Recent content by markd21

I have found that "vintage" radius necks are cool for me doing chords. I have a bigger issue with nut width, really, versus radius. Have not yet tried a Silver Sky of any level. I built this instead: It's a Warmoth parts build. * Alder body body, HSH rout * Roasted Maple...

Cool! I have great satisfaction playing SE guitars these days. Enough so that I do not miss all the Core guitars that hav long since sailed away from me.

In my early years as a player, I used to practice with no amp. Because of this my picking became very articulate and I developed a light touch. My earliest lessons (less than 10 total) were from Criss Oliva of Savatage. Those lessons were ALL about developing tone. They weren't "lessons" per...

If I get 100% true, it was Foreigner. As a tiny kid hearing them on the radio they seemed so powerful and "heavy", lol.

HAHAHAHAHA my stupid work keyboard. Most of the letters don't want to always work!! But, yes - for import pickups I find them equal to anything I'd add from SD or DiMarzio with a cover.

I bought some PRS push/pull pots and an extra 550K tone pot. A friend rewired the guitar as follows: 1. Neck volume in the first position. Down = HB, Up = Split 2. Bridge volume got moved back to the second position. Down = HB, Up = Split 3. Tone is a plain 'ole tone pot. I find this...

I use both. My number one is the 594. It happened mostly by accident. I like the DGT more, but the 594 works better for what I am doing musically right now. The shorter scale mixed with the heavy gauge strings tuned down to C# feels better for long sessions. The DGT is much more of a...

Hey....at LEAST it's innovation.

That's a great color!!! I had a McCarty with the 2 NFs once. It was VERY cool!!

Sad, but most likely the truth. The 594 is cool, and I love 'em, but I do miss the unique, forward thinking instruments of past times...

I think it would be killer if it was equipped with a squabbin 57/08 in the bridge and a narrowfield in the neck, with a 3-way toggle, and the controls in the Santana location. Give it a IRW neck, Ebony board, J-birds, highly figured tops (10+), natural binding. Make a trem version and a...

Yes, I know. I shared the Hipshot website. Dude says he doesn't want to change the buttons.... I quoted the wrong message earlier!

I'd love to have a 60s sedan deville..... https://www.highoctaneclassics.com/vehicles/537/1965-cadillac-deville

Hmmm...sorry about that. As far as I know the only locking tuners PRS makes with the cream/ivory buttons are the vintage lockers.

SWEET!! There's a busted down '58 around the corner in the lot of an abandoned motel (seriously). I have looked it over for ownership - nothing. Next time I see a sheriff around here I'll see if they can run the VIN...