Met Fellow Knuclehead Lukather101 and provided tlc to his 2 balls

**Spudmurphy** · 11-02-2009, 09:22 AM

I met up with new knucklehead Lukather101 last night. He lives about a 40 minute drive away and he wanted me to look at his balls

First up was an early Morse hardtail that had developed some pitting in the lacquer on the neck. After a dose of SpudMurphy's super secret unguents, the neck came up very nice. He had all the case candy including the original EB quality checklist initialled "DG" - Dudley Gimple perhaps?

Luke is a very nice guitarist who plays in a lot "heavier" style than myself - but man some of those Satch and EVH licks sounded awesome throgh my Mesa F50.
We had it turned up LOUD - my ears were still buzzing this morning!
He tried all my balls and was very complimentary on them.

Next up was a Luke he bought - really nice condition - Red.
he had spent money on a set up and was not happy with it.
Man - the bridge floated so high that when you played around 12-15 fret and bent the stings a tone - your fretting/bending finger slid underneath the adjacent strings. It was a 8ugger to stay in tune too because of the amount of float.
I screwed in the claw and got it to pitch up by a semitone,- this brought the trem closer to the body then radiused the saddles. Got the action low - too low in fact so upped them a tad. Adjusted the intonation - gave the rod a tweek and it played a lot better. A lot more stable. It sounded VERY nice through the Mesa. I told him to play it to death this week and I'll pay him a return visit -he can show me how to play the tapping solo from Jump!!
I'm not a Luke expert so it will be interesting to see the set up from the factory, when I see the Strings n Things stall at Music Live this weekend.

So once again, great to meet a fellow knucklehead and go someway to sorting out some problems. I meant to take some pics - but alas, I forgot

**Adamr** · 11-02-2009, 10:33 AM

wish you lived a bit closer to me . sounds like your a handy to have around.

**lukather101** · 11-02-2009, 11:23 AM

Got to say a big thank you to Kevin for the offer to take my balls to his pad and to put his healing hands all over them.
He did a great job on both of them , the jury is still out on the Luke so I’m going to give it a good blast this week to see whether it feels right for me , if not who knows.

As far as spuds collection and set up is concerned what can I say , it was the first time I had picked up an Albert but to anyone who thinks it’s a one trick pony they couldn't be more wrong , though his boogie I don't think there was a sound you would struggle to get , it pretty much covers everything .

Star of the day for me was the hard tail EVH, the sound on that (for rock at least) was as close to perfection as I’ve heard, an absolute dream to play.
I’m expecting to see your neighbor’s house up for sale after last night , my ears are still buzzing tonight , what a great Amp that boogie is truly world class .

Will let you know how I get on with the Luke.

Darren.

**Spudmurphy** · 11-02-2009, 12:33 PM

Nice one Daz.

I gotta rehearsal tonight- i won't be using the Mesa though - I think I'll use that one watt amp I showed ya

**Spudmurphy** · 11-02-2009, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Adamr

wish you lived a bit closer to me . sounds like your a handy to have around.

I used to work a lot in Newcastle - West Jesmond was where I used to stay.
Shame though that since I got promotion I don't get to go to Newcastle.
Used to love looking at the guitars in "Guitar Guitar".