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Regarding the intonation issue on my PRS, it's a simple adjustment at the bridge to ensure the guitar is in tune regardless of fret position.
Right now there's a slight variation between harmonics at the third and twelve frets.
Just haven't had time to address it yet.
Right now there's a slight variation between harmonics at the third and twelve frets.
Just haven't had time to address it yet.
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Here's my upstairs toys.
What year and model is your strat? I like that black pickguard on it is that amber burst?
Oh shit, time to brag about my shit...
And those pedals are just what made it to my current board, theres another half dozen/dozen stuffed in the closet right now..
Ive got addictions and guitars happen to be one of them
And those pedals are just what made it to my current board, theres another half dozen/dozen stuffed in the closet right now..
Ive got addictions and guitars happen to be one of them
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And something to play when I'm in the basement.
Basically a custom shop without the price tag. I bought the body from Fender's approved parts supplier (just can't remember the name atm). The neck I bought off ebay, it's an Eric Johnson model Fender neck. The rest was stuff I had around the house from old guitars I'd stripped because I'm actually not that bright.
I's a total partscaster.
Basically a custom shop without the price tag. I bought the body from Fender's approved parts supplier (just can't remember the name atm). The neck I bought off ebay, it's an Eric Johnson model Fender neck. The rest was stuff I had around the house from old guitars I'd stripped because I'm actually not that bright.
I like it
LOL...my ex took the '66 Fender Mustang.Divorced,sold My Washburn
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I saw BB King about 9-10 years ago at a small venue in Calgary. It was by far the best concert I've ever been to.
Here is one of my many but th one that people seem to gravitate to.. Its a Forrest Lee Jr B Bender paisley.. If one does ot know what a B Bender is just ask
How do you like the b bender? Use it a lot? I never really got the appeal for it personally, its a really niche thing. Personally I like the old school early 50s style Teles. Straight up black gaurd 52 would be awesomeness! If I hit the lotto the first big ticket things Id buy would be a 52 Tele, a 56 Strat, and a 58/59 Les Paul
I love it.. one cannot play some songs without it widly used on many songs that people have no idea that it was used on.. The kicker is the guitar weighs 6lbs 1 oz... Now figuring a Fender Nashville B Bender weights about 11 -12 you get the reason .. I would not think of it so much as Niche it has its place I surely do not go around pulling the B Bender for no reason
.. I am a child of the 80's so I am first a Metal head but about 10 years ago I got a bug up my ass to learn like every possible technique haha ....
you brought up that Mustang again had a 67 as a teenager until it got stolen I loved that guitar..LOL...my ex took the '66 Fender Mustang.
I dig it man, whatever works for you. And Im with you on changing it up. I was a diehard metal head back in my teenage years too. I know every Metallica song front and back. Its what I cut my teeth on. But in my early/mid 20s I started pulling more towards blues/blues rock stuff. And now I play kind of a mix of stuff keeping blues in the background throughout. Ive got a Slash kind of sound to my playing (Ive got the Slash tonez brah) with the wild sharp mid heavy solos and such. Its just kind of how my playing naturally progressed through the years.
Anyways though, point is that vintage is making a big comeback in the guitar world. Everyone wants cranked Plexis and mid range boosting pedals and vintage style gear and guitars. Its great to see it.
Anyways though, point is that vintage is making a big comeback in the guitar world. Everyone wants cranked Plexis and mid range boosting pedals and vintage style gear and guitars. Its great to see it.
Nice pedal board by the wayOh shit, time to brag about my shit...
And those pedals are just what made it to my current board, theres another half dozen/dozen stuffed in the closet right now..
Ive got addictions and guitars happen to be one of them
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That is pretty!Here is one of my many but th one that people seem to gravitate to.. Its a Forrest Lee Jr B Bender paisley.. If one does ot know what a B Bender is just ask
I've tried my hand at finishing a couple Warmoth bodies I bought and it's damned hard!
Guitars like that are functional works of art.
I tend to get much of my Ideas from the 80's via George Lynch I tend to favor full out Hybrid picking now.. I did now always but similar to you I took a step back and realized that expression is way more important then me banging out a Harmonic Minor Yngwie Lick
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shit dude I could not dot that kind of body for aything that is real fabric not just a paint job.. Forrest Lee and Crook custom guitars have their bodies both done by some guru in Nashville... and it shows with empty pockets
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I have a cousin who's in his late 60's now who bought and still owns a '59 LP with a book matched figured maple top that would make you feint.
