I just got a Squier Esquire with a maple neck.It's kinda white,really pale.I heard that leaving it in the sun will darken the neck.Does anyone know if this works?I was thinking about gun/wood wax,but I don't want to have to clean up the frets.And I don't know if it works ..read more

I'm off to Glasgow tomorrow to look at a new car with Mrs K. One of these... I've driven one (Nissan Juke) as a courtesy car a few times, great handling on the roads up here. My local road... A hybrid with 58 miles/gal (thankfully) and a nice 10 speaker Bose speaker system inside. The big decision centres around whether I can get a couple of guitars in the boot/trunk without folding the seats down. So, I'm taking a couple of acoustics down in Mrs... Read more ..read more

Hello all you Tele fanatics! New here & need help with this question. I've had the Fender Vintera Road Worn '70s Telecaster Deluxe for a few years now & haven't any complaints about the pups that it came with however I've always planned to swap them for a set Fenders WRHB. I'm finally going to pull the trigger & my question is should also swap out the wiring harness & pots? Thank you in advance for your help ..read more

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SO.... messing around with the BF Deluxe today, I had a SS plug in rectifier in it and ~430V on the 6V6s. I tried a 5AR4 in it and the voltage was the same, about 430 plate voltage. But the bias was about 4-5 ma higher with the 5AR4 in it.... 'Splain this to me ..read more

We get a lot of posts here about how guitars / amps either do or don't sound the same. These discussions kind of cracks me up. Take two Teles with the classic two single coil configuration. Some here will say "they sound very different from each other!". Well, they both sounds like Teles, just one may be a bit brighter. Deluxe Reverbs. The DRRI sounds nothing like a vintage DR. The TMDR sounds nothing like the DRRI. Any given two vintage DRs sound vastly different. Well, yeah, but they all... Read more ..read more

You can only have one cabinet with one 12" speaker for the rest of your days. You need to be sure it will not blow up with any of your amps because you have careless friends that might just dime everything, just to hear it. You need to be able to buy it currently in the US. You have 6 & 13 watt 6V6 tube heads, a Quilter marked at 25 Watts @ 8 ohms but you suspect it puts out more like 50 watts Class D @ 8 ohms You also have 2 old solid state heads 30 & 35 watts @ 8 ohm You play everything... Read more ..read more

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Haven't heard or listened before. But today ran into his version of Hey Joe via some playlist. I really like the sound, vibe and playing. Now listening: Otis Taylor Collection, to get more familiar with ..read more

For fun I just asked Bing Copilot a question about tube amplifiers. It spit out this at the end: The TDPRI link goes to here: https://www.tdpri.com/threads/who-i...e-mechanism-under-which-a-tube-clips.1130975/ So what I’m learning is that AI is just spreading stuff it learned “on the web”. Then more people can quote AI in forums which AI can also learn from. Does anyone else see the problem with this? What am I missing ..read more