UnderTheFlame83
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What guitar are you planning on picking up next?
This is what I want next...
This is what I want next...
Your Next Guitar?
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That’s awesome, what is it?
UnderTheFlame83
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ESP LTD M-HT Arctic Metal. Has stainless steel frets.
beaubrummels
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I'm hoping for a Brian May Super, when they are back in production. Took me years to get on the waiting list, then Covid hit.
Otherwise, there's a list and I have no idea when or what amount of money might come available for me.
Otherwise, there's a list and I have no idea when or what amount of money might come available for me.
Ashurbanipal
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I'm hoping for a Brian May Super, when they are back in production. Took me years to get on the waiting list, then Covid hit.
Otherwise, there's a list and I have no idea when or what amount of money might come available for me.
Nice, those are certainly unicorns! They're limited to 100 pieces per year or something like that? I hope to get a nice replica one day too (original style, and perhaps a Birch too), maybe from a luthier like Dansan or Carpintieri (though he's winding down on making them for now).
It seems like a good compromise instrument and £2500 is a good price bracket for it. The various luthier builds are 3-4k and up.
While I love Queen, it's a bit stale listening to people just play Queen licks on these, they're among the most versatile guitars out there.
beaubrummels
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I have a low budget regular Brian May Guitar and what I discovered is it can do way more stuff than just Queen. It is another kind of super strat. Can do Vwntures/60's/Apache tunes (singles), can do heavy 70's sabbath tunes (all in series), can do stratty mid-70's Dire Straits (out of phase) ... it can do a whole lot more than any name or description suggests. The tuning is very stable - I did Van Halen type dive bombs for half an hour and it returned to zero perfectly. (Requires locking the strings correctly in the tuners and setting the bridge correctly.) But I want the roller bridge and the proper vibrato design. The Wilkinson strat vibrato pivot point of the arm is ever obstructing the switches, which are crucial.
Next would be finding a proper Deacy amp. (not sure it's worth the money; perhaps just another battery amp and budget speaker would get there?)
SlyFoxx
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IIRC Vox made a "Deacy" type amp at some point.
Ashurbanipal
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Yes. The original guitar was ahead of its time - wide travel trem that returns to pitch and humbucker/single coil options in one axe, stuff that's part of any superstrat lexicon today. Sounds like you're getting a lot mileage out of yours
, what year is it? The all three in series is seriously 'thicc', as the kids say these days. I've seen some people have problems with the wood around the trem bushings cracking (not much meat between the pu cavity and bushing), but I take it you don't have this issue.I bought a set of Adeson Tri-Sonics (normal spec, not BM) years ago, which will find a home eventually! Lovely pups and among the coolest looking singles out there.
Regarding the Deacy amp, Nigel Knight, who does electronics stuff for BM nowadays, made a limited edition of replicas some years ago (several years r&d, from what I gather). The amps are no longer in production but he makes treble boosters (also in diy kit form), and offers a bunch of other accessories: https://deacyamp.com. Interestingly, he also offers a replacement speaker for the Vox VBM1 amp mentioned in post #9. BM himself seems to use these amps a bit, like at the RS book launch event that's on YT.
To get Deacy type sounds, I use my old Squier 10w ss amp with a tb (I have a Fryer Deluxe) into the o/d channel. It gets that kind of saturated, sustaining, squawky tone; I kill some of the brittleness by facing the amp against a wall and it's a cool tone. I'm thinking to replace the stock speaker to make other sounds more useable (not many options for 6.5 inch out there! was thinking of going a bit bigger to 8 too).
Natural finish kills me every time, kinda prefer it over original red/brown. These are Carpinteris. Similar to Super - Wilko bridge, ebony board.
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ehdwuld
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alex1fly
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The next guitar I pick up will probably be the one that's plugged in... or the one that's closest to me... if I'm feeling wild, I might swap out the one that's plugged in for one in my closet... we'll see
Artie
Peaveyologist
You just said what I wanted to say. I LOVE that white axe in the OP's post. But I need to "fix" and wire up the s**t I've already got.
