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I've built and modified a lot of gear over the years, most of which is gone. This page has some pics of what's left.
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| This is my fretless Les Paul,
crafted from an Aria Pro Les Paul Custom copy. I filed down the frets, and
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refinished the guitar in a natural matte finish. Shown without strings -
which would be flat-wounds of course.
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Close-up of fret tangs left in the wood after neck work. |
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| "The Mini," a completely original guitar built from scratch - well, almost from scratch - features a scalloped fretboard and sliding pickup. | Parts for the body came from the hardware store and my junk bin. Notice the pickup in the neck position above and bridge position at left. |
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| The neck was salvaged from
an old Tele copy. I sawed off the headstock and installed hardware
to lock down the ends of the strings.
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I scalloped the fingerboard, just to see how it would feel. |
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| Back in the early '90s, I built this tube overdrive unit, which is the first preamp I know of with adjustable plate (B+) voltage, a feature now found on a handful of | expensive tube preamps. This little unit was the heart of myrig for many years. It sounded good through the small combo amps I was using at the time. |
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| The half-rack size makes
for a compact but not too crowded interior.
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Note true point-to-point wiring - no eyelet/turret board. |
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Constructed inside US Army surplus
ammunitions boxes, these two units, which I call Preamp No. 7 and Preamp
No. 8, always seem to attract the curious (below). Two
12AX7s are used in the circuit of No. 7 (right), which is loosely based on
the preamp section of a hotrodded Marshall. No. 8 (below, right), otherwise known as the "QuadraValve
DualVoice," features a split signal path - one track running through two
12AX7s, the other through two 6SL7 octals, with a Blend control to mix the
two sounds together. The 12AX7s have a familiar preamp-overdrive
tone, while the 6SL7s lend a bigger, more power-amp-like sound to the mix.
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| I built this "Router" to manage guitar, effect and amp switching in my live rig. It features an A/B guitar selector, true-bypass effects loop and A/B/Y amp switch. | The pedals run through the true-bypass loop so the guitar-straight-into-amp tone is never lost. The amp switch works as A/B or A/Both, depending on the setting of a small slide switch. I've found this is a great way to use two amps for a real volume boost for solos. |
And here's even more randumb stuff.
