Bloozguy

Aww, shucks. It wern't nuthin' Probably my all time favorite Pretenders tune and you nailed it! Great job!

Do you think we have enough US and Canadian folks interested to do a couple hour drive for a face-to-face transfer? That would be way cooler than shipping...

I never had the opportunity to meet, or even converse with, Wyldbil, but from what I have heard about him I'm pretty sure he would wholeheartedly approve and probably say "play the hell out of it boys and girls!"

If you send it up here I'll be happy to pass it around at one of the 4-3-2-1 Club gatherings...and you could show up and bring it home personally afterwards!

I forgot all about this thread...this beauty showed up at my house last month: 2004 Robin Avalon Classic

Thanks. I stand corrected. I may have misunderstood Curtis when he was explaining all of that.

Talk about perfection. Great color for a Jazzmaster. Did you install the Lollars? I'm curious about the original pups vs the Lollars. Thanks! No, the Lollars(I've got the Vintage set) were in it when I got this one. Everything you read about them is true - especially the part about them being bright. Bright, but not harsh and thin like AVRI, IMO. More hifi. I like the tone of the neck pickup to be up full, but I like the bridge pickup best when the tone control is rolled back to around 7-8, so I'm thinking of modding the controls on my JM so I can set it up like that. I think the bridge on some 500k pots (or even 250k) instead of the 1M, and the neck on all 1M will get me closer to what I want to hear. The neck pickup is as perfect of a pickup as you could ask for, but if the bridge had a couple more turns of wire I wouldn't complain. Still, when you roll the tone back and crank it through my Super Reverb, it flat-out twangs like nobody's business. Just not quite as round as a Tele bridge pickup. Both pickups take anything from mild overdrive to fuzz no problem. When I'm playing around the house I tend to like them better with my SR vs my 66 BFDR, but when I've listened to some recordings of the band with me on the DR, what I think of being a bit too bright when practicing equals the right amount of "cut" through the mix in a small bar. In short, I like 'em, especially that neck pickup, but some of the offerings from Novak look mighty nice, especially in the bridge department. I've got a '97 "Crafted In Japan" 1962 Reissue Jazzmaster with a Mastery bridge and Novak pickups. When I talked to Curtis he suggested I try a JM-V (vintage Jazzmaster spec) in the neck and a JM-90 (P-90 style built to fit under the Jazzmaster cover) in the bridge. He definitely steered me in the right direction! The neck has that great vintage Jazzmaster sound and the bridge has a real similar sound...but with balls! He also told me that one of the reasons the reissues, both Japanese and American, sound a little thin is because their pickups are wound closer to the way a Strat pickup is wound...taller coils versus the big flat coils of the real Jazzmasters.

Ooh...can't sell the Rawhide...my fiance likes that one...and so do I

My Fakimba Fleetwood is going up for sale today or tomorrow...

Only five for me in 2013: Ernie Ball Music Man Albert Lee HH Gretsch G6120JR2 Nashville JR Gretsch G6199 Billy-Bo Jupiter Thunderbird Robin Artisan Prototype Robin Texas Rawhide Slabtop Supreme Hollow And those don't really count because I sold at least one for every one that I bought

When Armadas show up used, I'm tagging one. USA Robin Artisan will be tough. There aren't many...here's mine. You just had to show me that one again, didn't you... I'm thinking you must be tired of it by now...

Pretty much the only two three things I'm lusting after (well, in the guitar realm that is) are a USA-made Robin Artisan, a PRS DGT and an EBMM Armada...

I had one of the torsion springs on my garage door do that a few years ago when it was blistering cold... Thanksgiving in Austin, Texas was awesome...zip code change doesn't sound too bad...but what would I do without the 4-3-2-1 club crew?