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Practical Tube Amp Course (PTAC): New Tool Day!
Luke demo’s two state-of-the-art tube testers; The MaxiMatcher II (power tubes) and MaxiPreAmp II (preamp tubes), found here: https://maximatcher.com/ Luke Single at Chesapeake Guitar and…
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Model is “The ’80”. Daion built some nice guitars in the 70’s and 80’s out of a small shop in Japan. Nice old all mahogany 12 string. It’s my instrument so doing a bolt on conversion. Forget about trying to get the neck off one of these (apart from Kung Fu) – neck construction seems to be based on multiple dowels (a bit like some…
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Elaine S Hartstein Hartstein Guitars replied to the discussion Too many knobs, too little time in the forum Quick Questions 5 months ago
Too many knobs, too little time
Thank you very much, that is helpful. I did do the pickup tap test to determine the four way switch settings. As for the listening test, maybe my amp (or my ears) aren’t good enough to figure out what the difference is when using the mystery pot. I thought for a bit that it might be adding reverb, but maybe that was just my head vibrating.
Cheers,
Elaine
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I was going to buy a pot cleaning cap from StewMac, but never got around to it. Well, today I needed to clean a bunch of scratchy old pots, so I made one from a piece of surgical tubing and a zip tie. I punched a hole with an awl for the straw nozzle, and held the rubber tubing tight to the bottom of the pot shaft. Almost no mess, and the…
Ben Miranda, Ian Davlin The Looth Group and Brandon Forsyth Fret Tec, LLC -
Fingerboard extension gap - new build
Thanks Karl. Robbie’s courses (online) and Jeff’s videos have been super helpful with this whole process. I really like the tip about using a spacer at the bridge location to sand an angle in the neck block area – I’ll definitely play around with that on the next one.
Thanks again!
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