My guitars (most of them)

[Rockmonton]

theres only one big name one in there, the fender acoustic, but all of these can outperform their relatives especially the strat and the vee! WOW i found the vee again today as it got returned from a friend adn holy crap it sounds MUCH better than an LP or normal vee...... pretty good for odds and ends of 13 smashed guitars.... in that oen alone..... i paid 5$ for the neck +6.55$ for the strings (canadian) and have that....... the 12 string is just a project finishing up.... sorta i gotta make a new bridgeplate for it now...... i have no clue on the material as underneath it is pretty beat up, i was thinking a thin block of some sort of tempered acrylic with lots of epoxy....... the silver is a fretless, and there are a bunch more sitting around including a banjo, and a bunch of cheap acoustics as well as a bass with EMG's out in the garage in pieces still.... and soon my gibson es355 when i fix it!

[Celt]

That neck-thru-body bass looks pretty sweet! :yes:

[Rockmonton]

thats my main axe dude, i'm a bass player! its a westone and i'd KILL to get another one, especially the fretless 2-a model!, it was a pawn shop steal, 250$ canadian......

[Jovinyl]

I like. I myself have six 3 elec's 3 acoustics. found a gibson a series mandolin in a pawn shop. I purchased a gibson J50 new.the others just sort of fell into my hands. had a music master bass that's what I wanted to learn. Jack Bruce,Stanley Clark. Didn't happen. years later started fingerpicking liked it, still working on lead guitar getting better but i'm not any good. I think I should learn how to play the ones I have before I get another but if it's a steal. I prefer a musical instrument hanging on a wall or on a stand over a painting or sculpture. just my choice of art work. Hope many more come your way.

[Rockmonton]

same, i actually liked the one musicmaster bass i played at an antiques shop which was pretty cool so good luck with your stuff to!

[Celt]

I had a Musicmaster back in the 70's. They can be tweeked out for a better bottom end. Those short-scales with the smaller necks can be fun to play.

[Rockmonton]

heh lucky guys, around in the time of classic instruments..... now its just turned hellish to get anything decent for a decent price....

[twintwelve1484]

My crap can be viewed at:

http://www.daveonbass.com/SOTD/mikeyk/mikegeetars.htm

[Celt]

That's some cool gear TwinTwelve! I too, love the old Silvertone/Danelectro amps. They sound wonderful and are very reliable too.

[mg196]

I would guess that you are able to Rock Out. I am a professor of RockOutology (the study of Rocking Out) and am able to Rock Out to a very high degree. All the laws of physics cannot explain how a single person can Rock Out in as many ways as I can.

To be honest with you, String Theory was first invented in an attempt to explain how I was able to play the guitar in the manner I do. The guitar strings are played with such rhythmic force that they literally tear space. 25 years on, and String Theory has yet to be resolved, as does the question of how it is possible for me to Rock Out more rockingly than anyone else.

[bordeno]

Greetings....I have a nice '79 Stratocaster, black with white fretboard, kind of collecting dust in the basement. Or the hard case is collecting dust. Haven't played much in quite a while, but I need to drag it out and start exposing my almost-6 year old to the instrument. He's always asking about it.

[Rockmonton]

mman your letting that sit in the basement! blasphem! take it out! rock on!~! come on! those 70's strats are some of the most solid guitars ever made!

[Rockmonton]

i must also applaud twintwelve for using ACOUSTIC cabinets! way to go its all i use, i've got a 405 transducer (412 with horns) and then two 106 2-15's nad they rock

[GibsonLesPaul]

I see that it's been awhile since anyone's said diddly in this room
so I guess I will, "diddly". :D My axes include; '75 Les Paul, tobacco standard;
'93 Carvin DC-127, a split coil setup that I changed out the stock pickups
for a Gibson 490R (neck) and a Seymour Duncan Pearly gates in the bridge. :yes:

Acoustically I play a Takamine 12-string ( instant Pink Floyd and Jimmy Page)
and I also play an Epi- six string. Both acoustics acoustic/electric.

Bordeno- dust the dust of that guitar and introduce that six year old to it!
I did this for my kids at an early age and both my sons and daughter play now. :banana:
You too can listen to garage band sounds and rattling windows until your
neighbors can't standz it no more. I love it! :D

[Rockmonton]

i live next to a pastor and a secretary with a bunch of drunken hicks who live behind me, the two on the sides dont mind when i play, but the ones behind dont wake up till prolly 2 in the afternoon....... and get drunk and are back passed out by around 6, so its kinda hard to have them not doing stupid shit (shooting garage.... throwing beer bottles, drunk driving, etc........ thank god theyre gone most of the summer

[Jovinyl]

Still strumming along with the acoustic. cleaning up so I can put some rhythm tracks down so I can practrice putting some simple lead next to. some where along the line maybe add a drum machine in there. any one use one. recomend one. I had a Roland TR606 some time ago but I didn't use it much so I let it go.

[GibsonLesPaul]

Yo dude! Get the video camera out and take some video of these people.
Some video of these people might make you money!!!

[GibsonLesPaul]

One of those shows where they show stupid people doing stupid things?

