Topic: Re: The Guitar Topic - B (Read 400822 times)

Lummer · « **Reply #1500 on:** 18 Apr 2010, 14:54 »

This, on the other hand:

doombilly · « **Reply #1501 on:** 18 Apr 2010, 17:59 »

I'd have one in the Korina (V that is. Or one of them Kauer Daylighter Expresses, or both. Methinks BOTH. Yes)

carrotosaurus · « **Reply #1502 on:** 18 Apr 2010, 18:54 »

I have something real similar to the white Les Paul JR in the background on the floor, only mine is a doublecut.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1503 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 02:52 »

So I guess I am the only one who thinks a carved-top Jazzmaster clone is A Mistake

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1504 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 21:18 »

A+++ would jizz on that bass

Bearer · « **Reply #1505 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 05:42 »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6r2-vkQT7E

The 1959 Les Paul Replica build by preeb over at TDPRI is finished!

NotAFanOfFenders · « **Reply #1506 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 07:41 »

Ah man that build was great. I've been following it closely since it started

doombilly · « **Reply #1507 on:** 01 May 2010, 05:31 »

Sold my mostly working Fender Twin Reverb last night for $375. Woo. Needed cash. Went to a good home. Only 1000 amps left in the tuba nook.

A Wet Helmet · « **Reply #1508 on:** 01 May 2010, 08:27 »

I went online yesterday to find some parts to fix the old P-bass and ended up buying two more guitars. Not quite sure how to tell the wife.

doombilly · « **Reply #1509 on:** 02 May 2010, 09:20 »

haha, my wife had me at Guitar Center after closing last night, trading two old cabinets for the last Ampeg 8x10 they had.

Lummer · « **Reply #1510 on:** 03 May 2010, 02:04 »

I recently traded in my Flying V, for a pretty sweet BC Rich gunslinger. Pics will follow soon.

doombilly · « **Reply #1511 on:** 03 May 2010, 13:25 »

I'ma have a Flying V one day. Just because...funny shaped guitars. What's not to like?

Ballard · « **Reply #1512 on:** 04 May 2010, 11:33 »

Quote from: doombilly on 01 May 2010, 05:31

Sold my mostly working Fender Twin Reverb last night for $375. Woo. Needed cash. Went to a good home. Only 1000 amps left in the tuba nook.

What the hell ass why?

valley_parade · « **Reply #1513 on:** 08 May 2010, 07:21 »

My tax return just came in. Do I mash buy on that Mosrite fuzz clone I've been gassing for?

doombilly · « **Reply #1514 on:** 08 May 2010, 07:50 »

Quote from: Ballard on 04 May 2010, 11:33

Quote from: doombilly on 01 May 2010, 05:31
Sold my mostly working Fender Twin Reverb last night for $375. Woo. Needed cash. Went to a good home. Only 1000 amps left in the tuba nook.

What the hell ass why?

1) Needed money.
2) It didn't work completely.
3) I have many amps.
4) I've not played it in years.

Ballard · « **Reply #1515 on:** 08 May 2010, 10:20 »

It's a $1400 amp you monkey-brained fool.

I'd have bought it from you for more than that, shit.

doombilly · « **Reply #1516 on:** 09 May 2010, 06:37 »

I was not having any messing around with shipping etc... Also I paid very little for it. I know it was a low price to pay. But I never have had luck selling anything for what approaches real value.

NotAFanOfFenders · « **Reply #1517 on:** 10 May 2010, 13:54 »

So guitar-thread, do any of you have any experience with the rg-7321? I have the chance to get one cheaply and i was wondering if it is okay for the price.
I've been gassing for a cheap 7 for a while.

Ballard · « **Reply #1518 on:** 10 May 2010, 16:37 »

Paging Lummer to this thread.

Lummer. To this thread.

Lummer · « **Reply #1519 on:** 11 May 2010, 00:07 »

Quote from: NotAFanOfFenders on 10 May 2010, 13:54

So guitar-thread, do any of you have any experience with the rg-7321? I have the chance to get one cheaply and i was wondering if it is okay for the price.
I've been gassing for a cheap 7 for a while.

I've had two of them over the years, and I still have my second one. It's a really good basic guitar, if you get a decent specimen. I've heard of some pretty terrible turkeys among them, but these days it's fine. If you can snag one of the older MIK ones, you're good.

A good trick with them is, to sand the back of the neck lightly with the rough side of a kitchen sponge. That will give you something closer to the feel of a prestige neck.

I say go for it! If it's cheap, you can also factor in a pickup change.

glyphic · « **Reply #1520 on:** 11 May 2010, 06:23 »

Local shop has one of these:

Priced at $175. It includes a tweed hardshell. It took so much effort not to buy it.

Determining factors were the fact that it is an SX guitar and has P-90 clones that sound dark. That body shape turns me on, though.

NotAFanOfFenders · « **Reply #1521 on:** 11 May 2010, 06:47 »

Quote from: Lummer on 11 May 2010, 00:07

Quote from: NotAFanOfFenders on 10 May 2010, 13:54
So guitar-thread, do any of you have any experience with the rg-7321? I have the chance to get one cheaply and i was wondering if it is okay for the price.
I've been gassing for a cheap 7 for a while.

