River

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  1. How long til PC now? lol, I'm thinking maybe april fools day.
  2. This become a River guitar yesterday. I wanted something with a floyd rose style bridge to beat on live. http://imgur.com/a/zfCZi
  3. Totally my thing! I do make it up that way every now n then. About to do some traveling here in a bit. Pretty much anywhere away from the masses where things are forgotten or falling apart = fun for photography. That was my ex gf in the pics btw lol.
  4. Here's a link to an album of photos mostly from Ohio that I took. http://imgur.com/a/TgIXA
  5. Heres a couple more pics of that RG550. (i play it live more than any other guitar! stays in tune better than any other is why haha) http://imgur.com/a/CX1kF
  6. One of the guitars i play the most live I bought for 75 bucks used at a pawn store. It was spray painted completely green when i got it lol. (over the frets and shit too! was nasty!! It's that 1984 Ibanez RG550. I painted it a long time ago right after i bought it. (has a black crackle paint on it now with smeared colors underneath the crackle, mirror pickguard)
  7. Thanks man! Yeah there's no way I'd everrrrr sell that guitar. I've owned it for a really long time. I broke it many years ago and kept it broken for like 10 years in a case? Started fixing it a little at a time and finally got done haha. I get attached to guitars for sure. If I really like one its staying with me forever. That said ive sold a lot also when I get one and dont like it for whatever reason. That sounds cool for your customization ideas. I pretty much fuck up every guitar i own eventually so I dont think about it like its a perm thing. Its like a tool to do shit with! I've broken a few hammers also haha. (but ive never repaired a hammer!!! but a few guitars lol)
  8. Our old guitarist Michael White did the cover artwork. We've had a few different gas mask style logos before. I like to mess around in photoshop sometimes but havent had a lot of time lately to play with it!
  9. Nice man! Loooking like a new guitar there. Yeah I did it myself. I first did a dip style swirl paint job on it with B/W then masked off the front and painted the back black. The other artwork I drew on there with sharpies then put like 2 clear coats and then sanded etc and over the artwork I masked around with tape and sprayed some really good glow n the dark paints so that all of the artwork glows in the dark. It actually turned out really well! I put a lot of clear coats on it after that and did a lot of wet sanding etc to smoooooooooove that biotch. When I got done i drilled out the volume pots and shit. I ended up doing a custom layout instead of the default/stock one more to my preferences since I had to repair that part of the guitar lol. (two volume knobs and switch, no tone!!!) Also I like placing them slightly dif than the original was so that part turned out really cool. All in all I really like it better now after the repairs than before lol.
  10. Here's a link to one of my bands album on amazon if anyone wants to check it out! http://www.amazon.com/Breathe-Again-Downside/dp/B00JJC5KEG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421112958
  11. Not sure if I posted this before. This is a pic of me and my buddy Alexander fresh after jammin some. (im the tall one!)
  12. Got a new PC about a month ago or so. i-7 chip 4770 with 16 gig ddr3 ram and a gtx 970 card. Been pretty tits so far! Looking forward to GTA5 PC!!!! I think I'll jizz when it arrives (its pre-ordered)
  13. What goes with a glow n the dark guitar? Glow n the dark picks!
  14. Cool man, which guitar you play the most and why?
  15. Those bigsby bridges are so old school! I bet its really hard to keep it in tune with any real use. (even most strats suck unless you lube the fuck outta the nut and stretch your strings well etc) I love whammy bars, but i hate breaking a string with one of those guitars live. It means change guitars as fast as you can because there is no playing it thru until end of song haha. I love stop tail piece guitars for sustain and tone better as well. I swear by that old RG550 I have for staying in tune and all the bridge parts staying free of fail since its all original parts even still (even the screws on the nuts arent stripped still!) I bought the guitar second hand at a pawn store it was all spray painted and a sloppy job so I cleaned it up and repainted it. Love that guitar! I've had it for maybe 12 years now. (the RG550)
  16. Yeah they are really high output too compared to the PAF for sure. I like having the varied tone like that. Even with lower output pickups like on the les paul (mine has the 56 classics) i usually keep the volume knob on the neck pickup a little lower (at around 6 or so) for that style tone.
  17. Those epis are still nice man! I had one for a while that had a decent top on it and it played pretty well. I ended up selling it to a buddy of mine because he really fell in love with it. I think it may have been made out of poplar (the body) with the maple top where the gibsons have mahogany. The old ones were solid, but they started chambering them (leaving a small gap inside so it has a chamber) in 2004 in some models and almost all models now. Mines a 2006 and was one of those guitar of the week releases when they were doing the reissues. (they call it a custom classic) I hadent played the explorer in a long ass time because it was broken for many years. (body broke) So I'm really happy to have that thing up and going again. It still plays amazing and sounds great with the new pickups. I replaced the factory ones with a pearly gates in the bridge and a PAF classic in the neck.
  18. Thanks King of Spades! My fav is definitely the Les Paul. However, when it comes to playing live shows I hardly use it for fear of beating it up really bad. (its 1 of 400 made like it) I mostly play that old 1986 Ibanez RG550 live. It stays in tune GREAT and takes a beating like none of my other guitars. My second favorite to play as far as tone and sound would probably be the SG. (i have a few more guitars, those are the ones i record/play with most often!)
  19. Put a humbucker (tony iommi) pickup in my strat this afternoon and wired up that explorer.
  20. I ordered a standard Gibson one. I thought about getting something special or engraved but just didnt find anything that looked right. (standard black 3 ply)
  21. It lives again!!! All done and playing. (truss rod cover is on the way)