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Re: That Perfect One
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 3:04 pm
by waltdogg
spacelordmother wrote:All this perfection and not a single pic...
whoever said perfection was worth looking at?
Re: That Perfect One
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 3:26 pm
by friendship
waltdogg wrote:
whoever said perfection was worth looking at?
great now I'm going to be thinking about this quote all god damn week.
Re: That Perfect One
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 3:29 pm
by rfurtkamp
Proof is in the eating (playing)!
Re: That Perfect One
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:44 pm
by waltdogg
Re: That Perfect One
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 10:44 am
by Chuckchuck
I can't afford perfection right now so I'm going to build it myself. To me that means Musicman pickups in a cheap Squier Jazz. Want the MM sound, want the classic looks & easy feel. Just have to figure out how to cut some weight.
Re: That Perfect One
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 1:21 pm
by repoman
I got a TVL JM about 2 months ago thats pretty good completely stock. I'm usually really into tinkering with guitars and swapping things with them but I haven't noticed any thing on it I'd like to experiment with/upgrade.
Re: That Perfect One
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 1:39 pm
by waltdogg
perfection is still my faded LP special, the single cut with humbuckers. not the DC that i may put on the chopping block.
Re: That Perfect One
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 1:43 pm
by Chuckchuck
repoman wrote:I got a TVL JM about 2 months ago thats pretty good completely stock. I'm usually really into tinkering with guitars and swapping things with them but I haven't noticed any thing on it I'd like to experiment with/upgrade.
That's one I wouldn't mess with either. That color is bomb.
Re: That Perfect One
Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 3:06 pm
by alalalkasar
I've got a early 80s tokai telecaster that will be with me until the day I die. It was blond but has faded to a kind of gold colour that really can't be photographed. I've owned it for 7 years and not really looked at or played another guitar that I liked more since.
Also I've had my mij squier jazz bass since the early 90s. I often think about selling it or modding then I pick it up and it's prefect.
Re: That Perfect One
Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 12:25 pm
by The Mad Titan
Nope. The only guitar I have I haven't changed in some way is my LP Special P90, and even that will eventually get PIO's, and '50s correct 500K/250K volume/tone pots. Some took longer than others. I didn't change a thing on my '71 Les Paul Std. for decades, then swapped pups and electronics when I started my gradual transition to preferring single coil tones.
Re: That Perfect One
Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 10:42 pm
by plaidbeer
gnomethrone wrote:I have an unreasonable love for my blacktop jazzmaster. Ive never read anything positive about them but that's kinda endearing. The sunburst is just a little nicer than others like it. the neck is my favorite ever. it holds tune and feels solid and substantial. A previous owner put locking fender tuners on it and some nice knobs. I put a modified mustang bridge on and have tried a few different pickups at the bridge. Have had an old 1st gen dimarzio super distortion in there the last six months and it's not going anywhere. I've bought and flipped 3 or 4 guitars since buying this one a few years back but nothing ever takes its place. If I had to sell all my gear this is the one thing I'd keep.
It's funny you mention the BT Jazzmaster because I wish I had not have sold mine (sold it to fund an MIK Casino that I wound up selling). The only thing I did to mine was to stick a Filtertron in the bridge in place of the stock humbucker. It was a great sounding guitar and made me love the feel/form of Jazzmasters. Here's an old pic:

Re: That Perfect One
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 3:49 pm
by popvulture
My K-Line Springfield (which is Chris's slightly tweaked strat). Olympic white, Lollars, mint guard, absolutely perfect size neck (pretty big but not like Fano huge).
The only minute thing I would change would be that sometimes I wish the headstock was trad Fender shape. That said, I think it's a dick request to wish that builders did that, so I ignore the thought and move on.
I also have a CS strat that's excellent in its own right, but head to head the K-Line just destroys it.