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Started by AxeHarmony - Last post by Iperfungus

@ Max, Of course you can join, it wouldn't be the same without you.

 :cheers:

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Started by Dante - Last post by Harley Hexxe
Richard,

I'm not going to ask what you did to set it off  :nono:

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Started by AxeHarmony - Last post by Harley Hexxe
I'll meet you there Harley, we'll start a retirement band and do some Geriatric Choreography like ZZ Top

Sounds like a plan Dante. Those guys were doing that kind of choreography 40 years ago! ::)

@ Max, Of course you can join, it wouldn't be the same without you.

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Started by Iperfungus - Last post by Iperfungus
...and some more!


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Started by Iperfungus - Last post by Iperfungus
Hi guys!

I want to show you something that comes from the 90s.
This is a perfect example of the italian electric lutherie of those years.

Galeazzo Frudua, a dear friend now and my Master since 2016, studied at the Lutherie School in Cremona, learning how to build complex instruments like violins and cellos and then transposed this knowledge in electric lutherie.
He has built guitars and basses for many pros, in Italy and also outside Italy, and gained a renowed fame due to the high level of his instruments.
Starting from the choice of high quality woods, he designed his own electric instruments lines, something that became his signature as his name on the headstocks.

I own this beauty since 2018, when I found her used and purchased immediately: today Gale does not build instruments anymore (or just a few, for very special friends and customers) and you've to litterally hunt them high&low on the used market.

The body's shape reminds the Kramer Paul Dean, like the Larrivée RS-4 we remember in the hands of guitar heroes like Kee Marcello.
Apart from that, the guitar follows the path Gale decided it had to follow...

The body is a classic: one-piece mahogany body with AAAAA bookmatched flame maple top.
The neck is made of one piece of bird's eye maple, reverse matching headstock and a 22-frets ebony fretboard.
Schaller-Floyd Rose tremolo bridge: here I modified a little and removed the R3 Schaller locking nut with separated strings retainer (ok, I'll close those little holes one of these days...) and put a Khaler locking nut with integrated strings retainer.
I decided to do that because strings are not parallel, due to headstock design, and it was very hard to make them stay all under the retainer: with the Khaler nut, strings are forced to stay in the retainer, avoiding tuning issues when you lock the strings.

The top has been carved by hand totally...no CNC machines here.

Pickups are a set of Seymour Duncans from the '90s:

1) TB-4 Trembucker bridge humbucker
2) SSL-1 middle single coil
3) Alnico II Pro neck humbucker

A previous owner destroyed neck humbucker's wiring, but I repaired it and now it fully works again: it's a blast of a pickup in neck position!

The pickup switch is a Schaller SuperSwitch and it allows the following combinations:

1) bridge humbucker (full)
2) bridge humbucker (auto-split) + middle single coil
3) both humbuckers (full)
4) neck humbucker (auto-split) + middle single coil
5) neck humbucker (full)

Then we've a push-pull Tone potentiometer, to split humbuckers even when not combined with middle single coil, and a midrange boost/preamp, with its gain control, that gives up to +16 dB of boost in any pickups switch position (you can set your preferred gain level and turn it on/off with its microswitch).

This wiring, called MIX circuit, gives an incredible range of sounds and possibilities: you can literally play almost anything with these guitars!

You can hear a similar guitar in action here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECwNdgBdoho

And, of course, some pictures or it never existed!

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Started by AxeHarmony - Last post by Iperfungus
I'll meet you there Harley, we'll start a retirement band and do some Geriatric Choreography like ZZ Top

Am I invited to join???

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Started by Dante - Last post by Peter H. Boer
@Peter - I can't imagine life without a back line (I get that that's they way it's become for some  :facepalm: ). Not that I play out much these days, but in Australia, (mostly) having your amp set up is still expected and ok.

I plug in (directly into the power amp or effects return) to whatever is available, if my bandmates need me to plug in (when no monitors are available to them) with the in-ear setup I can hear myself better than I ever did using a backline (which is great especially when I need to play fretless).

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Started by Dante - Last post by Peter H. Boer
We're so old, I stopped using backline over 20 years ago  ::)

Tell me you don't miss that.

My preamp flightcase with MB1, wireless receiver (bass) and wireless sender (inears), DHP-33, Tuner & Rolls PM 351 still weight a ton though.

But indeed, I do not miss lugging big bass amps and cabs at all  O0

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Started by AxeHarmony - Last post by Dante
I'll meet you there Harley, we'll start a retirement band and do some Geriatric Choreography like ZZ Top

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Started by Gregg - Last post by rnolan
Hey Gregg, sounds good, as it should.  But then it goes to crap, not good.  Hopefully you can work it out.

BTW you might suggest to your brother that he holds the pick more with the very tip of thumb and index finger and bend the tip of his index finger (and try to relax the other 3 fingers)  Similar to making an OK signal underwater.  It will improve his picking.

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