ImmortalSix
John Mayer's Mankini
I have a Squier '51 that I modified from here to Tuesday, and it is just straight up perfect.
If I described it to you, you'd think it was a $2000 small-shop guitar; TUSQ nut, stainless hardtail bridge, Strat body, Tele neck, Seymour Duncan Little '59 neck pickup, humbucker sized AlNiCo V P90 bridge pickup (GFS Mean 90), coil tap on Little '59, 3 way switch, 250K volume and tone pots.
I was playing it tonight at the bluegrass musical that I'm playing in (awesome project, even better music) and it can cover "Telecaster" sounds with the bridge P90, it can cover full and articulate rhythm playing with both pups, it can play Jazz standards on the neck pickup with that muted full tone, and it can play legit Hendrix/Clapton/Mayer Strat neck tones with the Little '59 split.
Plus, I made it what it is --- it used to have terrible pickups, a bridge that wouldn't intonate and constantly fell out of adjustment and rattled incurably, had a nut made out of a crayon, no tone control; a huge deal for a tone tweaker like me (I ride the knobs constantly, even at gigs) and a very cheap feel.
I'm no luthier, but an experienced do-it-yourselfer with a good ear, and this guitar gets more play time than my $1500 Strat, my PRS, my 335, all of them.
I am in love.
Video demo in my signature. I don't fully represent the guitar in the video, I had just finished the build; but it still plays and sounds great. Build thread in signature also.
-Hunter
If I described it to you, you'd think it was a $2000 small-shop guitar; TUSQ nut, stainless hardtail bridge, Strat body, Tele neck, Seymour Duncan Little '59 neck pickup, humbucker sized AlNiCo V P90 bridge pickup (GFS Mean 90), coil tap on Little '59, 3 way switch, 250K volume and tone pots.
I was playing it tonight at the bluegrass musical that I'm playing in (awesome project, even better music) and it can cover "Telecaster" sounds with the bridge P90, it can cover full and articulate rhythm playing with both pups, it can play Jazz standards on the neck pickup with that muted full tone, and it can play legit Hendrix/Clapton/Mayer Strat neck tones with the Little '59 split.
Plus, I made it what it is --- it used to have terrible pickups, a bridge that wouldn't intonate and constantly fell out of adjustment and rattled incurably, had a nut made out of a crayon, no tone control; a huge deal for a tone tweaker like me (I ride the knobs constantly, even at gigs) and a very cheap feel.
I'm no luthier, but an experienced do-it-yourselfer with a good ear, and this guitar gets more play time than my $1500 Strat, my PRS, my 335, all of them.
I am in love.
Video demo in my signature. I don't fully represent the guitar in the video, I had just finished the build; but it still plays and sounds great. Build thread in signature also.
-Hunter
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i need t' get m'self a modded squier, probably a regular ol' tele!
