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For Sale 1st Dancer pedal finished- FX Loop Switcher +Bypass pedal

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Dancer Effects Loop Switcher with Bypass switch
This pedal can connect multiple effects loops and can toggle between the two with one footswitch press. There is also a bypass switch that allows you to go directly to the amp. This is great if you have a ton of pedals and what to play live or have creative control. It’s a really useful pedal. Something I didn’t even know I needed. 

This makes life easier, and great live tool, to quickly tap dance between two fx loops.

  • Switchcraft jacks, insulated 
  • 3pdt/4pdt footswitches
  • Master Bypass Switch- goes straight to amp- can also add effects here that will affect both loops
  • Toggle A/B switch- quickly toggle between two effect chains. For example, First Loop- Dirty channel -Distortion and Modulation Second Loop- Delay/Reverb/Compressor. Toggle between the two without having to tap dance.
  • Engraved, Hand Painted, Gloss Lacquer
  • Does take a 9v battery- or 9v adaptor- it is passive though, power only if you want LEDs.
  • Can also switch multiple amps- connect only the sends to the amp, leave returns empty.

A couple tools like this are out there but some have issues.
Major issue in these pedals is the channels bleeding into each other, notable when using hi gain pedals and then toggling to a cleaner loop.  I used a 4PDT switch to fix the bleeding issues. Loop Master, American Loopers, EX loopers suffer from this issue. JHS makes a pedal also but, you need a remote switch and there is no master bypass. Boss LS-2 works well too but doesn’t have a master bypass switch. Which I find super useful. 

Let me know if you have any questions. 14 day return policy. Free Shipping!

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For Sale Cobain Mustang #1 on reverb, updated

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For sale on my reverb page
https://reverb.com/item/56758680-kurt-cobain-custom-1-mustang-thomas-baptist-church-vinyl-soundgarden-decal-univox-custom-pickup

Kurt Cobain Custom #1 Mustang from a 2016 Sonic Blue Classic Vibe

  • Refinished body slightly reliced Faded Mocha color with Matte finish,  Sanded down headstock
  • Pickguard CNC cut from Thomas Baptist Church record “Where are the Dead?”.
  • Shielded control plate CNC cut from rare 4 layer pickguard, beveled top edge by hand, left bottom edge straight.
  • I hand wound a clone Univox early Phase III pickup with 2.93kHz loaded resonant frequency. Unwaxed, lacquer dipped. From analysis of 6 Vintage Univox pickups. More details below.
  • CTS 500k volume pot, 500k Bourns tone pot, switchcraft jack,  2 way toggle, kill switch in up position.
  • Vintage Univox Volume and Tone Knobs
  • Vintage Fender Japanese Tuners pulled from a 90’s guitar.
  • Mustang bridge posts locked down with plastic tubing, improves tuning stability. Can be easily removed.
  • Durable Soundgarden sticker made I outlined in Illustrator and made by Stickermule.
  • Uploaded a video demoing the guitar it has the tremolo arm and updated roller bridge.

Kurt’s modifications 
Kurt purchased this guitar at Evergreen State College. He added the control plate and pickup from a Univox Hi Flier Phase III guitar. He added a vinyl pickguard made from a Thomas Baptist record and added a Subpop Soundgarden sticker. He sanded the headstock. Eventually he removed the vinyl pickguard and replaced with a real mustang pickguard and painted green, which can possibly be the one on the cover of Bleach album. Parts of this guitar are in the museum in Seattle. He plays this guitar on the Pine Street live tracks on the Deluxe Bleach album.

The Fluff
The Univox clone pickup has been reverse engineered by analyzing six 1970’s Univox pickups. This took a lot of research and experimenting with wind counts. This clone Univox pickup is based on an early Univox Phase III pickup which differs from the later Phase III and Phase IV humbuckers. It is darker than those pickups, the pole pieces and baseplate are different. The original was unwaxed but I did dip the humbucker coils in lacquer which doesn’t take as much high end compared to wax potting. Squealing is reduced. Single distortion pedals can handle it well, stacking distortions sound pretty good as long as the gain isn’t too high. Not a metal guitar but you can push it a bit.

Kurt placed the pickup very close to the bridge. Bottom half of the humbucker ring was removed and cavity routed with a slight angle with the bass strings closer to the bridge than the treble ones. This has very original sound. Much like a Low Wind Lollar PAF. Chords shine brightly but still has that low end PAF sound. Great for note definition. 

PLEASE NOTE
Setup uses Top/Heavy strings 52, 42,30,17,13,10. Nut has been filed down for this setup. If you want to use a thinner gauge setup. Let me know, I’ll can make a new nut. No extra charge. But I feel this setup plays and sounds the best. 

