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audun-eg
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ChrisM
Yow funman! That's a great collection! My Les Paul is 1998 R8. The Bigsby is not factory installed as I put it on but I can see yours is a factory job. Tell me about your Historics please!
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Beelyboy
i've a 1961 Fender Jazzmaster, bought used at Manny's in New York in the sixties.
Jimi, Steve Jones and other icons have played it in the many years I've had it...
John Carruthers Guitars in Venice (formerly tech column in GP mag) totally modded it for me, probably losing all $ value as collectors piece...but i'm a working guy and needed what I needed. The neck is too sweet for description...the original electronics have been torn out...new face plate too...now have two EMG 81 pickups in it...and there is only a pickup selector, one volume pot and one tone...it's so lovely to have a pre CBS Fender product....
...my main thing i wanna share is my Taylor Big Baby; really a travel guitar, neck screwed on with two screws you can see on the actual fret board...
I got it so I could leave my better acoustic in storage as I travel and expose the instrument to great temperature changes...for ten months this thing has not let me down once...thru over 100 performances...just bring my kyser capo, harmonica holder and harmonicas...a cheap soundhole clip on Dimarzion pickup...no controls of every kind...and the thing just shines...
i'll post a billyrandom short vid (w horrible sound here...if anyone wants to see it.... but it's pretty common...love it...sounds great. real playable so to speak...very consistent...cheap tuners but maybe someday mod it...
very nice instruments ,can you tell me about your two tone sunburst strat it looks like a fender custom shop alder strat ,and what kinda pickups are you using in both the les paul and your strat?Quote
ChrisM
Here my two electrics:
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nankerphlege
98 52 tele reisue w a gibson paf in the neck
06 les paul standard wburst buckers
08 martin 000
Greco Zemaitis GZ -500 metal top. I love this guitar
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audun-eg
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Are you satisfied with this guitar? Does it play well? As you know, I got this. a Edwards Keith relic:
And I´m very happy with this guitar, and thinking about getting another Edwards, so any info about your goldtop would be welcome.
Hi Greek. The Les Paul has stock '57 Classics. I replaced the control pots with a vintage style set from RS Guitar Works and wired it with '50s style wiring, which really worked wonders on the tone as the stock pots were linear tapers instead of audio tapers, which allow much more control over tone and volume. I flipped the neck PU's magnet so as to get an out of phase sound when both both PUs are turned on. As to the Strat, it's a CIJ (Crafted In Japan) '57 Reissue model made in 2005. The PUs are stock and I quite like them but like the Les Paul the control pots need to be replaced with audio tapers which I will do sometime in the next few weeks. I have to say that the Strat is versatile guitar and it has great tone, despite the pots.Quote
The Greek
very nice instruments ,can you tell me about your two tone sunburst strat it looks like a fender custom shop alder strat ,and what kinda pickups are you using in both the les paul and your strat?
very cool ,i also use the 57 classic on my neck and the 57classic plus for the bridge pickup on my les pauls and my flying V.on my 1993 fender(two tone sunburst) usa reissue 57 strat i had the factory stock pickups which were very thin sounding so i switched to the fender custom shop texas special pickups which sounded to harsh as i have the maple neck with the alder body so then i got the fender custom shop fat 50ies pickups which sound much better.i also have a 1998 fender custom shop1954 reissue strat(aztec gold ash body with a birdseye maple neck with the custom shop 1954 pickups )this guitar screams with tone something about a ash body that just sounds so sweet .i have to say i think that is cool how you flipped the neck pickup around on your les paul for the peter green vibe .so when you do that you are supposed to get like a single coil type sound ? i have a 1994 gibson les paul premium plus cherry sunburst with the AAA TOP (tiger stripe) which came with the stock pickups which i did not like and my other one is a 1971 gibson les paul custom (black) without volute which also had the stock t-pat pickups which i replaced with the 57 classic in the neck and the 57 classic plus in the bridge and last but not least the gibson 1982 heritage reissue korina flying V with the same setup with 57 classic in the neck and the 57 classic in the bridge .i have to say i really like the 57 buckers because they are wax potted and there is no squeal .i know the pickups in the fifties were not wax potted but oh well by the way the korina flying V screams but its very hard to play sitting down its meant to be strapped on standing it has the no skid strip on the treble side but that thing is a joke ,but man this guitar reeks of tone i also have a 1991 gibson cardinal red firebird V with stock pickups which also screams think the johnny winter sound and next i have a 1993 fender usa reissue 1952 butterscotch tele (keef) with the fender custom shop texas special pickups and oh my god what a great tone from this instrument wow and for acoustic i have a 1972 martin d-41 (indian).for amps i have a 1971 fender (silverface)twin reverb , a 1962 fender(brown) super (great tube vibrato),and my workhorse amp is a 1998 fender (red tolex) prosonic which is a really great amp .its like the best of two worlds you have the clean channel which is like a blackface fender vibrolux,and then you have the burn channel which gives you the marshall sound the speakers are celstion 10' which sound like the celestion vintage 30 awesome so you can go from fender twang which i cant get enough to the stomp of the footswitch to the marshall sound and all tube amp 5881 power tubes with a 5AR4 tube rectifer.very versatile combo amp. i have to get pics taken so i can post themQuote
ChrisMHi Greek. The Les Paul has stock '57 Classics. I replaced the control pots with a vintage style set from RS Guitar Works and wired it with '50s style wiring, which really worked wonders on the tone as the stock pots were linear tapers instead of audio tapers, which allow much more control over tone and volume. I flipped the neck PU's magnet so as to get an out of phase sound when both both PUs are turned on. As to the Strat, it's a CIJ (Crafted In Japan) '57 Reissue model made in 2005. The PUs are stock and I quite like them but like the Les Paul the control pots need to be replaced with audio tapers which I will do sometime in the next few weeks. I have to say that the Strat is versatile guitar and it has great tone, despite the pots.Quote
The Greek
very nice instruments ,can you tell me about your two tone sunburst strat it looks like a fender custom shop alder strat ,and what kinda pickups are you using in both the les paul and your strat?