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Recent content by poor man's burst

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    1984 Concert Amp Questions

    As far as I can remember, they came with siver grill cloth. When you're at it have all the electrolytic capacitors replaced (if it has not been done recently) with good qualitiy caps (TAD, F&T, Sprague...Illinois Capacitor need no apply.) as well as the power tubes (it seems like one may have...
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    What is the black Gibson Lukas is playing here?

    With stapple pickups. There is one in Norman Harris book.
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    Do you see what I see?

    Very interesting. One hypothesis explaining why a Firebird and a 3 pickups Les Paul Custom were in the same room at the same time at Gibson is that, given the diversity of guitars sitting in the rack, the picture was taken in the repair shop and not in the production line. Another possibility is...
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    "First Burst" - Slash shows the first 1958 to Agnesi

    Pick strokes.
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    Ground issue with Gibson Les Paul Deluxe

    If the volume pot is turned to zero, this is normal. If the volume pot is turned to 10, this is not.
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    Ground issue with Gibson Les Paul Deluxe

    Check also at the switch.
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    What would you do?

    Wrong. The bridge is adjusted in regard to the fingerboard, not the nut.
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    What would you do?

    Only the bottom half of the string is in contact with the nut at the bottom of its slot, regardless of the depth of the slot. Removing the part of the nut between the strings above half the depth of the slot is only a matter of look and doesn't change the suface contact of the string with the...
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    335 50's wiring/out of phase...

    The signal coming from a pickup has a polarity or a phase (a direction if you will): it can be first positive and then negative, or first negative and then positive, depending on how the pickup is built (magnet polarity and coil winding direction, clockwise or conterclockwise, coil wiring). If...
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    335 50's wiring/out of phase...

    Flipping the magnet in one pickup or reversing the wires gives exactly the same result: it inverts the phase of one pickup relative to the other one. The signal in one pickup substracts to the signal from the other pickup instead of adding to when both pickups are connected.
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    Anyone Else Have a Music City Les Paul?

    The body wood looks more like ash than maple.
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    Calling Early-60s SG Experts

    The washers will leave inprints on the headstock face however. No picture of the heel were provided.
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    Calling Early-60s SG Experts

    I disagree. Any decent luthier could easily fix it and reglue the headstock wing before it gets worse and cause much more damages.
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    Crazy parts CTS "BVT" Burst Taper 10% 550K Shortshaft Pot (CTS-550BVT) - no good!

    1% of 550k is 5,5k, not 55k.
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    Neck/bridge PU balance

    Did you check the volume pots resistance?
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