hattrick: new strats!

[orpheo]

Allright... let's start at the very beginning. My first guitar was a Charvel 650XL in an ugly shade of green, but I loved the pearl sharktooth inlay, the dense rosewood fingerboard and the feel of the guitar. I sold it. Stupid me.

In the late 1970s EvH bought a boogie body body and neck by Wayne Charvel. It was to be an amazing combination of hard ash and maple.

In the late 1980s, George Lynch used a guitar with a maple neck, ebony fretboard and a maple top, build by ESP, with a floyd rose.

Look at what I bought and got.

 

[orpheo]

Re: hattrick: new strats!

Let me start with the first one. My new/old Charvel Model 6. It's pink. I know. I love it. It plays like a dream, sounds ok. The pickups just stink. I am saving up for 3 cream pickups. a jb/fullshred hybrid in cream plus 2 hotter pickups in cream. not sure which one, but cream to open up the color.

Here are some more pics.

 

[orpheo]

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The other one is a very old warmoth with very old seymour duncan pickups. I was able to date the youngest part at 1994. I think that the screaming demon is older than that, as well as the A2Pro singlecoil...

It's been played for years, it's a true beater but she stays in tune very well and sounds so resonant. I completely understand the mojo of the Screaming Demon now. Even more than before!!











The only thing not 'original' is that trem arm.

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

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That warmoth is hot as hell.

 

[orpheo]

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Allright, the third one. That's a special puppy. It's been build in Japan, by the guys who build for the ESP Customshop. This body and the neck weren't really up to snuff for some unclear reason, so they passed it off. A friend of mine bought a gazillion necks and bodies and made guitars for himself. I nagged him for years to flip this pink axe, and he finally did.

The neck is a huge baseball bat with an enormous ebony slab. Compound radius. The body is quilt maple on I believe maple (unfigured, super lightweight). It doesn't sound or feel like alder (it's hard as hell!). But the tone is enormous. It's a JB in the bridge plus a jb Jr in the neck and the duckbucker in the middle. It's a superversatile setup. quod non. It can do two things and two things only: scream and howl. Don't expect quacky tones or cleaner funky tones. No sir. Just squeel and crunch. It's really a turn-off and turn-on at the same time. It does that Steel Panther-thing perfectly as well as that Warren Demartini, George Lynch, and even some Andy Timmons.

I am attributing the lack of versatility on two things. The pot. It's for now a 250k pot and I hate 250k. I need that pot to be 500. The bridge. It fits in an original floyd rose route on OFR studs but this is a mediocre bridge at best. I believe that a better bridge would make a world of difference. I want to adjust the neck pocket a bit more to get the action as low as possible, too, even though this one plays better than most guitars in the stores.

 

[orpheo]

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That warmoth is hot as hell.

I agree. I bought it to trade but the guitar is so awesome, I can't put it down.




Guys, as a matter of fact I haven't played my les pauls last few weeks since I got these.

 

[ErikH]

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Those are sweet. I like all 3 of them. The color of the Charvel looks more like Burgundy Mist, an old Fender color.

The oldest the Demon pickup could be is 1991 as that is when it made its debut.

Are the frets on the parts ESP jumbo? They sure look it.

 

[TheLivingDead]

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That Charvel...

GIVE IT TO ME

 

[orpheo]

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in reality it's more pink than in the pic but it's darned difficult to picture it. Burgundy mist has a purple hue to it, this one doesnt have it


Nah that charvel is mine

and yeah they're all geared with large frets but the ESP has the largest BY FAR. I sometimes feel like John Sykes or Adrian Vandenberg when doing bends on that guitar. So much space and SO WIDE!

 

[vinta9e]

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Yeah, the frets on that pink quilt machine look enormous! Would you like to show her backside, too?

So, you're a wholesale buyer, eh? Happy NGD!

 

[orpheo]

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Yeah, the frets on that pink quilt machine look enormous! Would you like to show her backside, too?

So, you're a wholesale buyer, eh? Happy NGD!

the back doesn't show anything nice, actually. it's a rather opaque pink. the top is much nicer (you see part of the back via the side on one of the pics if I recall correctly).

Nah not a wholesale buyer. The pink ESP was a gift and the charvel was a freakin steal as well as the warmoth. let's put it this way. That neck is worth double what I paid for that guitar, let alone that old SD SD pickup.

 

[vinta9e]

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It seems a nice gift. I was just curious about the wood.

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

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Excellent Haul!!!

:headbang:

 

[orpheo]

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It seems a nice gift. I was just curious about the wood.

understandable. don't we all like to peep under a skirt once in a while? but unfortunately the color (not the finish) is too thick to really see the wood so I didn't bother taking a pic...

that guy gave me like... 25% of my collection. this one included

 

[MetalManiac]

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Id be really tempted to put a '78 in that Warmoth, but i bet the full shred is prefect for it too. Waht a great score!

 

[kramersteen]

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awesome i love that model 6. I really want a 550xl to go with my other charvels

But i have to say my pick of the litter out of all those mij era charvels would be the fusion. **** those things shred up a storm.

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

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FWIW,I'd leave teh Blk on the Charvel,but...

 

[orpheo]

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Id be really tempted to put a '78 in that Warmoth, but i bet the full shred is prefect for it too. Waht a great score!

it's a screaming demon but yes, the SD is perfect in this guitar. I'm afraid the '78 is too fat for my taste. I love the bite of the SD

and black... it's just so black. and it's all active!! I don't like active pickups. I won't toss it away of course. I'll just disconnect the circuits and install fresh pots and rewire the toggles because this is ridiculous.

 

[J E C]

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I would play the dog due out of any of them, but I really like ESP and the Warmoth. Especially the Warmoth. That ES style one is beautiful!

 

[DankStar]

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dig the charvel. do you leave your strings flop around the headstock like that?