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My dad gave me these weird guitars. I love them. Post your guitars. I have a few more, I'll post them up later.
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Post Your Guitars (Weird Guitars)
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Custom Wenge and Mahogany build - which has undergone a process of spalting.
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I'll break down my ideal guitar. For fun maybe do the same?
1: Vintage. I love the history, the real deal
2. American made. One of the few finer areas of American musical art (not saying other countries did a bad job, but WTF Japan??)
3. Bolt on neck. Yeah, the heal sucks, but there's more sustain and easier to repair if you can handle the heel.
4. Single coil pickups. Nice bright & low output chimes, perfectly balanced with a darker amp and heavier duller strings)
5. Semi hollow body. Unplugged and audible, feedback actually fun.
6. Art art art. Lets rock some style, boys!
7. Tuning machines, lets avoid the plastic pegs and nickel allergies if we can.
8. Vintage gimmicks! Sell me on something unique for the time. Intonation and bridges are a good starting point.
9. I'm drunk and will add more later.
1: Vintage. I love the history, the real deal
2. American made. One of the few finer areas of American musical art (not saying other countries did a bad job, but WTF Japan??)
3. Bolt on neck. Yeah, the heal sucks, but there's more sustain and easier to repair if you can handle the heel.
4. Single coil pickups. Nice bright & low output chimes, perfectly balanced with a darker amp and heavier duller strings)
5. Semi hollow body. Unplugged and audible, feedback actually fun.
6. Art art art. Lets rock some style, boys!
7. Tuning machines, lets avoid the plastic pegs and nickel allergies if we can.
8. Vintage gimmicks! Sell me on something unique for the time. Intonation and bridges are a good starting point.
9. I'm drunk and will add more later.
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2. Huh? Japanese Fenders and Ibanez are great.
3. In the vast majority of cases, a set neck has substantially more sustain.
My guitars aren't weird: PRS Custom 24 Ten Top and 1962 Fender Jaguar Reissue from the late '90s.
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All I own is US made Jackson...a RR, a Strat and strat BASS Guitar...I also have a cheap no name acoustic guitar...that's it, I'm not a good guitar player but I used to jam with pals back in the day, I just concentrated more on vocals and kinda let go of the strings...I prolly haven't played in years...and haven't done any vocals in a long time as well...not a lot of love for vocalists in here...no one has expressed any interest whatsoever...most musicians never do, something to do with insecurities I suppose...
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2003 B.C. Rich Platinum Series Warlock
19?? Fernandes Strat
I don't need to post pictures because of Google.
19?? Fernandes Strat
I don't need to post pictures because of Google.
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Does it really matter, though? I see this said all the time, but your picks and amp are doing the heavy-lifting anyway.
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^Maestro over here, shouldn't expect any less...
I meant vintage. Vintage MIJ stuff like Hondo, Teisco, etc etc etc. truly poor quality builds all around.
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Dude, I'm constantly coming into good deals at the store I work at. A few weeks ago a guy unloaded a bunch of Chibsons (Chinese fake Gibsons), and one of them is a really solid guitar. Currently having hetset EMGs installed, and it's going to be a killer gigging guitar.
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A friend has a made in india Jackson Strat and I swear it looks awesome, different bridge though, not the traditional black anodize steel but a fender like bridge, weird but very cool. I found the best deals are in old forgotten pawn shops...no one goes there buying guitars, some awesome finds...Paul Stanley's Silvertone among them...
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I'd say so. If I leave the settings on my amp the same and swap between the PRS and the Jag, the difference in sustain is very noticeable. To be fair, I'm comparing low-output single coils to high output humbuckers. The real test would be comparing a Custom 24 (glued) to a CE 24 (bolt-on) with the same pickups, wood, hardware, etc.
Not that you should be breaking your guitars, but bolt-ons are way more convenient to have repaired. That Harvey Thomas above was not originally a bolt on, appears to have some sort of repair at the joint. Guess it's now a bolt on anyway, lol!
I read a lot about the sustain issue, and the scientific data I recall was in favor of the bolt-ons.
I read a lot about the sustain issue, and the scientific data I recall was in favor of the bolt-ons.
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Why would you use the same settings for different guitars anyway, though? Anytime I switch guitars, it's because I'm going for a different sound, so I'm switching settings regardless.
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It's the opposite, really. But my point was that it doesn't really matter, because your amp/pickups/effects will temper your sustain.
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I don't - I've just tested the difference in sustain, volume, and inherent tone between the two guitars. When you're A/B testing, you've got to keep as much stuff as possible at the same settings / configuration. When I'm playing, the settings are very different. The Jag can get pretty shrill so I compensate for that, plus it needs way more gain for a distorted tone.
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I know, but I asked if it really mattered (in terms of playing either a bolton or neck-thru over the other for sustain). There are tons of people who won't play boltons because of the sustain argument, but your pickups/amp make this moot, imo.
It's kind of like the argument people will make that wood affects the tone in electric guitars. It just doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things (pickups, amp, effects, etc)
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Washburn beauty...some day...I can't decide if I'd prefer the white outline design though...
Here's another unique take on it...
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Flip on that bass cut and only use the bridge! XD
Seriously though, gotta' love the rhythm circuit on the Jags. Beautiful guitars. I've owned 2 of them, a 1964 Pre-CBS with clay dot inlays in lake placid blue and USA thinskin in shell pink with matching headstock. Fun toys.
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Flip on that bass cut and only use the bridge! XD
Seriously though, gotta' love the rhythm circuit on the Jags. Beautiful guitars. I've owned 2 of them, a 1964 Pre-CBS with clay dot inlays in lake placid blue and USA thinskin in shell pink with matching headstock. Fun toys.
Haha I've done that just for fun and it practically makes all the neighborhood cats stars screaming. The high-pass filter is cool, but I've never ended up really using it.
@Wes - Ah, I thought you meant technically speaking. Technically, I'll stand by that it does make a difference, as does the wood. But I agree that, practically speaking, most of your tone comes from the amp, pick, pups, and technique. The neck and wood factors are much clearer when playing on the clean channel. I'll find it later, but there's a YouTube channel where a guy plays the same song with different types of the same guitar (e.g. one take with an ash Strat, one with an alder one, and one with a fat Strat) and then cuts between them to show the differences in tone.