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The Sound City never broke up... Speakers would, but the amp never did. I had a home-brew tube preamp at the time. Tube preamp>Chorus Echo> directout>Orange ... Echo out>Sound City. The chorus panned between the two, reverb and echo just to the one side. We should start and "Old Gear" thread...


OT. I was playing one or the other of the two guitars I posted earlier in this thread through this setup.

 

well if it's the same circuitry than the HIWATT and the 120 stands for 120 watts, then I understand how that would never break up. Did it never break up even with everything at 10? I remember my custom 100 would break up a bit (like a decent rock tone, not full gain like a 5150 or something), but it was wayyyyy to loud to be useable. It was ridiculous. I even feel that way about my YBA sometimes. I bought a mass attenuator for it, but it sucked all the tone out of it. I hated that thing and got rid of it.

I'd like to fiddle around with a 50W version of the Hiwatt or Sound City one of these days. Maybe change the preamp tubes for something that will scream more...

That being said, Here's a picture of my LP sudio with the broken neck which was fixed 5 times. Do you guys think anything could be done at this point without changing the whole neck? I was actually considering just bolting it. To hell with aesthetics. Ultimately I would put in that 57' and keep that guitar for playing the blues...

 

Ty's gonna be the more expert on this but I'd say you could double-spline it in place..
basicaly, two narrow slots, 3-4" long (roughly) are gouged out parallel to the neck and intersecting the break. Splints of wood (with the proper grain orientation) are then glued into the slots, the repair usually being stronger than the original

 

but those ARE double splints!

 

That may be what has already been done here... Note the two parallel cracked portions going up into the headstock. Those are probably the splines from the old repair.

Truthfully, anything is repairable but Gibson would stick a new neck on there if you sent it to them. If I were to repair that I would have to replace the old splines and then probably dowel it, but there's so little original wood left at that point it may not break but there wouldn't be much in the way of sound/vibration transmission... You see why Gibson would replace it.

 

and a neck is like 400$ + ... f- that!

I guess I'll have my welder/machinist friend make me a brace for it.

 

Yeah they didn't do it right, too fat and too short...otherwise what Ty said.

Sometimes you gotta just give up on them busted up old fiddles ya know...

 

ughhh, yuck, eww! a nylon string with a cutaway? Firstly, taylor is a steel string manufacturer that JUST SO HAPPENS to also make nylon guitars... Ramirez is king, i play a ramirez R4 and for $3000 it plays, sounds, and is as loud as some guitars that cost $7000

 

HAHA, good one... thats def one of the ugliest GSO's I've ever seen.

 

If all goes well I'm getting a 1974 V4 tomorrow. awwwwwwwwww yeah

 

woah, awesome, but thats a bass amp. Nice try, though!

 

Well actually there's the V4B which was a bass amp and there was the V4 that was used for guitars. Some bassists prefer using the V4 over the V4B. Both have been widely used for both guitar and bass. If you are interested in being arrogant, at least get your facts straight! Welcome to the forums, champ!

 

oh, now see, i didn't know that. I've only ever used good amps that are built for a specific purpose. Ha! I'm just grinding your gears, mate. All things vintage are cool... I haven't even seriously played electric guitar in about 6 years.

 

Haha I know I'm just being hard on the new guy.
That being said though, I don't necessarly agree that all things vintage are cool. There seems to be this trend nowadays where people just want vintage stuff and are willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money for it. I remember this kid I used to record had this old crappy harmony guitar, which was falling apart, and sounded like CRAP. He thought it was the best thing ever though. ''dude this is from the 60's!!! what are you talking about it sounds flat?''

Ended up using my chinese made guild for his recordings. Made in 2008, sounds a million times better than that old piece of junk haha.

 

well, youre right in that shitty gear is shitty gear. I don't even consider shitty gear, well, gear. I was referring to the gear that we already know is awesome and just so happens to be vintage. I would take an early 70s hard tail strat over any new fender guitar.

 

my 1934 Gibson L5.

 

My cheap-ass beater Johnson acoustic. Payed around $175.00 for it new. Great guitar for tossing in the back seat and playing around campfires.

 

Whats going on with your middle strings there?

 

Looks like all the strings are pulled to the side of the nut, and not in the grooves... Maybe some work was being done?