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re: Lets talk Electric Guitars. What are your go-to/preferences?
Posted on 1/30/17 at 9:34 am to TheFretShack
Posted on 1/30/17 at 9:34 am to TheFretShack
quote:
On the Godin electric ... all the products made by LaSiDo (Godin, Seagull) are great guitars that pack incredible value.
Godin was on the list. They have a Strat style with the maple neck that I liked.
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Posted on 1/30/17 at 10:25 am to SEClint
My two '87s are go to, depending on what I'm playing:
Metal:
1987 Charvel Model 5 blk
(Japanese import-heavily modified)
-24 jumbo frets
-original FR bridge with the Big Block
-SD Dimebucker bridge
-SD Jazz neck
*wired with independent volume knobs/ one master tone (I removed the mid-boost)
-Grover Rotomatics machine heads
-custom HB rings to fit oversized removed Jackson originals
Rock/ Etc.
1987 Gibson SG Special. Black w white/blk/wh/blk pickguard
100% stock.
2 HB
*Headstock broken (by me) and replaced by Tommy @ Tim's circa 2000. No serial number on back.
This is the first time I've found a pic of an SG Special exactly like mine with the dot inlays and unbound dot inlay neck. Crazy.
Metal:
1987 Charvel Model 5 blk
(Japanese import-heavily modified)
-24 jumbo frets
-original FR bridge with the Big Block
-SD Dimebucker bridge
-SD Jazz neck
*wired with independent volume knobs/ one master tone (I removed the mid-boost)
-Grover Rotomatics machine heads
-custom HB rings to fit oversized removed Jackson originals
Rock/ Etc.
1987 Gibson SG Special. Black w white/blk/wh/blk pickguard
100% stock.
2 HB
*Headstock broken (by me) and replaced by Tommy @ Tim's circa 2000. No serial number on back.
This is the first time I've found a pic of an SG Special exactly like mine with the dot inlays and unbound dot inlay neck. Crazy.
This post was edited on 1/30/17 at 10:35 am
Posted on 1/30/17 at 10:33 am to SEClint
2 Fender strats, and oddly enough an Ibanez Artcore. I love that guitar.
Next guitar will be a Tele.
Dream guitars:
Gibson L5
Duesenberg Starplayer TV Mike Campbell Edition. Beautiful guitar
Next guitar will be a Tele.
Dream guitars:
Gibson L5
Duesenberg Starplayer TV Mike Campbell Edition. Beautiful guitar
Posted on 1/30/17 at 10:36 am to SEClint
I don't really have a go-to. All of my guitars fill a niche that the others don't. But I guess if I had to pick one, it would be my black strat. It originally was a 1974 Strat, black w/ white pickguard, maple neck. Looked a lot like Clapton's Blackie. About ten years ago I turned it into something closer to Gilmour's Black Strat by replacing nearly everything:
Bridge - Callaham vintage bridge plate and sustain block
Saddles - GraphTech
Pickups - Bridge SD SSL-5 (w/ base plate), Middle Fender CS '69, Neck SD SSL-1.
Nut - GraphTech
I also put a solid black pickguard on it and added a short stubby trem bar like Gilmour has. I rewired it so that I can use the bottom tone pot to blend in some bridge pickup. The other tone pot acts as a master tone. So I can get neck + bridge, a combination you usually can't get with a strat. Not only that but they are out of polarity with each other, which means I can get a bit of a humbucker effect with them.
Bridge - Callaham vintage bridge plate and sustain block
Saddles - GraphTech
Pickups - Bridge SD SSL-5 (w/ base plate), Middle Fender CS '69, Neck SD SSL-1.
Nut - GraphTech
I also put a solid black pickguard on it and added a short stubby trem bar like Gilmour has. I rewired it so that I can use the bottom tone pot to blend in some bridge pickup. The other tone pot acts as a master tone. So I can get neck + bridge, a combination you usually can't get with a strat. Not only that but they are out of polarity with each other, which means I can get a bit of a humbucker effect with them.
