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    I could play guitar with my feet and still play rings around you, you talentless fuck...
    Trolls take heed...LOG OUT & FUCK OFF!!!

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    The only player of your guitars I've seen so far to know, is a black plastic ape figurine.

    Or was that a visual metaphor, intentionally supplied on your part..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coyote View Post
    Not sure, but Ibanez calls it ZPS (Zero Point System).
    Comes stock in some S-series axes...



    Now that's efficient, IMO. Actually thought about installing that instead of a OFR in my build...
    Holy crap, what is that thing a BALLcrusher?

    could you imagine practicing in your jammies, and have that mousetrap assembly's library of springs snap down on your sausage?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GAR View Post
    The only player of your guitars I've seen so far to know, is a black plastic ape figurine.

    Or was that a visual metaphor, intentionally supplied on your part..
    Let me clarify something for you a black plastic ape figurine can play circles around you too...


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    Quote Originally Posted by GAR View Post
    Holy crap, what is that thing a BALLcrusher?

    could you imagine practicing in your jammies, and have that mousetrap assembly's library of springs snap down on your sausage?
    If I were to wear my axe that low... Or if my sausage were small enough to get caught in there in the first place...
    Why settle for something you have, if it's not as good as something you're out to get?

    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    It's like putting up a YouTube of Bach and playing Chopstix on your Bontempi...

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    That thumb wheel looks like it would be hard to turn

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    Wink Zoinks!

    Quote Originally Posted by Coyote View Post
    Not sure, but Ibanez calls it ZPS (Zero Point System).
    Comes stock in some S-series axes...



    Now that's efficient, IMO. Actually thought about installing that instead of a OFR in my build...
    That's pretty serious-looking...lol is it a bitch to set-up initially at least?


    And I would've moved the What's-his-Troll posts, but since he got pwned...

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    Quote Originally Posted by jhale667 View Post
    That's pretty serious-looking...lol is it a bitch to set-up initially at least?
    Dunno... Wasn't able to get my hands on one. That and the idea of doing more routing sort of turned me away from the idea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coyote View Post
    Dunno... Wasn't able to get my hands on one. That and the idea of doing more routing sort of turned me away from the idea.
    That was my first thought..."requires cavity alteration"...

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    Quote Originally Posted by jhale667 View Post
    That was my first thought..."requires cavity alteration"...
    I gave a chick a cavity alteration once.

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    Talking Vagine Resurfacing?

    Quote Originally Posted by Nitro Express View Post
    I gave a chick a cavity alteration once.
    I've ruined a few.

    So does anyone have one of these contraptions on their Ibanez that can tell us if it's functional and/or a pain in the ass, pray tell? Coyote, did you actually get to check one out, or are you just interested in them?

    And I agree - you'd have to be wearing it like Jimmy Page - low to worry about things getting entangled...



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    When I was building my Jem replica last year I spent a lot of time on the forums at jemsite.com, nobody over there likes these. They think they are junk. Not sure if they are just Vai Lo Pro Edge trem purists or if this thing is just more hype than functional. Looks serious!

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    Fancy gizmo, but to me it's not worth the hassle modifying the cavity.
    I've always taken my chances with floaters. If they're set up right you probably won't break many strings
    unless you possess a Kerry King style of whammy abuse.

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    I did install the 'ol D-tuna on the Bumblestein myself...works like a charm

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamondjimi View Post
    Fancy gizmo, but to me it's not worth the hassle modifying the cavity.
    I've always taken my chances with floaters. If they're set up right you probably won't break many strings
    unless you possess a Kerry King style of whammy abuse.
    Yeah, don't think I'd bother, either. I'll keep mine the standard cavity/Trem Stopper set-up - floating when you want , yet block-able for upkeep. I did notice an increase in tuning stability with the Ti string-block inserts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt White View Post
    I did install the 'ol D-tuna on the Bumblestein myself...works like a charm

    Yeah, I put one on my Black Charvel mutt...Nice!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jhale667 View Post
    ICoyote, did you actually get to check one out, or are you just interested in them?

    And I agree - you'd have to be wearing it like Jimmy Page - low to worry about things getting entangled...


    I just entertained the idea... And the cover's there for a reason...

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    No covers on mine - and that's not tissue-paper muting my non-noiseless springs.

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    bump..

    On every level, this thread is the perfect case example of the vast differences between a) those who like to talk about their gear, and b) those who like to talk about what they did with it.

    Guess which category I'd log this one under (hint: "a" is for apple)

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    Arrow This thread is about doing both, you mental and literal midget. You FAIL again.

    "A" is for asshole, Lady Gar Gar...and no one cares about yours - so STFU.

    Let's go a little deeper than that, though.

    On every level your last post shows that you're insanely jealous of A) those that have gear, and B ) anyone who knows what they want from it and how to achieve it, and can explain how they did what they wanted with them, to make them do exactly what they want.


    You are nothing, have nothing, and have done nothing, thus you bitch about those that have and do. Sucks to be you.

