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Post by Bg » Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:19 pm

Rog wrote:Agreed!

Of course the view was spoiled from where I was by some clown in a pink shirt wandering around checking out all the ladies... pretending he was lost!!

says the man who took binoculars to check out the old boilers with

slash-ed · Post by **slash-ed** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:51 pm

So who was CD playing with for that gig? Ooh er

filthysmurf · Post by **filthysmurf** » Thu May 01, 2008 9:26 am

And a happy wee Les Paul gets it's voice back

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Seymour Duncan Jazz/SH5 Custom combo, the Tone knobs work backwards because I forgot to reverse the wiring diagram

slash-ed · Post by **slash-ed** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:14 am

Doesn't the tone knob work backwards cos the guitar is backwards?

filthysmurf · Post by **filthysmurf** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:38 am

slash-ed wrote:Doesn't the tone knob work backwards cos the guitar is backwards?

Well, technically yes, but it's not nice to pick on us backwards types

ash · Post by **ash** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:31 am

Do lefties feel the need to have a backwards volume knob on their stereo? Or the steering wheel on their car?
Or is having a backwards volume knob on a guitar just plain stupid?

Oh... Viva la GPNZ!

filthysmurf · Post by **filthysmurf** » Thu May 01, 2008 12:02 pm

ash wrote:Do lefties feel the need to have a backwards volume knob on their stereo? Or the steering wheel on their car?
Or is having a backwards volume knob on a guitar just plain stupid?

Oh... Viva la GPNZ!

Nah, it' s cos I'd forever be turning the bugger off bumping the volume knob with all the down strokes

borge · Post by **borge** » Thu May 01, 2008 6:33 pm

so which way are they meant to spin? ive played/owned a few lefties and some go one way and some go the other.
volume swells with the pinky on the downstroke seems most intuitive to me, is that the norm?

filthysmurf · Post by **filthysmurf** » Fri May 02, 2008 9:43 am

I checked my 3 other Electrics and looking face on, all the knobs rotate ant-clockwise to increase volume/"brighten" the tone, which I guess is opposite to a Righty. It'd only really be an issue on my Strat cos the volume is right under the Bridge pickup and it'd drive me nuts if the Volume rotated the other way cos I WOULD be forever turning it down.

I've also tried a few lefties that have "backwards" wiring, my theory is that they pre-wire the Tone/Volume circuits before installing them in the guitar and every now and then Pots wired for a righty end up in a lefty cos of smaller batch sizes etc.

Kerchang · Post by **Kerchang** » Fri May 02, 2008 6:43 pm

+1 from me. I have always received good fast service - well done dude.

sty · Post by **sty** » Thu May 08, 2008 10:09 am

filthysmurf wrote:Yesterday I ordered some bits and bobs to rewire my Les Paul from Guitarparts. I placed the order at 4:15, got the shipping confirmation at 5:28 and they arrived on my desk at work this morning (the next day) in Christchurch about 9:15!!!

Just thought It'd be nice to let everyone know what great service I got from these guys, and thanks!!

+1 from me as well.

last night at 5pm I placed an order for some Lizard Spit cleaning stuff, I figured it would be here on Monday after I get back from a weekend away just in time for me stripping the guitar down to fit new pickups and strings next week.

5:20pm got an email confiming shipping and it show up at my desk just before 10am (in Christchurch).

Now I don't want to go away this weekend, instead I want to wire up the new pickups and clean the guitar.

(I just wish I'd bought the pack of stuff now instead of just the bottles, but I thought the pack had smaller bottles, they may want to add pack/bottle volumes to the web site - but can't complain I'll find a microfibre cloth at home)

crushing day · Post by **crushing day** » Thu May 08, 2008 10:39 am

Cheers

The courier usually shows up at 5.20 every night, so we try and get any orders that comes in by 5pm out the same day.

Thanks for the heads up on the Lizard Spit care pack, i've updated the information.

http://www.guitarparts.co.nz/cart/Detai ... ategory=23

They have actually changed the polish bottle top to a trigger spray, so i need to update the picture as well... Great product!.

sty · Post by **sty** » Thu May 08, 2008 11:04 am

crushing day wrote:Cheers

you're welcome, good service needs recognising

They have actually changed the polish bottle top to a trigger spray, so i need to update the picture as well... Great product!.

That was the bit that confused be, they had different tops and the pack one looked smaller because it didn't have the trigger

JD · Post by JD » Thu May 08, 2008 1:49 pm

When I bought mine (yes, good product, excellent service especially shipping as I said before) I was too broke to afford the fret board stuff. How's the fret board spit working out?
Quite a few people swear by Fret Doctor.
So far I've just used a bit of very expensive cold pressed olive oil that we also use on the kitchen chopping block. That seems to work pretty good.

Kristie · Post by **Kristie** » Thu May 08, 2008 4:48 pm

+1 Guitarparts.co.nz from me too, for speedy accurate deliveries, and general helpfulness

NZGuitars.com : Filling you with GAS since 2003

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