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Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:34 am
by KaosCill8r
Looks awesome dude. I have been following your progress in the build thread. How does it play and sound? Glad you got it finished. I see a lot of people start things and never see them through.

Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:40 am
by FlyingVFanatic
KaosCill8r wrote:Looks awesome dude. I have been following your progress in the build thread. How does it play and sound? Glad you got it finished. I see a lot of people start things and never see them through.

I have a fairly steadfast resolve in finishing things... Might have breaks which last months, but i get there
Its really quite acousticly, im used to the V being pretty loud, but it mooore than makes up for it plugged in. Even just through my wee Valvestate it sounds huge. I cant wait to run it through my TH30 at practice tomorrow

Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 6:55 pm
by foomanfat
NGD: '59 Dot Reissue

I've wanted a 335 since I started playing and finally found a good enough deal to make it happen. Stoked.
Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 9:00 pm
by imJonWain
ugh, such awesome guitars....
Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 9:31 pm
by skullservant
Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:17 pm
by Obulus
skullservant wrote:
Looks great! Did you put it together yourself? What kind of trem is that?
Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:20 pm
by hbombgraphics
skully man that thing is flipping nuts
I never would have ever thought to do any of that
Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:28 pm
by skullservant
Obulus wrote:Looks great! Did you put it together yourself? What kind of trem is that?
hbomb sent me the Strat along with an old Teisco that needed a LOT of TLC, so I figured, why not put them together!
I've got the cover on the trem right now, but under it is all of the guts. I need to look into getting a new spring for the trem and actually figuring out how it works, but for now it's got no spring and is pretty much hard tailed.
The strat didn't need much work done to it, new brass nut up at the top, I painted and rerouted the pickguard for HSH before deciding to just keep it with the middle pickup (which I have since swapped for the middle strat pickup instead of the tele one in the picture). Made the jack plate out of spare aluminum, took off the old bridge and all of the trem crap in the back. It's a lot lighter weight now. Significantly shimmed the neck to work with the new trem and it plays well now, about the action that my Nelson has. The only thing that I need to do really at this point other than the spring is intonate it, but its only really the G that needs intonated, the others were fairly spot on.
The guitar itself I suppose is my reaction to hating strat trems. Plus I always love an excuse for some behind the bridge action!
Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:42 pm
by Obulus
Awesome, it looks somewhat like an offset trem. Strat trems are awesome too though, I have a cheapo strat with an extremely shrieky trem. Divebombing tuned in A + the shriek factor is instant horror!
Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 1:38 am
by Moose
That looks awesome! I'm currently renovating a strat at the moment, I've been debating whether or not to put a bigsby on it, or a top-loading hardtail.
Keep up the good work Skully

Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 2:04 am
by backwardsvoyager
skullservant wrote:
TIGHT
Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 9:46 am
by skullservant
Thanks all! I looked it up on ebay and it's only a few bucks for a new spring so I think I might grab one within the next week or so, along with a screw in trem arm
Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:24 pm
by Eivind August
Now THAT is a superstrat.
Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 4:09 pm
by O Drones
Got some sweet new Couch straps in the sale

Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 5:44 pm
by frigid midget
Not even sure if I already posted all this ages ago, but what the hell...





That last pic came out waaaaay more shiny and red than the geetar really is

The brown jag is also darker irl. It's a 25.5 scale jaguar that I made out of mij fender hardware, an aftermarket neck, SD pup's, and a custom made guard and body.
Not shown: Taylor BT2M acoustic, Kawai Alembic bass copy, mij squier strat, fleemarket pos geetar.