Alright guys I'm gonna order some BB gear, any suggestions.
I'm looking at Deep Psychosis and engineers dream. What ya guys think.
Those two are what I'm gonna run next round.
Oh!
Jig!
I've been meaning to ask about the new guitfiddle you're saving for.
Round or pointy?
LP?
SG?
Strat?
Tele?
Jag?
Explorer?
Uke!?!?!?
Dish!
Note: all talk below is of strats unless otherwise noted.
So... here's the story. Since baby has come along I've been doing different things. Not so much video gaming and napping.... a whole lot more guitar playing and reading. For reading I'm getting a nice new Kindle Paperwhite for christmas. For the guitar playing I started looking at all the Guitar Center black friday ads. About the only thing I could find that I could use was a new guitar. I was looking at the Classic Player and Classic Series of 60's guitars. I liked the features they had on them and seemed nice guitars a step or two above the old squire I have. They are selling new for I think $700 at Guitar center. Maybe $800, somewhere around there. The big difference with the 60s throwback is the fretboard. One has a 12" radius (i think) the other a 7.25" radius. Regular strats are 9.5" regular les pauls are 12". So then I thought, WAIT.... I don't buy things like this NEW!!!!
I hoped on craigslist and saw what was on offer for fenders. I quickly found that my price range included American built guitars. The classic varieties are mexican built. Still a step above the korean build one I have from 1993. So suddenly I'm looking at American standards, and even American deluxe's. Those are the ones that list at $2,300 and sell at GC for $1,700.
I'm going to hold out for a deluxe.
It will be a darker sunburst. There are 3rd gen noiseless pickups in there. An s-1 switching deal, which basically gives you 5 more pickup configs via the switch. To activate the volume knob has a recessed button in the center. Normally on the 5 switch you get neck, neck/middle, middle, middle/ bridge, bridge. With the s-1 activated you get all 3 in series, bridge/middle in series, middle/neck in series, bridge/ neck out of phase, with a special tone cap, bridge/ middle in series and out of phase, in parallel with neck
As I understand it, the 2 pickups wired in series act like a humbucker. So the s-1 has some fatter sounds, especially having 2 different settings with all 3 pickups turned on.
The guitar also has locking tuners, strap locks, a super nice tremolo that I will block anyways, the fretboard has a compound radius, so it goes from 9.5" to 14" one end to the other, and a fun feature is a contoured neck heel. You know that annoying metal square covering where the neck hooks to the body. Well the deluxe strat has taken down that annoying corner, so it's all rounded and comfortable. I don't think I'll miss having the corner of that digging into my palm when I am way up the register.
Aaaaaaaaaannnnndddd here's a video:
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so it wont even let me play the videos on youtube since it cant find my sound drivers/devices. other sites let me watch w/o sound. weird huh?
mmm the good old days. wonder what strains they were smoking back then. 