For more higher quality images and details of build, check out my shop website from
“Info and policies” page of my shop. It has my webpage site there. 

Let me know if you have any questions. FREE SHIPPING! Firm on price.

Thanks!

Epiphone Dragon Sg Jr. Finished For Sale- SOLD!

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Finished Dragon SG. New pickup sounds amazing in it. Talking to customer if he is satisfied to sell him. If not I could probably sell for more than I estimated to him.
The pickup sounded great, it was a hair noisier than wax potted but I think the lacquer dipping helped. I seem to like guitars with a loaded resonant frequency range of 2.5-3kHz. I think i’ll make the p90s 2.5 and humbuckers I make 2.9kHz and and single coils in jaguar range of 3.5kHz ish.

Not a perfect finish some minor blemishes by horns and swirls marks on back. Overall I’m satisfied but definitely room for improvement. Need to spend more time wetsanding, and the discoloration caused by a major run that I should have level sanded before adding another coat. Told customer this he still purchased and told the pickup is covered by lifetime warranty, repair or replacement.

Customer purchased. Will probably make more dragon guitars, I have another SG I can do this with and 3 strats, though I’d have to redesign the dragon a bit.

Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion Pedal Modified, Wampler Mod, Hifi cap mods, white LED mod 2007 MIT For Sale Sold!

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Up for sale is a Modified 2007 MIT Boss DS-2 Pedal.  Check out the Video for a demo of the wampler mod.  Also changed 5 ceramic capacitors to film caps of same value. Details below. Selling because, as you might be able to see, I have 22 pedals in 2 loops lol. The gearits is real and expecting 2 more….

The Fluff
Sounds much different, the hiss is gone, and stacks really well with a compressor and overdrive before unit. The Mid boost is not a not as drastic. I feel it is more usable and doesn’t completely change your sound. More noticeable if gain is above 12 oclock. Definitely better for humbuckers or if you downtune. If you don’t like the original DS-2 you might like this one better.

Let me know if have any questions, Firm, FREE SHIPPING!

Modifications
Wampler Mod
LED mod to White LED
HIFi mod, changed 5 ceramic caps to Film caps of same value

Mod Details
R57 from 4.7k to 3.3k – More Bass adds a bit of compression
R62 from 4.7k to 1k – More Gain
R44 from 22k to 1k – Will take out highs
C28 from .0047uf to 1k resistor in parallel w/stock cap – Scoops mids a bit
C28 from .0047uf to .01uf – Make Rhythm channel fuller
D8 from ISS-333 to 1n4001– Clipping distortion much fuller, more asymmetric
D9  from  ISS-333 1n4001x2 in parallel – Clipping distortion much fuller, more asymmetric
D15 from 1ss-188FM to LED – Clipping distortion much fuller, more asymmetric
D11 from ISS-333 to LED – Clipping distortion much fuller, more asymmetric
C29 from 470p ceramic to Film Cap same value – Hifi
C6 from 470p ceramic to Film Cap same value – Hifi  
C5 form 220p ceramic to Film Cap same value – Hifi  
C3 from 220p ceramic to Film Cap same value – Hifi
C4 from 470p  ceramic to Film Cap same value – Hifi

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Kurt Cobain #1 1975 Mustang custom shop finished -Sold

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Kurt Cobain #1 1975 Mustang custom shop finished -Sold
1975 Fender Mustang
Thomas Baptist Church “Where are the Dead” record- CNC cut
Custom Control plate CNC cut
Univox 70’s humbucker
Unvox 70’s toggle switch
Unvivox 70’s Volume and Tone Controls
Soundgarder sticker traced design in illustrator, stickermule produced
Custom Cobain Neck Plate by Lazrart https://www.lazrart.com/
Custom made humbucker ring to original location of Kurts pickup

Finished this beauty. Had a lot of fun with this one, got to use vintage original parts. Quite challenging programming the location of his pickup and then cutting on CNC machine. Really proud of this work. After wiring her up, the tone was a bit thin and high pitched. Apparently the luthier that did the great fretjob forgot to raise the bridge up to compensate for the shim installed. After raising the bridge the tone came back to life.

