10PoundLester

Well I guess if you like them then they are good pickups. If everyone here said they hate them would that change your opinion of them?

@gearbasher Why? What did we ever do to you?

My sentiments exactly. Gibson invented this guitar and they invented humbucking pickups. They know what they're doing here. I've gone through tons of pickups and caps in all my electric guitars and always go back to stock because I realize that 50 percent of the tone you'll get out of any guitar is in your fingers, 50 percent is in your style, and the rest is in your gear.

That's not a problem. It's the 50's wiring. My LP and my 335 both react this way. It's what I like about them. There are almost infinite tones available from this setup. Don't worry about it - enjoy the discovery!

Well, looks like they are back. Just registered a few minutes ago and filled up the "Introduce Yourself" category with spam! I really think you should make new users' posts be reviewed before they are posted. That will solve the problem right there. Also IP blocking.

By the time you get everything out of the f-hole and the new stuff back in, you might just decide that the new stuff is good enough. I have never changed out the components of a 335 type guitar. Mine sounds just fine the way it came from Memphis. I ain't goin' in there!

Yeah, 12 MPH with their little beer coozie helmets on in the middle of the lane because they consider themselves to be an actual vehicle! Then they blow stop signs and red lights.

Staples. Two or three in each side plus one in each corner. Now I see that Fender has the "Vibro-Champ Reverb" amp and it comes with the drip edge so they are making it, they just won't sell any of it separately.

What is it you are looking for that the BB1 and 2 doesn't deliver? IMO the "Bumblebee" and other "boutique" caps are a scam. They aren't even real unless you get NOS ones and even then I doubt there would be an audible difference. (Let the beatings begin!)

Why don't you just go back to that method?

Yeah well they're back!

It's really out of control here now. Looks like the moderators need to deputize some of us users to help. Step one is to make every new account be verified via a two-step process (Captcha + email verification) as well as have them in a waiting room so to speak before they can post. Or alternatively have their first 5 or 10 posts be moderated and approved before they can post on their own. These things work. I started one of the first acoustic guitar forums on the web back in the 90's and we had these very same problems. As it got more and more popular it became a huge spam magnet. These steps I mention help a lot.

Some forums make new users wait a period of time before they can post. These "Quickbooks" spams are probably made by someone who just signed up or maybe even a "bot".

What's the difference in the necks? Is it the thickness?

I actually find the opposite. My LP is a 2019 Standard '50s with the BB1 and BB2 pups. My 335 is a 2018 with the MHS pups and it's a bit warmer than the LP. I don't know if the wiring scheme is modern or vintage in the 335. The LP is '50s wired and so the tone controls are very interactive with the volume controls. Not so much with the 335 - way more subtle. Both have their place and both are excellent for what they are.

Thanks! Central Mass? I was born and raised in Pittsfield. Back then it was a different place than it is today.

A heat gun helps. I hit the edges with it then the face. The electric stapler is a must, IMO. I do a few inches in the center of each edge then work my way around. Putting the old drip-edge trim back on was brutal. My stapler wouldn't penetrate it so I had to use cut tacks to hold it on. It's pressed into the cab pretty snug but it didn't quite fit right. Can't tell though and I don't plan on taking the baffle back out again. I'm not interested in selling it so I won't have to point it out to anybody else. 🙂

I got mine 4 years ago so that's why I said that.

Ok then . . .

Because the power tubes your amp can use come in different flavors and can develop anywhere from 19 to 30 watts of power each.

Better!

Thank you sir!

The output is relative to the bias point and other factors that are not necessarily etched in stone so the usually would just give a value corresponding to the power tube output at a given point.

That would be the amount of power the amp draws from the wall. At 120 volts it will draw a maximum of around 2.5 amps which is 300 watts. Has nothing to do with the output power of the amp.

Thanks! It's a big step from where it was when I got it to this finished restoration. I have about 400 or so into the electronics - mainly the speaker (Eminence Cannabis Rex), reverb tank and NOS tubes and then another 200 or so into the materials for the restoration. So all in all not a bad deal for 600 bucks and a little labor. The transformers and choke are stock as are most of the coupling caps. I did change a few caps and resistors that absolutely needed it otherwise the electronics are all stock. This amp sounds fantastic.