mid life crisis : new strat guitar wanted

Re: mid life crisis : new strat guitar wanted

Look hard at a Kiesel Delos, company is older than Fender and has never been sold out of the founding familys hands. The Delos offers a 14 radius, Stainless frets, has your enhanced upper access is available in 22 fret and a basic white with the Ghoto Trem and 3 singles in the GG Hardcase will be around $1400. That Fender is not on the same planet in build quality and playabilty you would have to go to a full CS Fender at well over 2x the price to even come close. Currently own 6 Carvin /Kiesel guitars and a Delos will likely be my next build.
https://www.kieselguitars.com/catalog/guitars/d6
Here's one in action in the hands of a Duncan endorsee.
 
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Re: mid life crisis : new strat guitar wanted

Hey , I got a Carvin, dc135 from 1988 (LH), fantastic sound but had a lot of problems (truss rod nut broke, neck twisted, wood around FR studs collapsed, etc ), had to be heavily restored, also modified it to RH. Great harmonics, sustain.
 
Hi, in the spirit towards the new guitar, I decided to convert my old Aria, from a franken maple-white strat back to what it was supposed to be.

Initial configuration (all stock except pups and bidge) :

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how it became after the white-maple-ification :
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and how it is now :
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SnakeAces said:
Nice! It is going to look a feel like a new guitar for a while!
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haha, yes, "for a while' being the key phrase here !! Thing is most ppl said it was impossible to undo the white color and revert to the original looks, but it was doable. I like it much better now. No more messy sticky acrylic paint. Yikes. The true miracle was that the truss rod pf the old neck behaves realy well (I had my doubts), and the biggest the electrics worked with minimal repairs, we talk about dimarzio fast track II with push-pull series/parallel , the chopper also with push-pull series/parallel , + a "add bridge to any position" switch . A total of 17 tones.
 
greekdude said:
haha, yes, "for a while' being the key phrase here !! Thing is most ppl said it was impossible to undo the white color and revert to the original looks, but it was doable. I like it much better now. No more messy sticky acrylic paint. Yikes. The true miracle was that the truss rod pf the old neck behaves realy well (I had my doubts), and the biggest the electrics worked with minimal repairs, we talk about dimarzio fast track II with push-pull series/parallel , the chopper also with push-pull series/parallel , + a "add bridge to any position" switch . A total of 17 tones.
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Oh wow, talk about versatility! But yeah man, nothing beats a new-to-you guitar without actually buying one! Enjoy it!
 
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