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  1. Here We Go

    in In Progress and Finished Work

    Posted

    So I bought this (thanks Derek) and I'm trying to figure out what to do with it.

    I'm thinking that if I can fix the tearouts (not that bad) and the crack (not even visible) that it needs an amber double-stain finish with faux binding, with maybe a black epoxy grain fill on the back with a dark reddish brown.

    Questions: What's the best method of patching tearouts? With the small tearouts patched, can I expect obvious outlines in the finish around the gluelines? Can I expect the hairline crack in the top to expand & contract? It's not visible now, so how would be the best way to repair it? Or just leave it alone?

    This one will be a player (can't stand just looking at em), so it doesn't have to be perfect. I'm expecting to learn a lot on this one.

    Thanks for the help.

  4. Optical Pickups - Not What You Think :)

    in Electronics Chat

    Posted

    I'm starting to get a vision of your guitar as a flat piece of graphite with an optical bridge/pickup setup, untapered neck, no truss rod, fanned frets, no nut, and some kind of reinvention of the Steinberger or LSR tuners. And it's still going to sound and play like a piece of crap nobody wants.
    And don't forget, all the parts and materials are coming from Home Depot!

  12. Eric Johnson Strat?

    in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat

    Posted

    On another note,  "go to a crossroads at midnight and let the old black man waiting there tune it for you." Does that work at an intersction? There's an intersection right by my house, but the only old black guy I've ever seen there at midnight was my neighbor, and he was going to the AM/PM for a beer. Besides, I don't think he knows how to tune a guitar.

    Nooooo... I finally found out where the right crossroads is! Woohooo! Thank you PatientZero! Expect me anytime to show up in your neighbourhood at midnight... Your neighbour is the devil!!!

    Robert Johnson's Legend

    "Legend is that while waiting for an overdue train in Tutwiler, Mississippi, in 1903 that (W.C. Handy) heard an itinerant bluesman playing slide guitar and singing about "going where the Southern cross the Dog," referring to the junction of the Southern and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroads farther south near Moorhead. Handy called it "the weirdest music I had ever heard.""

    http://www.history-of-rock.com/bluestwo.htm

    Sorry, back to the topic.

  18. Strat Standard Tremolo----->hardtail Question?

    in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat

    Posted

    Hers my question... i currently have a Fender USA Fat Strat, and although i like the standard trems on them, i have thrown 2 extra strings into the back,a dn then tightened up the screws in the back that go into the body...essentially making it a hardtail, blah blah, blah. I am happy with it but, i was wondering if there are any hardtail bridges that i could put in, that dont have to be thru-the body? In simple terms i want to replace my standard fender tremolo, with a hardtail bridge that doenst have strings going thru the body, but rather held by the hardtail bridge itself?  Any help at all would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

    The bridge from a Squier Bullet Special is a hardtail toploader. Check ebay.

    Also, check out this tremolo filler block from Hipshot.

  19. Eric Johnson Strat?

    in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat

    Posted

    Ok, with all this said, What would you suggest for me to put into my own creation. What I want is to sell them, and since i dont have or want the abilitly to be in the mass production market, I'll go the specialty market route. Which means, It has to be EXTREMELY playable, sound like it came from God himself, and have looks to match.

    I've been thinking (for a strat style axe) ash body, with the highest possible gloss finish (maybe nitrocellulose?), I may use the Eric Johnson neck thing (slight V at the top the becomes very C at near the end) maybe one tone knob controlling the bridge pickup and the other for both the middle and neck pickup. Maybe a humbucker at the bridge. Ebony fret board. White pearloid pickguard. Vintage oval tuners (I've always prefered those). Vintage string tree. bone or brass nut. quilted or flamed maple headstock veneer, Oops, I'm drooling!

    Anyway, suggestions are appreciated. And PatientZero, my email is a_spears724@email.com

    Everything that's been tossed around here affects tone in one way or another. If you can hear it, great. If not, no big deal.

    But if you're going to build for sale, you probably ought to be able to measure these differences. Like everyone else, high end buyers may or may not know what they're hearing, but they know what they like.

    And no offense, but if you have no idea who Eric Johnson is, I ain't buying a strat from you.

  20. Eric Johnson Strat?

    in Solidbody Guitar and Bass Chat

    Posted

    First off, yes I agree that lacquer thickness, one-piece maple neck construction, and some of the other things make it different from a "regular" production strat. At times I've been as detail oriented as anyone (except him maybe) That being said, what a load of crap that "article" was. And I've always been repulsed by their "reviews" that are just infomercials. The amount of lies in those things is criminal.

    And all this time, I've just been sitting by, ignoring EJ's egomaniacal rants, dismissing them for what they were. Then it dawned on me, what a jerk! Making the rest of the world jump through hoops just because he thinks his music is so important that it needs 5 hours of battery and cable testing, and pedal positioning on the floor, etc. I started thinking about that producer, and engineer. Then I started thinking about everyone around him that has to deal with his "gifts". Man, if you can't do it in 1/2 hour and just play, you have a problem. He should see someone, because the problem isn't that his ears are too smart, its that he thinks he's better than everyone else.  And I've heard his tone. Whatever he's doing isn't worth the time. Heck I think Cliffs of Dover could be done on a Pod. I'm not saying he doesn't get good tones, or that he's not a top notch player. I recognize his place among our best. But quite frankly, I'd be more interested in that guitar if it didn't have his name on it, because buying it says "I care about the same things he cares about" and that's just not true.

    :D

    My wife, who works in the mental health field, thinks he could possibly be borderline autisitic.

    Ever see "Rainman"?

  24. Where Are You Playing?

    in Players Corner

    Posted

    I wish this post had been started two months ago. January from HELL! One weekend at the Correctional Institution (as a player) and the next weekend, a union gig at the Greater Des Moines P D Policeman's Ball. What FUN! No arrests but my truck got broke into in the Des Moines Civic Center parking lot! Stole a Crate and four bad snakes. Basically, no big loss!

    Didn't play in January. We generally take the holidays off, so it takes a while to get back up to speed.

    Man, that sucks about your truck getting broken into. But that's why I like playing biker bars around here. Nobody messes with other people's stuff.

    :D Last time at Charley's one of our buds was up dancing with a bunch of the biker chicks and got thumped on the back of the head by this huge hairy (apparently very possessive) biker. Like I said, nobody messes with other people's stuff! :D

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