GAS Strikes Back! (DAMNIT!)

[V-Spot]

I'm seriously GASing for those Fender Showmaster Flat Head axes. I played the Strat at the local shop last night, and it was perfect! They didn't have the Tele in, but I can't imagine it being any different.

The thing about it though, is that I found the neck more comfortable than most Gibson's I tried that night. Before I scoffed at the idea of Fender necks, but that's just because I never bothered playing anything other than the 24.75" extremely chunky Gibson-style necks. Well, with the Tele I've got, the Fender style necks just suit me a lot better.

But enough of that, the sound was impeccable. The active EMG's provide such a nice crunch, with great palm-mutes. The shop is pretty slack about tunings, as long as you put it back to Standard when you're finished, so whatever. I tuned down to Standard D, and holy %$#&! MONSTROUS! It's too bad I didn't have $1,500 to drop on it.. Maybe I'll just Warmoth it and get it cheaper.

Oh well, the bottom line is.. The Fender Showmaster Flat Head series axes are brutal metal machines! Definitely on my "Must Buy" list!

 

[Kac]

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Oh well, the bottom line is.. The Fender Showmaster Flat Head series axes are brutal metal machines!

I completely agree!!! Excellent guitars.

Rock On Bro ~ Kac :banana:

 

[Davey]

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:needpics:

 

[Nite_Maresz_25]

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:needpics:

just to make you GAS more for a jim's guitars davey...

Edit: the top one is a Custom Shop one: ebony board, painted head and neck, and set neck IIRC.
second one is the production model tele

 

[Kac]

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EMG 81 bridge 60 neck

:banana:

 

[Kac]

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That's not a flathead showmaster Alex... still a kool guitar though.

Rock ON ~ Kac

edit: not a flat-head tele either, but still very kool.
edit-edit: Ok, you know they're not flat-heads... that's nice.

 

[nuntius]

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What's different about a flathead to a regular strat?

 

[Kac]

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Flat Head Showmaster

The custom Flat Head Showmaster features a flat-front alder body with a contoured back and neck heel. Its maple neck has a 12”-radius ebony round laminated fingerboard, 22 jumbo frets, a bone nut, mother of pearl side dot markers and a custom nickel/silver “crossed piston” inlay at the 12th fret. The guitar also features two EMG humbucking pickups (an EMG 81 at the bridge and an EMG 60 at the neck), and flat black hardware.

Standard Strat® HH

Based on a barrage of requests from many of our customers, the vintage-style Standard Strat HH guitar is a straight-ahead model featuring an alder body, modern C-shaped neck, two Tex-Mex™ Strat humbucking pickups, three-way switching and a vintage synchronized tremolo.

 

[V-Spot]

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EMG 81 bridge 60 neck

:banana:

GAS.. building..

 

[Davey]

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sorry ... doesnt do anything for me

it's not his strathead charvel

 

[XSSIVE]

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i've wanted one of those grey flat head teles for a while now but i just keep putting it off.

-Mike

 

[Kac]

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When I look at 'em side by side, I think I like the look at the tele a little better...

Rock On ~ Kac

 

[Nite_Maresz_25]

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sorry ... doesnt do anything for me

it's not his strathead charvel

but this is

Oh, and Kac, are you sure the tele isn't a FlatHead? They do make black ones.

 

[Kac]

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Oh, and Kac, are you sure the tele isn't a FlatHead? They do make black ones.

yeah, but that sure doesn't look black...

 

[Nite_Maresz_25]

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yeah, but that sure doesn't look black...

Hmmm..looks black to me.
Heres a different pic of the same guitar(or at least i think it's the same axe)

 

[Nite_Maresz_25]

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wow, i didn't notice the knob difference...still looks black to me.

 

[Kac]

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They still look different than me, but with that inlay on the 2nd picture, I can't really say it's not a Flat Head, but I can say it's definetly not a stock Flat-Head.

 

[V-Spot]

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The second one is definitely a custom shop deal. It's got two knobs as opposed to the single volume knob on the production models. Plus the only other colour (besides black and grey) the prodution models comes in is Mustard Yellow.

Ah well, it's still sweet.. although this hardcore GAS isn't going away! Hopefully I'm going to L&M today again.

 

[Davey]

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but this is

Oh, and Kac, are you sure the tele isn't a FlatHead? They do make black ones.

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jim and mick each have (at least) one black/cherry interference colored tele/RG ... as far as i saw from the videos