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Dreaming1

Dreaming1

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srh88 said:
How do you like the 4 way?
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I like the series option. A bit humbucker like. Bassier, compressed, loud, aggressive like the bridge, but with more balls. It is a bit noisy if you switch through while holding a chord.
I like the cover off the neck too. Brings definition to it. More like difference between neck and bridge on strat.
 
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Dreaming1

Dreaming1

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1st guitar got into rehab. Really wants to turn its life around. I filed the frets,fitted a bone nut, added 2nd tone knob and toggle. Push/pull for neck pickup on, for all pickup combos. The switch ties the middle p/u to either tone knob. Tone knobs for both in the 2 and 4 positions. Blocked the tremelo bridge. I am not a whammy bar guy. Just a little wobble on chords.
Never get rid of your first guitar. There is magic in it that is only for you.
 
srh88

srh88

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Dreaming1 said:
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1st guitar got into rehab. Really wants to turn its life around. I filed the frets,fitted a bone nut, added 2nd tone knob and toggle. Push/pull for neck pickup on, for all pickup combos. The switch ties the middle p/u to either tone knob. Tone knobs for both in the 2 and 4 positions. Blocked the tremelo bridge. I am not a whammy bar guy. Just a little wobble on chords.
Never get rid of your first guitar. There is magic in it that is only for you.
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Looks like a super nice neck on that one
 
Dreaming1

Dreaming1

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That is a Yamaha Eterna. $300 brand new and came with an amp. Amp died. Wish I kept it. I could fix whatever happened now.
I recrowned the frets somewhat with zero regard for fretboard. Sanded the head and stained it. Sanded the finish off the back of the neck. Crazy sleek and fast as fuck. Custom string tree placement. Why? Tone. I also used 2 for double the Tone. I think it is bit thinner and smaller than most fenders.
This one was broke down and left behind. I decided to give it a whack. It is my fave now. Numero Uno. The nut is slightly higher, the neck is straighter, the action is lower. Cheap ass pickups with steel pole pieces and ferrite magnet underneath. Unbelievable...
Keep thinking about some pickups, but Idk why. It is good, I should stop. Buy another strat. Gotta have an Eb strat.
These were built in Korea in the early 90's. Heady times pregnant with possibility.
 
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srh88

srh88

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Dreaming1 said:
That is a Yamaha Eterna. $300 brand new and came with an amp. Amp died. Wish I kept it. I could fix whatever happened now.
I recrowned the frets somewhat with zero regard for fretboard. Sanded the head and stained it. Sanded the finish off the back of the neck. Crazy sleek and fast as fuck. Custom string tree placement. Why? Tone. I also used 2 for double the Tone. I think it is bit thinner and smaller than most fenders.
This one was broke down and left behind. I decided to give it a whack. It is my fave now. Numero Uno. The nut is slightly higher, the neck is straighter, the action is lower. Cheap ass pickups with steel pole pieces and ferrite magnet underneath. Unbelievable...
Keep thinking about some pickups, but Idk why. It is good, I should stop. Buy another strat. Gotta have an Eb strat.
These were built in Korea in the early 90's. Heady times pregnant with possibility.
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I just want a p90 semi hollow strat with a roasted maple neck. On one of my strats I went to the guitar store and found the loaded Texas special pickguard for 100 bucks. Was on sale because it was missing 1 screw... to hold down the pickguard. Lol. It really brought some life to it. On my tele I got some fender noiseless v4 pickups as a gift. That guitar is my cheapest one buy probably sounds the best. Hardly any buzz and I can crank the volume on my fender chorus and it's quiet til I play. Really cool for single coils.

My next purchase is going to be a charvel model 4. I had one as a kid. I seen one for sale on reverb a few weeks back and I remembered how stupidly nice it was, even though I'm not a shredder lol.
 
Dreaming1

Dreaming1

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Fenders are Partscasters no matter what they are to me. The magic is intangible. Just a lucky match up of the parts. All of them are good enough for me. Never can tell which pile of scraps is gonna get the job done. I love the single coil buzz. My guitar is alive and that's it breathing. I did see a mod where a guy used copper foil tape for grounding the control cavity, but he wrapped the coil in plastic tape,then he cut copper tape into strips and wrapped around the pickup coil and then soldered a lead to it for grounding. Faraday cage stuff. Also an MXR noise gate is great at killing any noise from chain.
I wish I was a shredder at times. I love hi gain lead sounds and some chuggy chords too. But, sweeping arps, two handed tapping, and cat fight whammy bar stuff just aren't what i want to practice. Im a soul man. Blues in my heart and balls full of rawk.
There is a G&L fallout that has my eye. P90 neck with coil split bucker in bridge. Paralell/series switch is better to my ears than split coils, but still a fun option. Especially stock from factory.
 
