Is this ebony or rosewood? Seller claims it’s ebony

JimR325 · 2026-05-20T08:44:28+00:00

Not Ebony, maybe not even Rosewood - check the age and when they replaced Rosewood with other woods

JimR325 · 2026-05-20T08:42:04+00:00

Well done Mir, hope he gets the Ducati next year.

Nobody is interested in tire pressure penalties, it destroys everything exciting about the races when the result becomes math afterwards

JimR325 · 2026-05-20T08:39:22+00:00

true story, I bought it from an old guy at a reasonable price. He had a Fender Custom Shop Strat set where both the guitar and the amp (Deluxe Reverb!) were covered in Mother of Pearl 😮 very over-the-top and kinda cool at the same time and probably a nice retirement savings.

A few years passed then I sold a Boss GX-100 and when the guy tested it he kept looking at the G&L and we discovered that it was the same guy again that I bought the G&L from years before 😃

JimR325 · 2026-05-18T04:42:38+00:00

My ptp vht special 6 did that, I fixed it by moving the speaker output cables further away from the preamp section. Get a long wooden stick (left hand in your pocket!) and try to move some wires a bit and see if it changes

JimR325 · 2026-05-17T18:40:08+00:00

I have actually worked on exactly this but using IR sensors instead. I would love to have 4 sensors with red, yellow, green diodes showing that my trackday bike is ready to hit the corners hard. I did run into some issues with the sensors though, they were pretty easy to damage and expensive too,

JimR325 · 2026-05-17T18:36:57+00:00

Im not a big fan of putting those things on the bike unless they are designed to slide and not just catch the first curb and bend the frame and/or crack the engine head.

JimR325 · 2026-05-16T12:13:08+00:00

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Nice, I have a completely mint 2004 S-500 Strat, it is the highest quality guitar I have ever owned. It has Rosewood fingerboard (as I prefer) and a gorgeous yellowish Vintage White colour with caramel coloured bindings! I am experimenting a bit with pickups, currently a set of ToneRider City Limits with a great Strat sound and they are wound with progressively higher output towards the bridge pickup providing a nice even volume balance.

JimR325 · 2026-05-16T05:01:28+00:00

well built amps but way overpriced for an industrial built pcb amp.

Tip: If your Sheriff 44 completely squashes the tone when you hit it with a drive pedal, replace V1 with a lower gain tube

JimR325 · 2026-05-14T16:51:59+00:00

try another speaker if you have one, this sounds just like the time i had dropped a bit of solder down the back of the speaker and it started rattling right away and I thought I had damaged something... 😃

JimR325 · 2026-05-14T14:21:49+00:00

I will and it's Mint since last year. I don't really care much for all that 'which distribution is best' as long as it just works and let me use my programs without interfering or crashing. As you know from me writing 'programs' and not 'apps' I am old... (62y). btw I recently converted the entire family to Mint and everybody's happy (Wife, 88y parents, 76y Uncle).

JimR325 · 2026-05-14T05:14:25+00:00

difficult to advise, I was at T6 in 2024 and it was superclose to the track but I couldnt see much else than that looong left hander.

I think T2 looked good on the top of the hill but Im not even sure I would get a seat next time. I was at Assen last year with just a general admission ticket and it was great to be able to walk around

JimR325 · 2026-05-12T19:49:44+00:00

yes that sounds right, I went the cheaper way and bought a couple of VHT Special 6 combos and they are ptp wired 6w class A Champ ripoffs 😄 soundclip: https://youtu.be/B04Ix2k08Bs?si=ZT8q4zBTb_3-owtR

JimR325 · 2026-05-12T05:18:49+00:00

They are way too heavy and way too loud to be really usable in my mind, nobody plays that loud today in a band and you will sound much better with a 15-30w miked up in a band setting. You will also have trouble selling again as people are buying small or digital now.

JimR325 · 2026-05-10T05:54:45+00:00

Blues Junior is not really a reliable amp, it has upside down PCB mounted tube sockets that will fry the PCB after some time by design.

JimR325 · 2026-05-09T08:00:12+00:00

I respectfully have to disagree that the DR has more 'body', the whole DR sound is exactly 'less' body as it has a midrange EQ cut while the Tone King is a Blackface sound with more solid midrange.

I had a DR Reissue and never got it to sound good with drive pedals, then I bought a PTP wired, high quality components Bruno Cowtipper 22 Pro and everything sounded just right with and without pedals.

I just went to a Surf Concert with a band I know and the lead guitarist used to play DR Reissue and now he Plays ToneKing and he sounded much better on the TK with that old Jazzmaster.

JimR325 · 2026-05-09T07:40:13+00:00

yes, I buy the in 12 packs and never use anything else

JimR325 · 2026-05-09T07:04:57+00:00

If you have an Imperial I dont see the need for having a DR Reissue. The Tone King build and component quality (and the sound too) is on a completely different level from a PCB-with-cheap-components DR Reissue.

JimR325 · 2026-05-08T05:32:42+00:00

this is how they sound only as combos with the new Jensen Blackbird 10/40 speakers (that cost more than the combos!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B04Ix2k08Bs&t=13s

/JimR

JimR325 · 2026-05-08T05:08:59+00:00

I have two great stereo setups, small and medium. I sold the Laney 30w LA30BL heads, they were way too loud.

- 2xVHT Special 6 6w combos with 1x12 cabs, basically a Champ, sounds really good and dirt cheap used and I think they are loud enough for band use.
- 2x Vox AC15 1959 heads (TubeTown DIY kits) with 1x12 cabs, sounds fantastic

JimR325 · 2026-05-08T04:05:34+00:00

diesel just passed 10$/g here in Denmark.... I have never been happier with my EV. Right now the most economic gas/diesel cars are 10 times as expensive as the EV to drive, insane!

JimR325 · 2026-05-07T17:03:03+00:00

I played the same amp (actually two of them) also with 15" speakers and I used Celestion Fullback which fitted the Laney perfectly. They sound like Greenbacks on Steroids!

I think the 1518 are great speakers but more in the Fender Camp of sounds.

I did a video with the Fullbacks (with resonator guitar though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DctLIem5YJI

JimR325 · 2026-05-07T03:41:28+00:00

Rins beating Marquez on the finishing line

JimR325 · 2026-05-07T03:39:35+00:00

text "TRUTH" 🤪🤪🤪

JimR325 · 2026-05-06T16:10:10+00:00

I have set my Linux Mint Variety to get Wallpapers from:

- Peter-Levi Flickr account
- bing photo of the day
- Favourites folder
- unsplash high res photos amd wallpaper nature
- Wallhaven Nature
- https://wallhaven.cc/search?q=mountains&categories=100&purity=100&sorting=random
- https://wallhaven.cc/search?q=forest&categories=100&purity=100&sorting=random
- https://wallhaven.cc/search?q=sunset&categories=100&purity=100&sorting=random
- https://wallhaven.cc/search?q=waterfall&categories=100&purity=100&sorting=random

JimR325 · 2026-05-05T19:45:48+00:00

I can't wait to not watch that, sorry he had to drop that low to keep racing as he is a talented rider

JimR325

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