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"Trashguitars Rocket Jr classic"
Uh... Cute but that's a Squier Classic Vibe Duo-Sonic with a shitty sandpaper "relic job" and a misleading headstock decal.
...For $480!?

WOW!


http://montreal.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sel ... Z251866056








I can't believe the nerve of this guy, man.

I like authentic relic jobs with no dings...look so life like

Douche Bag!

That is a thunderous load of bullshit.

aen wrote:That is a thunderous load of bullshit.

aen...looks like that tele u got with the paint falling off is the new Dwarftcraft guitar in this market..

can't squier sue the shit out of him for this?

What's up with the wiring being not done? Is that a relic job too?

It prevents all that necessary bullshit from detracting from the awesomeness of that $300 mojocap!

what a joke.

I like the concept of someone putting together guitars from all kinds of mismatches, giving them a professional set up, and selling at REASONABLE honest prices but this guy is a joke. That 'relic' job.... jesus. That decal... I remember someone posted one where he was selling a guitar with a body and neck scale length that would never have intonated properly..

This is the guy who stuck an AllParts Jaguar neck on a 25.5" scale Jay Turser body and tried to sell it as his own too, for those who remember.

There's some chud on ebay in the UK who seems to unload a relic'd CV Squier every month or so I was looking. They sell under the usual used price so don't know if it's a hobby. Anyway, nice idea but don't ding the back of the fucking neck!

i fucking hate relicing ,but that's some of the worst relicing i've ever seen

laterallateral wrote:It prevents all that necessary bullshit from detracting from the awesomeness of that $300 mojocap!

thats a MojoTone Dijion cap....there $1.25 from MojoTone.... its a good cap for a good price, they are cheaper than a Orange Drop..... I got them in my P90 SG....

gaybear wrote:i fucking hate relicing ,but that's some of the worst relicing i've ever seen

It's bad, but I've seen MUCH worse.

SGJarrod wrote:thats a MojoTone Dijion cap....there $1.25 from MojoTone.... its a good cap for a good price, they are cheaper than a Orange Drop..... I got them in my P90 SG....

What makes them a good cap? In what way is it better than a regular cap from a company that makes high quality, consistent caps like Panasonic or Wima but costs around 1/3 of that to buy individually. Do you think you can hear a difference in your guitar tone if you were to A/B?

None of that is meant to sound patronising, I'm genuinely curious.

Yeah, I'm interested to find out how people justify this as well.
Capacitance of 022 UF @ 400v applied to the same circuit should sound the same no matter who made the part, no?

The only thing I can think of is that there might be a teeny, tiny bit of drift between the components' performance values, possibly based on different calculation methods on the part of the manufacturers but how big a difference could that possibly make and wouldn't that make them fundamentally different parts, anyway?

James wrote:

SGJarrod wrote:thats a MojoTone Dijion cap....there $1.25 from MojoTone.... its a good cap for a good price, they are cheaper than a Orange Drop..... I got them in my P90 SG....

What makes them a good cap? In what way is it better than a regular cap from a company that makes high quality, consistent caps like Panasonic or Wima but costs around 1/3 of that to buy individually. Do you think you can hear a difference in your guitar tone if you were to A/B?

None of that is meant to sound patronising, I'm genuinely curious.

I can hear a difference with good caps compared to cheap "greenies or brownies" the greenies and brownies cut more high end out and have a duller sound, a good cap such as Dijions or Orange drops seem to leave more clarity intact.... this is why greenies are popular in pedals, they smooth out the shrill highs in a BOOSTED circuit

aka...u know when u roll the tone down and once u hit 8ish it just becomes duller and less defined... well with good caps I find that dullness does not hit until about 2 or 3... it does make the tone darker as it should but leave the clarity intact until u get to 2 or 3 compared to 8.... this is my experience and this is taking into account that I use the same pots

whether anyone beleives me or not is fine cuz I know there is alot of dis-belief on this subject but seriously its only like a couple bux

Edit: the other thing I recommend more than the "good" tone caps is putting vol mods on all ur guitars if u use the vol knob alot..... just put a 220K resistor and a 470pf cap in parellel on the open ungrounded lugs of the vol pot..... makes the clean up more even and leaves highs intact as u roll the vol down.... again this is like $.50 of parts

right you can hear the difference between the mojotone and a greenie, but what james is asking is can you hear the difference between the mojotone and something like a WIMA or panasonic cap? the mojotone actually looks like it's made by mallory. maybe it's a special run made to specified tolerances. regular mallory caps sound fantastic though, I can not think of anything they need to do better.

Mages wrote:right you can hear the difference between the mojotone and a greenie, but what james is asking is can you hear the difference between the mojotone and something like a WIMA or panasonic cap? the mojotone actually looks like it's made by mallory. maybe it's a special run made to specified tolerances. regular mallory caps sound fantastic though, I can not think of anything they need to do better.

panasonic = brownie

and I have no idea what a WIMA is....

yeah, that's what I thought. I was just trying to be honest to what james said. I think the panasonics sound ok, about the same as an orange drop really. the mallorys sound better though. that's why I wonder what the difference between the mojotone and the mallory is. seem like they're just re-marketing the same thing.

WIMA are super audiophile caps. way smooth sounding.
http://www.wima.de/en_index.php

Mages wrote:yeah, that's what I thought. I was just trying to be honest to what james said. I think the panasonics sound ok, about the same as an orange drop really. the mallorys sound better though. that's why I wonder what the difference between the mojotone and the mallory is. seem like they're just re-marketing the same thing.

WIMA are super audiophile caps. way smooth sounding.
http://www.wima.de/en_index.php

Yep never heard of them.... I use Orange Drops or Mojotone/Mallory in guitars and Tompay Box or Panisonic in pedals

I have noticed a nice difference between the Brownies and Orange Drops in guitars thou.... My Blacktop Jazzy had a Brownie stock and the Orange Drop made a nice difference, especially in the tone knob usability...

With the Orange Drops I feel it comes down to what series you use... I think the 715 or 716 series are the good ones and the 225 are the cheap so so ones...

seems to be the higher the voltage the smoother the tone