The Guitar Thread • Page 68

it was between bilt and dunable for the guitar for me. glad i went dunable but bilt makes beautiful guitars

 

not a great pic but I realized I never posted this here. got it in January. love how it looks against the Vox’s mahogany cabinet, love how they sound together even more.

 

nice. my initial plan on the dunable was to commission one with a solid rosewood neck, but ended up not wanting to wait the 9 month build time and going with the one I got once it got listed. 9 months would have been fine but I wanted it for recording sooner

 

that would have been sick, but def get not wanting to wait that long especially if you’re recording. no doubt that’s an incredible guitar regardless. that said, this strat def has my fav neck I have ever played, reaaaaally love the raw feel of it.

 

oh shittt love the way these 2 sound together too

 

This is gorrrrrg. What the hell are all the knobs and switches and shit??

 

a $700 esoteric looper the whole thing is cray

 

Wow that’s crazy. Beautiful guitar.

 

Bought a Suhr Reactive Load and Weber Z Matcher to experiment with recording my real amps direct. The latter isn't here yet and neither working amp I have with me outputs at 8 ohms, so won't get a chance to hear it in action until Tuesday probably. Pretty excited, been interested in the concept since first seeing the UA Ox Box videos a few years ago and this setup is WAY cheaper and looks easier to use than that so seemed worth a try. Completely prepared for the possibility I hate it, but I got a really good deal on each so if so I'll be able to sell them quickly without issue if I decide only SM57 life will do for me. We'll see!

 

How does the neck feel? I love those all rosewood necks on bright colored bodies like that, too. I've never played one though. It seems like a nice modern update to a classic guitar. Those necks are also expensive AF if you want to buy a separate one. They're like $700 haha.

 

it’s perfect imo, hard for me to really articulate why bc I am big dumb, but it’s unfinished so v raw feeling and super smooth and just has a p distinctly different feel than a maple neck since it’s an open grain wood and I guess like idk softer??? I also really dig the profile of it too, I’ve got kinda big hands and it fills my palm super nicely but I use my thumb a lot for fretting and it’s not so big that it poses any issues for that. hope that gives any insight at all lmao.

 

i would imagine what you're describing is that rosewood necks often don't have a polyurethane finish on the neck, and just have a light nitrocellulose rub. my dunable's black limba neck has the same. it's least favorite part of the les paul when i got it, so I basically sand paper-removed the finish off the neck to do the same

 

ah yeah I just looked at the specs for the guitar on musicians friend and it has a satin finish on the neck, for some reason I thought it was unfinished even tho I know that’s rare. it still feels really different from the satin finished maple necks I have played tho. and yeah, I ended up pawning my les paul years ago when I was in a bind and sometimes I miss it but I do not miss that sticky neck a bit lol. if I ever got another I would absolutely hit it with some sandpaper.

 

rosewood is a more porous / open grain wood though fr what ive read

 

Forgot to post my latest bit of guitar nerdery. I wasn't sure what to do with this guitar, because it's far from my best, but also has some sentimentatl value (21st birthday present). So, I decided to do do some mods on it to freshen it up a bit. New nut (TUSQ), bridge (Schaller Roller), knobs and a Les Trem 2. I'd have liked to get some locking tuners on it too, but direct replacements for the Gibson Deluxe type are a little pricey, so maybe I'll do that at a later date. Think the results look pretty cool:

 

Pulled out my old made in Korea lite ash Tele and got it all cleaned up and re-strung, haven't played it in years and I don't know why, super rad inexpensive guitar

 

That's a specimen. The grain on the fretboard is really unusual, almost verging on a burl.

 

Thank you! Yeah so it’s a Birdseye maple, really cool unique look with the abalone inlays. I think they made them in a limited run from like 04-07 or so, hardware isn’t the greatest on it, definitely in between my MIA strat and MIM Jag in terms of quality, but it came stock with Duncan pickups and they sound awesome. Got it at a pawn shop for a few hundred bucks, awesome value guitar for sure

 

Ive got the same west elm night stand.

 

What’s better? The Squier P bass or the Sterling Stingray 5?

 

I have a sterling stingray 5 and love it

 

If you wanna a Squier, go get a Harley Benton P-Bass copy. Same quality for half the price

 

Mid century gang

 

Ordered my very first Warmoth neck.

-CBS Headstock
-Qaurtersawn Maple (Very excited about this option)
-Rosewood Fretboard
-12" radius (12" is my current favorite radius)
-Vintage size tuner holes
-medium-tall stainless steel frets (Excited to try these as they should be a nice compromise between medium jumbo/jumbo frets, plus the SS)
-Satin Nitro finish
-Graph tech nut

All that for $384 seems like a steal considering this is heavily inspired by some of my favorite Fender Custom Shop neck specs that would easily go for $1k+. The neck will go on a Jazzmaster body I have and should fit right in. Stoked!

 

Seems a pretty reasonable price given what Fender charge for just their stock off the shelf necks...