I've had two of them over the years, and I still have my second one. It's a really good basic guitar, if you get a decent specimen. I've heard of some pretty terrible turkeys among them, but these days it's fine. If you can snag one of the older MIK ones, you're good.

A good trick with them is, to sand the back of the neck lightly with the rough side of a kitchen sponge. That will give you something closer to the feel of a prestige neck.

I say go for it! If it's cheap, you can also factor in a pickup change.

I can get one with an emg at the bridge for 2000 kroner. That's like 120$ right? I've got the stock emgs in my EC and I really do like them. Is 120$ a good deal?

Glyphic, i've always loved those SX jazzbastards. They're like insanely cheap too. How did the neck feel?

glyphic · « **Reply #1522 on:** 11 May 2010, 07:13 »

It felt fine. Nothing special.

I guess it felt exactly how a $175 guitar's neck should.

boneykingofnowhere · « **Reply #1523 on:** 11 May 2010, 19:25 »

Quote from: glyphic on 11 May 2010, 06:23

Local shop has one of these:

Priced at $175. It includes a tweed hardshell. It took so much effort not to buy it.

Determining factors were the fact that it is an SX guitar and has P-90 clones that sound dark. That body shape turns me on, though.

The other guitarist in my band has that in light blue, the pickups squeal like a motherfucker but it sounds great in the middle position.

sean · « **Reply #1524 on:** 11 May 2010, 19:47 »

swap the pickups out?

Ballard · « **Reply #1525 on:** 11 May 2010, 22:55 »

Quote from: sean on 11 May 2010, 19:47

swap the pots out and re-wire everything

FYP

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1526 on:** 12 May 2010, 00:23 »

So last summer some kids decided by guitar looked like good target practice and broke a few tuning keys off.

http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/product/Grover-Trophy-102-Rotomatics-3PerSide-Guitar-Tuning-Keys?sku=361000

These seem like the best replacements imo but what do y'all think?

A Wet Helmet · « **Reply #1527 on:** 12 May 2010, 03:21 »

These are my favorites right here . If you've really got your heart set on grovers, then...

glyphic · « **Reply #1528 on:** 12 May 2010, 06:29 »

Wait. Some kids shot your guitar with firearms? And they broke tuning keys off? WITH BULLETS?

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1529 on:** 12 May 2010, 07:12 »

Nu nu nu, they hit it with a soccer ball. Twice. I was pretty piffled.

Quote from: A Wet Helmet on 12 May 2010, 03:21

These are my favorites right here . If you've really got your heart set on grovers, then...

Those first ones wouldn't fit my guitar - the holes are only 8mm, I made sure to check first. I'm going to see what they say about returning them (the Grovers, that is) in case they don't fit - I don't want to order machine heads that don't fit and then find out I'm stuck with them!

Thanks, though!

glyphic · « **Reply #1530 on:** 12 May 2010, 09:03 »

I am still baffled by your story.

I have always like Imperial style tuners, though.

doombilly · « **Reply #1531 on:** 12 May 2010, 14:18 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 12 May 2010, 00:23

So last summer some kids decided by guitar looked like good target practice and broke a few tuning keys off.

http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/product/Grover-Trophy-102-Rotomatics-3PerSide-Guitar-Tuning-Keys?sku=361000

These seem like the best replacements imo but what do y'all think?

http://www.sperzel.com/

don't fuck around.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1532 on:** 12 May 2010, 17:58 »

I don't know if that's quite what I'm looking for, though. I tend to use a *lot* of alternate tunings include some really floppy string fret buzz ones, and reading through this doesn't seem to quite match up to what I want. Nice heads though.

Edit: Actually the more I think about it those would be exactly what I'd want for an electric, but I'm not fixing up an electric, so. . .

Quote from: glyphic on 12 May 2010, 09:03

I am still baffled by your story.

I have always like Imperial style tuners, though.

Okay. Last summer, some of my relatives from England came over to New York, and we figured since they're here we should have a family reunion. I brought my guitar, and I don't remember the specifics but the headstock was hit with a soccer ball a couple times which broke the tuning keys off. Does that explain it? I then went home and took all of them off and put the guitar into storage.

Lummer · « **Reply #1533 on:** 13 May 2010, 17:45 »

Quote from: NotAFanOfFenders on 11 May 2010, 06:47

I can get one with an emg at the bridge for 2000 kroner. That's like 120$ right? I've got the stock emgs in my EC and I really do like them. Is 120$ a good deal?

Incidentally I live in Kroner-land too, so yeah, that would be a very good deal. Go go go!

NotAFanOfFenders · « **Reply #1534 on:** 14 May 2010, 13:40 »

Sweet. I'll have to wait it out a bit though, since I just bought a bunch of hardware and electronics from Guitarfetish for my el cheapo kelly-clone. Making an insert to fit a floyd-route from mahogany is hard work!