This post was edited on 2/2/17 at 6:34 pm
Posted on 1/30/17 at 2:58 pm to CocoLoco
I love the Artcore guitars. Hard to find left handed though.
Posted on 1/30/17 at 3:03 pm to SEClint
tele for clean
sg and lp for dirty
sg and lp for dirty
Posted on 1/30/17 at 6:20 pm to MountainTiger
quote:
So I can get neck + bridge, a combination you usually can't get with a strat
Kind of a Telecaster sound?
Posted on 1/30/17 at 6:38 pm to FightinTigersDammit
quote:
Kind of a Telecaster sound?
Yeah something like that but with one advantage. You can control the amount of twangy-ness or brightness from the bridge pickup with the blend pot.
The pot works the other way too. If I'm in the bridge position, I can blend in some neck with the pot. I can also get all 3 pickups by putting the switch into the neck + middle position and then adding bridge with the pot.
This post was edited on 1/30/17 at 6:43 pm
Posted on 1/31/17 at 5:51 pm to SEClint
quote:
Les Paul standard built around 1994-1997
I'll bite - why 1994-1997 specifically?
Posted on 1/31/17 at 9:54 pm to Cold Cous Cous
1994 Gibson Les Paul Classic Plus in Cinnamon Burst. I've swapped the pickups for a gold Suhr Aldrich set.
The other LP is a Desert Burst Standard from around '05. It has an Aldrich in the bridge and a 490 in the neck.
I have a bunch of other guitars, but those are my two main ones.
Posted on 2/1/17 at 12:35 pm to BigD45
I'm not a big flame maple guy, but those are very nice. I like how they're not the standard LP red-yellow burst. It's subtler.
Posted on 2/2/17 at 6:15 pm to Cold Cous Cous
quote:
I'll bite - why 1994-1997 specifically?
Quality control was back to being legit, good wood years, and it was a time in my life where I'm nostalgic.
Posted on 2/3/17 at 12:03 pm to SEClint
I had a 94 LP Studio Lite with a ceramic core...one of the hottest guitfiddles I've ever played.
A '95 faded Gib Flying V...not so much. Was happy to unload it.
A '95 faded Gib Flying V...not so much. Was happy to unload it.
Posted on 2/3/17 at 10:57 pm to SEClint
I only play Fender and Gibson's. I'm a Strat guy first and foremost. Was my first guitar at 16 and have always had one. Currently only have my MIM Strat that I've modified to look and sound like David Gilmour's black Strat. Saved $4000 that way. Played the actual custom shop one once and didn't see the purpose of spending that much on a real replica . Also owned a butterscotch Telecaster for a few years and wish I never sold it. Want to get a Gibson ES-339 in sunburst down the road. Played one in Nashville at the Gibson shop and fell in love with it. Had a used Les Paul too for a few years and they're nice but I had one with a knockoff Bigsby vibrato that someone didn't install properly on it so it never stayed in tune. I think it was the version that should have gone on a Tele.
Posted on 2/4/17 at 9:23 am to SEClint
This is my favorite that I have. Burny RLG-85 lawsuit LP. Not kidding at all when I say I've played tons of Les Pauls and owned three Gibson LPs and this is the best out of all of them. I want to be buried with this guitar. I highly recommend Burny guitars.
Posted on 2/4/17 at 9:35 am to RockAndRollDetective
quote:
Burny RLG-85 lawsuit LP
at that head stock. I can see why they got sued or threatened. Posted on 2/4/17 at 2:46 pm to LSU alum wannabe
If you look closely, they deliberately reshaped the truss rod cover to not resemble the bell shape apparently because Gibson is far more touchy about trademarking on that nearly impossible to notice detail than the "open book" headstock shape or the logo font.
I just don't even look at Gibsons anymore. I look at them and see nothing but wasted money.
I just don't even look at Gibsons anymore. I look at them and see nothing but wasted money.
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