[Rockmonton]

yeah, but its probably very dangerous to do so, i know the cops took away a lot of their guns and they are on probation, but man they're dangerous, baligerant, drunks -- even the kids! they must all be from the most hick part of saskatchewan with the mullets they sport, if they were nicer i wouldnt care, but they just shoot anything that moves, and one guy caught me with a fish hook when i was little right in the nose off my bike because he was practising casting or something, and 'im just riding by, damn that hurt..... anyone else have nasty neighbors or anything?

[dr*audio]

Do not use anything but wood for a bridgeplate! It should be very hard wood, like maple, about 1/16" thick. Use only high quality wood glue. The yellow stuff is the best. Elmer's Carpenter Wood Glue is excellent. If you glue something properly with it, you will have pretty much a permanent repair.
You can get all kinds of luthier's supplies at http://www.stewmac.com/
I can recommend a good book on guitar repair:
"Complete Guitar Repair" by Hideo Kamimoto. He even tells you how to make your own tools and jigs.

[Rockmonton]

heh your right, i've tried a few things, the only problem is i cannot remove the entire old one completley, as well the glue they had on it when it sorta melted and came off kinda coated everything, i'm considering just a new top so i can have a chance to re-do it, but that'd be even more work. i've got that book somewhere and it has a lot of handy little how-to's the acrylic bridgeplate worked extremley well but changed the sound to a real jazzy woody sound, i tried just bolting on a titanium one (uncles works in a shop and had a piece the perfect size in the scrap) and it sounds pretty different also, but a good kinda different. but it'll be a total PITA to put another piece of wood on without taking the entire top off and being real careful, but i'll figure out something anyways.

[GibsonLesPaul]

Wow! A pastor on one side and drunks on da other. You should introduce them to
each other. Everyone ill be saved, they'll move away and start a church. Then
you can TURN IT UP!!!!! No more neighbors.

[Rockmonton]

haha that'd be nice, the pastor is actually a pretty awesome guy, he can even pull some pretty sweet licks, the guys behind can play guitar too, but in a more country-metal sorta away, but they're just no good at being sober. i wonder if thats a course in saskatchewan? everything below saskatoon AFAIK is around 70% like that. ah well.

[dr*audio]

heh your right, i've tried a few things, the only problem is i cannot remove the entire old one completley, as well the glue they had on it when it sorta melted and came off kinda coated everything, i'm considering just a new top so i can have a chance to re-do it, but that'd be even more work. i've got that book somewhere and it has a lot of handy little how-to's the acrylic bridgeplate worked extremley well but changed the sound to a real jazzy woody sound, i tried just bolting on a titanium one (uncles works in a shop and had a piece the perfect size in the scrap) and it sounds pretty different also, but a good kinda different. but it'll be a total PITA to put another piece of wood on without taking the entire top off and being real careful, but i'll figure out something anyways.

You need a way to get heat to that area to soften the glue. If it melted when it got hot, it's probably hot melt glue. Yuck! You can probably heat it up and scrape off most of it. If you can get the surface pretty flat, you can use sandpaper to get the residue of the glue off. You're right, removing the top would be hard but a good excuse to learn about how to do that on a guitar you don't care about. Stewart Mac sells top wood if you want to try making a new top. If you go that route, buy a new bridge, too. You could probably salvage the braces from the old top. I have never removed a top, so I can't be of much help on that, but I think once you get the binding off it's pretty easy. Try to do as little damage to the top as possible so you can use it as a template for making a new one.

[Rockmonton]

yep i tried an iron, and i tried a light light steam as another luthier recomended, nothing really worked.. it did take the warp out, but the bridge plate was basically messed so i'm considering the top thing, this was a VERY VERY nice sounding guitar complete though. i'll probably make a new top if i go that route.

[dr*audio]

Who made this guitar?

[Rockmonton]

believe it or not, bc rich. it's dated 1971, and is pretty uncommon, i've never even seen another bc rich acoustic, but its very nice, and a long long shot from the modern metal/thrash guitars they put out today.

[dr*audio]

I bet one of the Japanese guitar mfrs made it for them.

[Rockmonton]

most likely, but man did it ever sound nice, it had a a tone better than most of the martins and such i've tried.....

[dr*audio]

In that case, I think it would be best to save the top. Can you get an inspection mirror and a bright light in there and tell me what you see? I'm thinking if you can scrape or sand the old crud off and get it down to wood then you can start over with a new bridge plate. You can use a sharp wood chisel to get the thickest parts off, then sand with coarse sandpaper wrapped around a small block of wood.

[Rockmonton]

yep i've tried it, its all splintered to hell basically, i've tried to just salnd some of it off, but its pretty mangled, i think i will pull off the top and then see how it goes, if it goes well, i'll leave an update on here, now the fun part...... actually doing it without destroying it!

[dr*audio]

Good luck! Please do post the outcome.

[Jovinyl]

Had others but these I held on to.
Gibson J50-deluxe
Gibson A series Mandolin
Alvarez DY73CS
Alvarez 5021

[Rockmonton]

Nice! i like the mandolin

[Rockmonton]

heres some pics of the basement!

[Rockmonton]

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