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Casual Fan
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Casual Fan
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After hitting a couple other shops today, I'm leaning toward the ESP E-II Horizon-III.
It's got a wider, faster neck-thru, has the Floyd Rose so it stays in tune better with dive-bombs and is a LOT les expensive.
Cool. Are you going to swap out the neck? I'm kidding.
HecticArt
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I'm going to call the guy tomorrow. This one is a step or so up from the ones they have in stock, and it has the same neck shape, the arch top, and better hardware. He said he'd order it in no obligation. Very cool, but I'd feel bad if I'd didn't like it after all. Everything being what everything is with the specs and whatnot, it should play the same or better. Especially after a little setup.
Changing the neck reminds me. It's warm enough outside I should put a coat of paint stripper on the Fender I was talking about repainting when I got laid off a year and a half ago.
Changing the neck reminds me. It's warm enough outside I should put a coat of paint stripper on the Fender I was talking about repainting when I got laid off a year and a half ago.
Casual Fan
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We call this "fixing to get ready to" do something in Hillbillyland.
You know what I find amusing? No? I'll tell you. When someone buys a guitar and posts something in a forum like "After swapping out the neck, changing the tuners, replacing the pickups, changing the bridge and tailpiece, replacing the pots and painting it gold with green flecks, this is really a great backup guitar. Highly recommended."
Yes. That $879 you paid for that slab of wood is a real bargain. Maybe he kept the original strap pins.
HecticArt
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I bought it for something like $75 or $80 off a dude back in 89 or 90. It had been repainted and I think it was scratched up a bit. So I decided to do just what you said. That was when I decided to strip it, deepen the lower cut out, take off the fulcrum whammy, and put in the Leo Quan Badass Bridge. Hey, it was the late 80's and I paid next to nothing for it. So I'm FINALLY getting back to cleaning it up and getting it put back together again. Once it's all said and done, it's got to be worth at LEAST $84. But it should be a good backup guitar....
Casual Fan
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See, what you're doing is taking some near-junk and making something of it. I find that highly commendable. I don't see why folks spend inordinate amounts of money on something new and then replace every part on the car except the chassis. More money than sense, I suppose.
HecticArt
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This one did play very nicely when I got it. I just thought I had more time to work on it before I moved to Cincinnati for school. Once I botched the paint job, I was doomed.
The paint came off pretty easily this time. I'll need to sand the hell out of it and get a decent filler on it before I paint. I'm not going to worry much about the whole nitrocellulose deal. It's an ash body with a maple neck, and any place that it will be played, nobody will be able to hear the difference. Especially with the way I play.
The paint came off pretty easily this time. I'll need to sand the hell out of it and get a decent filler on it before I paint. I'm not going to worry much about the whole nitrocellulose deal. It's an ash body with a maple neck, and any place that it will be played, nobody will be able to hear the difference. Especially with the way I play.
Casual Fan
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You play great. You ever thought of going natural with it, no filler or nothin'?
Casual Fan
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Now we know what Jon's been up to...
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HecticArt
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You're far too kind man. I'm passable on a good day, and then only if people are drinking and not paying to be in the same room when I'm playing.
Natural? As in acoustic? I can/do, but electric is easier and more forgiving.
Casual Fan
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HecticArt
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Occupational hazard. I'm more of a fresh coat of paint kind of a guy, than a celebrate the journey type.
Who ever thought Journey was a good idea anyway?
I talked to the guy today, and he's going to check on 2 models of the same rig. One of em is a new model and may not be available for shipping for a month or so.
I'm not going to do this, but I just got really interested in Reverend Guitars. They have a cool story and are out of Detroit. Unfortunately, they recently started building them in Korea, but I hoping they do what others have done and have an American built line too.
This one is pretty killer.
Reverend's General Manager is the guitar player for the local band Polka Floyd that I've talked about here before.
Who ever thought Journey was a good idea anyway?
I talked to the guy today, and he's going to check on 2 models of the same rig. One of em is a new model and may not be available for shipping for a month or so.
