Oregon Vikings off topic.... free for all thread!

[fowledup]

Sorry buddy... When I moved from MI. to TN. I sold all my mics, electronic monitors, cords, lights and my entire drum kit including 2 cowbell's. But if I dig one up out back this Spring.... I'll call ya.

BUT... I do have a great double bass pedal at my old guitarist's home in MI. still.

Did someone say cowbell?

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

Did someone say cowbell?

More cowbell...

 

[RustyGold]

Norm was the best Col. Sanders cause he nailed "Finger licking good"!

 

[RustyGold]

Oregon Viking

Here's that pre-catalog Jackson salesman's example. I bought it in 1990 or 91'

 

[Oregon Viking]

Sweet!!!!

 

[Oregon Viking]

HM Strat (Heavy metal) Import. The neck has a reverse head-stock, necks left over from Heartfield Talon (Japan) owned by Fender, made to compete with thee above super strats...The HM neck plate, H/S/H, Floyd rose trem....

 

[RustyGold]

Reminds me of the CHARVEL guitars.

 

[Oregon Viking]

I have been wanting to replace my Gibson Les Paul that I sold years ago, offer was too good to refuse. BIG mistake! Today it would be worth 4-5 times as much. So...I have been working on a trade...Two of my guitars for one. An almost exact copy of my Gibby. Much cheaper as it is an Epiphone. AAA flamed maple veneer, not a much thicker cap like a Gibby, over mahogany body. Neck and body binding and I think real MOP trapezoid inlays.

Trade happens. Plays beautifully...just like it looks. I play it for a bit and start to really give it a good once over. Uh-oh. The back plate covering the volume/tone pots does not fit right. Off it comes. Some one has been messing/replacing volume and/or tone pots! One of the volume pots is too long (hence the missing knob as I inspect. Everything works right...but taped wires? You solder and then use heat shrink tubing. So I found a deluxe wiring kit, switchcraft switch and jack and CTS pots, premium shielded wire.... The absolute best. I had very little into the two axe's I traded, I bought them needing repairs. Wait a minute...


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Hey RustyGold!
You are a guitar guy....What do you notice with the bridge on this Ax?
I'am changing the bridge and just now noticed ...

 

[RustyGold]

Toward the bridge doesn't make sense to me. It's backwards!

 

[Oregon Viking]

Yep. Someone messed up.
Epiphone calls this bridge an innovation, I and many others call it an epic fail!
They sure hype it up though...http://www.epiphone.com/News/Features/2015/Innovation-The-Epiphone-LockTone-Stopbar.aspx

 

[RustyGold]

It's not a fail if it adds to the tonal quality but surely impossible because the saddle determines the intonation. So adjusting each saddle would be difficult.
I think they made it up and then drank some more saki!

 

[RustyGold]

Looks like a good bridge but assembled wrong in your sample!

 

[Oregon Viking]

It has a spring to keep the saddles from "wandering" They do....and the spring rattles!
A friend of mine has one of these. I have agreed to want it!!

 

[RustyGold]

That's killer! But complicated..

 

[Oregon Viking]

RustyGold. Do you have any experience/heard any thing about the "Tusq" Nuts/saddles? I have heard they are the best, but you are an expert luthier/guitar builder so.... reviewshttp://graphtech.com/
These will be first. product-detail


String Saver Originals are made entirely of our String Saver material and give you a more balanced tone than steel saddles. On first listen, some people believe that the top end has gone away. All that is missing is the 2KHz spike; what's added opens up a whole new world of sonic possibilities! Once your ears get used to the new sound, you will start to hear all the added harmonic content that String Saver Saddles reveal.

 

[Oregon Viking]

Latest project.
I bought it gutted, but I had the necessary hardware.
Mahogany archtop body. Gold hardware, coiltap, 24 fret bound neck.

 

[Nitric]

Latest project.
I bought it gutted, but I had the necessary hardware.
Mahogany archtop body. Gold hardware, coiltap, 24 fret bound neck.


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Thats cool Oregon! Your almost making me want to get one just to rebuild! Now, would that be considered a "Trans-guitar" since parts are being changed?

 

[Oregon Viking]

Thats cool Oregon! Your almost making me want to get one just to rebuild! Now, would that be considered a "Trans-guitar" since parts are being changed?

No, because it still has the same parts...pretty much...that it came with.

 

[RustyGold]

Very cool guitar OV! Can't wait to see it done.

 

[Nitric]

No, because it still has the same parts...pretty much...that it came with.

ooops wrong thread! Oh well!

Seriously that looks like a lot of fun! I'm not musically talented, at all! But I do like to build stuff!