Nostalgic Distortion
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Re: rate your guitars....
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So I think it would take too long to rate all of my guitars, I can't even get them all into one room for one picture so I took the best family photo I could, it's missing a few step brothers, they are @ a friend's house where I record/jam & then I got some close ups of what are probably my favorite 2? 80% of my guitars are like my kids so I don't like picking favorites?
The Strat is a 54 reissue but it's been heavily modified, obviously the original owner changed the 8 hole pickguard to an 11 hole guard and I've replaced the tremolo with the best aftermarket Trem I could find, which is nice because I can actually use it & it stays in tune? Under the hood she's got a custom built Jeff Beck aluminum grounding plate & harness with a N.O.S. Russian P.I.O. capacitor, basically this means I can use both tone pots for all 3 pickups? It's also got a beefy C profile Maple neck, vintage tuners, & as far as pickups go, we got a Lil 59 for Neck in the bridge (lil 59N is the closest thing to a true P.A.F. I've found in a bladed S.C. sized humbucker) & 2 SSL-1's in the neck & middle positions! All together it adds up to one super versatile and F****** amazing playing guitar!!!
The Tele is just a Standard Telecaster with a fancy paint job & another C profile Maple neck, or @ least it was @ one point? Now, the first thing I did to this one was getting the frets level, they weren't really all that bad, just not great either? After that I turned my attention to the guts, I wanted a Tele that was still going to be a REAL Telcaster when I was done but in no way wimpy? With a bit of help from Scott O. I think I hit it right on the head!!! I replaced the old control plate with a custom built one made up of 300k pots & a wax dime capacitor. As far as pickups go, I put a Quarter Pound Lead for Tele in the bridge and a Phat Cat in the neck. The first time I played it after all the work was done I was almost floored! The pickups were perfectly balanced and both sounded great on their own! The real magic happened when I put it into position 2, WOW!!! Imagine a Strat, a Tele, & a Jazzmaster got all Molly-ed up & had a 4 some with a old P.A.F.? If the 4 of them could somehow have one love child I think it would sound just like this does? Its still very much a Telecaster but ballsy as all hell & although it's extremely powerful it's also still very sweet sounding when using clean tones but it also really, really, loves a good dose of gain! The only complaint I have is now I've got to feed it other Telecasters!!!
I'd have to write one of these for each of them if I were to "rate" them all.....
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So I think it would take too long to rate all of my guitars, I can't even get them all into one room for one picture so I took the best family photo I could, it's missing a few step brothers, they are @ a friend's house where I record/jam & then I got some close ups of what are probably my favorite 2? 80% of my guitars are like my kids so I don't like picking favorites?
The Strat is a 54 reissue but it's been heavily modified, obviously the original owner changed the 8 hole pickguard to an 11 hole guard and I've replaced the tremolo with the best aftermarket Trem I could find, which is nice because I can actually use it & it stays in tune? Under the hood she's got a custom built Jeff Beck aluminum grounding plate & harness with a N.O.S. Russian P.I.O. capacitor, basically this means I can use both tone pots for all 3 pickups? It's also got a beefy C profile Maple neck, vintage tuners, & as far as pickups go, we got a Lil 59 for Neck in the bridge (lil 59N is the closest thing to a true P.A.F. I've found in a bladed S.C. sized humbucker) & 2 SSL-1's in the neck & middle positions! All together it adds up to one super versatile and F****** amazing playing guitar!!!
The Tele is just a Standard Telecaster with a fancy paint job & another C profile Maple neck, or @ least it was @ one point? Now, the first thing I did to this one was getting the frets level, they weren't really all that bad, just not great either? After that I turned my attention to the guts, I wanted a Tele that was still going to be a REAL Telcaster when I was done but in no way wimpy? With a bit of help from Scott O. I think I hit it right on the head!!! I replaced the old control plate with a custom built one made up of 300k pots & a wax dime capacitor. As far as pickups go, I put a Quarter Pound Lead for Tele in the bridge and a Phat Cat in the neck. The first time I played it after all the work was done I was almost floored! The pickups were perfectly balanced and both sounded great on their own! The real magic happened when I put it into position 2, WOW!!! Imagine a Strat, a Tele, & a Jazzmaster got all Molly-ed up & had a 4 some with a old P.A.F.? If the 4 of them could somehow have one love child I think it would sound just like this does? Its still very much a Telecaster but ballsy as all hell & although it's extremely powerful it's also still very sweet sounding when using clean tones but it also really, really, loves a good dose of gain! The only complaint I have is now I've got to feed it other Telecasters!!!
I'd have to write one of these for each of them if I were to "rate" them all.....
. I like playing metal in the style of the first couple of Dream Theater albums with this guitar, before they became excessively wank-prone (I couldn't remember one of their newer 69-minute songs all the way through anyway!! :laugh2: ). I now understand why Bare Knuckles cost so much----they are truly killer! I wouldn't put them in every guitar, but this one was cost-no-object, and it was worth it.... 
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