Teisco Reissue – 1999
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Pic from Reverb
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Ya feel lucky, punk? Well, Do Ya?
Out of curiosity I pulled my @ehx Big Muff out and checked out the circuit board – I somehow lucked out and have an EC3003-A! Stands to reason I guess, love @franofrantone (who designed it) . I actually had two Big Muffs and gave one to a friend. I picked this one because the knobs were kind of cool (the other had hockey puck, which could also be an EC3003 version). I found the e-mail from ebay when I bought it (November of 2009) – $50! The one I gave away I paid $35 for.
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Fender Limited Edition – 2016 Opal HH Jazzmaster
This is next on the “Want List” (images from Reverb)
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“Afraid? Me? A man who’s licked his weight in wild caterpillars?” ~ Groucho Marx
I’m typing up this list because I keep forgetting to document it – and after doing all the work of weighing them I want to be sure I have it for reference. (IE, when I want to buy another guitar I don’t have to try to remember how much I want it to weigh vs all my other guitars)
In order (your mileage may vary, since I outfit mine with different hardware):
Danelectro DC – 6lbs 2.5oz *
Gretsch Hot Rod (Matte Black) – 6lbs 13.2oz *
Gibson SG Special – 7lbs 7oz
Puresalem Zodiac – 7lbs 9.1oz *
DiPinto Deluxe Galaxie IV – 7lbs 15.2oz *
Dillon Moderne Copy – 7lbs 12.1oz *
DiPinto Mach 4 – 8lbs 3.5oz *
DiPinto Galaxie Silver OS- 8lbs 7.5oz *
DiPinto Galaxie Cola – 8lbs 8.8oz *
Robin Machete – 8lbs 10oz
Fender FSR Jazzmaster Opal – 8lbs 10oz
DiPinto Galaxie IV Roth – 8lbs 10.6oz *
Gretsch Red Sparkle Jet – 8lbs 10.8oz *
DiPinto Galaxie LSJ – 8lbs 11oz
Hallmark Swept Wing – 8lbs 15.5oz *
DiPinto Orbital – 9 lbs 1 oz – No Longer Own
Gretsch ’57 Jet RI – 9 lbs 3oz
Ibanez ICJ100WZ – 9lbs 5oz
DiPinto Galaxie BB – 9lbs 8.3oz *
Dipinto Galaxie Safari – Brown Ash/Mahogany – 9lbs 8oz* Weighed with a decent scale
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DiPinto – Deluxe
Photo – adkguitar.com I saw one of these a while back and regret not picking it up – DiPinto guitars are fantastically fun guitars. I’ve got my eye out for another one.
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“My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded…” – Lenny Kravitz
Okay – I don’t actually own a Jazzmaster (at least not any more – I had a Squier Jazzmaster once and traded it for something else.) I liked it, pickups weren’t as succinct as I think I wanted…or something. I’ll get another one some day, once I scrape up enough cash.
Anyway, beyond that point, I have accumulated a bunch of Jazzmaster vibrato systems – hacked out of a few guitars, and one purchased Fender unit.
I had intended to stick the Fender unit into one of my guitars, I ran across it at Tone Shop Guitars for $20 or something like that. How could I pass that up? Well, turns out that the one in my guitar is a generic unit – without the string saver button. Which means that the guitar wasn’t routed with that little nub, so I’d have to figure out some other plan.
I did some (stress “some”) research, the Fender unit that I have has some oddball screw size and the collet doesn’t match, needs a special arm, etc, etc, etc. So as I’m still interested in the benefit of a genuine Fender unit, I started figuring out which items I could transfer between the generic units and the Fender one. Turns out – not much.
The one important part that I can transfer is the pivot plate – the one that seems to be a point of contention on most of the forums that I checked out. I highlight it here:
Image courtesy of https://offset.guitars So as I ripped these tailpieces apart, I’m going to move the Fender pivot plate into my generic brand tailpiece. The Fender pivot plate is squared off, the generic is not, or not really. I took pictures and weighed for those of you who want visual proof (aka obsessives)
Fender pivot plate is on the left (1.1 oz) and the generic pivot plate is on the right (.8 oz)
Fender pivot plate 
Generic pivot plate 
And – after. It works! Do I dare string it up? Seems to work pretty well – consider it “UPGRADED” now. I even had to use the three screws off the Fender unit – the Fender pivot plate is threaded differently than the generic unit.
Ultimately not worth buying a Fender unit JUST for the pivot plate but since I had it handy it worked.
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Lazy Post from Instagram
(Not mine, not buying) but I am a sucker for a sparkle guitar. I saw Brian Bell (Weezer) playing one in Tempe so I looked it up. It's a 2001 special run for MARS (remember those?), so technically it's a MARS Explorer (!!! HAHAHAHAHA)#MARS #MARSMusic #GibsonExplorer #Explorer #gibsonguitars #sparkle
