The Guitar Pron Thread

[noharleyyet 2,863]

Something for the Monday blahs...

https://www.zzounds.com/item--FEN0170243?siid=231516

[ohchaucer 1,444]

5 hours ago, noharleyyet said:

Something for the Monday blahs...

https://www.zzounds.com/item--FEN0170243?siid=231516

Oh, man, that surf pearl green.  

[Grandioso 2,592]

This is my next guitar. Except I'm putting a black pickguard and back plate on. And I'm going to put some super fucking hot black seymour duncans or fralins in there and hot rod the electronics. Black knobs, etc.

BLACK OUT THIS BITCH

[Grandioso 2,592]

Oh shit. and a black jack plate.

And a black Gotoh tremolo and fuck it, tuners also. 

 

Ok, I just made this guitar like $900 more dollars. 

[gasman 114]

8 minutes ago, Grandioso said:

Oh shit. and a black jack plate.

And a black Gotoh tremolo and fuck it, tuners also. 

 

Ok, I just made this guitar like $900 more dollars. 

It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.

[Foggy Notion 1,202]

22 minutes ago, gasman said:

It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.

[AnotherUTFan 9,953]

It could gets little bit blacker.

[Chad Fuck 18,088]

56 minutes ago, gasman said:

It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.

[Chad Fuck 18,088]

.

https://reverb.com/item/2639968-pickguard-screws-black?gclid=Cj0KCQjwtr_mBRDeARIsALfBZA5m8bUeNu44qanoEObCx3h4y6AQraZ2OCV9FXCN71TIbea_4HZvF9caAuG8EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds&pla=1

[jimmyjazz 46,967]

I priced a custom at Warmoth for you -- $1,358.  Blacker than black (except the back of the neck is maple).

[BoomMF 1,401]

People helping people.

Or junkies helping junkies. One of the two.

[Foggy Notion 1,202]

Just now, BoomMF said:

People helping people.

Or junkies helping junkies. One of the two.

I believe the correct term is "enabling".

[Chad Fuck 18,088]

27 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I priced a custom at Warmoth for you -- $1,358.  Blacker than black (except the back of the neck is maple).

I do this

All

The 

Time.

 

[DougO 5,261]

Still gonna need to replace those white dot inlays with black.

[jimmyjazz 46,967]

18 minutes ago, DougO said:

Still gonna need to replace those white dot inlays with black.

Or build a guitar with an ebony fretboard and no dots whatsoever.

[Deej 77,667]

Nice article.

https://guitar.com/guides/essential-guide/tadeo-gomez/

[Grandioso 2,592]

Ebony fretboard with black pearloid. Or something just slightly less black.

[tbone_ 14,407]

Just a word of warning, lots of black pickguards have a white middle ply layer which works to subvert maximum blackness:

 

 

 

[Grandioso 2,592]

They also make them with a red ply/bevel/whatever, which might be my only exception to this strat of the dark arts. 

[Grandioso 2,592]

877 and change from warmoth. Went with quarter pound pups and a twang bucker in the bridge. Of course I have still not bought this.


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[Chad Fuck 18,088]

877 and change from warmoth. Went with quarter pound pups and a twang bucker in the bridge. Of course I have still not bought this.


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Keep it in your cart. Just in case.

[tbone_ 14,407]

Get a HSS rout and throw something gnarly in the bridge. Then coil tap it. That’s whats going in with mine above.

[hullabelew 3,730]

9 hours ago, tbone_ said:

Just a word of warning, lots of black pickguards have a white middle ply layer which works to subvert maximum blackness:

 

 

 

First thing I thought of.  Grandioso's Murder Strat.  Can't wait.  

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

there's a technique in wood finishing where the outermost layer is blackened using a torch... I wonder if you could do that to a guitar neck and have it still be playable.

[jimmyjazz 46,967]

1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

Keep it in your cart. Just in case.

This man knows of which he speaks.

[Deej 77,667]

Have them paint the neck pocket black. I'd hate for any of that light color to leak out. 

[Grandioso 2,592]

I just gotta have that big fat black CBS headstock though. It's key. 