I've beg, pleaded, cajoled and cried to get him to sell it to me but he never will and his son plays so he'll get it! I told him, "I've known you longer than your son. Doesn't that count for anything cous?"
He just laughs...maniacally.
Bustard!
I used to collect guitars and I do not anymore in fact I have weened down from 33 in 2002 to only 6 now.. At one time I had some of the rarest USA Hamer guitars that ever existed.. I sold some to Ed Romans in Las Vegas when I gave up playing in bands due to venues disparaging everywhere. Most of the tme now I will be playing my acoustic to some oddball Celtic tune in some bizzarre tuning .. haha
Thanks man, I built the actual board myself out of some 2x4s. The pedals took a long time to get together and even longer for trial and error getting the combo right. About $2200 worth of pedals on there lol
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I've whittled my pedal count down to 3.Oh shit, time to brag about my shit...
And those pedals are just what made it to my current board, theres another half dozen/dozen stuffed in the closet right now..
Ive got addictions and guitars happen to be one of them
A Blackstar HT Dual (adds 2 more useful channels to an amp).
A Holy Stain for reverb.
An old Akia Analog delay that is cheapo but I still love it.
I'm currently running a Mesa Boogie 50W Lonestar head with a 2x12 Mesa cab upstairs and have a H&K Tuemeister 18 with a Marshall 2x12 1922 cab in the basement.
The Marshall cab really sucked until I remove the handles from the sides to allow it to breath. Still not my favorite but it'll do for now.
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Ya'lls have some nice stuff, I used to have a couple descent Schecters (miss my old Blackjack C-1), SG at one point, real Strat, but have since downgraded to cheap basics for the most part after selling off my nicer stuff when I was broke a few years back.
Here's my $100 CL special I got last year:
Its the Squier Standard LE or some much nonsense, cheap import guitar, but I like it. Can't really tell from the pic, but the pickguard and knobs are mint green, which is a nice touch.
For Christmas I got some Guitar Center gift cards, and put them toward a Taylor Koa GS Mini, nice little acoustic that is fun to play. Also have a tele partscaster, and a LP clone.
Here's my $100 CL special I got last year:
Its the Squier Standard LE or some much nonsense, cheap import guitar, but I like it. Can't really tell from the pic, but the pickguard and knobs are mint green, which is a nice touch.
For Christmas I got some Guitar Center gift cards, and put them toward a Taylor Koa GS Mini, nice little acoustic that is fun to play. Also have a tele partscaster, and a LP clone.
Nicee, Mesas are excellent amps for sure!
Ive got a pedal fetish. I just love how quick you can just flip the entire sound on its head with the click of a switch. Ive got a whole line of dirt pedals on top that can do everything from an excellent pure clean boost (The Mythical Overdrive, my namesake on here. Everyone needs one of these, best Klon Centaur clone on the market IMO) to straight up, amp melting down, earth falling to ash fuzz, and everything in between. Then it runs to the modulation section and EQ. Mostly time effects with the delay, reverb, and tremolo, and the OLA chorus (best chorus Ive ever had), and out to the amp switch and looper. I keep the looper AFTER the signal split and in front of my Fender Blues Deluxe, that way I can make loops and background tracks on the Fender amp, then switch to the Marshall and play leads over it without having it muddled by having one amp doing both. Great set up.
But for amps, I wanted to get more and bigger, but really what I have is all I need. The Marshall can do everything from Plexi, to JCM800, to full on mid cut saturated metal. And the Fender is my clean/blues grit amp which is AMAZING for thick, clean or lightly dirty blues sounds.
Ive got a pedal fetish. I just love how quick you can just flip the entire sound on its head with the click of a switch. Ive got a whole line of dirt pedals on top that can do everything from an excellent pure clean boost (The Mythical Overdrive, my namesake on here. Everyone needs one of these, best Klon Centaur clone on the market IMO) to straight up, amp melting down, earth falling to ash fuzz, and everything in between. Then it runs to the modulation section and EQ. Mostly time effects with the delay, reverb, and tremolo, and the OLA chorus (best chorus Ive ever had), and out to the amp switch and looper. I keep the looper AFTER the signal split and in front of my Fender Blues Deluxe, that way I can make loops and background tracks on the Fender amp, then switch to the Marshall and play leads over it without having it muddled by having one amp doing both. Great set up.
