JoJo T. Magnifficent

So, mixing a rum and coke in a burger king cup is bad?

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That depends on your definition of bad they didnt seem to take Jim Beam very well, but it was an odd mix of burbourn, lotsa Lift, little bit of coke, and a little raspbery, so that might be why.

Just remember: Real men drink from the bottle

I woulda voted for the LP, but it didnt have a figured top, and im a sucker for figured woods. Go Matt!

I don't remember where, but just recently I read that Squier was the name of the guy whose company supplied Fender with strings in the early days. Later, CBS-owned Fender bought the Squier company and retired the name until reintroducing it with the Squier guitar line.

So no, Fender didn't misspell it. And neither did Billy Squier. 

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Well I never knew that... Guess you learn something new every day , I also learnd today that Burger King cups disolve in alcahol.. So i actually learned 2 things today .

.... makes me wonder what was goin on in all those lectures i attended today aswell .

Squire

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Squire

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Fender Mispelled it, they spelled it Squier. silly fender.

ive mostly been using earnie balls, but im thinkin bout changing, caue they dont seem to react well to GHS fast fret, mind you i only put it on once a week or so, but they tend to build up a layer of dirt and skin etc.

On a slight tangent, does anyone know some good steel wound eletric strings? cause ive developed a slight allergy to nickle that can flare up sometimes

PM me is probly best, as to no hijack the thread. Cheers.

Ok, you would no better. Like I said I wasn't sure if they'd be all the same. But, it's good to know that they are wound differently, that is cool. So now the neck sounds thinner and the bridge is fatter? just curious

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To be honest, i didnt notice any difference in the neck position, but then again, i barely ever used to play the neck pickup.

The bridge used to sound thin and generally pretty bad, so to remedy this i used to turn the tone down and used the bridge/mid pos. while this still didnt sound great, the lack of highs made it sound a bit fatter, and i didint have to put up with as much noise (i live out in the country, so eletric fences etc. have a big impact). However, since changing them, i found the bridge to be much better sounding cause of the increased bottom end, even with the tone up and the bridge only selected. So now im willing to put up with the annoying interference and 50's cycle hum (casue its 50Hz AC power here, not 60) simply casue it sounds so much better now. unfortunately its still a bit thin at the really higher frequencies like during solos.

considering its difficulty (or lack of) , i think it is an amazing mod for the squier, it gave me enough extra out of it to keep me tolerant for another 6th months (Scheter C-1 Classic comin soon :D )

I think most of us have been generalizing our comments about humbuckers. Single coils are usually not very hot, and therefore the winding difference between a neck and bridge single coil is very little. I'm also willing to bet that for production costs, the singles on a squier or similarly price guitar uses the same exact pickup in all 3 positions. I wouldn't expect to much of a change when switching positions.

Except of course for the fact that the middle pickup is reverse wound usually.

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Yea, the thought that the pickups might all be the same crossed my mind aswell, but i tried it when i was bored one day to see if it made a difference, and found the bridge had a much deeper sound to it afterwards, so it doesnt sound anywere near as thin or brittle as it used to. It could just be my imagination, but it took all of 30 seconds to do while i was changing the strings, no soldiering or re wiring involved, and it sounds better to me so who cares .

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and saussages, eggs, fried bread (the substitute for pankakes). all mixed together as a sandwich with BBQ sause. I call this " The Artery Buster "

Now I'm tempted to go and cook one up, but its 20 mins till tomorrow and that might annoy everyone. Oh well, ill just go to bed and dream bout one then.....served on Elisha Cuthbert

dont think thats perlecent, casue thats just the shiny metallic kinda colour. they are called 2 toned paints i believe. i dont know anything bout them really though, sorry.

I use the Neck pu of my squier in the bridge. sounds quite alot better to my ears, no were near as thin sounding as it used to be. Its still only a squier though .

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought a 'Black Beauty' was a THREE pickup black Les Paul with gold hardware? 

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but this doesn't work so well with 22-fret necks.  they don't have an extended fretboard, so there is no room to glue another block onto the heel.  so if you carve down the front of the neck heel, you're making the area of contact with the body much smaller.  that will make the overall joint weaker and kill some of your sustain.

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i love quilt, that looks great. the camera flash in the pics threw me off a bit thought there was wood showing for a second

cheers for the link and advice, ill be sure to check them out.

have you had any experience with Matai? Im contemplating making a neck out of that, becasue i guy i know has a whole pile liyng around in his shed. i figured itd do a good job technically, cause its sposed to be a rock solid wood, but i dont have a clue what kinda tonal properties it would have.

Im in Palmerston North. and yea, i woulda thought macrocarpa would be quite hard to work with, casue its so fiberous and full of knots n stuff. how does that rimu neck sound?

what do you think of the duncan live wire classic?

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I quite like the sound of them, but thats only going from the Seymour duncan sites sound clips. they are designed for those classic rock tones aswell, so they should fit you good. Plus I think that seymour duncan only use a preamp, and not all the EQing and stuff EMG use, so they should retain alot more of the guitars tone aswell

I dont think weight will be too big an issue in a strat style guitar, especially if its going to a have a trem route in the back aswell. and sorry if my first post wasnt very clear, my humour is often subtle... and not very good either . good luck with your project.

See, I knew I should have been paying attention in Physics, instead of hitting on those girls in the back row. 

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yay, another kiwi

you made guitar out of macrocarpa that musta been a mission. Were bouts in NZ u from?

thats a "is he serious?" do some research. go to some good guitar makers sites (like gibson for instance) and see what they make thier bodies out of

I think I remember reading bout someone using it as a fretboard on here, said it was quite nice.

EMG's are certianly good pickups, but i do agree to a certain extent, theyll sound the same in most guitars. the wood will have a small effect on tone, but because of the design of the pickups (they have weak low-impeadance coils, which is the amped up and put through an EQ etc.) it wont have as pronounced affect as it would with a passive. If your looking for that heavy metalica beefyness however, you cant look past a set of active EMG's.

If I were you (which im not) I'd still keep passives in mind though, becasue those acrylic B.C Riches have a pretty unique clean sound i think. something like a SD JB in the bridge and a 59 or jazz in the neck could work out quite well (and be alot more versitile than the EMG's). Those are my thoughts, hope you find them usefull.

i dunno bout rimu as a fret board, u can try it if you like. lemme know if it works. Ive been thinkin bout makin a body out of rimu.

Im new to the whole wood thing, but from the breef inspection of my diningroom table (which is rimu) I think it would be half way between mahogany and maple (just speculation). I gave it a tap, and it had a very bright and focused ring to it.

Good luck with the bass, and if you do use rimu, lemme know how it sounds