Eddie Pletka
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Eddie Pletka
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Bio
I'm currently enrolled at various schools all over Portland, studying electrical engineering, Economics, accounting and small business development. I have been very interested in music theory and guitar since I was ten years young. I have never been in a serious band but I often jam with my friends. At the moment I’ve been spending a lot of time with some of the great musicians out at MT. Hood Community College.
Here at Eurotubes I spend most my time communicating with customers and filling orders. I retube and bias most of the amps that come in and do bias mods for various amps as well.
When I'm not working I spend a lot of time with my awesome Girl Friend of six years. I can also be seen flying around local hills on my long board, snow boarding on Mt. Hood, touring on my road bike and "making sure that every piece of gear in the studio is in tip top shape"!
As of lately I've been enjoying commuting by VELO. Checkout my favorite bike shop. http://www.ride-this.com/
Influences
Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Ronnie Earl, Scott Pemberton, BB King, John Mayor, Derek Trucks and the early days of Clapton. Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Black Sabbath etc…
Gear
I’ve accumulated several pieces of gear over the years including:
A 50’s RI sea foam green strat with a Warmoth neck. The neck wood is Goncalo Alves with a Pau Ferro fret board. The body is loaded with two single coils wound by Marc Culbertson (in the neck and middle positions) along with a Lindy Fralin Un-bucker in the bridge position. This is one of the most versatile guitars I own and one of the warmest sounding starts I’ve played.
A totally custom all warmth Les Paul style guitar. The body wood is Black Limba with a tobacco burst finish and natural binding. At the moment it’s loaded with Jason Lollar’s “high wind” Imperial Humbuckers. The neck is Wenge with an ebony board. This guitar will cop that “les paul thing” but at the same time it’s punchier, tighter and more aggressive. This has become one of my main players…
I recently acquired two guitars built by Marc Culbertson. Marc is one of Portland’s hidden gems and truly a master Luthier. When Marc builds an instrument it’s built to do one thing: Slay!!!
The first is a replica of a 1959 LP special. This guitar is to true to spec straight down to the traditionally placed neck P90. Having the P90 butted right up against the fret board really makes big open chords ring. The downside side is that it also results in a particularly weak neck joint. Marc overcomes this through a few different things including an extra long and deep tenon in the neck joint. This guitar is amazingly vocal unplugged. This is the guitar I grab when I’m writing a song or working something out last minute unplugged. When you crank it up it just screams with that classic P90 growl. This is my go to guitar when I need something that will go for from a super chimey clean to a straight up raunchy, gritty type of overdrive.
The second guitar is T-style guitar and I picked it up right after I said I’d never own a Tele… The body is Mulberry with a Japanese Pagoda top and it’s loaded with a set of Marcs hand wound single coils. It’s bolted up to a super fat flamed maple neck with the wildest striped ebony fret board I’ve ever seen. This guitar doesn’t disappoint. It’s got tone/chime for days with an absolutely guttural low mid thump. Interestingly enough you can play this thing for hours and never feel any kind of ear fatigue. Oh and when you need it to get nasty it’ll do that too!