Hackubus

oh jeez. My reading comprehension is very lacking today. Thanks.

What kinda bridge is that?

I picked up one of these recently. https://www.daddario.com/products/accessories/xpnd-pedalboards/ It's great for leaving under my computer/recording station. Allows me to leave my bigger pedaltrain board somewhat wired together and packed away under the bed for the 2.5 gigs per decade I play anymore.

Mama said....

It's kinda like that for me too. But God, I don't wanna play any kinda Stratocaster, ever. I did a setup on a Squier strat a few days ago, and started farting around with what few licks I knew from EJ's Cliffs Of Dover, and by crackee....I managed to play that danged song all the way up to the solo in a manner that actually impressed me somewhat. On my Gibsons...I only manage to get a few bars in before Clam City.

I've never heard of this Platypus business either. But IMO, it's just Enshitification at work. No neck thru, no multi later body, no dual layer headstock. I've read that the machine that made the Firebird banjo tuners was destroyed during the Nashville flood. I believe this was the only tuner they made in house. You may remember for a few years after the flood G-USA made FBs had Steinberger tuners for awhile. I see the 2019-20 G-USA FB models have a reversed Platypus/Trini Lopez/FB single layer headstock with mini Grovers. Someone out there is making the old style banjo tuner, as I see the Historic models Firebirds are equipped with them. Heck, now that I've typed all this up, I realize this is all old news by this point! 😆 I will give them this though, this new model looks 1000% better than the goofy FB Studio models, so it's got that going for it. Slap some cool sparkly metallic car colors on these, and I bet they'll sell a bajillion of them. Just saw the list price on these. Oof. Back to what I said about Enshitification. This Hackubus Hot Take is brought to you today by the letter F.

Congrats! There's hardly anything more \m/ RAWKNROOOOL \m/ than a black Les Paul standard.

RIP 😪

I had him rewind some '78/79 T Tops I'd goofed up. Oh my goodness, he really took them to new places after he rewound them.

I finally got a 4 digit Standard back in September.

Thanks for the link! This stuff is right up my alley.

I'm with Cmatthes on this one. The 87-95 era was A Second Golden Age in my book, yeah...I'll die on that hill too 😆. Except for the 1991 TV Yellow 30th Annie LP/SG Custom. The one I had was a stinker. Albeit, a dang cool looking stinker.

That's Cease with the Hamer. Seems like I recall them playing She Talks To Angels on (I wanna say) SNL and he played slide on a Hamer Sunburst for that one. (That coulda been Letterman or Arsenio Hall too, the Googler's not being much help here) That's gotta be earlier than 92 though, he was replaced by Ford by then and SHAMC came out in May of 92.

Any idea of the output on the Dimmy? That would be the tell. Definitely a Bill Lawrence there. Probably a 500XL. Those come in odd sizes. The ones I've messed with required a special pickup ring and it's still a bit smaller than the standard humbucker sized ring we're all used to. And thus ends the extent of all my pickup knowledge, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

Whole Lotta Love straight slaps as the yoof would say. Didn't care for the rest of it, however.