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My Guitars and Amps

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A Pile of Tube Amps Part of My Rack setup
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My 1966 Fender Vibrolux Reverb My recording area

My Guitars
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On the Left: My 24 fret Ibanez JS2400
On the right: My old trusty JS1200CA
My new favorite guitar is my JS2400. It does it all and plays like butter.
I still like the JS1200CA, it's still a great guitar.
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Ibanez JS2400 Ibanez JS1200CA Bastard Strat 1
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Bastard Strat 2 Ibanez Bass Tacoma Road King
 My newest Guitar and my favorite is the white Ibanez JS2400. Both humbuckers can be switched to single coils. Both pots are pull pots with switches.

 Both of the black Strats are highly modified. They have stock Fender single coil pickups in the neck and middle.
They both have a Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck full sized humbucker in the bridge position.
The humbuckers can be switched into a high powered single coil by flipping a small toggle switch below the volume control.
There is only one volume control and no tone controls on both guitars.
Both guitars also have a 500p cap soldered across the volume control so that when you turn down the volume the tone cleans up and stays bright and clear.

 The red Ibanez Bass is what I use to record the tunes. It's a cheapo Bass but it records and plays and sounds just fine.

 The Acoustic is my Tacoma Road King. It's a great sounding guitar, and it seems to get better and better sounding with age. 

You can hear these guitars in action on this page Sound clips page
05/2007 update on Bastard Strat #2 - I Made this guitar into a hybrid 7 string with only 6 strings.
I removed the fender style tremolo bar from the old Fender style bridge.
I pulled the bridge down hard to the body by adding 5 tremolo springs, no float at all on the bridge.
I then Added a .059 string where the big E string is.
I Shifted the other strings one place down the line and removed the normal high E string.
I filed the nut grooves for the bigger strings.

The string gauges are now .059w, .048w, .038w, .028w, 18, 14
It is tuned B, E, A, D, F#, B
This guitar has a mucho heavy tone now and it's a blast to use for rhythm parts.

AB763 amp project
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Update: 10/02/2007. I added a faceplate to the amp and named it Super Vibrolux
 This used to be a 1966 Deluxe Reverb chassis. I purchased the chassis and cabinet as part of a large Fender junk pile deal. The chassis had a Twin Reverb power transformer in it when I bought it and it was pretty hacked up. The cabinet was bare wood. I made a new 2 x 10 baffle board because I like the sound of 10 inch speakers in Fender type amps.
 I installed a Hoffman AB763 reverb combo circuit board in the chassis. I added a dwell control to the reverb and it has the normal reverb mix control found on all Fender AB763 combo's. It has power tube tremolo, not opto tremolo.
 I deleted channel one from the AB763 circuit board. Who uses channel one? Then I moved all the controls to the left. The controls starting from the left are ( Volume, Dwell, Mix --- Treble, Mid, Bass, Speed, Intensity )
 The baffle is a 2 x 10 speaker arrangement so this amp is now closer to a Vibrolux Reverb than a Deluxe reverb. It has a 022798 power transformer, which is the Super Reverb/Pro reverb power transformer so it has more power than a Vibrolux Reverb. It is Probably around 40 something watts.
  The output transformer is a Hoffman H50WO, these trannies are not available any more. I have a rotary impedance selector on the back so I can use different cabinets or two cabinets at once. The filter caps are all inside along the front edge, there is no cap can. I am using EH6L6 power tubes and the amp sounds very good. I have also used EH6V6's in the amp but I needed more over head for the surf tune stuff I do.
 I had Mojo re-cover the cabinet and add grille cloth to the custom 2 x 10 baffle board. The speakers are new Jensen C10Q's. I don't have a face plate for the amp because all the functions are not stock or in a stock location.
You can hear this amp on this page. Sound clips 1 page



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