I'm not going to do this, but I just got really interested in Reverend Guitars. They have a cool story and are out of Detroit. Unfortunately, they recently started building them in Korea, but I hoping they do what others have done and have an American built line too.
This one is pretty killer.
Reverend's General Manager is the guitar player for the local band Polka Floyd that I've talked about here before.
Casual Fan
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You architects...always going for the new.
Steve Perry?
You've been away too long. Made in America is now code for high price, same or worse quality.
That's a nice Gibby clone. Full hollow body or semi-hollow?
HecticArt
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To a point.....
You've been away too long. Made in America is now code for high price, same or worse quality.
That's a nice Gibby clone. Full hollow body or semi-hollow?
Yeah, it's sad it's gotten that way. I really wanted to go for the USA PRS, but the ESP really surprised me. They make an American line, but those are more expensive than the PRS's.
The Reverend is all hollow. It's got a different cross brace system. There is a single 1/2" brace that runs parallel to the 6th string at the pickup mounting screws, then it turns down under the bridge. It's supposed to keep it sounding really big and natural without all of the feedback at stage volume. They talk about it on their website on the Pete Anderson page.
Casual Fan
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Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster Plus Electric Guitar | Musician's Friend
"Fender instruments have always been about great simplicity and convenient modularity—no other guitars are easier to personalize with new parts and hot-rodded features into truly individual declarations. The remarkable new American Deluxe Strat Plus is the next step in the evolution of that great tradition, giving you three Stratocaster guitars in one with an innovative design featuring easily interchangeable “personality cards” that instantly give you a wealth of versatile pickup and circuitry configurations.
One card comes in the guitar and delivers standard Stratocaster pickup wiring; two extra personality cards are included and let you “rewire” the guitar with specialized pickup and circuitry modifications quickly and easily. Simply pop the color-coded cards in and out of the easy-access compartment in the back, and you’ve just modded your Strat in record time. Further, the American Deluxe Strat Plus features fully solder-less electronics that literally make other great circuit mods a snap."
WTF?!
"Fender instruments have always been about great simplicity and convenient modularity—no other guitars are easier to personalize with new parts and hot-rodded features into truly individual declarations. The remarkable new American Deluxe Strat Plus is the next step in the evolution of that great tradition, giving you three Stratocaster guitars in one with an innovative design featuring easily interchangeable “personality cards” that instantly give you a wealth of versatile pickup and circuitry configurations.
One card comes in the guitar and delivers standard Stratocaster pickup wiring; two extra personality cards are included and let you “rewire” the guitar with specialized pickup and circuitry modifications quickly and easily. Simply pop the color-coded cards in and out of the easy-access compartment in the back, and you’ve just modded your Strat in record time. Further, the American Deluxe Strat Plus features fully solder-less electronics that literally make other great circuit mods a snap."
WTF?!
HecticArt
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Meh.....It's a fad. Guys spending $1,500+ on a rig are going to set it up the way they want it, and leave it that way for years. 16 year olds that are spending every dollar they made in tips for the year on a $500 rig are the ones that will be interested in the versatility. Even then, they won't swap out the cards very often.
Casual Fan
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That was the consensus on a few of the forums I looked at. "Why not just get up and adjust the settings on the amp?"
Apparently Gibson did this years ago. It was called a robot guitar or something.
Apparently Gibson did this years ago. It was called a robot guitar or something.
Casual Fan
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I have a black Levy's leather strap and some Schaller strap locks arriving from Amazon today. That damned bass is heavy. The black strap should look killer on the vintage burst bass.
Did you know you have to mute every string you're not playing on the bass? You can't just let those suckers ring like on a six-string. The bass has so much sustain, you'll sound like a calliope if you don't mute with both hands. It's crazy.
Did you know you have to mute every string you're not playing on the bass? You can't just let those suckers ring like on a six-string. The bass has so much sustain, you'll sound like a calliope if you don't mute with both hands. It's crazy.