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Community Events / Re: TS500

« on: July 07, 2014, 04:48:53 PM »

wow.... Yesterday was brutal, I was lucky to get over 150 frags. lol, and who the hell was the yellow banana guy sniping the lower railgun by the water????

my three top enemies that killed me a lot , didn't catch their names, but from the models they were using:

1. Banana Pajama boy
2. The red Cobra
3. The fatty Crate

Was fun and I seen a lot of names in there from years away from this game.

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/dev/random / Re: The First Car You Ever Owned

« on: August 18, 2010, 09:41:25 AM »

1984 Dodge K-car    shit brown exterior, tan interior, paid $400 for it and the thing lasted me two years with no issues, was awesome in the snow.  Sold it off because I left for the navy and didn't need it anymore.

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art, music, etc. / Re: guitars I built...

« on: July 08, 2010, 01:14:31 PM »

I like the looks of the body on the Kramer save the clear coating. I've decided my next electric is going to be some kinda unpainted natural wood without clear coating. Sure, it makes it all shiny and purty, but I think it hinders the woods tonal characteristics too. I loathe double locking trem systems too. For one, I never use it and it just gets in the way. Two, it takes longer to tune correctly. Three, it deadens the strings faster after the nut and nut locks get worn from a couple years of changing strings. I leave the nut locks OFF my Ibanez JS100 because it instantly deadens the strings and causes buzzing on the higher open strings. It's a motherbitch to keep in perfect tune that way too. I've played it death and treated it like a dog since I got in 96, so it just plain old sounds like crap now no matter what you do. Got a gash in the 12th or 13th fret under the 2nd string from where my ex dropped a ceramic tile table top on it and broke it across the neck. Stupid whore.

When I clearcoated the kramer, I only sprayed 3 very thin coats, the guitar resonates very well and you can still slightly feel the grain when you rub your fingers over it, which is the effect I wanted, just enough to protect the stain finish.

I find there are two kinds of people when it comes to floyds, those who love em and those who don't. A LOT of the "licenced" type floyds are crap. Sure, they'll stay in tune when the guitar is new, at least for a little while...., but that's where it stops after someone has used one a lot. The pivot edges wear out and cause a lot of nightmares. It's the whole reason I keep insisting on the "Original" made in GERMANY Floyd, they are tough as nails. The only Ibanez bridges that hold up to a german floyd are the original EDGE trems that you find on the higher end stuff. those bridges are awesome. Another one that deserves a lot of praise are the ones made by GOTOH. That Kramer I own is now 22 years old, it was built in 88, it was played to death by whoever owned it before me and in the last 3 years of me owning it, it still stays in tune with heavy trem use.  It's my main axe to use cuz it never let me down... ever.

Focalor, with your Ibanez JS100 buzzing like that it definitely needs a new nut. They aren't that expensive, is it top mounted or attached with screws from the back?  www.prorockgear.com has good ones made by schaller.

A lot of people get put off from them because of the extra maintenance required to keep them performing the way a floyd should. I'm a tinkerer, always will be, and don't mind the extra time to properly set one up. And they are dirt easy to tune up with the method I do it.

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art, music, etc. / Re: guitars I built...

« on: June 25, 2010, 09:22:08 AM »

mmm maple. First one looks like a modified lonestar american strat and the 2nd would be very interesting to play

not sure where the body came from, there was no company markings on it, I did find out however it's made of alder.  The neck is a Mitey Mite neck I got off ebay,  these necks need a lot of fretwork, and the nut was changed to a Tusq nut for better tone and tuning stability. Pickups.. humbucker is a Dimarzio Tone Zone, the singles are GFS Neovins. Fully shielded with copper foil inside the cavity area, Wilkinson "Easy Lock" tuners.  This guitar sounds a LOT meaner than it looks.


The Frankenstein is a beast, it sustains like a les paul, harmonics can be pulled off on any fret. Ash body, custom ordered neck, Original floyd rose bridge fom the 80's, Duncan JB humbucker and a GFS Neovin single coil. The volume pot is a push/pull type that lets me switch between the two pickups. took 3 months from start to finish. Painting and relicing this thing took up most of the time.

Kramer Focus 6000  is my main axe. Dimarzio Tone Zone humbucker and two fender noiseless singles. it was baby blue in color when I got it, stripped it all down and stained, clear coated. I still have more mods I want to do to this (brass sutain block for the floyd and some hotter single coils)

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha Look Like?

« on: June 24, 2010, 04:46:48 PM »

pic from a gig I played a couple weeks ago

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art, music, etc. / guitars I built...

« on: June 24, 2010, 04:30:23 PM »

couple guitars I built, thought you musicians would like a peak.

Partscaster: completed in may 2010





Eddie Van Halen Frankenstein: completed in March 2010





Kramer Focus 6000: this one was a rebuild. Refinished in stain and clearcoated, upgraded the pickups to Dimarzios

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tastyspleen.net / skin uploads?

« on: August 30, 2008, 05:52:16 AM »

I have some skins I created years ago that I like to use even till this day, is there a way I can get them on the TastySpleen servers?