But for amps, I wanted to get more and bigger, but really what I have is all I need. The Marshall can do everything from Plexi, to JCM800, to full on mid cut saturated metal. And the Fender is my clean/blues grit amp which is AMAZING for thick, clean or lightly dirty blues sounds.
I saw him at the University of Miami student union when I was 16 or 17..maybe earlier..
Outdoors, bad acoustics, wonderful.
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It's amazing what you can pick up for cheap.Ya'lls have some nice stuff, I used to have a couple descent Schecters (miss my old Blackjack C-1), SG at one point, real Strat, but have since downgraded to cheap basics for the most part after selling off my nicer stuff when I was broke a few years back.
Here's my $100 CL special I got last year:
Its the Squier Standard LE or some much nonsense, cheap import guitar, but I like it. Can't really tell from the pic, but the pickguard and knobs are mint green, which is a nice touch.
For Christmas I got some Guitar Center gift cards, and put them toward a Taylor Koa GS Mini, nice little acoustic that is fun to play. Also have a tele partscaster, and a LP clone.
I was leaving work about 15 years ago and a young guy in the car next me had his trunk open. I couldn't help see the shape of a strat sitting there and asked him what he was doing with it. H as taking it to a pawn shop to get money for food to feed his kid. Asked what he expected and he said $100 and that included a crappy 10w solid state amp and 3 Boss pedals.
I just told him "follow me the bank!". I gave him $250 for all of it.
The guitar was a Mexican strat I still have, it's taken apart in my garage right now but I re-finished the frets and the neck is as good as any US made I've tried. Electronics were crap so I'm getting a pre-wired Steve Vai Evolution pick guard and will replace the tuners.
For a few hundred quid I end up with an awesome guitar!
If youre looking for cheap guitar equipment, browse craigslist. Youll be amazed the stuff you find for cheap on there. I picked up both my amps on craigslist for $350 each. The Marshall was brand new with a Celesion Creamback, which would cost $800, and my Fendor is a rare model made for a month or 2 back in 95 in limited numbers, not too many pop up, but they are valued at between $1200 and $1400 currently. Steals. Craigslist is the best.
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Yep, that's where I got the $100 special, CL being craigslist.
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Yeah, even import guitars can be pretty descent if you find a good one. They can be a crapshoot, but if you buy them even cheaper used of CL, you can check them out first.
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Hahahahahaha!!!IKR!
$15 hookers and crack hoes? Ha, not this time. Fool me once, shame on you....
Buttt... if you want a good chinese guitar, get you a Squire Classic Vibe Tele or Strat. Play a few and pick a good one. The good ones play as good or better than the high end MIM Fenders. I played a Classic Vibe Tele a while back and my god, it was brilliant. Miles ahead of the MIM Fender Standard Tele I played after it, and its half the price. Its on the list.
Buttt... if you want a good chinese guitar, get you a Squire Classic Vibe Tele or Strat. Play a few and pick a good one. The good ones play as good or better than the high end MIM Fenders. I played a Classic Vibe Tele a while back and my god, it was brilliant. Miles ahead of the MIM Fender Standard Tele I played after it, and its half the price. Its on the list.
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The venue I saw him in had incredible acoustics but he was getting quite old and couldn't perform like he once did.
His band was phenomenal though and whenever BB caught his breath the results were pure magic.
It was cool, he played on his birthday (or within a day, don't remember) and the entire crowd spontaneously stood up and sang Happy Birthday to him.
I've been playing for almost 50 years and have had a bunch of different guitars from tele's, strats, LP's and sold them all when I needed money while my children were younger. I picked up a PRS SE Custom 24 with a Dimarzio Liquifire neck pickup and Dimarzio Crunch Lab bridge pickup a couple years back on CL and it is my all time favorite that I will never part with. I have a small Fender tube amp and a Line 6 M9 Stompbox Modeler and can get just about any sound I want out of it. It is funny how you can find that one in a million if you play enough. I have played several PRS guitars that I would not trade my SE for as far as playability and sound. I have been offered a lot more than I paid for it but have turned down the offers without even thinking about it.
