Timbo, that is an awesome guitar.
I'll edit this when I get home and post a picture, but I've got a Peavey Predator Strat-a-like. Two years ago, I discovered the wonderful world of guitar modding (it has much the same appeal as overclocking, case modding and the like).
EDIT: Here's the promised pic:
Anyway, I made the stainless steel pick gaurd, shielded the internals and redid the wiring. Also, instead of the tone knobs and strat style pickup selector, you can see there is now a ton of switches. I can turn on any pickup individually, switch between series and parallel wiring, and throw the neck pickup out of phase. It sounds way better than it used to--it's amazing what a little shielding will do for your tone, particularly on a single coil guitar.
Unfortunately (fortunately?
), the bridge pickup is going microphonic, so I need to replace them. I'm contemplating building a winding machine and making my own.
Whether I buy or make the pickups, I'm going to change the switch wiring so that only one switch flips between serial and parellel wiring and put a second switch so that I can throw both the neck and the bridge pickups out of phase (after doing the original wiring job, I discovered I really like phase change effects better than serial/parallel, although that's great too--a little more subtle of a tone change though).
Enough geeking about my guitar wiring. I run this bad boy through a Wah-Wah and into a Peavy Bandit 112.
I recently bought one of these digital modelling amps. It's a Line6 Flextone III. These things get a lot of flak from various quarters for not having that tube tone etc or for being too dumb for a digital amp. I have to say I'm pretty pleased with it though. I can get Mike Stern style tones from it and plain Montgomery style Jazz/Blues noises AND still make it sound like a big Marshall stack when I just want to make a lot of noise 
Those in the "j00 must have rael Tube Sound(tm)" are a bunch of wankers. The only reason transistor amps have such a bad rep is that there are a lot of cheap, shitty transistor amps. Peavy makes some really good transistor amps--particularly the Bandits, and their Transtube brethren. This is without being a digital modelling amp--although, those are sweet too.
And even the venerable Marshall is coming around to transistors with their Advanced Valvestate amps (tube pre-amp with a transistor power amp). I haven't played on one, but I really want to.
I'll probably end up designing and building my next amp anyway...
EDIT: Oh, and I'm in a band (which is why I'm not on the servers all the time...). We're called 'Violence Mars' and our frontman maintains a myspace page for us:
http://www.myspace.com/violencemars. As far as how we sound goes, I'll quote the myspace page, "a robot getting beat up by a post-punk band".
Jeff
