JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
About a year ago, I picked up an early LTD M1000, then traded it to a friend. Just got the LTD back from him, can't believe I let it go in the first place, plays and sounds better than I remembered.
NGD sort of: LTD M1000
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beaubrummels
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That's a cool BGD - Boomerang Guitar Day
Congrats on getting it back. So glad you love it. I'm personally not a big fan of the LTD M1000. I got one from a guy a dozen years ago and just couldn't connect with it...the action, frets, tone, looks. Thankfully, he wanted it back and bought it for more than I initially paid for it.
JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
Lol, nice. The neck shape is definitely unique, very flat but not Ibanez paper thin. Two EMG 81s, an original Floyd, and set thru neck works really well for me.
I don’t love all the abalone, but I can’t see it when I’m playing, so…
Lol, nice. The neck shape is definitely unique, very flat but not Ibanez paper thin. Two EMG 81s, an original Floyd, and set thru neck works really well for me.
I don’t love all the abalone, but I can’t see it when I’m playing, so…
Is it unique? Picked up my 2021 M1000 and it looks/feels like a standard C shape. A little less chunky than a fender, not as skinny as Ibanez.
JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
Mine feels flatter than a Fender, with more shoulder.
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As unpopular as this is around here, I’ve always been a huge Metallica fan boy, and Kirk Hammett was my first guitar hero. This isn’t a KH-2, but for the money it does the trick.
Although I probably will get a “CAUTION HOT” sticker, and put a “Chris’s Guitar” label above the neck pickup lol.
UnderTheFlame83
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That's pretty nice! I like the color. I got a neck thru MH and enjoy the neck profile. I say the neck is similar to your M. Great guitars
JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
There are a few mods. I de-glossed the neck. If it starts getting sticky again, it might get stripped and oil/waxed, but for now it’s cool. It’s running at 18V, which isn’t a night and day difference, but lets the pickups breathe a little while still being flamethrowers. Also nuked the tone knob, and moved the volume to its place. Added Schaller strap locks, put some foam under the springs, and rubber grommets between the strings behind the nut.
Everybody thinks EMG 81s sound sterile and lifeless, but they’re perfect for what I want from this. If your ideal tone begins and ends with a PAF, you probably hate them, but that’s not what I’m after.
Everybody thinks EMG 81s sound sterile and lifeless, but they’re perfect for what I want from this. If your ideal tone begins and ends with a PAF, you probably hate them, but that’s not what I’m after.
You know why necks get sticky, don't you?
You know that stripping/sanding off the finish every time it gets sticky is accelating neck wear and making the problem worse?
JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
Glossy finishes stick to my hand. Doesn’t matter if it’s poly or nitro. From the first guitar I ever owned (60’s Fender Mustang), it’s been an issue. I used to just knock the gloss off with steel wool or sandpaper, but most of my guitars get sanded/scraped down to bare wood, then tung oiled and finished with Howard’s Feed & Wax.
I have two guitars with painted necks, and know they’ll get sticky again as playing them polishes the matte finish back to gloss.
Listen to what I'm saying so... no really listen. Listen.
If scuffing the surface solved the problem of a sticky neck, then you wouldnt have to keep sanding it until you are wearing through.
The gloss is dirt and oils, not your hand polishing the neck to a gloss again.
1) Wash your hands before playing. Always.
2) Once the neck has been scuffed, it shouldnt need it again. Find a cleaner to remove build up. Naptha should do the trick.
I'm pretty sure what you are doing is sanding away the dirt/oil build up until the finish is ruined. Grime is the STD of guitar collections. Say you ate a baloney sandwich and smoked a cig, then played one guitar. Play it a week later, it transfers to your hands, then you pick up another. Soon your whole collection is infected. Don't break out the sandpaper when this happens! And don't let other people play them.
JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
I get what you’re saying, and know plenty of grubby handed folks who will crud up a neck and kill strings in an hour, but I’m not one of them.
If my oil/waxed necks ever got sticky, I’d agree that it was grease or whatever, but they don’t.
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It's true that dirt and grime can build up and make the neck feel sticky (or slimy). But playing a guitar, rubbing the neck with your hand, does indeed polish a sanded neck smooth requiring it to be sanded again (after cleaning it) to take the sheen off.