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srh88

srh88

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Dreaming1 said:
Fenders are Partscasters no matter what they are to me. The magic is intangible. Just a lucky match up of the parts. All of them are good enough for me. Never can tell which pile of scraps is gonna get the job done. I love the single coil buzz. My guitar is alive and that's it breathing. I did see a mod where a guy used copper foil tape for grounding the control cavity, but he wrapped the coil in plastic tape,then he cut copper tape into strips and wrapped around the pickup coil and then soldered a lead to it for grounding. Faraday cage stuff. Also an MXR noise gate is great at killing any noise from chain.
I wish I was a shredder at times. I love hi gain lead sounds and some chuggy chords too. But, sweeping arps, two handed tapping, and cat fight whammy bar stuff just aren't what i want to practice. Im a soul man. Blues in my heart and balls full of rawk.
There is a G&L fallout that has my eye. P90 neck with coil split bucker in bridge. Paralell/series switch is better to my ears than split coils, but still a fun option. Especially stock from factory.
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My first guitar ever is the perfect example of all strats being a partscaster. It's a monster of a strat. All completely stock. Everytime I want to put pickups in it.. I end up putting it off just based on the neck pickup. It sings. And its just a shitty stock cheap 90s MIM pickup.
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It's basically an American body/neck from fender USA but with all Mexican hardware. Still my number 1
 
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Yours is the opposite of mine. White with maple neck. That's cool. I want another strat. I want a Danelectro 12 string. I want a casino. GAS is real.
It's so weird. I've played thousands of strats across the country. You never can tell. Could be a american one, could be a squire. Sometimes the expensive ones are just expensive ones. Every once in awhile the universe smiles, sighs, and magic is born. Sometimes a random person swaps bits and pieces and the equation works out just right.
 
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srh88

srh88

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Dreaming1 said:
Yours is the opposite of mine. White with maple neck. That's cool. I want another strat. I want a Danelectro 12 string. I want a casino. GAS is real.
It's so weird. I've played thousands of strats across the country. You never can tell. Could be a american one, could be a squire. Sometimes the expensive ones are just expensive ones. Every once in awhile the universe smiles, sighs, and magic is born. Sometimes a random person swaps bits and pieces and the equation works out just right.
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I really like the new charvel strats with the roasted necks. But a thousand bucks for a Mexican strat is intense. Same with paying that much for the silver sky se.. or paying 3000 for a beat the hell with a sander custom shop. Guitars are too much right now lol
 
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srh88 said:
I really like the new charvel strats with the roasted necks. But a thousand bucks for a Mexican strat is intense. Same with paying that much for the silver sky se.. or paying 3000 for a beat the hell with a sander custom shop. Guitars are too much right now lol
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I just can't make myself pay over $800 for a solid body electric guitar. Wiggling a wire over a magnet should only cost so much. IMO.
I will pay more for amps. I figure the farther away it is from me, the better it can sound.
I threw a push pull pot in the tele for out of phase. Really weird, super thin. Like the ghost of music past. It grew on me.
 
srh88

srh88

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Dreaming1 said:
I just can't make myself pay over $800 for a solid body electric guitar. Wiggling a wire over a magnet should only cost so much. IMO.
I will pay more for amps. I figure the farther away it is from me, the better it can sound.
I threw a push pull pot in the tele for out of phase. Really weird, super thin. Like the ghost of music past. It grew on me.
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I got pushed pull in my les paul. Sounds great. If only I liked les paul necks. Fender necks fit my hands much nicer
 
Grojak

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I’ve got a Whitfill T-52 Blonde finish, minor relic from 2019, barely played I thinking of selling. It’s an absolute dream to play but I keep going back to the Strat for my tone.
 
Dreaming1

Dreaming1

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srh88 said:
I got pushed pull in my les paul. Sounds great. If only I liked les paul necks. Fender necks fit my hands much nicer
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What's it do? Split coil, parallel coils in humbucker, or some electrical phase variation? I love mods. It is weird with LP necks vs fender long scale. LP feels like a stretch and fender is a bit longer, especially near the headstock. Profile, I guess. I have an epiphone sg. I like it, but I like my tele and strat more.
 
srh88

srh88

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Dreaming1 said:
What's it do? Split coil, parallel coils in humbucker, or some electrical phase variation? I love mods. It is weird with LP necks vs fender long scale. LP feels like a stretch and fender is a bit longer, especially near the headstock. Profile, I guess. I have an epiphone sg. I like it, but I like my tele and strat more.
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Coil splitting. I always wanted an sg lol.
 
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This is my '67 Gibson Trini Lopez that I bought new in 10th grade. The amp is a Marshall 2203 Master Lead Mk II 100w which I just sold this past week for enough money to buy a Yamaha PSR EW410 Keyboard, heavy duty stand, bench, sustain pedal, DAW software with microphone, power unit and headphones, a Spark 40 amp, and a new computer especially designed for music processing! I'm picking up the keyboard and stand today; the rest of the gear will be here next week (hopefully). The other axe is a Charvel / Jackson model 6 that was custom painted by renowned artist Alton Gillespie. That's the incredible legend, Steve Morse (back in 1985) playing my axe!
 

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