Stop the trashtalk, taunting and disrespect -
let's bring back sportsmanship
Deaf
Eddie!
Home of the FAT-O-Caster
Stop foolin' around and go right to the " BUY IT " page
Stop the trashtalk, taunting and disrespect -
let's bring back sportsmanship
Deaf
Eddie!
Home of the FAT-O-Caster
Stop foolin' around and go right to the " BUY IT " page
Deaf Eddie?!? Yep, that's my "blues name" - bestowed upon me by my friend and ex-cohort in musical crime, William Scott Arthur Kidd. He gave it to me as I accompanied his performances in local coffee houses on my Oahu square-necked "Hawaiian slide" guitar during the late sixties, here in sunny San Diego. I haven't used it much since... the name OR the guitar!
I'm a retired union-card-carrying musician, who quit playing to get a day job - go figure. Anywhoo, I'm a nut-case guitar tinkerer, and I thought I could use the Internet as a forum to share the wealth of my experience with all my fellow-whackos out there - you know who you are. I have a fairly spiffy (if small) collection of guitars, some of which I have modified in unusual and clever ways.
There has been a bit of confusion over my real name. THIS LINK should clear it up.
In response to the dozens of requests I'll no doubt never get, here's a little more "about me" stuff...
The FREEBEE TIPS and TRICKS:
Here's the NEW AND IMPROVED page of
Deaf Eddie's custom wiring mods...
Here's a couple of series, parallel, and out-of-phase mods you can do with to your guitar, adding a single switch...
I call it
"Fun with Push-Pull Pots" (but you could use any kind of a switch you like...)
Say, want to get five tones out of a two-pup Tele, but keep the stock look? Try the Five-Tone-Tele scheme
The Chromacaster and FAT-O-Caster
Yes, this is the place to buy the kits I have developed for the discriminating Strat hot-rodder.
The kits include a pre-wired switch, instructions and drawings.
Even the novice hot-rodder can succeed with these easy-to-install upgrades.
Take yer Strat from mild to wild!
CLICK HERE for the Chromacaster & FAT-O-Caster pages.
I'm working on some new amplifier pages...
Ah, the ubiquitous Stratocaster... Here are a few of mine...
Here's a fun project - a tribute to George Harrison's most famous Strat, "Rocky"
Wanna see something REALLY DIFFERENT in a Strat? Check out the one I call the "Purple Haze!!!"
And now, see PART TWO: "Jimi's WoodStick!"
Teles? I got Teles...
My all-mahogany thinline Gibson-scale Tele-type, the May-Hog-Tele
Here's a reasonably "stock" Tele-type I assembled. It's the Ballad of Black Bart...
Here's another Tele-type I put together to wok on my take of the "Jimmy Page Signature LP" wiring scheme.
I called it the Les & Leo Page-O-Caster, but it never got much playtime.
This year (2011) I renecked it and changed the wiring scheme to something more to my tastes, and it's now the
Junkyard Dawg...
In spite of all the "Fender-ish" presence, I'm really a Gibson guy at heart...
My 2007 birthday guitar, a Gibson Faded Flying V...
My Deaf Eddie-ed Gibson ES-333...
A lovely 1996 Gibson BB King signature model Lucille...
Remember the seventies? Disco STILL sucks!
Practically every guitar made back then had some kind of coil tap or phase switch.
Here's my Les Paul Custom,
a victim/beneficiary of that decade...
Gibson a little too pricey? I find the MIK Epiphones to be very good guitars...
Here's my remarkable (if MIK) Epiphone Sheraton II, totally re-worked to my tastes... the Urban Ruffian!
Here's an Epi DOT I redid - slightly less extreme...
... And Spot the DOT - for the jazzer in us all...
... AND an Epi Firebird - I just had to have one!
Some more project axes:
The 2001 project: "Lennon's Casino." It's an honest-to-Gibson Kalmazoo-made late-sixties EPIPHONE CASINO!
Here's a spring break '06 project:
My rebuild of a Gibson Les Paul "non-standard" Studio
Here's a couple of axes I consider classics - so I haven't taken 'em apart (yet!)...
Well, I DID re-groove
the nut for more playable string-spacing...
My magnificent Rickenbacker 360v64-12 - just
like George's, in "A Hard Day's Night" !!!
A 1990 Gibson reissue of a 1960 Les Paul Special...
A 1967 Harmony Rocket... this one's actually sold and gone, but I can't bear to take the page down...
Yes, I've been bitten by the vintage Harmony bug.
Here are a couple of mid-sixties Silvertone-badged examples I am delighted to own and play...
And here's the 2002 birthday axe: my first Gretsch since the late seventies...
You want basses?
I got basses...
I did a quick review of my Rogue VB-100 "Beatle" Bass, and there's a tip for a cool mod...
... And, of course, there's the ever-faithful Fender Precision Bass...
I picked up a J-Bass in '08...
Geez, I guess I could go on until I have all my guitars up here... and I may yet!
Coming .... SOMEDAY! My acoustics... yeah, someday...
Even before I "retired" from performing, I'd been a MIDI user. Though I'm now utilizing PowerTracks on a Windows-based computer, I actually started out on a Commodore 64 with the old Syntech program and interface.
Now, that's OLD!
One of my all-time favorite MIDI pieces is the KORG EX8000 (the rack-mount module version of the DW8000). I've had mine since I got it brand-new in 1986, and I've recently acquired a DW8000 to add to my MIDI arsenal. I like these synths so much, that I've even made a sort of "DW8000/EX8000 Support Page" for them, with lots of spiffy junk and links to more good stuff.
If you have one of these old gems, you gotta check it out...
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Our annual jam/reunions - PalmStalk!
My page of links to some GREAT places to get info, ideas, and guitar-whacking supplies...
The TACOMA page... My glory daze of rock 'n' roll...
The Tacoma Historical/Hysterical Photo Album
More San Diego rock 'n' roll history... The Generations!
My pal Mychael Moaze's bands... The Urban Gypsys and Kingfish Turner
Pics from the Utah Blues Band reunion of 2005...
Questions? E-mail me!
