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List of things you can't buy but wish were available.

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 9:47 am
by Dave
I keep finding myself looking for a part or whatever that just doesn't exist in any convenient form. List those types of things, and maybe folks will know where to find them, or manufacturers mught see this and make some....

Pure white P90 covers, drilled and undrilled

A roller bridge with adjustable saddle height or 7.25 and 9.5 radius.

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 9:48 am
by Progrockabuse
a cheap leslie cab with built in preamp and doesn't give you a bad back to lift

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:23 pm
by Brandon W
this is easy..Marc Bolan's whole rig

Vampower amps & cabs
at least 2 dallas rangemasters with OC71 transistor..whatever that means.

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:40 pm
by George
more teles have contours

squier and fender adopt more flatter radii and shallower shred necks to their inventory

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:50 pm
by Brandon W
George wrote:more teles have contours

squier and fender adopt more flatter radii and shallower shred necks to their inventory
is that icey?

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:17 pm
by benecol
brandonwinmill wrote:this is easy..Marc Bolan's whole rig

Vampower amps & cabs
at least 2 dallas rangemasters with OC71 transistor..whatever that means.
(Most of these things are available, Brandon).

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:20 pm
by Brandon W
benecol wrote:
brandonwinmill wrote:this is easy..Marc Bolan's whole rig

Vampower amps & cabs
at least 2 dallas rangemasters with OC71 transistor..whatever that means.
(Most of these things are available, Brandon).
really? I probably couldn't afford them. I've mentioned my desire for a VamPower before and i thought they were a few made and they are no more.

Oh was this supposed to be if you could invent something? Like something that doesn't exist presently? my bad

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:41 pm
by lorez
MuTron iii

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 5:53 pm
by Concretebadger
Roland Space Echo. Yes, they pop up second-hand occasionally, but are ludicrously expensive and their age makes them unreliable.

On a smaller scale, the bridges for some 90s Epi semi-hollows have a weird mounting post spacing that makes it incompatible with a new Epi or Gibson TOM. It would be a cheap and easy thing to fix if it wasn't UNPOSSIBLE to find a replacement. :evil:

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:16 pm
by paul_
brandonwinmill wrote:this is easy..Marc Bolan's whole rig
Vampower amps & cabs
at least 2 dallas rangemasters with OC71 transistor..whatever that means.
Bolan hardly used the Vampower stuff at all, he didn't lean on them for any album and preferred the sound and reliability of solid-state H&H IC100 heads. Due to his endorsement he kept the Vamp stacks onstage but they weren't plugged in, like in the Born to Boogie film. He used rented Marshalls on much of Electric Warrior and was fully on the IC100s for The Slider, so it was never an all-Vamp lineup for more than a handful of gigs.

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:19 pm
by Fran
An affordable Fender Performer RI.

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:39 pm
by Brandon W
paul_ wrote:
brandonwinmill wrote:this is easy..Marc Bolan's whole rig
Vampower amps & cabs
at least 2 dallas rangemasters with OC71 transistor..whatever that means.
Bolan hardly used the Vampower stuff at all, he didn't lean on them for any album and preferred the sound and reliability of solid-state H&H IC100 heads. Due to his endorsement he kept the Vamp stacks onstage but they weren't plugged in, like in the Born to Boogie film. He used rented Marshalls on much of Electric Warrior and was fully on the IC100s for The Slider, so it was never an all-Vamp lineup for more than a handful of gigs.
that was post #6666..nice! ha.
Thanks Paul

Here is some info on Bolan if anyone else was curious. I know he used HH's. I thought VamPower amps was that sharp piercing sound that he has that i love so much but it could be from stacking those dallas rangemasters.
Bolan

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:42 pm
by finboy
Mu-tron

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:21 pm
by Bacchus
A wee pronged widget that would hold the spring on a pickup ring under tension allowing you to get the screw through the ring and into the pickup without the screw making it difficult.

A strat style trem system where a ramped collet on the arm would mean that when you let go of it, it would travel a half inch into the trem block allowing it to engage with a fixed, suitably shaped and positioned attachment either affixed to the rear cavity or the cavity coverplate meaning that the trem was locked in position for as long as the arm stayed dangling.

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 2:02 am
by ultratwin
Progrockabuse wrote:a cheap leslie cab with built in preamp and doesn't give you a bad back to lift

At 16lbs., this one's not too far off..

Re: List of things you can't buy but wish were available.

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 2:58 am
by Mages
Dave wrote:Pure white P90 covers, drilled and undrilled

A roller bridge with adjustable saddle height or 7.25 and 9.5 radius.
there is a place to get pure white P90 covers. I know because I remember thinking forever that no one had them and then finding them and being like hallelujah. I think I remember robroe posting a pic of a guitar with them as well. blahblahblah, ok hold on I'll look around a bit for you.

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 3:00 am
by Mages

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 11:21 am
by Noisy Cat
Cream/aged white witch hats.

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 11:42 am
by Doog
Noisy Cat wrote:Cream/aged white witch hats.
I got yo back

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 11:44 am
by Noisy Cat
Doog wrote:
Noisy Cat wrote:Cream/aged white witch hats.
I got yo back
SALVATION!