Some recent D'Avanzo guitars...

[beandip]

Re: Some recent D'Avanzo guitars...

Good Lord! I leave the forum for a few years, and come back to this. I thought I might want to get back into to playing, but wasn't too sure. Now I've got GAS so bad that it would be easier for Bruce Banner to control The Hulk.

 

[Ashurbanipal]

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^^ The guitars might as well come with a disclaimer - guaranteed GAS and inducement to playing after lengthy sabbatical.

LOL, thanks! I decided to really fine tune my Floyd route so it's as clean as possible making it rectangular instead of T shape since the typical T isn't needed for a Floyd. That along with grounding the guitar differently so there's no unsightly wire in the rear cavity and the icing on the cake the optional brass trem claw and black noiseless springs to match the black shielding paint I use in all cavities and the brass block. Trem cavity covers aren't an option on my guitars, ok I guess they are if some had to have it, but they're $100 for making me ruin a guitar with unnecessary plastic haha.

I think it's these things which distinguish special builders from the rest - that you care enough about something seemingly non-essential, and do it properly down to the last detail so that there's a nice element of symmetry throughout.

Yeah, I'm not fussed about the noisiness of the springs, since, by leaving the cover off, they get dampened anyway against clothing. I've got Raw Vintage in the gold guitar I posted (all 5) - good tone and not overly stiff.

The less plastic, the better (don't get me started on binding ).

 

[XSSIVE]

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Oh god why, I just want to make all kinds of unspeakable things to that guitar, doesn't help either that it has a multitude of non-standard options that I happen love in guitars (except for the 5-way, I always preferred 3-ways + push/pulls but I guess in a HSS guitar is a necessity).

Mike you're REALLY making it hard for us common folk with limited budgets and skills to justify it...

Haha, thanks! While my guitars aren't exactly cheap they're well below the cost of the custom shop and small boutique builder brands at (or below my) the same my quality level.

Good Lord! I leave the forum for a few years, and come back to this. I thought I might want to get back into to playing, but wasn't too sure. Now I've got GAS so bad that it would be easier for Bruce Banner to control The Hulk.

Welcome back!

^^ The guitars might as well come with a disclaimer - guaranteed GAS and inducement to playing after lengthy sabbatical.

LOL I'd call that mission accomplished I guess.

I think it's these things which distinguish special builders from the rest - that you care enough about something seemingly non-essential, and do it properly down to the last detail so that there's a nice element of symmetry throughout.

Yeah, I'm not fussed about the noisiness of the springs, since, by leaving the cover off, they get dampened anyway against clothing. I've got Raw Vintage in the gold guitar I posted (all 5) - good tone and not overly stiff.

The less plastic, the better (don't get me started on binding ).

I'm always trying to evolve things and make them work better or look cleaner and better but not go too far out there as to alienate traditionalists. As for the noiseless springs, I used them since they were black to be honest, not because they're noiseless I never had noise issues with the regular Floyd springs.

 

[BloodRose]

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The black springs DEF make things look more copacetic! Looks so beautifully clean in there.. The fact that they are noiseless springs is a value added bonus.

 

[Archer250]

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Thanks very much! Just finished that one up Friday. It's actually serial DA.013 that I purposely skipped over and came back to in order for it to be finished on Friday the 13th haha, so it named itself "Jason" based on that. It's a cool one with a real light weight alder body and a 24.75" scale birdseye neck with carbon fiber rods in it. It's also the first to have my new and now standard cleaner looking rear rectangle shape Floyd route instead of the usual T shape. It also has a hidden ground wire so the're no ugly wire in the trem cavity either.

God damn. That is MARVELLOUS.

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[XSSIVE]

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The black springs DEF make things look more copacetic! Looks so beautifully clean in there.. The fact that they are noiseless springs is a value added bonus.

That's what I was thinking, they look good and have the bonus of being noiseless, win win.

God damn. That is MARVELLOUS.

Thanks!