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Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 2:12 pm
by Ancient Astronaught
I just checked out the site, the 8 string does nothing for me.... but I kinda dig the Bane 7 string V. The price ain't too bad either.

Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 2:29 pm
by AxAxSxS
samzadgan wrote:Hey Ax...was thinking of you when i saw this in a UK classifieds...very tempted by it...the lack of neck binding and block inlays kills it for me though...
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Don at earwig studios has a vintage one like that hangign on the wall in the control room. I was up there for the stereo creeps album preview vid I did and when I walked in I instantly geeked out on that. Even had a trem on it. The finish was beautifully checked and it sounded amazing. I felt bad as I was there to help out my buddies in Stereo creeps and I totally sidetracked the project for a good 15 minutes because of that thing. :lol:

Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 3:04 pm
by D.o.S.
Reminds me of the Vox Teardrop.

Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 3:09 pm
by AxAxSxS
Don's was a vox. Didn't realize that was not. I gotta pay better attention. :p

Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 3:11 pm
by HeavyXIII
ShaolinLambKiller wrote:
celticelk wrote:
D.o.S. wrote:JKB has a signature 8 strang:

http://www.blakhartguitars.com/product/btk-8-pre-order


That's been making the rounds over at sevenstring. The image is a Jackson with a badly-photoshopped headstock.



yea because none of those guitars exist yet... that's why they are all pre-orders. makes sense to me. :idk:

Might as well have a mock up of the designs you are doing if you are asking for pre-orders for them.


That's hilarious. I was totally fooled when I saw those this morning! Now that someone pointed it out I don't know how I missed it.

Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 3:39 pm
by emptyparadigm
Dudebros, suggestions for locking tuners to toss on a LP? I'd prefer 'em to look like normal LP tuners, but that's not a must-have. Years ago I had Schallers on a guitar and I loved 'em, but I know they require drilling anchor holes. I'd rather have drop-in replacements, but in the end I suppose having tuning stability is what I'm really after.

Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 5:54 pm
by samzadgan
AxAxSxS wrote:Don's was a vox. Didn't realize that was not. I gotta pay better attention. :p


yeah, its really nice, you kinda forget to check the headstock! the guy is selling it for about GBP500...its really tempting, not that i can afford it right now, but if it had a bound neck, i think i would be selling some stuff to try and fund it... :picard:


finally got all my pedals for me second board...my "Death Metal" board!
The most surprising pedal is the Milkbox...for 30 pounds its a damn good compressor, low noise, a lot of sustain and a great attach and tone control. But that PS6 is a lot of fun...i gotta start learning some Death, i'm thinking Suicide Machine.

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Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 7:12 pm
by van_muddlestein
emptyparadigm wrote:Dudebros, suggestions for locking tuners to toss on a LP? I'd prefer 'em to look like normal LP tuners, but that's not a must-have. Years ago I had Schallers on a guitar and I loved 'em, but I know they require drilling anchor holes. I'd rather have drop-in replacements, but in the end I suppose having tuning stability is what I'm really after.


Schallers are honestly the best.

Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 7:43 pm
by AxAxSxS
van_muddlestein wrote:
emptyparadigm wrote:Dudebros, suggestions for locking tuners to toss on a LP? I'd prefer 'em to look like normal LP tuners, but that's not a must-have. Years ago I had Schallers on a guitar and I loved 'em, but I know they require drilling anchor holes. I'd rather have drop-in replacements, but in the end I suppose having tuning stability is what I'm really after.


Schallers are honestly the best.

Agreed, and here's an elaboration of what I was referring to earlier.

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and an article that talks about it as well as some other things.

http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/G ... n-Axe.aspx

this does help keep the string from moving. I always make sure that I have minimal wrap around the tuner as well, extra coils just allow for extra movement IMO.

Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 8:12 pm
by dazedbyday
If you want to get a cheap set of locking tuners I just picked up a set of the guitar fetish ones. I put them on my telecaster because the original fender ones were not holding up with the downtuned strings. I just did a day of tracking with the new tuners and they were super stable. No problems with tuning at all. Here are the ones for gibson 3x3: http://www.guitarfetish.com/Sperzel-Sty ... _1172.html

Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 9:28 pm
by ryan summit
thats just first one over right?
i just tried to do a minimal wrap on my samick with the trem
i got the set on there down to two around
broke a string tried to go less
fuckin didnt even make it around once
douche

Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 9:32 pm
by AxAxSxS
I go one on top, one and a half to two below. Works well for me and I kinda know by feel how much slack to start with. experimenting with old strings is a good way to tell how much play to start with.

Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 10:38 pm
by louderthangod
Why wrap the string around the post and use locking tuners? That seems to defeat the whole point of locking tuners which is speedy string changes.

Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 10:50 pm
by AxAxSxS
this is for regular tuners and the idea is you lock the string in place using the strings own tension.

Re: The Doom Room: ILF Edition

Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 12:20 am
by louderthangod
Oh, I missed that part. I was worried this was one of those myths that locking tuners were for better tuning stability because the tuner didn't turn. I was guilty of thinking that 20 or so years ago.