Lupercal · « **Reply #1535 on:** 16 May 2010, 16:38 »

Quote from: glyphic on 11 May 2010, 06:23

Local shop has one of these:

Priced at $175. It includes a tweed hardshell. It took so much effort not to buy it.

Determining factors were the fact that it is an SX guitar and has P-90 clones that sound dark. That body shape turns me on, though.

Rondo has some great stuff for people like me that would love to mod the shit out of something. Unfortunately living in the UK, there is no guarantee that I'll ever get the guitar. If it arrives to me damaged, or not at all, then no refund or anything. Which is a shame because the guitars similar to this on Rondo (at $130US) is just under £90. And over here, £90 hardly gets you anything nearly as good (for the money) as one of those.

I have a Strat which I love, but its about time I got something else. Would love a Jaguar but also would want something like the VRS 100, something with humbuckers and a really good bridge for dive bombs etc.

edwinalink · « **Reply #1536 on:** 19 May 2010, 11:46 »

I want to build a Purple Quilt-top Warmoth Iceman with Bare Knuckle nailbombs...

I CAN HAZ 2 GRANDZ PLZ THNX!?

NotAFanOfFenders · « **Reply #1537 on:** 19 May 2010, 22:56 »

Get a Ran custom instead. They can make it a neck-through.

glyphic · « **Reply #1538 on:** 20 May 2010, 06:14 »

Is there really any reason to have neck-through construction? My Schecter is neck-through, but I don't really notice much in the way of benefit. Seems like the biggest difference is if the neck warps, I have to get a new guitar.

NotAFanOfFenders · « **Reply #1539 on:** 21 May 2010, 01:58 »

Honestly i think neck-through is overrated, i'd just as much have an AANJ bolt-on. Both are equally as comfortable really. I can't stand most set-neck joints though, like on my main.

5-7 piece maple-walnut/ebony neckthroughs in natural are pretty damned sexy though. YMMV

doombilly · « **Reply #1540 on:** 21 May 2010, 05:02 »

I think I notice the neck thru on my wife's carvin bass over her standard precision bolty.

NotAFanOfFenders · « **Reply #1541 on:** 21 May 2010, 08:49 »

You're talking about a carvin versus a fender here though. Which models?

edwinalink · « **Reply #1542 on:** 21 May 2010, 14:51 »

oooooh.... Ran makes a lovely guitar... looks like they cost an arm and a leg!

Honestly I don't really have any huge preferences on Neck joints.

But where I'm at right now with my Warmoth planning. I'll have a purple left handed iceman hardtail with one pickup and a single combined Tone/Volume knob.

Ain't no one else on gods green earth gonna want that guitar.

to make matters worse... I'm gonna hand paint it with something like this...

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that is, unless I can find a way to stick that image under Lacquer...

Are your eyes bleeding yet?

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1543 on:** 21 May 2010, 20:12 »

NotAFanOfFenders · « **Reply #1544 on:** 23 May 2010, 13:25 »

why not, besides the fact that it's pretty um, over the top? It's not your guitar, you don't need to look at it.

What kind of neck is going on it?

edwinalink · « **Reply #1545 on:** 24 May 2010, 02:16 »

well. if its a warmoth neck...
it will have an ebony Fretboard, and stainless steel 6105 Frets... if its unfinished the wood would be Wenge, finished mahogony (no real smart reason for that, wenge is just freakin pretty) as for headstocks I'm still thinking...

though honestly, I'm thinking of buying a lefty mexican tele, and gutting it onto that Warmoth iceman body, adding a nice Humbucker, custom pickguard and the HB tele Bridge...

and then totally rip this guy off...

I mean, mexitele's are like 500 bucks. a decent Warmoth neck alone gets up to that price!

Quote from: David_Dovey on 21 May 2010, 20:12

why

^EXACTLY.

If my posts have taught the people of this forum nothing else. its that I am a pretty big tool.

I feel my guitar should reflect that.

doombilly · « **Reply #1546 on:** 24 May 2010, 15:46 »

Quote from: NotAFanOfFenders on 21 May 2010, 08:49

You're talking about a carvin versus a fender here though. Which models?

Any of her P basses. Am Std, Hwy 1, or ye olde Franken P (60's-70's).

vs
the first LB70P or the new LB70P (I think that's the model). Somewhat apples n guavas. But Fender don't make a neck thru.

Pogotross · « **Reply #1547 on:** 24 May 2010, 23:55 »

Quote from: edwinalink on 21 May 2010, 14:51

to make matters worse... I'm gonna hand paint it with something like this...

Have you thought about trying wood burning/pyrography/whatever for it? I think it could turn out really interesting that way, especially with a purple stain afterward (if that works with wood burnings, I have no idea.)

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1548 on:** 25 May 2010, 00:02 »

OK so that IceCaster is very pretty

edwinalink · « **Reply #1549 on:** 25 May 2010, 04:37 »

yeah, that thing is making me consider throwing out my Gothbeyondgoth Idea...

and doing a bright (but not pale) blue body, with a Tele style headstock.

why he cloned the Iceman 3+3 is beyond me. I think that's the uglier of two ugly headstocks.

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