What Did You Do With Your Guitar(s) Today?

Today? Nothing so far, but tonight I've got a rehearsal with one of the bands I play with that is breaking in a new drummer.

Yesterday I went in to Manhattan and did a 6 hour rehearsal for a show I'm doing at the end of the month, which is a night of Soundgarden and Alice in Chains! The other guitar player and I are playing both sets, but we're using different rhythm sections for each set and there will be several guest singers.

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This is the fourth show I'll be doing with the F Bomb collective - I did a Bowie night last year, and a Guns N' Roses night and a 70s 'AM Gold' night 2 years ago. These shows are a lot of fun, and this one coming up is pretty challenging - but the first rehearsal sounded real good. We've got one more rehearsal next week, and then the show on the 24th. Really looking forward to this one.
 
makeitstop said:
Today? Nothing so far, but tonight I've got a rehearsal with one of the bands I play with that is breaking in a new drummer.

Yesterday I went in to Manhattan and did a 6 hour rehearsal for a show I'm doing at the end of the month, which is a night of Soundgarden and Alice in Chains! The other guitar player and I are playing both sets, but we're using different rhythm sections for each set and there will be several guest singers.

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This is the fourth show I'll be doing with the F Bomb collective - I did a Bowie night last year, and a Guns N' Roses night and a 70s 'AM Gold' night 2 years ago. These shows are a lot of fun, and this one coming up is pretty challenging - but the first rehearsal sounded real good. We've got one more rehearsal next week, and then the show on the 24th. Really looking forward to this one.
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Sweet! That sounds like a total blast! :cheers

How many axes are you having to take to nail all them whacked out Soundgarden tunings? :idk
 
la szum said:
Sweet! That sounds like a total blast! :cheers

How many axes are you having to take to nail all them whacked out Soundgarden tunings? :idk
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Only three, surprisingly - and one of them is tuned to Eb for the Alice in chains stuff, so I'm doing all the Soundgarden on two guitars!

Most of Soundgarden's stuff is either in standard tuning or Drop D. The only song that I had to bring for a weird tuning was for 'Burden in my Hand,' which is tuned to CGCGGE. 'Pretty Noose' also uses that tuning, but I worked it out with standard tuning and the other guitar player plays it in the lower tuning. Sounds big.

'The Day I tried to Live' is tuned to EEBBBE, but again, I worked it out in Drop D.
 
First steps into "Foxey Lady". Added the Arbiter® FuzzFace to get a bit closer to the sound. I find the high E a bit out of place for some reason. But I am not out of tune.. so maybe it is what it is.

It's a good practice song, especially since one string wrong..and you F it all up.
 
It was a productive weekend in the studio, I managed to re-work that older song into something I don’t hate. Turned into a kitchen sink production, having a clean studio where things aren’t a pain in the ass to setup in a short amount of time definitely aids in that. There’s real amps into a load box, real amps into real cabs, the AxeFX, AxeFX into real cabs, acoustic stuff, Strats, Les Pauls, DADGAD and standard tunings, definitely not my normal metal stuff by any stretch.
 
Along the watchtower. I am really bad at those embellishments. Making bar chords has been no problem for some time now and to be in that triad way of doing bar chords is cool to have pinky and ring finger "unlocked", but man i've got a lot to learn in that department!!

It also feels really good to be released of my GAS. I can honestly say I don't feel the need to buy anything at the moment. You guys kicked that out of me. :rofl

Injury Beat Up GIF by euphoria
 
I didnt do anything with guitars. my fretting finger got bruised for no reason then swell up….. wtf?

I didnt hit or dropped anything on it and i have not been drunk not to remember… lol
 
I have a set of Bare Knuckle PG Blues in my SG. I wanted more output in the bridge position so I swapped a Holy Diver in. This went from a 7.9k Alnico 2 to a 15.9k Alnico 5.

It seems to work very well with the reverse wound PG Blues neck pickup. I’m well pleased with this swap.

I also was holding the soldering iron when moving a wire into place and burned a nice little hole in the nitro finish. 😂
 
Played with my pedalboard rig through my Fender amp. Loving the E Lady for flanger sounds but Im still jonesing for an Elastic Mattress. Strat and Tele got some love today. Worked on Bring On The Night by the Police. Building up some fingerpicking chops.
 
unix-guy said:
Well, I guess I forgot to post this here last week... But I just finished round 2 of wiring. Last weekend was assembly :)

Forgot to take a picture of the fully completed guitar.

Taking it in on Sunday for fret dressing and full setup.

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Finally got the wiring completed with the help of a wiring diagram from @JoeBfstplk!
 
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