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I’m helping a family friend sell a collection of guitars who’s owner has passed on.  I’ll be putting them up on craigslist or ebay soon. Some of them need a little cleaning up and setup first.

Memphis strat-copy : 19??   Black, with carboard case, needs new strings

1971-73 American Fender Telecaster
maple fretboard
mostly non-original hardware and electronics

Fender American Jazz Bass 1977-78
fret-less, Baddass Bass II bridge,  EMG pickups

Kramer USA SF 2973

ESP Ltd Bass
Active electronics (needs cleaning up first)

Guild B-301 : 1977-1980
Cherry Finish, mahogany, BT-4 bridge

Ibanez JEM 555 BK
korean – needs major …

So I’ve really been digging Windows 7, but my Presonus Firestudio Project had been giving me all kinds of grief. I’ve generally allways had to do a lot of tweaking with my specialty audio hardware to get it to run acceptably, especially my old Firepod, but this was really driving me crazy. Presonus now has the “Universal Control” app that drives their Firestudio hardware, and it installed fine under Windows 7, but every time I tried to connect the Firestudio it would totally freeze up. It turns out that the …

It is a little more difficult than I thought to find a place to change and bias the tubes in my guitar amp. I’m in Chicago so I figured a quick search of “tube amp repair chicago” would have more recognizable results. Chicago Guitar and Amplifier looks like it’s about my speed but their website says that amp repair has a 1-3 week waiting period. Shuh! I need to rock out now! Anybody have any recommendations? My buddy Ernie recommended Deltronics which looks cool, but it’s only open weekdays 10am …