Pierre
Stratologist
Black Beauty soloist
Alder body:
$165 + $30 for contours + $35 contoured heel + $165 black paint = $395
Ebony fretboard on maple neck (reverse construction, thin profile, no inlays):
$189 + $20 graphite nut + $20 stainless steel + $50 clear satin finish + $25 24 frets extension = $304
Accessories/electronics:
$6 for 2 X 500K pot + $0.50 for capacitor + 4.50 miniswitch on/on + $5.25 for neck plate + $2 for neck screws + $2.50 jack + $6.50 for jack plate + $6 for 2 black dome knobs + 3.25 strap buttons standard + $51 for set of 6 left Schaller mini tuners = $87.5
Seymour Duncan Invader bridge: $81.75
TOM bridge:
$18 for TOM + $13.50 for stoptail = $31.5
Total: $899.75 = £720 with all taxes and shipping + margin of error =1,070.4041 euros (to the UK)
Yeah I haven't started too long ago, but I know my fair share in gear and I really want some guitar tech experience. I'll get a job this summer and next year and hopefully I'll save up enough for her. It'd be a nice project and should calm down my GAS needs for a bit (a hardtail and a Floyd Rose guitar... though it doesn't mean I won't upgrade the Charvel
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Mhmmm yeah so I'm still insecure about things... I feel bad for planning on getting a warmocaster after 6 months of guitar :duh: and yet, I feel it'll really be an investment. I don't see myself quitting at all. If anything right now the Floyd is a turn off as it makes tunings harder. I LOVE my Charvel and I have no problems whatsoever with the Floyd, but having a hardtail as well would be a security as much as an incentive to work on it more. (I'll block the Charvel's Floyd this summer anyway).
Other possibility is spend only 511 pounds on a model 5 in the US, or wait until one pops up in the UK (if it does in the UK it'd be 400 pounds at the most). Also a second hand SL3 for instance would be 600 pounds.
Comments...? Also any suggestions similar to this one will be welcome. I'm looking for a 24 frets hardtail (for sustain. I could block a Floyd but I always fear it will make sustain just not as good) with HS or HH or single Humbucker guitars in the price range described above.
Alder body:
$165 + $30 for contours + $35 contoured heel + $165 black paint = $395
Ebony fretboard on maple neck (reverse construction, thin profile, no inlays):
$189 + $20 graphite nut + $20 stainless steel + $50 clear satin finish + $25 24 frets extension = $304
Accessories/electronics:
$6 for 2 X 500K pot + $0.50 for capacitor + 4.50 miniswitch on/on + $5.25 for neck plate + $2 for neck screws + $2.50 jack + $6.50 for jack plate + $6 for 2 black dome knobs + 3.25 strap buttons standard + $51 for set of 6 left Schaller mini tuners = $87.5
Seymour Duncan Invader bridge: $81.75
TOM bridge:
$18 for TOM + $13.50 for stoptail = $31.5
Total: $899.75 = £720 with all taxes and shipping + margin of error =1,070.4041 euros (to the UK)
Yeah I haven't started too long ago, but I know my fair share in gear and I really want some guitar tech experience. I'll get a job this summer and next year and hopefully I'll save up enough for her. It'd be a nice project and should calm down my GAS needs for a bit (a hardtail and a Floyd Rose guitar... though it doesn't mean I won't upgrade the Charvel
)Mhmmm yeah so I'm still insecure about things... I feel bad for planning on getting a warmocaster after 6 months of guitar :duh: and yet, I feel it'll really be an investment. I don't see myself quitting at all. If anything right now the Floyd is a turn off as it makes tunings harder. I LOVE my Charvel and I have no problems whatsoever with the Floyd, but having a hardtail as well would be a security as much as an incentive to work on it more. (I'll block the Charvel's Floyd this summer anyway).
Other possibility is spend only 511 pounds on a model 5 in the US, or wait until one pops up in the UK (if it does in the UK it'd be 400 pounds at the most). Also a second hand SL3 for instance would be 600 pounds.
Comments...? Also any suggestions similar to this one will be welcome. I'm looking for a 24 frets hardtail (for sustain. I could block a Floyd but I always fear it will make sustain just not as good) with HS or HH or single Humbucker guitars in the price range described above.
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And I can't think of any other guitars in the same price range that'd offer me the same really. Closest thing I guess would be a model 1... but it has 22 frets. Though I admit this will be WAY cheaper. 
And it'd probably be a bit cheaper too (though I have yet to see the price list on the COW signature model)