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I have a PRS SE Santana too and agree. It plays beautifully and the electronics are very good!I've been playing for almost 50 years and have had a bunch of different guitars from tele's, strats, LP's and sold them all when I needed money while my children were younger. I picked up a PRS SE Custom 24 with a Dimarzio Liquifire neck pickup and Dimarzio Crunch Lab bridge pickup a couple years back on CL and it is my all time favorite that I will never part with. I have a small Fender tube amp and a Line 6 M9 Stompbox Modeler and can get just about any sound I want out of it. It is funny how you can find that one in a million if you play enough. I have played several PRS guitars that I would not trade my SE for as far as playability and sound. I have been offered a lot more than I paid for it but have turned down the offers without even thinking about it.
The PRS Semihollow Body II is special though. The fluidity of it sets it apart from anything I've ever owned and like you I've had many Strat and LP's to make the comparison.
Truth be known though, if I had to get rid of something for financial reasons, it would be the Semihollow Body and I could be quite content with the SE.
Another great import on the market right now is the Parker PDF70. I had a Fly Mojo many years ago and sold it for the same reasons you mentioned. Played their import model last year and loved it so it'll eventually end up in my collection
PRS SEs are hit or miss, like anything coming out of China/Korea. Get a good one and it can be almost as good as a guitar twice the price. But they arent guitars you wanna get through the internet, because there are definitely duds that just suck too.
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True, the only guitars I've ever bought I played first
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Very nice
Picked this up a couple months ago...I am still learning how to play. Also have an Ovation Acoustic.
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I believe LTD guitars come with a 16" or 18" radius fretboard as a standard.
Total shredders guitar!
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I want!!!!!!!My electric ukulele. 12oz. bottle of coke for size comparison
That thing gorgeous!
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And speaking of shredders, here's one of the best.
I successfully dialed in the exact clean sound on my Bogner but was unsuccessful dialing in the talent
I successfully dialed in the exact clean sound on my Bogner but was unsuccessful dialing in the talent
You guys have really nice guitars. So fuckin jealous. I have been playing for 13 years and I have never owned a really nice guitar.
This is the frankentar. All in all, I think it's made of 4 different guitars. I assembled and wired it all myself with a cheapo soldering iron. It was pure hell, but everything works and it sounds like its supposed to. Some guts from my first guitar, a 2003 Squier Strat (5-way switch, input jack, tone knob, two saddle screws,) Dimarzio X2N in the bridge, unknown Ibanez AX-series pickup in the neck. The neck is from an RG321, so it's probably a wizard II (the original neck on the body must've been something else, because the wizard II is noticeably thinner and less contoured, which I like a lot.) You can't see in this picture, but the headstock is black XD I took the finish off of the neck because I like the feeling of a bare neck. It hasn't warped yet and it's got a nice balance of smoothness and grip. Just needs some 0000 steel wool from time to time to keep it sealed-in.
Basically, a lot of my friends in high school wanted to play guitar, but they got bored of it and neglected their guitars... ...they had basically taken em apart and fucked em up trying to make them not sound like shit. They thought they were worthless, so I bought them off of them for next to nothing and scrapped them for parts to make one better guitar.
All in all, it's a piece of shit that I wired and put together when I was 16 and didn't know what the hell I was doing, but it's served me well over this past decade. At this point, the intonation across the fret board is totally shot... ...indentations all over the place. But I still love playing on it. I've played on nicer guitars, but this one just feels like home yanno? With a set of 12's and a wound 3rd on it, the intonation problems are minimal and I've got everything set to be pretty loose and light, so it all works out to make for a pretty unique-playing instrument.
I just need to get a new RG neck for it. Honestly, I'm thinking about gutting it, dropping a prestige neck on, maybe dropping some bare knuckle pups in it, and bringing some true glory to it on the cheap. I'd rather just fix up this one then spend a bunch of money on a nice, new guitar. I already know what I need and how to set it up to be a great guitar. Why pay for stuff I don't need?
I also have a Schecter C-1 special that I'm slowly warming up to. I didn't like the c-shaped neck at first, but everything on this guitar is set so perfectly that I've learned to like it. That's one thing I've noticed Schecter is really good about... ...even their cheap guitars are set-up perfect, right off the line. Still not sure I want to keep this guitar, though. Everything about is kinda, meh. Might take whatever money I can make from it and toss it into the Ibanez. It's the better guitar of the two, surprisingly enough.
This is the frankentar. All in all, I think it's made of 4 different guitars. I assembled and wired it all myself with a cheapo soldering iron. It was pure hell, but everything works and it sounds like its supposed to.
