TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Oct 01, 2025 7:58 pm

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Mon Sep 29, 2025 6:19 pm

TylerDeadPine wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 10:59 am Right on that sounds nasty. Does your other guitar player have a Powers Electric?!

Yo! This is one of my bands, BLANK BANKER.

Since this was a "fly-in" deal for 60% of the band, we used a bunch of gear that the Montano contingent owns. Orion (lead singer/guitarman) has a nice amount of guitars and after some sampling while practicing, Andy (other guitarman) landed on O's Powers "Type A" for this run of gigs. He's usually a Jazzmaster guy, which is 100% of what he's playing on the record linked above. The Powers is nice! It's expensive!

That it is! I didn't expect to see it in more 'diy' type circles. I CAN say that every single part of it save for like, the tuners & pots are made in our shop (the pickups, all the vibrato parts, even the knobs). I'm technically 'part' of it ,but I don't do much on it except help spec parts, sign documents ... boring parts.

Damn! Those are sharp.

Guitarist from my band played his Century guitar when we played with Blank Banker last month. I think he ended up putting EGC humbuckers in it at some point and getting it refinished by a random guy he met in line at a Sherwin-Williams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2FsG6vTNcA

I'll get pics of #35 (tb500) and #36 (tb1000) up tomorrow. Josh's Century #7 does sound really good in that video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWABjrkzEG8

chambering the neck on #36 in this quick video.

#35 is nearing the finish line. This week I got the fretwork, drilling and tapping done. Next is finalizing the pickguard shape and getting things polished. #36 was mostly being machined this week. Now moving on to shaping the neck. I hope to also get a lot of the rough woodworking done on the body. I spent a big part of the week rebuilding this old Valley Arts bass. The electronics were chopped up and the scarf joint on the neck had failed. I got some footage of the process and will put that on youtube at some point. While I dislike active electronics from a tone perspective, man was the EMG-X Frank Bello pickup set a breeze to install. Let me know if someone needs it.

Marcus from MR Guitar Service, back with some stories and some wise words about being on the road.

Before I did my first major headliner tech gig I called Marcus and asked for every last bit of advice he could give me. It included a 'throw and go' with a rented backline-which are some of the most difficult situations. He talked me thru what to expect from crew, stage hands, talent and dealing with being on a work visa for border crossings. We've since been able to debrief and commiserate about all getting struck on a loading dock during a riot or assholes putting full energy drinks down on stage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM5QhwXxhAM

Wrapped up #35 and #36

and also new episode- rebuilding a kinda fancy Valley Arts bass that I picked up a couple weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y20nNH8JjqA

#34 demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ofxifz08yY

Looking good, Chris. I'm going through the backlog thumbsing you up.

andyman wrote: Fri Oct 24, 2025 3:32 pm So glad to see some demos. It sounds absolutely killer.

Also what's that beta clone pedal?

Dan has built a couple hundred different pedals of all sorts- some useful, some not. One that we're using for the Bass VI setup is a clone of the Sunn Beta Bass preamp section- fed into a quilter bass block power section.