmm,….I see where everyone is calling this a ‘blonde’ ES-345. Modern guitar……
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    Gibson ES 345 players

    I 9nce had two Gibson GA-19…tweed versions with read controls. One was cosmetically mint while the other had been used And showed it. Both were recapped, serviced and doing what they should do. They had two different sounds….one leaned to the clean side while the other leaned to hot sonics. The...
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    What guitar do I have here?

    I would pull the controls and look at the date codes on the pots. Imho, it is no older than 1988.
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    Gibson ES 345 players

    Okay, I have to ask. Who is this? My only guess is Jackson Browne???? I have no strong feeling that that is correct.
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    Amps you sold but should have kept

    Original Jim Kelly FACS amp in a hardwood cab with cane grille. Mesa MIKC+ in a hardwood cab with cane grille. 1979 Marshall Md. 2203 on top of an 8x10 cab from the early ‘70s. Two 1959 5E7 Bandmasters 1956 5E8A Twin One certain 1957 5E3 Deluxe…mint condition One certain 1960 Gibson GA20…rough...
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    Gibson ES 345 players

    Never have I seen one that color, either. I like that.
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