Very very NICE.....congrats on the new axe.....its a beauty and if it plays only half as good as it looks your one lucky dude!
Check out my new guitar. It has been decades since I've played Strats. I have been doing PRS guitars for quite some time now. I decided I needed a single coil guitar again for recording and some live stuff. My buddy turned me on to this deal on Musicians Friend. Ash Body, Nitro Maple neck, Jeff Beck noiseless pickups and Delta Tone. I love this thing. I, of course had to modify it, like putting a new pearloid pickguard on and some chrome knobs.........
Very very NICE.....congrats on the new axe.....its a beauty and if it plays only half as good as it looks your one lucky dude!
Guitars: Epiphone Special 2 LP modded with a SD Pearly Gates and a SD Alnico 2 flat strat pro.300K pots.Tone pros Brass Stop tailpiece.Dunlop frets dressed to .031,LSR roller nut, Spezel custom stainless steel locking tuners. Satin finished neck.Fender MIM 50's strat modded with LSR roller nut, graph tech string tree,sperzel satin chrome locking tuners, graph tech saddles,300K push pull volume for "neck on pup" and 200K tone pots.PUPS:Neck seymore duncan QP single coil for strat. Middle: Seymour Duncan JB Jr with coil tap (so actually a 9 way tone selection). Bridge: Same as neck.Amps/Cabs.2 Epi Valve Jr's, Peavey Delta Blues 1x15. Randall RG200es,Guitar research 4x8 cab loaded W/celestion super 8's and rewired for two-2x8 operation.Marshall 4x12 slant lead cab,Johnson cab 1x12.
Whoa.. thats a SWEET axe Vinnie! Congrats!
The chrome knobs looks great on that strat.
I can't say that I've given up on a flanger cause I've never liked the effect either. I also can't say the same about Tremolo. I hate them both equally. - Tone2TheBone 2009
Thanks guys. Yeah, I love this thing. It really is much more red than it looks in the picture. It is a Sienna Burst.
The knobs did help quite a bit. They are so easy to grab and use. I have the same ones on my PRS guitars as well. They are just a good style for both looks and feel.
I may be putting a Buzz Feiten on it down the road. Jorge Santana showed me his with one on and it did sound and play good. However, this guitar does not suffer from intonation up and down the neck like the PRS guitars do. I can play just about any chord on it, even in the gain channel and it is very close to being perfectly tuned. So, I really don't know yet if I will be going with the Buzz Feiten nut. Time will tell. I think Fender is doing a great job nowadays. They sure have stepped up and changed their ways since the '78 Strat I owned. I hated that guitar. It was JUNK.
Here are the specs on this thing in case you are interested.........
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...ter?sku=511973
Congrats Vinni,
Looks like a keeper.
I agree about Fender. Of all the guitar companies out there (especially the larger ones) they seem to be doing consistently good guitars. They have improved a lot since the 70's. They seem to have re-discovered why people loved their older guitars and they're re-creating a lot of models that have the older feel to them.
-- Jim
Electrics: Hamer Newport, Fender Clapton Strat, Ibanez AF86, Line6 Variax 700
Acoustic Guitars: Taylor 514CE, Martin J40-M
Dobro: Regal "Black Lightning Dobro"
Mandolin: Morgan Monroe Mandolin
Amps: Egnater Rebel 30, Vox AD120VTX, Roland Cube 60
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Like I said in the other thread, just beautiful combo with the natural ash, maple board and the PG looks great on it. Nice!
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson
Congrats Vinni, that is a really nice piece. I love the grain and them noiseless pups...:
Guitars: '05 MIA Fender Strat HSS, '04 MIA Fender Strat SSS, '03 Burns Steer, '83 Hondo LP copy (project)
Amps: Fender Blues Jr., Line 6 Spider II 112
Pedals: Boss BD-2, Boss CS-3, Boss DS-1, Ibanez TS9DX, Ibanez AW7, Ibanez FZ7, DigiTech Bad Monkey, BYOC Lazy Sprocket (in progress - almost there), Danelectro Cool Cat Chorus.
I have to say, this is the only guitar that I own that sounds BETTER plugged in than unplugged. What I mean by that is this...........
I love the sound of an electric when you are just sitting on the couch playing without an amp. I wish they could duplicate that sound somehow but no one has. My PRSs sound absolutely stunning when unplugged and still sound incredible plugged in but I prefer the former. Now this Strat sounds wonderfull unplugged but when it is roaring thru the amp, that is when it really shines, indeed.
Does this make sense? Am I conveying the concept so that it is understandable? I have a hard time with words sometimes.
"Some people have a way with words and others, Oh, not have way, I guess"
Steve Martin
Back in the old days electricity was looked upon as magic. When you juice your axe up you are getting the magic happening. I can totally relate, and then along with that comes the testosterone. ude:
Just be sure not to grab the lighting trusses while you are holding on to your juiced up guitar's neck.
PS. Nice to have you stop back in here.
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
Nice, Vinni!
I love that finish.
Guitars: 2008 Gibson SG Classic, 2006 Gibson Les Paul Standard LE, 2002 Gibson SG Supreme, 2001 Gibson Les Paul Studio Plus, 1996 Les Paul Studio Gem, American Deluxe Double Fat Strat, Bluesville "Super" Strat Copy, MIK Fender "Limited Edition" Tele, JD Bluesville "Night Pilot", Yamaha AES 820, Steinberger Spirit GT Pro, Taylor 355CE, Ovation 1897 Adamas, Ovation CC057 Celebrity
Amps: Axe FX centered rack rig, Mesa 4x12 cab. Germino Club 40, Johnson JM150 Millennium, Johnson JM250 Millennium, Gibson Titan Medalist Frankenstein.
Effects: Tonebone Trimode, EH Holy Grail, Boss CH-1, Dunlop Crybaby Classic, Framptone Amp Switcher, THD Hot Plate, Yamaha AG Stomp Acoustic Processor, Boss BCB-60 Pedal Board.
It really is a lot more red than the camera shows. It must be hard to portray that because musiciansfriend's picture looks more brown than mine does.Originally Posted by Plank_Spanker
Thanks for the comment PlankSpanker. Heh Heh Heh, I love that name
that's a fine looking guitar. i like how you can see the shine, or reflection of the overhead light in the bottom corner.