Thanks Alan, I'll give them a shout.

Hi string people,

Can anybody please recommend me a good piano mover?
I need to have a piano moved from Swellendam to Cape Town.

Recommendations would be greatly appreciated,
thanks!

Clever clever! Well done.
Think I might just copy you, in summer time though, too damn cold to do any DIY projects

What's the bass in the foreground? Is it an Italia? Looks hot.
Do you still have that JetKing? And the Hofner you were going to revamp???

Vintage Vibe wrote: Nice colour combo/purchase!

They originally came with 11's from the factory - try that with the new bridge and you'll be in love!
(they'll almost bend as easily as 10s on a Strat style guitar because of the Jag's shorter scale length)
I've installled a couple of those Mastery bridges now and they really make or break the Jazz/Jag guitars.
Ask Foster to make up a bone or Graphtech nut and you'll be overjoyed - brass is terrible ?

Have fun!

Thanks Gareth. Yip will definitely get a new nut cut as the brass one seems way too low and it's
also making all kinds of weird harmonic undertones, subtle but still annoying.
I'll never go back to the stock bridges ('cept on my AVRI Jazz I still have the stock bridge and it works fine),
it's amazing the difference it makes in sustain and overall playability/stability.
11's all the way, 10's feel like spaghetti on the short scales.

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: No, the proper nitrocellulose tortoiseshell shrinks badly (also a notorious fire hazard). The reissue tortoise is usually acrylic (and often laminated), which is nowhere near as volatile.

Here's a (slightly out of focus) close up of the tort.
It's white-black-white-tort - it's quite thick, and yellowed (colour not exactly spot on in pic).
If the originals are actually a fire hazard, then I'm glad it's a re-issue guard :-[
Were the originals only one tort layer?

Giggsy wrote:

Giggsy wrote: Stunning. Was going to say that you haven't posted in a while. And with that NGD I doubt you'll have time to post again for a while

Anyway, still have the red Wesley I got from you, albeit, very modified since then ?

Was it up on Gumtree a while ago? I had meant to ask, had some nice mods and got me thinking...
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Ye, I had to put up some gear for sale to accommodate the new Jag (was waiting for clients to pay),
but then it turned out I didn't have to sell it afterall. So now the Wesley is my humbucker guitar.

Chabenda wrote: She seems to have a re-issue scratch plate too, The tortoise shell ones shrunk like a newly weds disposable income. The patterns seemed to also be different to the re-issues. I still have the original one off my Jazzmaster - the amount of shrinkage is incredible.

Hahahaha....
It doesn't show up on the photos, but the scratchplate is quite warped on the neck side
and shrunk at the top rhythm circuit side - was wondering if that's
a standard thing with the old gear or if it was just crudely cut....but hey I'm happy with it as is ?

Chocklit_Thunda wrote: ? ? ? Are you single?? I don't even know you but I'd date you just for a chance to play that!

I'm open to bribes as well... ?

Thanks Everybody!
Always nice to share new gear with people who understand ?
Girlfirend: " But you already have 5 guitars! Why do you need another one??"

kapepper wrote: What does the neck say?
any traces of the original finish (sunburst probably)

Ronnie said he thinks it was probably a sunburst yes, as most of them were.
Took the neck off when I got it, which was 3-4 weeks ago,
neck was marked either 1Jul '63 or 1 Jun '63. No trace of the original finish in any of
the cavities though.

Giggsy wrote: Stunning. Was going to say that you haven't posted in a while. And with that NGD I doubt you'll have time to post again for a while

Ye it's been a while, but GFSA site seems to not like my net connection, or vice versa...so I kinda gave up on attempted-failed logins.
Been trying to logon since last night, and just wouldn't happen. Anyway, still have the red Wesley I got from you, albeit, very modified since
then ?

Reinhard wrote: Is it a nitro refin? If it is and you play through the finish over the coming years, you can get that cool effect of a solid colour shot over sunburst.

Not sure Reinhard, the finish seems quite thin, so maybe it is?
I hope it is! Wouldn't mind a worn finish like that strat's

I haven't posted anything in a while, thought I'd share this:

1963 Jaguar, got it from Ronnie's All Bang 'n Strum it a few weeks ago.
Was a long distance buy, so I was a bit nervous for it to arrive, but was definitely worth it in the end. (Thanks Ronnie!)
Been looking for one of these for ages.

It's a refinish, and the nut is not original, it's a brass nut (apparently fit by Syd Kitchen).
Case also not original. I like the fact that it's a refinish otherwise I'd probably be too scared to play it.
I've replaced the bridge with a Mastery bridge, as I've gotten used to them on my other offsets. (definitely worth the extra cash)
Still need to have the guitar properly set up by Foster vd Merwe.

It plays very smoothly as is and the pick-ups are awesome, I've got Novaks on my Japanese Jag and
I thought those were nice pickups, but the '63 pickups have something extra special to it... fuzz sounds
amazing through these.

Anyway, enough talk, here's the visuals ---- >>>>


ps: thanks fellow guitar geeks, I wouldn't have known about Ronnie's if it wasn't for this site.

Full Jack White concert, directed by non other than mr Gary Oldman.

He's backed by his all-girl band for the 1st half of the show and 2nd half his all-guy band.
Features songs off his latest album and a few White Stripes tracks thrown in too.

Great concert!
Well worth a watch, if your connection can handle it.

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Nice gear! I envy you with so many options over there...

The Mastery Bridge is definitely worth the extra money, got one on both my JM and Jag.
Makes for better sustain and sound in general. Made both my guitars come alive.

And stability - impossible for strings to slip off the bridge posts, unlike the temperamental
traditional JM bridge. It does take away a little bit of the rocking motion on the tremolo,
but not all of it.

www.allmusic.com - quite comprehensive and broad in terms of genre

I've owned both. You can get some nice sounds from a Valvetronix,
but yes it's not a full valve amp, and besides that they tend to be quite buggy.
The onboard effects (delay, tremolo, wah, etc) on my old one used to just randomly
switch itself on and off...not cool if you're doing live gigs ? (which I luckily wasn't).

The AC15 is great, but the one I had didn't like to take pedals. Also it's damn heavy.
I reckon if you want to travel light and you're going to mic it up anyways, go for something smaller
like the Vox Lil Night Train (2 Watt) or a Vox AC4 (5Watt). They are plenty loud and easy to
lug around as they are small and they sound decent enough mic'ed up.

DAMN!! That Firebird is one fine specimen :bopping:

Cheers for the link!
A good watch.

Nice seeing a different kind of list to the usual suspects.
Some people that maybe need to be on that list though:
- Joey Santiago (Pixies)
- Jeff Parker (Tortoise)
- Jon Spencer/Judah Bauer (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion)




looks a bit like mr Singemonkey ?

PJ Harvey
Beth Gibbons (Portishead)
Bjork
Annie Clark (St Vincent)
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Billie Holiday

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Happy birthday simian rocker ?arty:

A little feel good tune for the day:

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- You See Me Laughin' (2002) - about the last great North Mississippi bluesmen and label Fat Possum Records (label that Black Keys started out on) that struggles to record them featuring, R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough (Black Keys covered some of his songs) - A must see
- The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (2009)
- U2 - From the Sky Down (a look at recording the Achtung Baby album, by same director that did It Might Get Loud))
- Pearl Jam 20





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