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The used MIM Fender Standard Stratocaster I have on lay-away already has Sperzel locking tuners, so that's one less upgrade I'll have to worry about. Where I'm being wishy-washy is, which pickups to use for it. So far, I'm considering either 3 Seymour Duncan Lipsticks, or DiMarzio Blue Velvets...

Although I'm planning to create and record some original rockabilly pieces, this coming year, my current bass choices are 2 P-basses (Squier Afinity & Fender Standard) and 1 acoustic-electric...Johnson JG-622-E. I don't see myself being able to add a double bass to my collection, unless I happen...

I don't know if this is scary, or a case of "it was bound to happen," but this may be the next big thing for air guitarists... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/13/1128243 I do wonder, however, how it'd sound through the Fender '65 Twin Custom 15 combo that I'm planning on buying...

After stopping at a Guitar Center in Indianapolis, today, I'm starting to make plans to reconfigure my guitar collection...sell off the ones I don't really need, and use those funds toward buying ones that better suit my needs. When I first got there, I happened to find that they've got several...

Which of these two should I add to my collection, for some rockabilly and surfabilly guitar playing? I'm already familiar with the Ibanez Artcore sound, for already owning an AG75TBS, and I tried out the Peavey at a local music store, today, playing through a 30W Vox ValveTronix similar to my...

At Musician's Friend, the Fender Standard Telecaster is priced at $399.99, while the Fender 60s Custom Tele with Bigsby is priced at $879.99. I'm already planning to buy a Bigsby B5 ($99.99 @ Musician's Friend), to add to my Epiphone Les Paul Jr. 90 (that I've ordered Gibson upgrade parts for)...

Would a max'd out Mac mini do good, as part of a home recording studio, or should I hold out for at least a 20" iMac? My plan is to use an 8-track digital hard disk recorder, to actually record instrument tracks, then send those tracks to a computer, for further software based tweaking, before...

Just wondering about the best way to get the scratching effect, as in "Bombora" by The Atlantics? Being that surf guitarists tend toward 12s or 13s for their strings, would flatwounds be a better choice, for the scratching? If I go with flatwounds, how would that affect my "hot rod up shifting"...

I've decided that my next guitar purchase will be a Fender Standard Strat HH, which I plan to use as a surf guitar by swapping TV Jones HiloTrons in place of the humbuckers. I'll also be upgrading other relevant parts - bridge and tuning machines - to Fender American parts, but I can't decide...

Ordered one from Musician's Friend, this past Saturday, and it arrived today. The Sunburst option wasn't available, but the Ebony one looked promising, so that's what I went with. Took it out of the box, plugged into my Line 6 Guitar POD 2.0 to tune it, then switched to my Peavey TransTube 258...

While window shopping for under saddle pickups, to replace the one in my Epiphone PR350-12E, it occured to me that "maybe just changing the battery will fix the cutting out problem." I can't say that this is my first acoustic/electric guitar, as my Johnson JG-622-E acoustic/electric bass also...

This will only happen, if I manage be the winning bidder for a Fender Tom DeLonge Strat, on eBay. I'd decide between the Tom DeLonge Strat, and my Fender So Cal Speed Shop Strat, as to which gets standard tuned, and which gets tuned to D (D, G, C, F, A, D). It was having longed to own a Tom...

After my latest reply in the "To mod, or not mod?" thread, I headed over to the forums at the Surf Guitar 101 web site. In the thread "Gretsch for surf..." that I've participated in, one of the other regulars turned me on to Eastwood guitars. http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/index.htm What I...

I got to thinking about this, after my last reply to the "How Many Guitars Do You Own?" thread, and figured it's a valid enough question to warrant a poll, so here we go. In my case, I've bought what I could afford (with mods decided on, at later dates), bought just what I needed (no mods...

On my way home from the armory (I live 45 miles away from my unit's armory), I stopped off for new strings for an Epiphone PR 100 that I'd bought last month. Unfortunately (or "unfortunately"), instead of paying for the strings then leaving (a local trading post store), I decided to check out...

Just got me another Epiphone PR-100 "Texan" (had a chance to replace one that was stolen, 8 years ago), and am wondering which brand of strings would be best for it? I'm already planning for 80/20 bronze, which is what I had on the one that got stolen (GHS Bright Bronze, medium guage), and will...

I have to say that the staff at TV Jones was quite helpful, in helping me to detirmine just WHICH bridge humbucker to order for my Squier Bullet Special! Mostly, I wanted something that would bring the Squier up to being able to keep up with my Fender So-Cal Speed Shop Strat, for which the...

How's come it is that PR-100s tend to be called/sold as Texans, even though a Texan has parrallelagram fingerboard inlays, instead of dots? Also, the PR-100 has a Gibson neck and truss rod cover. I'm about to buy an Epiphone PR-100 from a private seller, to replace one that I'd owned from 1992 -...

Since the Squier Bullet Special was essentially modelled after Fender's Tom DeLonge Blink 182 Strat (stripped down Strat with a single, bridge position Seymour Duncan Invader, 1 volume control), I've somewhat planned to upgrade to an Invader even when I'd ordered it from Musician's Friend, last...

My Tele is a Fender Standard, and I'm kinda wondering what Lipsticks might do for it, aside from making it sound kinda sorta like a Danelectro? I don't necessarily want to lose the twang that the Tele's known for, but I figured it could sound a bit better with something other than what Fender's...