Kamanda~SD
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Ok, so heres the deal. I had a Squier Standard Fat strat in a color I've never seen elsewhere, and I was looking for another strat (I don't know why, I just really love strats). Anyway, it's just my luck a guy had a used 1998 Fender Mexican Standard strat for half the price of new. This wasn't just great but even better because I was looking at the same one (exept with a humbucker). So I called and FINALLY got a hold of him (as did many others) and I was able to go and try it out...and I boought it, right there in his house, and I am so happy I did.
It's black with a maple fretboard and 3 S-C (if it was my choice I would've gotton wine red or blue agave, and I was still debating on the fretboard wood...if I liked rosewood I was thinking about the Fender Deluxe too).
I haven't taken it in for a setup yet (this week) because I was playing it too much, and I havent switched the strings to 10's yet because the 9's were fresh, so why waste a set of strings??
Alright, now thta I finnaly got that out of my system, here's my questions:
A> The bridge, the tremolo (which keeps in tune VERY well with trem use..surprisingly well) BUT, the back of it is above the body of te guitar (if you don't know what I mean I can post pictures) I used to think this was bad (b4 I got this) but I have heard that other have this (yngwie?), anyway, is it considered floating now?? I've been scared to try drop-D (which I barely use) incase of what can happen. It's about 1cm off the body at the back and I plan on bringing it down to about half the height so I can still raise the pitch. Is this safe?? And what else can you tell me about this?? ( the bridge being up)
B (last one)> I plan on getting a S-C szed humbucker in September for it (so I can keep the look). I was debating on eithe a SD Hot-Rails ir the SD Lil' JB (for bridge pos.) Can you guys tell me more bout these or other ones? Also, I heard I should change my pot from a 250k to a 500k for the humbucker, producing a brighter sound, this will affect my single coils too right? And can the tone knob help "emulate" what the sound was before the pot change? I also plan on having the second tone knob to work the bridge pickup, is this wise?? Any other help would be appreciated.
thnx
-mat
P.S. I want to put pics of my strats in the thread with all of you guys' strats, how do I do this?
It's black with a maple fretboard and 3 S-C (if it was my choice I would've gotton wine red or blue agave, and I was still debating on the fretboard wood...if I liked rosewood I was thinking about the Fender Deluxe too).
I haven't taken it in for a setup yet (this week) because I was playing it too much, and I havent switched the strings to 10's yet because the 9's were fresh, so why waste a set of strings??
Alright, now thta I finnaly got that out of my system, here's my questions:
A> The bridge, the tremolo (which keeps in tune VERY well with trem use..surprisingly well) BUT, the back of it is above the body of te guitar (if you don't know what I mean I can post pictures) I used to think this was bad (b4 I got this) but I have heard that other have this (yngwie?), anyway, is it considered floating now?? I've been scared to try drop-D (which I barely use) incase of what can happen. It's about 1cm off the body at the back and I plan on bringing it down to about half the height so I can still raise the pitch. Is this safe?? And what else can you tell me about this?? ( the bridge being up)
B (last one)> I plan on getting a S-C szed humbucker in September for it (so I can keep the look). I was debating on eithe a SD Hot-Rails ir the SD Lil' JB (for bridge pos.) Can you guys tell me more bout these or other ones? Also, I heard I should change my pot from a 250k to a 500k for the humbucker, producing a brighter sound, this will affect my single coils too right? And can the tone knob help "emulate" what the sound was before the pot change? I also plan on having the second tone knob to work the bridge pickup, is this wise?? Any other help would be appreciated.
thnx
-mat
P.S. I want to put pics of my strats in the thread with all of you guys' strats, how do I do this?
