Guitar GAS

Achtane · Post by **Achtane** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:55 pm

I really want an Epiphone EB-0 so I can refinish and upgrade it. Dunno about the quality of the original pickup, but just having that one mudbucker isn't going to do it for me. It needs two or three pickups. Maybe two Dimarzio Model Ones. That bridge looks way sketchy too, I know there's a Hipshot replacement but it's $150, so ehhhhhhhh...
Someone on Talkbass said that if you wanna use a Fender-style bridge you have to put a wood block or something underneath it to raise it up high enough to be usable. Not really sure on how to tackle that. Maybe the original bridge will be sufficient but I've heard about them ripping out of the body when in use.
So it'll be a $200 bass with $300 in parts and paint, I guess. By the time it's done it'll be a neat shortscale bass!

That might seem like a waste but I like upgrading and switching out things, I enjoy projects. Personalizing it makes me feel much more comfortable with a guitar.

dubkitty · Post by **dubkitty** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:00 pm

one guitar that i still have the hots for is a specific Gretsch 1958 Chet Atkins reissue that i played September before last that's still in the shop where i saw it. i just don't have the money for it. fortunately, it's not a high-demand model, so fingers crossed it'll hang around until i find work.

in an ideal world i'd also love to get the Electrical Guitar guy to run me up something in that symmetrical doublecut sort of Wandre-esque body style, perhaps in a sparkly teal-over-black.

i could use a maple-neck Telecaster with high-output pickups; i have a rosewood-neck Tele that's set up with the early-60s style lower-output PUs and i really like it, but it's not so great for the Screaming Wall O'Treble thing that one sometime wants from a Telecaster.

there's a guy who used to work at the Fender Custom Shop who's doing reproductions of the pickups used in the original Paul Bigsby solidbody electric guitars that Grady Martin played on, like, everything in Nashville in the early 60s (and on Johnny Burnette's "Train Kept A'Rollin'"); they're ungodly expensive but sound incredible. in fact, they'd probably sound uber-bitchin' in the Electrical. at $450 the pair, they'd fucking well better.

i also wouldn't say no to an electric 12-string--i like the Danelectro DC-12--a nice jumbo acoustic, a Jaguar for the crystalline Beach Boys->MBV rhythm guitar thing, or a semi-hollow bass. but there isn't that much that i really need...i went kind of nuts over the last four years buying guitars within the limits of my income and credit and have most of the basic toanz covered with Strats, Tele, Les Pauls, SG, P90s, Gretsch Dynasonics, and rosewood, mahogany, and 12-string acoustics. the only major thing i'm missing is FilterTrons, thus my lust for the Chet Atkins and back to the top.

dubkitty · Post by **dubkitty** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:07 pm

Achtane wrote:Maybe the original bridge will be sufficient but I've heard about them ripping out of the body when in use.

you could remedy this by drilling/routing a hole larger in diameter than the stud (i assume there's some kind of stud mount? if not, then this should be an even better idea) and epoxying a piece of hard wood into the hole. i'd use maple at least, or perhaps even something exotic like purpleheart which would be harder than maple. it would probably be easier to get maple dowels, though.

futuresailors · Post by **futuresailors** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:18 pm

I WILL have a sparkle-y shell pink mustang with matching headstock and block inlays one day.

STYX · Post by **STYX** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:23 pm

Just came across this http://www.fret-king.com/venturasuper60hb3_spec.html guitar. :love:

Also quite fancy a lemon Les Paul with zebra pickups and a Thunderbird/Firebird.

I'm surprised a few people on this forum have mentioned the Cyclone II, since I have one in candy apple red. LOL, U MAD????

Achtane · Post by **Achtane** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:39 pm

dubkitty wrote:
Achtane wrote:Maybe the original bridge will be sufficient but I've heard about them ripping out of the body when in use.

you could remedy this by drilling/routing a hole larger in diameter than the stud (i assume there's some kind of stud mount? if not, then this should be an even better idea) and epoxying a piece of hard wood into the hole. i'd use maple at least, or perhaps even something exotic like purpleheart which would be harder than maple. it would probably be easier to get maple dowels, though.

Yeah, it's a stud. This is a good idea, I'll have to keep it in mind.

masked elwood · Post by **masked elwood** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:50 pm

Achtane wrote:
That might seem like a waste but I like upgrading and switching out things, I enjoy projects. Personalizing it makes me feel much more comfortable with a guitar.

here here!!

get out your barf bags...i just sent an email off to fender about the wayne kramer strat-o-uglycaster. i think i might just pull the trigger, if the price is low enuff. .... i think i have mental issues....

Companda · Post by **Companda** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:55 pm

unownunown wrote:i want a thinline tele
and as always, i am craving a sonic blue jag. ALWAYS.

This!

Or maybe a G&L ASAT Special Semi-Hollow.

Plus a Gretsch G5122DC.

Plus plus another Jazzmaster.

Then, I be set.

Caesar · Post by **Caesar** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:51 pm

I'd like one of those Fender Blacktop Strats

And a White Flacon

hclapp219 · Post by **hclapp219** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:01 pm

I'm starting a new job in Feb. and I think I should reward myself with a new guitar... But it is in an expensive city (DC). If I can find a cheap apartment I'd have some extra dough though, and would totally get either an Ibanez AS73 or one of those new Epiphone Nighthawk Customs. I would love all the pickup possibilities of the Nighthawk, but I've been wanting a semi-hollow for a while. Hmmmm......

Spiteface · Post by **Spiteface** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:08 pm

Wanting a white Les Paul of some sort. Soon-ish, I will get this done.

It will either be a Gibson Studio, Japanese Tokai or Edwards. I'm leaning more towards the Edwards:

http://www.richtonemusic.co.uk/products ... _white.asp

Gunner Recall · Post by **Gunner Recall** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:23 pm

I've been on the hunt for a candy apple red cyclone II for months.

This morning? BAM!

Bought'd

Sorry if any of you dudes were watching...I didn't see this thread until this afternoon :cool:

Kinda sucks though, I was chatting with Curt Novak about getting some custom jazzmaster pups wound for my mascis but now they'll have to wait.

Gunner Recall · Post by **Gunner Recall** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:37 pm

jfrey wrote:

Ibanez RGA8.

Must get. Immediately. No cash though...

I've heard a lot of not-so-great things about the rga8...I've seen pics of the nut getting ripped out by the strings and a few cases of the bridge ripping out a chunk of the wood. Seems they need to get the manufacturing worked out.

The RG2228 is a good one though, and schecters are also pretty popular with the 8string crowd.

tuffteef · Post by **tuffteef** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:56 pm

im saving for a rickenbacker 12
im about 500 short of 2000
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phantasmagorovich · Post by **phantasmagorovich** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:27 pm

I am looking for beatdown shortscale student type of guitar right now. Duosonic or Jag rip-offs from the 60-80s and unknown japanese brands or germans. Since I bought one for christmas I am extremely in love with it and I want another one similar for open tunings. Or maybe two more? The more tunings the merrier.

I also kind of want a random telecaster so I can try changing Pickups. I might just get the parts and do the fitting together myself.

And of course quality wares, I could go on forever.

BUT! There is also the mysterious Thinline Jazzrite. It is being built!

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