Sophia

@mattbeels Sophia? Who or what is that? 

How 😮 😮 😮 much???

@tv101 Just for the record, I didn’t buy that trem, I was messing about. 🤣

OK @Boo, I'll bring you back a spot or two on my madness indicator scale.

You're now just at "high".  You were - briefly when I thought you'd really spent that much - at a level that can only be described with the use of naughty words.

Not having kids frees up a lot of money. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But no, I didn’t buy it, I’m not that stupid. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@tv101 I did say after I said it, it was a bit lower down. The top sentence was to provoke an emotional response and the bottom sentence was to inform that it was a joke. Having a gap in between them prevents an immediate realisation. 🤣

You're now just at "high".  You were - briefly when I thought you'd really spent that much - at a level that can only be described with the use of naughty words.

@tv101 That’s good to know, I’m proud of that. 🤘😁🤘✨🎸

@boo

https://sophiatremolos.com/

Aside from that I’m not aware of any other “colored” hardware.

@mattbeels

Lace offer their alumitones in various colours (very good pickups, a friend of mine chose the deathbuckers... for their warm jazz tone!)
They also do burnt chrome on some of their other pickups 

https://lacemusic.com/collections/7?page=2

Sophia trems look very interesting and always seem to get great reviews, but not available left handed last I checked

@jonhodgson

I’m familiar with Lace pickups, they make signature sets for the guys in Mastodon and one time a customer brought in a Brent Hinds Epi V with the Lace BH HammerClaw set and they sounded awesome!

I seem to remember seeing a modern trem that has right and left handed orientation but can’t remember who made it. I thought it might have been Apollo but I just checked and apparently it’s not them. I’ll keep an eye out and could ask around in the FB guitar groups...

Sophia. 

That is pretty awesome @mattbeels thanks for sharing that link. 😁

@boo

My pleasure.

They look amazing. Infinite fine tuners, that planetary wheel thingy and a built in D Tuna with the ability to pull sharp?
I soooooo want one!

Lace offer their alumitones in various colours

I've often looked at the alumitones and wondered about getting a set.

The design of them (the look) and the theory behind the design (the technical bit) sort of appeals - but I've never been interested enough to hunt a pair down and pay the £200 for a set.

Have you tried them @jonhodgson - and, if so, any comments on their sound qualities?

Perhaps one day ...

@tv101

I haven't tried them personally, but this is my slightly insane and very talented Scottish friend Nick Andrew playing a set of Deathbuckers.

I think there was a slight issue with the mic (I can hear what sounds like a rattle) but you can get a good impression of their clean sounds. If you want to hear them overdriven he has a number of videos with that too (anything with the blue guitar and most of the ones with his ibanez electric banana).

Thanks @jonhodgson.

Very much not the sort of sound I'd expect to be produced by a "deathbucker"!  Very precise and clean playing too.

🙂

@tv101

That's why I chose that clip, you can pretty much assume a "Deathbucker" will sound good with distortion, so the clean sound is more illuminating IMHO.

Nick is an awesome guitarist, he actually chose to live in his car so he could spend more time practicing and less time trying to make money to pay his mortgage. That lasted ten years until he finally upgraded to a van. He wrote a book on it which is quite an amusing read

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Backseat-Bedroom-concise-guide-living/dp/0993511406

It’s time. 

I am so impressed with this Mirka sander and the disks, Wow 🤩 

I sanded this entire guitar in about 15 mins, it would normally take an hour or two. Why have I not bought one of these sooner? Even when I worked in the motor trade, why didn’t I? 😭

A 600 grade Abranet disk for a couple of mins on the front, done! 
The back took a bit longer, about four mins, done! 
Even the sides, about two mins, done! 
Obviously I did the tight bit by hand. 
Wow! So fast! 🤘😁🤘

Next bit.

I’m not really happy with the internal perimeter shading on the back, I feel it isn’t dark enough. I think I’ll use blue instead of red. It will actually appear purple as the light reflects through the red and then the blue. I think it will look a bit better. After that I will clear coat it all again. 

@boo what makes the Mirka so great? I know Ben Crowe really loves them too. They're a bit pricey, but I'm a sucker for a Guchi tool.

I know Ben Crowe really loves them too.

Ben who???

😉

Mark uses one too, and it IS a great tool.

Trouble is, there are two options.  One which is AC powered (with the motor in the hand held unit) and another which is compressor powered.  Boo (and Mark - no idea about the other guy) both have the air tools, which are great.  Light, easy to use, nothing really to go wrong.

The AC version has some bad reports against it, because of failure of the motor components (IIRC).

If you've got a compressor already, go for it.

I don't, so I haven't.

🙁