Nice collection of guitars love the old Univox.What speakers are in the Marshall,G12 T 75s?
BTW now can we all make up and be friendly?To paraphrase an old Bonzo Dog Band Album title.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

I'm in!!

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My new Am Dlx is stock and will stay that way.

I guess that means the Grommet's had enough...

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My days of surfing are done, mostly because I'm 3.5 hours away from the photo's including a 1 hour ferry boat ride.
That spot is one of about 20 in a 7 by 3 mile ( island ) If that doesn't give it away as to where this is then I give up. Those twenty spots are the most consistent that break up to 10' to 12'. over that there are only a couple of points that can handle max. The last time I surfed was about 8+ years ago, I remember it well, Grace's Cove was peeling 6' to 10' lefts ( the break is a point break about 200 yards wave @ 6'+ ).
I snapped 3 boards in half that day, all borrowed from a childhood friend. It was OK, He snapped a couple of mine in prior years

A couple other places I always wanted to check out, Cronulla point as well as Burleigh Heads.
Actually crowds is what really turned me off to surfing, that and a few of my friends who just became progressively agro, ironically they were transplants and were always well received when they first appeared.

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Cool pics,not a hijack of the thread....surfing and Strats....made more sense than a lot of other stuff in this thread.

Cool, on that note I'll add my other not so Fender's from tube time...




This particular pic is a reminder of this place I lived in for a bit, total squalor, of course when you're 19, dawn patrol's were the only priority. ( No Mom and Dad were not thrilled, He'll grow out of it..He did..The part about living in a dump..That is..)
Oh Yeah...that look's like that dayglow pink wetsuit with dayglow lime green sleeve's...

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Hey...welcome to the forum...

O.K. I do not use stompies, or for that matter any effects. I'm old school as that I prefer running a smaller amp driven to max. To my ears, I have yet heard an effects box that gives you the tonality and ability to really control your sound from pick attack to string attack, those particular dynamics that can only be achieved from using a tube/valve amp driven to tears. That said my HRD has as much in the pre-gain stage that i need.

However I did in the past.
You do need to stabilize your boxes, for one unplugging and plugging them in wears the cords and their connectors very rapidly, so that you get unwanted noise and loss of signal.
Secured to a platform always plugged in will solve that problem. ( that is if you can run them without batteries, another annoyance ) straight thru into a power cord.

Were I to set up a board I would buy at Home Depot one of their small suitcase size tool boxes. 16"-18" wide by 24"-26" long by 4"- 6" thick approx. They look like a small Anvil case in the size of a briefcase, reinforced edges and corners, in bright silver or red.
Inside you could install two levels which your boxes are secured to. when you open the case, you unfold the two boards out like a sandwich or accordion and you just plug in your main in and out and power. You could use 3/4 Ply for cabinetry for the boards, solid and will outlast the next armegeddon ( hopefully that isn't your next gig.. ) HD sells it in 4' by 4' pieces or smaller. Use cabinet door hinges for attaching the boards to themselves and to the case.
I'll let you figure out how to design the whole kit.
In all this will cost you less than $50.00 total

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This has been a bizarre and interesting thread. I seem to remember it being about playing stock Strats. It's taken a life of its own and has grown in way I don't think the author ever imagined.

Tip my hat to the author for bringing us all together.

A wag of my finger to gear bashers.

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1975 Sunburst Stratocaster rosewood finger board
1979 Stratocaster with roseowood finder board
2001 Candy Green Clapton Stratocaster
2007 Andy Summers Inspired Telecaster
2007 '51 P-Bass
2012 Taylor 110
2015 Mystic Ice Blue Deluxe Stratocaster Plus

I agree, even though I'm guilty of diverting the subject.

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Getting back on the original theme, I did not see from anyone modding to a TBX tone on their strat's and what were the impressions...favorable or not

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I have two guitars with the TBX tone knob. It works pretty well. I kind of like the Grease Bucket better.

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1975 Sunburst Stratocaster rosewood finger board
1979 Stratocaster with roseowood finder board
2001 Candy Green Clapton Stratocaster
2007 Andy Summers Inspired Telecaster
2007 '51 P-Bass
2012 Taylor 110
2015 Mystic Ice Blue Deluxe Stratocaster Plus

I'm not familiar with the grease bucket, Iv'e seen it on Mike Eldred's vids but it's something I would have to go and experiment with...

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Being the 'author' I have no worries, it all comes together eventually.

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

Not a fan of the TBX at all. It doesn't operate the way it's advertized. 6-10 you go into the 1 meg side of the pot. Giving that gutless sound, though granted partially increasing the treble. Not worth the cost of the loss of character to the bass and mid frequencies.
0-4 it's a regular tone pot.
On 5 it's a strangled kind of sound.
Not really a fan of the delta tone either. Sounds harsh on 10, more so than a pickup wired straight to the volume control then to the jacksocket.

Never tried the Greasebucket.

What I am a fan of (sorry for all the previous negatives, but I'm ending on a positive) is the Bill Lawrence QFilter. Get one of them in a Telecaster and have superb control of the treble. I'm a big fan.

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