Ave Tronadora!!!Tejas is too easy. Try xocolata or Oaxaca... s, sh, ch, ks, ha. Ok, maybe some of those really didn't start in Spanish
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It sounds like you have a tilt-o-matic (regular two point), on the bass above they're just called bar bridges. I have a few two points plus the bar bridges on my '65 EB-3 and 66 EB-2.
Two point bridge down below the bass.
Gibson EB bass bar bridge (1965-1967)
Don't even start with how X is pronounced in Spanish
"eckees" we say. Rayos eckees
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Now some serious business. The Warlock I picked up has a serious static issue. The jack only has a single line and is jumpered across both terminals. I don’t see how that can give me a signal line and a ground. Am I missing something?
I think the wire (that is wire, correct, the mesh?) on the right is the ground and the wire on the left is the hot wire. Looks alright to me.
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same thing that happened when the press came out…got rid of a bunch of different accents, markings weird letters etc in ALL languages……some think english had the upper hand (from a printing perspective) because it’s more efficient and does not need weird letters accents etc., making cheaper to print….it’s all about la pasta (not the italian edibleSorry, but those idiots at the Real Academia Española killed all our favorite letters in 2010. No more CH, LL, or RR. I refuse to comply as you can't get a CHE sound when H is silent
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Ah, 2 wires in the jacket. Now I need to figure out why all the static.
Inside the jack looks nasty. Maybe bad ground?
It was schmutz in the jack barrel. Static is all gone. Now I remember why I don’t like rounds. Sounds good but feels like an anchor.
“Avenue of the Tornado” - sounds like a dangerous place to live.
Sloppy but should work. The white wire is your hot wire and it looks solidly connected to the tip lug. The other solder lug is the ground and goes to the ring but looks a bit sloppy. That ground is basically a bare wire mesh that’s between the grey outer insulation and the white insulated hot line.
Just as a personal preference, I don’t like to see output wires soldered to the inside of the lugs. Just too many opportunities for the instrument plug to interfere with the wires and short out or pull something loose. The hot wire is done right, from the outside of the lug, the ground wire is done wrong in my book and probably warrants a removal and resolder from the outside of the lug.
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It’s the fact that my fingers stick to them so that doubles the neck weight.I never knew round wounds were that much heavier than flats.
The only bridge change I've done that made any noticeable difference in sound/tone, was when I replaced the decrepit stock bent-plate bridge on my Ibanez sr885le.
The Schaller bridge made a not huge, but definitely noticeable, difference.....it didn't really change the sound/tone/sustain/whatever/etc., it just made what was there, more....solid? I guess?
Hard to describe with words.
But its a change at the acoustic level; I could notice it before plugging in after the swap.
same thing that happened when the press came out…got rid of a bunch of different accents, markings weird letters etc in ALL languages……some think english had the upper hand (from a printing perspective) because it’s more efficient and does not need weird letters accents etc., making cheaper to print….it’s all about la pasta (not the italian edible
From what I understand, English is that way, now, because of the printing press. The typesetters got rid of everything redundant/oddball/hard to print. It's what accounts for at least some of the weirdness of "modern" written English......
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Apples/oranges. I don't consider coming down a few inches from the angle I play at as "dive". When it drops down at a 45* angle(or more), that's DIVE.
I agree - how about neck drop? Somehow that doesn't sound much better...
I’d absolutely agree with your bent plate findings. I’ve replaced fender bent plates with badass bridges and noticed a difference unplugged and plugged in. I’m not a fan at all of the traditional Fender bridge designs - bent plates, multi string saddles, threaded rod saddles, sharp grub screws sticking out above the saddles, worn out grub screws that collapse or self adjust, strings that don’t maintain a straight line from the saddle back to the ball end, strings that rest on top of the springs, string through bodies that have a super sharp break angle to enter the bridge, cheap pot metal grub screws that strip out… not to mention that they’re cheap looking and butt ugly.
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My long-suffering Mutt guitar, which is a mid-eighties Washburn G-series, received a new paint job.
It's funny how this shade of blue on a Shredder's guitar is now making a comeback. But it suits this 1986 made guitar so much better.
It's funny how this shade of blue on a Shredder's guitar is now making a comeback. But it suits this 1986 made guitar so much better.
It’s the fact that my fingers stick to them so that doubles the neck weight.
You have to play them for a little while, few days, week, few weeks, something like that and they'll feel natural. Maybe it's the callouses thickening?
Some beautiful flame in that maple fretboard.
Quicker to change to tapes or flats
