The Friendly 12bar Blues Guitar Forum

As a start i want to wind a couple of strat Pup's. beside that i have a name in building bass guitars and CBG's so the need to made some custom wind 1. 3. 4, 5 and 6 string pups is there. I all so build some custom Mic,s for singing and blues harp made out of wood for example. So i like to be able t...

I solved the problems whit the counting :dance: After all the solution was simple, but i start building a switch that was open and closing like a camshaft. It works but when the speed was to high the counter stopped, and the noise was horrible (rattling) And then the EUREKA :think: :aha: moment was ...

No i am a hobbyist whit to much time :mercy: :mercy: To day i struggle whit 2 things 1e the counter works on a magnet from a bicycle speed meter but the counter react to slow on the impulse When the speed is slow he counts the rounds, but when speeds up (and that's is needed for winding about 70000 ...

After a period of collecting materials, reading about it, and watching You tube i stripped an old sawing machine to the bone and putting some parts together And a hugh pile of bis and peaces left :lol: The result so far http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/802/8pv8.jpg http://imagizer.imagesh...

Thanks for the compliments... You can find some more clips on our website www.chitlincrew.com press the button Muziek.

Thanks 12 bar, The guitar was much louder in real. The place of the woman who made the clip was a bit right from me and so the phone mic picked up more of the bass amp. The circumstance in that club where not optimal. The second gig in the blues club was a whole lot better ( Sound as performance ) T...

We have a try out and we receive a video clip from some body out the audience and put it on You Tube.

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Thanks Michael, The Singer an I have about 30 lyrics written over the years and the guitar player is very creative to. The goal is to be ready to get on the road the first month of 2014. The first bookers all ready found us. We hope to be booked on a couple of Dutch blues festivals, beside clubs, ba...

We are just back from a rehearse session where work out 3 lyrics to music. This one of the 3 recorded whit a cell phone. just to remember raw lines to get the ideas, so we can worked it out at home. No quality but to give you an idea how we work and develop lyrics riffs into a song. You are welcome ...

Yesterday we played a one hour gig in a Dutch blues club, together whit an other band. I am proud to tell you that it was a success. We played 9 songs we wrote and composed our self. 6 up tempo 2slow blues and a ballad. beside that we play 2 covers. Red House, and Before you accuse me, witch we do i...

I love it Viking Nice Sweet tones, and played smooth!! I am to busy whit the 4 and 5 string bass, the last year. But this make me start picked up the guitar some more.

After a relative short period of hard work and practice ( this formation started off June this year ) an writing songs Chitlin Crew is asked to play a gig on 22-11-2013 in a well known Music hall. A pretty good Dutch Band, start the evening from 20.00 till 22.00. After that we play from 22.00 until ...

Love it Viking Blues!! Maybe you must change your Nickname into Viking Delay hahaha. But this one fits you well and a jammie surfsound as well Keep them comming I could use a bit sunny stuff afther all the rain over here 100mm /m2 in 18 hours

I was surprised to But i asked it and he told me that the sender give him the choice. A send this one back and they send an other one whit out costs. B keep this one en they send an other example but he have to pay for the shipping. An that is what he have done after he ask me if i thought that i co...

I was willing to start a new build I gonna build a replica of the strat from SRV that he called Charlie A Strat whit 3 lipstick Pup's But before a could start it off a friend of my called me that had order a Chinese Gibson ( replica ) Les Paul. As he arrived the guitar was damaged. The suitcase was ...

Nice work 12 bar! We are roadies. Taxi drivers. Main Sponsors and a lot more for our kids. And finally we have the most fun out of it ( I Do!! ) Last Sunday we where asked to play live for a (intetrnet)radio station Do an interview. The live gig gonna be recorded and they promise us that they cut ou...

@ MR Hay Micheal I play some notes on that RB track indeed But that was a time ago. I am not to proud on that :mercy: No body play's like Robben Ford beside Robben Ford himself. But I has given myself a present when i became 55 years. Afther a long time ( 30 years of not playing guitar at all ) I al...

Thanks you guys for your response! :pray: The recordings are starting to be a problem now. The band is live a lot better sounding than the recording shows. We try to find a solution for that. But It is not possible to record every instrument/ cq voice on separate tracks. We use an old XP laptop and ...

Last week we signed in for a band Battle named Band Boost. This battle is for bands that play's only there own compositions. Before they accept your notification, you have to show some music. This are the four songs that we send in. You can find them on our site www.chitlincrew.com and on soundclick...

This Sunday we are able to record some more stuff and rehearse the first tracks. The settings for the recording are also much more known ad we hope it take less time to get some good stuff on the PC I want to thank you all for your response! Because it give us some idea how you guys are judge it. Th...