Cola-riffic! Yeah, I think the witch hats add a special something, too. Complete rebuild job. All new wiring, switch, pots and pickups. Surprisingly, the standard tuners are pretty okay.
Was this the photo? Tom Petty rather than Roger McGuinn, but that’s a Ricky 6 & 12.
There are lots of photos of Geddy Lee playing a double-neck 6&4 guitar/bass. Seems to me Michael Rutherford used to play a 4 & 12 double-neck back in the 70s.
LMdl-d, thanks. It wasn’t Petty. This was way back before anyone heard of him. Oh, it wasn’t a photo, it was a performance on the tube. And the double neck was natural, not black. But I wasn’t imagining, anyway I guess.
I missed you, E-Sabbath. To anyone who follows this thread, (your thread), I suppose that’s the understatement of the decade. I’ve asked about you several times
Also, anyone who’s followed me here on SDMB, knows I don’t hide my feelings and don’t care what people think of me because of this. If that doesn’t hold with anyone’s belief of how an adult man should act, tough titty.
I want you to know your kindness to me has not been, nor will it ever be forgotten, and I’m not talking about just the Pocket Rocket mini-amp you once gifted me with. You’ve been a friend to me not just in this thread, but in many others where I needed a quiet “hand on the shoulder” and a bringing back to reality.
So because of this, your absence was felt probably a lot heavier than the rest of our buds here in the thread and elsewhere on SDMB.
I’m glad you and yours are okay, and for however long it is, I’m glad you’re back.
Thanks!
Your friend
Bill
Nice to see you E-Sabs.
squeegee - nice gear. According to the Major Guitar Food Groups thread, you need a 335 
I have a Dot. Deal. 
Quasi, I want to thank you for that honest outpouring of spirit.
Sometimes life catches up with you, and then things pull you away. And then the idea of reacing every single thread I missed… well.
So I did for some, and didn’t for others, and I’m more or less back, though still as busy as ever.
That’s right! You’re all set. A well-balanced toolset.
Hey fellas! Just thought I’d pop in, say hello, and show you the newest addition to my collection. It’s a Res-O-Glass guitar body that I put together with a 24" scale Mustang neck from Warmoth and a Bigsby:
Badass guitar. Great for dirty garage-style blues a la The White Stripes, Black Keys, etc. Plug this thing into a cool fuzzbox or RAT pedal and it screams…
Also, just to show you what’s keeping me busy these days, here’s a vid of one of the bands I’ve been playing in. A couple of songs from a recent set at The Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix, AZ. I’m the lead player:
Quasimodem - you have a heart that’s big enough for the whole internet!
Very cool guitar! Where’d you get the body?
Hey E-Sabbath, now that you’re back, would you mind answering this question I posed to you back on page 55? Thanks.
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I haven’t had the time to read through all 55 pages of this thread but I have a question for E-Sabbath. I see that you’re a big fan of Justin Sandercoe (sp) as an Internet guitar teacher. Did you learn how to play from his lessons or did you already know how and you’re just fond of his work? If you did learn from his lessons, would you mind describing the journey?
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Wasn’t the easiest build in the world because the instructions were a little vague at parts. I got through it ok, though, since I’ve done this sort of thing before.
Instructions for which aspects of the build?
Epoxying the strip of maple that goes through the middle inside of the body was kind of tough. Hard to get it right in the middle of the body and if I was off a few centimeters in either direction it could’ve meant disaster since that’s what all the hardware and neck are mounted on. I also thought the order they wanted you to perform the steps in the instructions made things harder than they needed to be. Plus, getting that binding to bend correctly and sit well between the two halves of the body was maddening!
That’s sensible advice. Plus, I bet the local guitar shop already thinks I’m a loon. Bringing in plastic guitars for them to work on probably isn’t going to hurt my prestige.
Wow, I am completely jealous and will have to do that myself after the EKO is together. I have a couple of Tiesco del Rey pickups that aren’t doing anyone any good in their current home. Thank you for the info.
You absolutely should. I’ve started collecting archtop playing experiences and definitely want to check out a D’Angelico and a late 20’s L-5…
Oh, and BigShooter - interesting, I had no idea about the need for that…
Concur. I also like the double-bound Tele in you’re playing in the YouTube, I love that look. Was that one of your builds? Did you craft the body or just do assembly? Also I see you’re playing through your Tweaker – I bought one based on your recommendation and love mine.
The double-bound tele was a guitar that I assembled from parts i had lying around. The body is a Classic Vibe Tele, I think, and the neck is a Warmoth as well. The pickup is a Seymour Duncan bg1400 that was custom wound by the man himself.
The parts came together nicely and it is one of my main axes that I play regularly. Very versatile even though it only has that one hot-rodded single coil.
The Tweaker is a great amp, however, it took a crap on me a couple of weeks ago during practice and it’s in the shop right now. It was weird - all the sudden, no output. You could hear the power transformer hum though, so it wasn’t the fuse. The tubes looked fine as well.
So I’ve been using my Top Hat Club Royale combo on stage lately, and might keep using it based on the comments I’ve been getting. During a recent sound check, the jaded, grumpy sound guy - who’s done sound for hundreds of national and local acts - came at me through the monitors with “Man - that’s some sick tone!” That doesn’t happen every day…
I don’t learn well from videos. And my bandwidth is abysmal. So no, I didn’t use him as a primary source. But every so often, you need video, you need to see. And every time I needed that backstop, he was there, clear, and clean.