tomteriffic

Tom Terrific was a character in a serial animated story on Captain Kangaroo when I was a kid. Most Esteemed Redhead hung the appellation on me early in our relationship and it stuck. A couple of minutes after Al Gore invented teh intarwebs, I needed a handle and TomT (spelled correctly), was already taken. I misspelled Terrific with one R and two F's and, bingo. It has been my handle in most places ever since.

BTT, make a reasonable offer.

The Mesa is gone, sold locally. Sorry for the delayed update, there's been a death in the family and things are pretty nuts around here. The TT is still available.

I just weighed it. In its shoulder/carry bag it's 34 lbs, give or take a smidge.

hepkat: e-mail me, my PM's seem to be borked. tomterifficATearthlinkDOTnet

Sorry for the slow update, I had a death in the family and things are a little nuts around here. The Mesa has been sold locally. The Tiny Terror is still available. Now then, the Orange Tiny Terror. Bought it to screw around with, tried some different tubes in it, etc. It's a made in China one. It'll ship with the carry bag, original power cord, original tubes, etc. Excellent condition. $350 plus shipping & PP Thanks! Hit me at: tomterifficATearthlinkDOTnet

I'd be interested in hearing your opinion of the Sylvanias. I have a pair of them and a pair of gray glass RCA's waiting their turns in an old Princeton.

Thanks guys! And a special shout out to Jones! I'm still older than you

Happyhappy Birthdaybirthday both of ya's.

I tried to talk him into a purple bass boat metalflake Stike job, but to no avail.

Aaah, glad to see that all the pieces of the puzzle came together, Brent. Did you decide on one pickup or two?

Good on ya! And hats off for striking out on your own, too.

Sux! Be allbetterfaster! Pullin' for you over here.

Whoa, that's yours, huh! Beauty! And those are nice finishing touches.

The La-Si-Do company (Seagull) also has a brand called Simon and Patrick. A friend's cedar-topped 12 is the easiest playing and second-best sounding 12 I've ever had my mitts on. I like my Ovation 1778 Elite T. It goes to every gig with me and holds alternate tunings very well. I didn't much like Ovations either until I came across this one. I get a lot of positive comments on the looks, too.

Suh-WEET. Personally, I'd stcik with the nickel/chrome hardware, though. The lead guitarist in a band I was with in the mid-late '70's in Chicago had the prototype Caddy. It wasn't even all the way finished when he started gigging it. Big (but not-ginormous) V-neck, cherry sunburst finish and a Gretsch-style snap-off back pad. I've never owned a Dean, but If I did, it would be a Caddy.

It may not be BCR/RoyB approved, but what I've done in the past is to masking tape over/around the holes and use a tapered reamer (coming in from the back) to get the holes to size without overdoing it or chipping up the finish. Go slow and smooth. Wow, that reads kind of obscene there.

Most Esteemed Redhead and I (AKA spiny Norman) are being the ad-hoc rhythm section (with no rehearsal) for a friend's trio (Full Circle) at a winery in the middle of nowhere this evening. Next Saturday at our usual haunt, the BRDhouse in Englewood, OH.

Mitch that may be at the root of any playing problems you've been having. It's e-a-d-g-b-e. That Zandard is killing me. And if I was a Vee kind of guy, that would be THE one to own.

I think they were called Big Ears. I remember them and all the fuss about 'em but never did get a pair.

HBD to a great guy with exquisite taste in guitars!

No help on the font. A few years ago I had wanted to do one like that and had the perfect canvas, a black P-90 Special. It was right about then that GMW quit taking outside work. I found a guy in England who made me a vinyl press-on decal from photos I sent him. Came out pretty cool and it even had a couple of spare pickup cover section in case I buggered it up the first time.

Wonderful amps. Non master volume, pretty simple circuit, adds up to sweet, dynamic tone.

OK, I'll play. My beat-up black Special a true tree-fitty wonder. It started out like this, although the picture doesn't show the myriad of dings, gouges and scrapes: It went to Unka Greg and was converted to a wrap-tail and set up for slide: Later on, I saw a guitar that GMP had done and, considering that nobody was going to love this mutt like me, I decided to do a photo-reverse of the GMP guitar and came up with this: This ol' dawg still howls. I practice to Geoff Hartwell's slide instruction video with it and when I go to one particular blues jam, the host (who has a good half-dozen albums to his credit) always asks if I brought this one. It usually winds up in his hands instead of mine.