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Ugh, so many sales regrets. I sold my favorite bass, a 68' Hagström H8. I'll never forgive myself. 😣

My two favorites are an ultra cheap double neck I commissioned from a guy in China.
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The guitar pups are okay, but the bass pups might as well be mudbuckers. I'll probably replace all four when I have the dough. The bass is tuned CGCE and the guitar CGCFAC.

But my real baby is my VIPER-201B.
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It's a cheap guitar, but very tuning stable and it plays great.

I worked with Rob at Gemini Pickups. (BTW, his work is awesome and really reasonably priced.) He wound me an incredibly high output bridge pickup and built me this custom bass-split pickup for the neck.
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The output jack is stereo. The pickups still run through the selection switch to one side, except the red part above, which goes to the other side. I use a stereo cord and split it at my board. The red pickup runs through an octave-down pitchshifter into a bass setup, and the blue pickups go through my guitar rig. I tune the guitar AEACGA.

DOOOOOOOMMMMMM! 🤘😜🤘
 
bifurcation said:
I worked with Rob at Gemini Pickups. (BTW, his work is awesome and really reasonably priced.) He wound me an incredibly high output bridge pickup and built me this custom bass-split pickup for the neck.
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The output jack is stereo. The pickups still run through the selection switch to one side, except the red part above, which goes to the other side. I use a stereo cord and split it at my board. The red pickup runs through an octave-down pitchshifter into a bass setup, and the blue pickups go through my guitar rig. I tune the guitar AEACGA.

DOOOOOOOMMMMMM! 🤘😜🤘
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Thanks for the link. I have a gutted Yamaha RGZ super strat that needs some wild pups.
 
fig said:
Thanks for the link. I have a gutted Yamaha RGZ super strat that needs some wild pups.
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Seriously. Super nice guy. He got really excited when I told him my dumb plans and had a lot of suggestions to make it even better.
 
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giovanni said:
I have owned a Club King RT for the last 12 years and I love it. Reverends are awesome.
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Got turned on them by my friend. He left me his Reverend Buckshot to look after while he went travelling and I fell in love with it and knew I had to get one. Held on to that guitar for him for like 3 and a half years and he's only just come and got it last week 😢
 
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My last build and favorite one. She’s nicknamed “let’s go crazy”, and slightly inspired by Prince.

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‘Fender neck and body... SD hotrails tele with push pull volume and tone to split the rails.

She looks and sound pretty good !
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Awesome. Mexican or American parts? I’ve been thinking about putting together a Tele partscaster for a bit... don’t tell my wife.
 
fig said:
South-paw here too (play guitar and golf right though)

I've seen your cat's butt sticking out from under a bass, but not the other end 😂
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I was born ambidextrous, a guitar teacher forced me to play righty because I could, even though lefty was more comfortable for me. She said I'd get confused, but I had no problems with flipping what I saw her play (C-shape bar chord for instance) and applying it lefty. Stupid teachers, I've run into so many of them my whole life, imposing their F$%^& up notions on students (not just me) instead of doing what's right for each student. [/rant]

As for the cat's other end, and the bass'...

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Both my main giggin' axe and cat from t'other angle.
Pic was staged for ... what I can't remember. Some audition thinger, maybe.

This Gretsch is my favourite of all my guitars, I was shopping for a Bo Diddley rectangle but the particular one I tried sounded like garbage and I was incredibly disappointed. Picked up the Rancher above and its sound was so good and at a blow-out price = no brainer, one of my best ever instrument purchases. Case I picked up at Shanghai MusikMesse since the Gretsch didn't come with a case.
Uke is my wife's, a gift from me — I played 5 of the same model, drove the guy in the uke-shop crazy, before getting her that one with the best sound. Alas, I'm the one that plays it as my own uke was stolen (Kala, looked like a baby Lloyd Loar L-5 and sounded FREQ'N GREAT!) Have another smaller fancy-schmancy Uke in Canada, but not as nice sounding as my wife's nor the stolen one (especially).
 
Here's the rest of my heard. I like all them one way or another even though my playing is subpar.. Do not mind my organized chaos. I'm not a very organized in my personal life and I come to accept it. :)

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Feral Feline said:
Man there's some serious "Schwang!" in this thread, and great stories to boot.

I don't wanna single anything out, 'cause it's all great and I really mean it — but ...

@chongmagic's pic ... I'm digging the Strat and story while ogling the pedalicious board and then I spot...

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I mean, I dig the wainscotting and the hardwood, and one would assume it's the rug tying it altogether, but it's the...


B3
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I am curious what is the B3? Sorry my mind isn't as sharp as usual this Monday!
 
JetFixxxer said:
Here's the rest of my heard. I like all them one way or another even though my playing is subpar.. Do not mind my organized chaos. I'm not a very organized in my personal life and I come to accept it. :)

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Nice!! Chaos is good if you can navigate it.
 
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I am curious what is the B3? Sorry my mind isn't as sharp as usual this Monday!
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IF I could figure out how to get all four limbs to do something independently I'd be (both a drummer and) a Hammond B3 player such as Jimmy Smith, Lonnie Smith, Jack McDuff and Dr Music himself — Doug Riley.




As a bass player, I really dig Barbara Dennerlein, who probably has the best footwork going of any B3 player — what she does with her feet most B3 players would only attempt to play with their left hand. Here's a clip of her with feet walking-bass, left hand comping, right hand soloing...




Okay, I'll rephrase part of that first sentence ... "...I'd be a Hammond B3 player hoping to become as good as players such as..."
 
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