It has that univox sound but the location, which is super close bridge adds a ton of presence, chords really chime but it as still retains that low end of the Univox pickups resonant peak. It’s definitely an original sound. I think Cobain said he loved treble and presence and this guitar definitely has that. Maybe too much? He didn’t use this guitar on bleach recording, even though it is on the cover of album. His custom made Mustangs, all had pickup locations in the normal spot, but he had someone make those custom bodies.

https://www.livenirvana.com/interviews/9002ga/index.php

From Grant Alden interview

“And he plays SoundTech cabinets. One time, Kurt and I were walking around the Evergreen State College campus, looking for something and we heard this band jamming, so we went to these dorm bungalows and there’s this guy playing. “Oh, you guys are Nirvana?” And we’re like, “Yeah, we are.” Anyway, this guy had all these Kramer guitars around and there was this left-handed Fender Mustang from the late ’60s – cuz Kurt’s left-handed, you know – and it was sanded-down, so you couldn’t see, it didn’t say “Fender” or anything on it, but it was a Mustang. “Hey, guys! Neat guitar!” “Oh, that thing? Pah!” This guy’s into Kramers and Charvels, he had all of these top-of-the-line Charvels. We’re like, “Well, hey, you wanna sell it?” He says, “I dunno, $50?” We talked him from 50, we talked him down to $20! Then we ran to the bank machine and we ran back and everybody was gone, but the window was open. I thought, “Let’s just rip it off,” but, no, we knocked on his door. We bought it for $20 and we had a couple of frets- we had a fret job done to it and… God, it was just a beautiful guitar and what did Kurt do? He just smashed it! Like all his guitars…” -Krist Novoselic

Squier Bullet Mustang HH with Rosewood Fretboard 2017 Black Custom Blacklight Dragon Paint job- SOLD!

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My first paint job on a guitar. Upgraded most all hardware and electronics.
It came out ok I think. I like the design the most. Sounds cleaner with the upgraded Alnico pickups. Wasn’t planning on selling but I have gearitis for a Univox Phase 3 lol.

Used neon fluorescent paint, so it does popout with a blacklight.

Not asking a lot for it because there is orange peel on the top, one major blemish by the dragon’s belly in orange, that I covered with paint. Also note the scuffing on back of top horn. Tried to take good pictures.

  • Most of the hardware has been replaced.
  • Locking tuners
  • Roller Saddles
  • Witchhat knobs
  • Replaced pots with Bourns 500k
  • 94 Madness Humbuckers Alnico 5
  • Handmade Semi Transparent Acrylic green blacklight pickguard
  • Handmade Bone nut

Feel Free to ask any questions, firm, Free shipping

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For sale Cobain Mustang #1 SOLD!

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https://reverb.com/item/47482077-kurt-cobain-first-mustang-tribute-soundgarden-sticker-vinyl-record-pickguard-relic-upgraded

I modified a 2017 Squier Mustang to Kurt Cobain’s first mustang. Pretty much everything is overhauled, new parts, refinished. The sound is pretty dark on low strings and bright on higher strings.

Kurt’s modifications 

  • First modification was adding the control plate and pickup from a Univox Hi Flyer guitar. He also added a vinyl pickguard made from a Thomas Baptist record. He added a Soundgarden sticker. He sanded down the neck. Eventually he removed the pickguard and replaced with a real mustang pickguard and painted green which can possibly be the one on the cover of Bleach album. Parts of this guitar are in the museum in Seattle.

Modifications/Upgrades I made

  • Refinished body slightly reliced dark red with light coat of Crystalac Britone Matte.
  • Reliced Neck- sanded down headstock, reliced the back of neck. Used Tru Oil. Left the serial.
  • Pickguard CNC cut from Thomas Baptist Church record. 
  • Control plate CNC cut from Stewmac 3 layer pickguard, beveled by hand.
  • Pickup made by Eastwood Guitars- Hi-Flyer Phase 4 Pickup Bridge, reliced by hand.
  • Bourns 500k pots wired in 50s wiring with Orange cap and switchcraft jack.
  • Cobain custom engraved neck plate.
  • Pickguard, control plate and cavity shielded with copper.
  • Original Neck frets weren’t too bad but I did do a light fret level on it, mostly above 12th fret.
  • Created a bone nut by hand to accommodate heavier strings.
  • Reliced vintage tuners, Fender mustang vibrato system made by Real Life Relics store (Tricked Out Guitar) here on Reverb.
  • I modified the Mustang bridge posts to lock down with plastic tubing. This improves tuning stability. Can be easily removed.
  • Durable Soundgarden sticker made by Stickermule.

Please note

The guitar is setup to use  Dean Markley 2558 Blue Steel Electric Guitar Strings – .010-.052 Light Top/Heavy Bottom. This really adds that bottom tone. This is in combination with the pickup placement Kurt had, which was pretty close to the bridge, ironically gives it that smiley face eq range like the Nirvana logo. Some things just fall in place. 🙂 

 Let me know if you have any questions. I’ll probably post a Video link of it in action soon.

Also working on another Mustang Cobain made.