Check out this handy flow chart to find out! Looks like I need to buy more guitars… next one with P-90s…
Category Archives: Gear
The Ultimate Home Studio Set Up?
Those is just so over the top and awesome… session guitarist Tim Pierce‘s home studio setup. Video by guitarjamzdotcom
Tour of the PRS Guitar Factory
My buddy David Wallens recently took a tour of the PRS factory in Stevensville, Maryland during their annual open house. He took a ton of great pics and wrote the whole thing up for Guitarkadia. Check it out!
Orange Micro Crush
What did you get for Christmas? My lovely girlfriend gave me this sweet little Orange Micro Crush. Looks awesome, right? Totally retro cool and portable 3 watt amp with a 4 inch speaker powered by a 9 volt battery. It also has a tuner. So how does it sound? You get a fairly clean sound if you leave it on clean and a very raunchy Orange distorted sound on Overdrive. And it does go fairly loud. All in all, it sounds a little less like a toy than my Fender Mini ’57 Twin amp but nowhere near as nice as my Yamaha THR10C (10 watts with two 3.15 inch speakers). So I’d say it’s still a toy–but an affordable, fun, portable toy and the tuner is a real plus. More pics after the jump!
Original Fuzz Guitar Strap
The guys at Original Fuzz recently sent me one of their ultra-cool guitar straps to try out. It is made of high quality cotton webbing and leather with heavy-duty stitching and metal hardware. Mine is a very classy tan color and looks great with my Inca Silver Robert Cray Strat. It is much nicer than the standard cheap nylon stuff and would make a great stocking stuffer for your guitarist pals. And if you want to go whole hog they just introduced some handwoven Peruvian straps as well. Check ’em out!
Top Ten Things You Say To Yourself When You Lose an Auction on eBay
1. Seriously?
2. I should have bid more.
3. Why didn’t I bid more?
4. The winning bidder way overpaid.
5. Damn, it would have been so cool, too.
6. I hate eBay.
7. Next time I’ll bid more.
8. Oh well, I didn’t want it anyway.
9. I’ll find something better.
10. Let’s see what’s on Craigslist.
Kurt Cobain’s Fender Mustangs
Cool little video by Fender looking at the Mustangs used by Kurt during the In Utero era. Fender opened these guitars up in order to ascertain wiring schemes and pickup configurations for the Kurt Cobain Signature Mustang guitars.
Strobel Rambler Guitar Packed and Ready
I’m heading to LA on business early next week and decided to see just how well my Strobel Rambler fit into my suitcase. When I came back from my visit to Strobel Guitars in Florida last month I transported the Rambler in the padded case that it comes with. But this time I want to take it in my suitcase, so I took it apart and tossed it in. Now, this is the small suitcase that I usually travel with and it’s less than the 45 linear inches that airlines allow for carry-on. You can see just how well and easily the Rambler fit in–lots of room left for clothing! Oh, and breaking it down was a snap–took me two minutes, tops! Stay tuned for more…
Fender Beggars Banquet Telecaster
Looks like maybe it’s meant to be displayed more than played, still, I like it. For sale at Amazon
A Visit to Strobel Guitars
Last week I traveled to Fort Lauderdale for business. I travel fairly frequently now, and you may have read the post I wrote recently on travel electric guitars. I had been torn between getting the Strobel and the Stewart, but Stewart was having availability issues. Plus, since I go to Florida fairly often, I could visit Russ’s shop up in Boca Raton as see where these cool guitars come from. So that settled that.
Russ used to travel for business a lot, too–which is how he came up with the idea for the Rambler. If you travel frequently for business, you are going to want something that will fit in your carry on, and the Rambler is one of the few guitars out there that will do that.
Russ has a small workshop in Boca Raton, Florida. He currently offers three models: the hand-built Rambler Custom which he builds himself in his shop to your specifications, the Ramber Classic, which he has built to his specifications in Asia, and the Rambler Bass. However, he is adding a “Strat” style Strobel to the mix for the single coil fans. Here he is playing the “Strat” style Rambler, and yes, it really has that true Strat squawk.
I plan to publish a more thorough review with sound clips and how the disassembly and re-assembly works. But for now enjoy more pics of his shop and guitars after the jump! Oh, and be sure to check out StrobelGuitars.com!