Some guts from my first guitar, a 2003 Squier Strat (5-way switch, input jack, tone knob, two saddle screws,) Dimarzio X2N in the bridge, unknown Ibanez AX-series pickup in the neck. The neck is from an RG321, so it's probably a wizard II (the original neck on the body must've been something else, because the wizard II is noticeably thinner and less contoured, which I like a lot.) You can't see in this picture, but the headstock is black XD I took the finish off of the neck because I like the feeling of a bare neck. It hasn't warped yet and it's got a nice balance of smoothness and grip. Just needs some 0000 steel wool from time to time to keep it sealed-in.Basically, a lot of my friends in high school wanted to play guitar, but they got bored of it and neglected their guitars... ...they had basically taken em apart and fucked em up trying to make them not sound like shit. They thought they were worthless, so I bought them off of them for next to nothing and scrapped them for parts to make one better guitar.
All in all, it's a piece of shit that I wired and put together when I was 16 and didn't know what the hell I was doing, but it's served me well over this past decade. At this point, the intonation across the fret board is totally shot... ...indentations all over the place. But I still love playing on it. I've played on nicer guitars, but this one just feels like home yanno? With a set of 12's and a wound 3rd on it, the intonation problems are minimal and I've got everything set to be pretty loose and light, so it all works out to make for a pretty unique-playing instrument.
I just need to get a new RG neck for it. Honestly, I'm thinking about gutting it, dropping a prestige neck on, maybe dropping some bare knuckle pups in it, and bringing some true glory to it on the cheap. I'd rather just fix up this one then spend a bunch of money on a nice, new guitar. I already know what I need and how to set it up to be a great guitar. Why pay for stuff I don't need?
I also have a Schecter C-1 special that I'm slowly warming up to. I didn't like the c-shaped neck at first, but everything on this guitar is set so perfectly that I've learned to like it. That's one thing I've noticed Schecter is really good about... ...even their cheap guitars are set-up perfect, right off the line. Still not sure I want to keep this guitar, though. Everything about is kinda, meh. Might take whatever money I can make from it and toss it into the Ibanez. It's the better guitar of the two, surprisingly enough.
True, the only guitars I've ever bought I played first
One of my main favorites I actually got through the mail. The only 2 companies Id order blind is ESP/LTD and Ibanez. Never played a bad guitar from either in any price bracket.
I don't play, would love to learn the bass... so I can be like Haruko from FLCL
Haha, yeah. I wasn't even into bass back then but she did look really cool with that Rickenbacker 4001. That is one iconic guitar.
Too bad it's also a 2500-3000 dollar guitar... ...no joke. At that price, I'd be afraid to ever take it out of the case...
Agreed. Ibanez has their QC on-point. I don't think I've ever played on a dud... ...even their cheapest models play great.
Yea they do amazing in the QC along with ESP/LTD. They come out of the box ready to play. Its a shame that even the mid range $400 Ibanez/LTD guitars made in China have better quality control than fucking $8000 Custom Shop Gibson Historics made in the US. Gibson has (or had as of last year when I kinda fell outta the loop). some of the WORST quality control in the game. And when you think that even their most basic low priced models are still $1000, its totally unacceptable.
Gibson is but a shell of its former self. In the late 50s they made THE most iconic guitar in rock n roll history with the Les Paul Standard Sunburst. Every one of your guitar heros from the 60s and 70s used one. Clapton, Page, Frampton,f Green, Moore, Rossington, Kossoff, Beck, Richards, Frehley, Gibbons, and the list goes on. Arguably the best guitar ever made and they can fetch millions depending on the history of it.
And now? Pfft, Henry is ruining the company. Jacking the prices, making horrible changes, using shitty materials, ever increasingly machine made, etc, etc. Just terrible.
Gibson is but a shell of its former self. In the late 50s they made THE most iconic guitar in rock n roll history with the Les Paul Standard Sunburst. Every one of your guitar heros from the 60s and 70s used one. Clapton, Page, Frampton,f Green, Moore, Rossington, Kossoff, Beck, Richards, Frehley, Gibbons, and the list goes on. Arguably the best guitar ever made and they can fetch millions depending on the history of it.
And now? Pfft, Henry is ruining the company. Jacking the prices, making horrible changes, using shitty materials, ever increasingly machine made, etc, etc. Just terrible.