Some pics of My Gibsons and Corvair
06-22-2008, 07:50 PM
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Some pics of My Gibsons and Corvair
Why not, Summer is here and the top is down.
Any other guitar players out there?
Any other guitar players out there?
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06-22-2008, 08:00 PM
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Thanks.
Yeah, I've been a Corvair nut for around thirty years. Fun cars when set up right.
I used to work on them a little to your left in West Brookfield Mass. Get most of the parts from Clark's Corvair parts in Shelbourne Falls Mass.
Thanks for looking
Yeah, I've been a Corvair nut for around thirty years. Fun cars when set up right.I used to work on them a little to your left in West Brookfield Mass. Get most of the parts from Clark's Corvair parts in Shelbourne Falls Mass.
Thanks for looking
06-22-2008, 08:06 PM
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I'm just mad about saffron...
My best friend's dad, Dale Sinner used to restore Corvairs here in Huntington Beach. She had a gorgeous yellow one I called the "electric banana" (..they call me mellow yellow...)
Gosh did we have fun in that car...I *almost* bought one just like yours off of him--similar blue, hard top, with the white interior. She was called "precious".
But then I moved to England and that was that!
Don't know much about guitars, but those look cool!
Gosh did we have fun in that car...I *almost* bought one just like yours off of him--similar blue, hard top, with the white interior. She was called "precious".
But then I moved to England and that was that!
Don't know much about guitars, but those look cool!
06-24-2008, 09:29 AM
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). This is the first year in forever that Corvair crowd will not be meeting at the Limerock race track. Getting expensive to rent it and less Corvair attendance.
06-24-2008, 09:40 AM
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), My R4 BB ( Sold my '68 BB to buy help my ford SHO back in '89 ),. The SG is a particularly cool one. It is one they never made,'yill now. It is close to a '61, but they all have three pickups. Elliot Easton from the Cars has it as his signature model. It has an early '60's 335 neck, and Ebony neck, '57 pickups, and Custom inlays. Nice sounding axe. I just had the Buss Feiten tuning system done to it and I'm even happier.
Got a thread on the EE SG here:
http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/othe...-gibson-sg.htm
Lately I've been using a Vox Valvetronix 50, a Roland Cubes. But my favorite has been my all tube 8 watt Carr Mercury combo. Nice little amp with a buitl itn power attenuator so yo0u can dime the power tucbes as well as the preamp tubes.
What do you play through?l
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06-25-2008, 05:20 PM
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Oh, nothing great. I don't really play as much in public anymore like I did in college, so I just use a little Peavey solid-state combo with my old Boss GT-3 floor processor. I put DiMarzio PAF Classics in the Les Paul and it warms up the sound over the stock Gibson ceramics, but leaves enough bite to cut through the processor. I would like to get a cheap tube amp sometime like the Epi Valve Junior or nice little Fender Champ or Junior. Maybe a Mesa Lonestar if I ever get the money.
06-29-2008, 01:51 AM
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Oh, nothing great. I don't really play as much in public anymore like I did in college, so I just use a little Peavey solid-state combo with my old Boss GT-3 floor processor. I put DiMarzio PAF Classics in the Les Paul and it warms up the sound over the stock Gibson ceramics, but leaves enough bite to cut through the processor. I would like to get a cheap tube amp sometime like the Epi Valve Junior or nice little Fender Champ or Junior. Maybe a Mesa Lonestar if I ever get the money.
Eastwood Signature Joey Leone. 3 P90's that coiltap and hum cancel as humbuckers when asked to do so. Nice sounding axe.
I just play at home and the Mesa was overkill. Though I'm thinking about getting my Marshall TSL 100 back
Man, I'd need a power attenuator with that one!