Check out my custom made Marshall amp, and the construction process by clicking HERE.
GEAR LIST
Deluxe American Stratocaster
This is such a great guitar- I've modded mine out with graphite saddles, locking tuners, a roller nut, vintage noiseless single coil pickups in the neck and middle positions and a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails in the bridge position.
I can get so many different vibes out of this guitar, and the neck is just so damn fast.
American Standard Stratocaster
I recently sold my modded-out Epiphone Les Paul Deluxe and put the money I made on it towards a brand-new American Standard Stratocaster. I love this guitar, it's my new main axe, so I can rest my Deluxe Strat and it's nitro finish some nights!
Of course, my neurosis over 60-cycle hum caused me to replace the pickups with Fender Samarium Colbalt Noiseless, which are tuned just a little different than the Vintage Noiseless that I have on my Deluxe; they bite a little harder and sound a bit fuller to my ears.
I also added a custom neckplate to this gorgeous guitar that I designed personally in Adobe Illustrator- check it out!
Road Worn Telecaster
The Road Worn series takes a recreation of classic 50's and 60's instruments, complete with era-correct appointments, and beats the hell out of it to replicate a long-used instrument.
I took this one, replaced the pickups with Samarian Cobalt Noiseless Tele Pickups (I can't stand 60 cycle hum) and replaced the saddles with Graphtech graphite saddles. The neck on this guitar is butter, and it gets every bit of resonance out of its nitro finish.
Gibson SG Special
A great sounding older-model SG with a very wide, but fast neck, I bought this little baby with mods already made to it.
Equipped with Seymour Duncan SM-1 Mini Humbuckers, it's got a very classic rock sound.
I'll probably replace the stock tuners and the nut as this little Gibby has some trouble staying in tune- but that aside, this thing sings!
Epiphone Dot Deluxe
Bought as a guitar to completely mod out, this thing now sounds much closer to a Gibson 335 than even I thought was possible. I replaced virtually everything on this axe- I added a Graph-tech bridge with graphite saddles, all new electronics, a Seymour Duncan Classic '59 in the neck and a JB in the bridge, a bone nut and Planet Waves auto-trim locking tuning machines.
Marshall DSL 401 JCM2000 Custom
Picked this amp up as a combo junker, and through a combination of having it fixed by a pro and through my tinkering, turned it into a fantastic custom amp head.
It originally had a fading issue that was related to overheating- so I had a tech go over the electronics to make sure the connections were fine. After fixing some stuff, I had it returned for minimal cost, which is when I went to work.
I replaced the tubes with Groove Tubes, created a custom made heat sink for the bridge rectifier to cool it, added two computer fans to pull hot air out of the cabinet and finally took it out of it's original combo housing, building a custom made head enclosure for it.
To check out the process I took to turn a combo amp into a head, click HERE.
Egnator Rebel 30 w/ an Avatar 112
Picked this up on a whim and it's now my everyday amp setup. The Egnator has some great stock tone which I upgraded a bit by replacing the 12AX7WA tube that handles the overdrive channel with a 12AX7WB- makes it a bit more Marshall sounding, less polite.
The amp itself is already equipped with 6V6 and EL84 tubes, which are mixable, so you can get a very Fender sound AND a close Marshall tone. Great little versitle amp- and it's rediculously light too!
The cab is a closed-back Avatar 112 with a broken in Vintage 30. Great power, great tone.
Fender Bandmaster Modern Vintage 212
I replaced the silver grill with a wheat-colored one, and have designs to replace at least one of the stock speakers with a Celestion G12H30 or a Vintage 30. It looks as sweet as it sounds, though.
From left to right, top to bottom: MXR Carbon Copy, Fulltone OCD, TC Helicon Harmony-G, channel selectors, Digitech EX-7 Expression Factory, Carl Martin PlexiTone, Whirlwind Orange Phaser, Keeley Modified TS9 Tube Screamer, MXR Dyna Comp, Mod Tone Funk Filter Enveloper, and a TC Electronic Polytune all on a Pedaltrain board powered by a Voodoo Labs Power Plus 2.
Of course, my neurosis over 60-cycle hum caused me to replace the pickups with Fender Samarium Colbalt Noiseless, which are tuned just a little different than the Vintage Noiseless that I have on my Deluxe; they bite a little harder and sound a bit fuller to my ears.