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    Only one half-stack, and it doesn't even match, with a grip of parts guitars and a PC older than my refrigerator?

    What you got there is a pawn-shop, not a gear-haven of creativiTAH..

    If I was you the minute I come home from work and have to lay eyes on all that shit, I'd take the key out of the door, and gouge my fuckin' eyes.

    Sell all that stuff, keep one guitar and get a new MarkV head and matching cab, and order a fresh studio laptop from Dell with max ram capacity.. back up that old fucker and leave it for a Pedro Pile on the curb for the migrant workers to scrap out..
    Last edited by jhale667; 10-11-2010 at 01:46 PM. Reason: You know better than to post racist shit, ASSHOLE.

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    Wow, talk about bitter...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamondjimi View Post
    Wow, talk about bitter...
    And speculating about my gear incorrectly as usual...ain't jealousy a bitch?

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    Wouldn't know!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamondjimi View Post
    Wouldn't know!

    Me neither, but we can clearly see it makes HIM beyond miserable...

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    Talking Here's the REAL take-away from his post...

    Let's read even deeper:

    Quote Originally Posted by GARfail View Post

    The minute I come home to my cardboard shack from a hard day's busking under the freeway, and have to lay eyes on my unemployed biker-whore excuse for a girlfriend LEFTY, it makes me want take the key out of the door, and gouge my fuckin' eyes.

    It sucks to be GARfail...

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    Wow I must have you totally wrong Jay.

    http://www.soundclick.com/bands/defa...songID=8348585

    If this ain't your little trophy my gosh, I couldn't be more embarrassed!
    Last edited by jhale667; 10-12-2010 at 11:03 AM. Reason: Political Cartoons belong in the political forum, idiot.

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    Thumbs down "ENVY" the lastest/ lamest track by Lady GAR GAR...

    Post your lame political cartoons in the political cartoon thread, jackass. Not here.

    Still, it's funny (and yet SAD) how you're completely fucking obsessed over a track that was done (and is plainly stated in the track note as) a GOOF...and you know you couldn't do any better...you poor, sad, bitter little bitch.

    Is life under the 405, and being a no gear having, library posting. pariah of the interwebs scumbag getting hims down? Perhaps you should end it all, do yourself and the world a favor - because you're getting beyond lame here.


    I mean, I'd ask could you BE any more pathetic, but we all know you ARE and will continue to be..

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    If you're trying to hint you got the new Mark V head, which is currently QUITE fairly priced at 1999.00.. which I find an unbelievable value btw.. you would have posted some way-better clips by now of your progress.

    At this point, I'd forget about hardware doohickeys and focus on getting your amp recapped and re-powertubed from what I've heard. Or just get a the new head.. which will do everything your old one did when it was new, and more.

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    Again, what part of "no one is interested in your uninformed, unsolicited IDIOTIC opinion" are you NOT getting? STFU.

    Yet another swing and miss...


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    Talking Dupe fixed.

    Let's update this dupe post to show another example of what happens to GARfail EVERY TIME he steps in to the ring...he gets KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT.

    Last edited by jhale667; 10-13-2010 at 11:30 AM.

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    So one person's opinion is considered "KO"-ing?

    Even I'm not that arrogant to float such a fallacy.

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    Arrow Go die in a fire.

    Not just my opinion... you lame-ass, no gear-having, know-nothing troll bitch.
    It's what's known as a consensus opinion dickhead. Google it.


    Even Savicki and the 15-yr old kid (both far more valued posters than you) have owned you - repeatedly. How pathetic does that make you?

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    How about upgrading to a different discussion board?

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    How about logging and fucking off...or go upgrade or modify (and no, I'm not talking about setting your intonation, dummy) your plywood Kramer and getting back to us after?

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    The Kramer does seem to be solid, and has a USA serial number.
    Attached Images Attached Images

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    ...Too bad stickers don't count as upgrades. Once again you FAIL.


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    Dupe post...
    Last edited by Diamondjimi; 10-21-2010 at 03:46 PM.

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    The most effective modification in the shortest amount of time, is getting all polepieces flush with the top of the bobbin, then "de-emphasizing" those strings you want less of in the output by driving them a little lower than flush.

    I've done this on a few guitars where changing string gauges or brands totally throws my ear out of whack with my intended output, particularly with the larger wound strings and not so much with plain strings.

    One trick I have done with interesting results, was taking a staggered-pole middle pickup out of a strat, then flipped it upside down in a "single-hum" pickups configuration, by driving P-bass pickup screws thru a length of surgical tubing using that as the backing spring as the screw drives down in to the wood.

    I liked the evenness of that, because this made all the unadjustable alnico poles all flush across because the bottom bobbin plate becomes the top that way, which brought proximity of the entire coil up to the strings that much closer (.06 - .080"?)

    However it was an odd thing, with the solder connnections and leadwire right there under the strings.. so the gain in evenness I thought I had in doing that was offset by a fucked-up look.

    I switched it back to what I had before, standard.

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