The Friendly 12bar Blues Guitar Forum

:welcome: to 12bar redrooster. The site should have someone from the country that won the world cup. Liking the blues came a lot later to me than 19 years old - I wasted a lot of years - good thing you've picked up on it so early - gives you a good chance of getting really good. Nice to see the ment...

Nice hardtail there. I like the colour combination with the scratchplate and the body too. Nice change from the solid colour body with white scratchplate.

Would you agree with weelie that you get a stratty sound still with the hardtail?

As far as a tremelo goes, I have no reccomendation. I put a Schecter (I think) floating trem on my Strat years ago. Took a bit of doing, as a standard Strat trem cavity won't fit a floating trem (at least this one) and it took some routing with a dremel tool to accomplish it. After a few weeks, I d...

Thats very good HBL - I like the multi layered arrangement with the different instruments playing off each other, and the way you can play the guitar synth in a way that suits the instrument it's imitating. And the icing on the cake is we still get the real (I assume) Tokai Strat as well. It sounds ...

I suppose Jeff Beck uses the trem quite a bit too. But then I'm not going to be able to sound like him anyway - no-one else does. I take your point there Strummer and it's difficult to argue with it, BUT ... the question within the question is:- Does a hard tailed strat with no trhough and back cavi...

Uh-oh, it's him again. Run for the hills. :away: I remember in the past when looking at maybe buying a strat type of guitar I felt swamped by the number of permutations. I now find in looking for ideas for a best way to self build there are also more options than I expected. :wall: This is quite con...

hanks weelie. You're all giving me plenty to think about - it's great to get good and informed opinion like this. Having researched more I'm less against the idea of basswood - I believe it is not a million miles from Alder - the main difference being more mids and a bit less high end treble. As I l...

Soooo ... deep breath. I've never had to try to respond to as many posts as this at once, but here goes. :D Several "go for it" and "do it" comments make it pretty clear the concept is a good one - thank you all for the encouragement, and the time you've taken to help with your a...

Wow - what a huge bunch of replies - thanks guys :thumbsup: - I don't have time to read through them at the moment, just a quick 60 seconds at work here, but I'll read / reply tonight. Another query though - anyone know about the quality of pickups, potentiometers, switch and jack socket from a 2000...

We were beginning to think no one had ever heard of these guitars. I had been waiting a while in case anyone that knew the guitar first hand could reply. Edinburgh is quite limited in guitar choice for new guitars (not even any Tokai for example) and I've never seen a Michael Kelly guitar - it's qu...

I knew this would happen - the guitar building "bug" is starting to gibber quietly at the back of my brain. I suspect I will end up doing yet another project guitar before long. If so it'll be a long slow job though - buy a bit and pay for it before getting the next bit. :sad: I would be V...

Sorry - I haven't tried one so I have no personal experience of them - there's a few reviews on-line - a bit mixed but that's usual. Most sites seem to be showing it as discontinued. It's how it feels and sound to you that's the really important thing. It looks a nice guitar to me, but I find my cri...

This evening I finaly could stand the temp in my room so I recorded a rather quick one, in a style not quite in my comfort zone, but I tend to like it just a little. So who knows it was fun to do :lefty: Here it is... hbl or not to hbl Ahhhh - I enjoyed that. :clap: :clap: It's good to hear a guita...

:beer: Well.... it's all over but the beer drinkin'. It was a real tight game... shows how well matched the two teams were! :alright: To Germany and Netherlands but second and third in the World ain't all that bad :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Congrats to Spain on your win. Golfxzq has put it so well so I'...

Thank you my friends from New Mexico and Texas. I'm grateful for your comments and appreciate your given this a listen. :thumbsup: It's nothing special BUT I've been trying to play my way out of the musical doldrums today and i think the "Short Drum BT Blues" has helped me out of it. I've ...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - that feels better. :banana: Just a quick drum track put together in Mixcraft software. Then me on Bass (Vintage AV4), Rhythm (Vintage Tele Reissue V") and Lead (Hagstrom Viking Deluxe). Just a couple of takes for each. Not quite a proper 12 bar, but only a slight variati...

I will be interested to hear your comments - I had another listen this morning to my attempt - the tuning doesn't sound AS bad as it did yesterday, but now it sounds too ponderous & leaden. :yikes: Hi VB. I like what I heard, lots of nice blues licks in there. I didn't hear anything that indica...

VB - I think both versions have their strong points. But I think I prefer the first version better because: * I like the murkier, funky tone better in the first version. * The first version seems to continue the feel of the harp part better. * The second version has too many VB-isms. I like the sty...

Here goes. :yikes: Attempt number 38,654! :wall: :wall: http://12bar.de/community/download/file.php?id=161 I think it is now a bit better than my last go BUT I really don't mind which might be preferred - I think I would also now like to forget. I'm just not firing on all cylinders at the moment. :a...

Hi VB. I like what I heard, lots of nice blues licks in there. I didn't hear anything that indicated some tuning discrepancy. :icon_whoknows: I did hear something toward the end of your solo that stood out, I'm not sure what that really was, I'll have to take another listen....Unfortunately, it did...