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Re: Under-appreciated Gear






They are great.

Yamaha G100 guitar heads/combo amps
Yamaha FG Series acoustic guitars
MIM Fenders
Avatar guitar cabs


Are avatar cabs good? I see them around and always equated them with low tier modeling stuff.



they're usually ply built and you could spec the speakers so when you ...

Re: Under-appreciated Gear

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 12:41 am Shure KSM137 (or 141). Its never really the coolest mic to grab for anything but it seems to work for everything. For $150 used they are no brainers.
They are great.

Yamaha G100 guitar heads/combo amps
Yamaha FG Series acoustic guitars
MIM Fenders
Avatar guitar cabs

Re: HOW TO FIX: Travis Beans - pickup height and bowed necks




Geoff mentioned it would be interesting if someone made an aluminum neck with a truss rod.
The assumption, I know, is that you don't need one.
But really if you don't have that ability to correct, you're kinda just turning the neck itself into the truss rod--like an old acoustic that doesn't ...

Re: HOW TO FIX: Travis Beans - pickup height and bowed necks


This is all super rad info to have, thank you Tim!

And another +1 for having Geoff work on TBs. I had him refret my TB1000s last year and he did an absolutely fantastic job. He also noticed that the fretboard was starting to separate from the neck ("Wood shrinks, but aluminum doesn't, and this ...

Re: HOW TO FIX: Travis Beans - pickup height and bowed necks


Wasn’t this a whole thing with a couple TBD reissues that had some recurring problems? They were a hot topic around here for a while. Must be able to be fixed the same as the vintage, right?

I’ve always played the all aluminum guitars, but sometimes I do wish I’d have gone the part wood route as ...

Re: HOW TO FIX: Travis Beans - pickup height and bowed necks

twelvepoint wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 11:44 am It would also be ok if someone made a drop-in pickup that was like 1/4” shorter. I’d prefer to do that rather than hack down the aluminum.
Yeah. I would NOT let just anyone do it. I would (and did!) let Geoff or Dave do it.

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