There are also some black MIJ strats from the 80's that are killer. Especially the Fuji Jen plant strats. All they'd need is some pup cover or pickguard adjustment (depending on color) and a luthier tune up/adjustment.

[jimmyjazz 46,967]

The Warmoth site is all kinds of fucked up today, which is impeding my ability to get work done.

[noharleyyet 2,863]

Pretty gothdamm sweet....

[Chad Fuck 18,088]

https://reverb.com/item/22918917-fender-stratocaster-blacked-out

Looking at this blacked out job, leaving a little chrome or a middle ply color for the pick guard may help stylistically.  

[Grandioso 2,592]

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

The Warmoth site is all kinds of fucked up today, which is impeding my ability to get work done.

It was SO slow last night.

[Grandioso 2,592]

1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

https://reverb.com/item/22918917-fender-stratocaster-blacked-out

Looking at this blacked out job, leaving a little chrome or a middle ply color for the pick guard may help stylistically.  

Or fender needs to tweak and rebrand the Ryan Adams strat (like JHS did with his VCR pedal) and release that shit. Leave the pickguard alone but change that trim to red and/or pearl.

[ohchaucer 1,444]

I really want to hate that Ryan Adams strat, but for some reason I just can't.

[Mileslong 4,793]

This is how DougO makes a guitar from scratch...after growing the tree of course

 

 

[Paul Wesley 3,313]

Nihilicaster

[DougO 5,261]

14 hours ago, Deej said:

Have them paint the neck pocket black. I'd hate for any of that light color to leak out. 

I was waiting for you to advise replacing the hideous non-black magnet single coil pickups with black P90s with black screws.

But obviously, paint in the neck pocket would destroy the tone.

Edited May 8, 2019 by DougO

[DougO 5,261]

9 hours ago, Mileslong said:

This is how DougO makes a guitar from scratch...after growing the tree of course

 

 

 

In about 50 years I plan on doing that with one of the live Oak trees I bought from HEB.

[DougO 5,261]

2 minutes ago, DougO said:

In about 50 years I plan on doing that with one of the live Oak trees I bought from HEB.

Yet that's still not from scratch, because I didn't start it from an acorn.

[AnotherUTFan 9,953]

You're alright in my book DougO.

 

 

[Moby Ric 2,058]

I have to stop looking at this thread.  Not only that I went to the guitar show in Dallas with my buds, one picked up a Les Paul while there.  

 

Must.......fight........urges.

Edited May 8, 2019 by Moby Ric

[noharleyyet 2,863]

[Deej 77,667]

Not enough amps. 

[noharleyyet 2,863]

....wanna see the other walls

Edited May 8, 2019 by noharleyyet
...hoping it's an octagon

[DougO 5,261]

2 hours ago, noharleyyet said:

....wanna see the other walls

The correct term would be Rock-tagon.

[BoomMF 1,401]

Insert this somewhere during the two pages of thumb placement discussion.

[Mojo Hand 4,580]

I've gotta disagree with that one.  I hate capos.   Personal preference and all, but IMO they are generally only acceptable if you are playing something that requires an open-chord structure, like bluegrass-style transitions between the chords with alternating open notes in the bass.   Using them just to avoid having to play barre chords is a crutch that prevents improving. 

[tbone_ 14,407]

I use them all the time. But it’s because I am always having to transpose songs into keys I can sing in.

But yea, just to avoid bar chords? Fuck that. Learn the chord.

[BoomMF 1,401]

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[Celery Man 21,076]

I use capos all the time, and in fact just bought a Paige capo that I like. I’m swearing off the kyser/Dunlop capos.

[Celery Man 21,076]

of course using capos to avoid a barre chord doesn't even make sense.  You use it to shift up the neck.  If you were using it to avoid barres you'd still be minus a whole bunch of what you need to not suck.

was just fooling around trying to figure this out - shifted it down from either 3 or 4.  It's always fun realizing how something that sounds a bit more interesting is still just a basic sequence with some fancy notes added or left out (in this case, Am | C | Dm C | F , but doing a bit of walking, leaving the bottom half of the second C off, and leaving the high e open on the F).