The Guitar Pron Thread

[Chad Fuck 18134]

2 hours ago, Goredho said:

The aesthetics of the contoured neck heal don't bother me personally.  I mean, I'm almost never looking at the guitar from that direction.  If it was something majorly divergent on the front of the guitar, it might bother me more. *shrugs*

This.  I think it's a nice detail.  It feels good on the guitars I've played.  But I'm used to the square, and I'm not a widdle-dee-widdle-dee guy, so I don't spend much time up there anyhow.  It's icing, not the cake. 

[Buzzrock 15136]

I'm pretty sure I've never ever played a guitar and noticed the neck heel/join for that same reason.

[Celery Man 21095]

I'm not a fan of the three screw neckplate they have on some of the 70s models (like my 72 thinline), just cause... it just seems like it can't be as stable. I'm sure it is but it irks me. But yeah, I haven't noticed that they changed that on newer strats PARTIALLY because Guitar Center started putting all of the interesting guitars way up high so I stopped going in for strings and half an hour of test drives, and partially because it's not a detail I ever see.

The most passionate discussions around guitar neck heels were probably old PRS centric gear discussions. Hahahaha I just remembered Ed Roman, the lunatic guitar shop owner in vegas who would unglue your prs neck, shave the heel down, and bolt it back on. Guaranteed 40% more tone. RIP buddy.

http://www.edroman.com/techarticles/prs_heel.htm

[jimmyjazz 47152]

1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

I'm not a fan of the three screw neckplate they have on some of the 70s models (like my 72 thinline), just cause... it just seems like it can't be as stable.

It's not a perfect metaphor, but have you ever noticed that a 4-legged chair or barstool is never stable, but a 3-legged version is always stable?  3 rigid points define a plane.  4 rigid points can never define a plane in the real world.  (Theoretically, they can get very very close.)

[AnotherUTFan 9982]

Traditional Tele talk not going away.

I've been off and on about a Tele build since the pandemic started.

While looking in stock bodies on Warmoth I saw one that sp9ke to me. The pink body just screamed vintage 60's Jetsons/Flintstones, but it had the tummy cut and scooped cutaway. Then I saw some necks and they have a profile called Vintage/Modern; vintage looks with modern details like a compound radius fingerboard.

I was thinking about getting the tinted "vintage" looking neck when the idea of "Retro/Modern" hit me. Retro looking, but not vintage in any way, how could it be vintage with the scooped cutaway?

Everything is modern, but basically technologically what would've been available in the 60's had someone thought ot it.

So I got the compound radius fretboard on a fat neck finished with a high-gloss finish and 6105 tall frets. A 6 saddle bridge for intonation that has the 3 saddle look. Single ply white pickguard. Vintage looking split shaft tuners, etc.

It came alive today.


I jammed on of for about an hour. It needs a final set up, but I want to leave string tension on the neck for a few days before I do it. I was not initially impressed with these Tonerider PUPs, but I adjusted them enough that they have come alive too - especially the bridge. Bright and bitey as hell. The neck is a little darker and the treble strings don't cut through enough, but i think they will dial in enough. Im gonna be very happy with them.

Wierd playing a big, fat Les Paul neck on a Telecaster. On a LP there's the weight of the body to offset that heft, a Telecaster's a different animal. I almost got the vintage Fender V profile. I think this will do for my big hands once I get the action and intonation set.

I think this guitar that woulda been played at Pebble's prom

[Celery Man 21095]

switching stupid gif reply to jimmyjazz to follow your post more appropriately

 

like that color. I like fat necks on a tele. would jam, 10/10

Edited January 9, 2021 by Celery Man

[AnotherUTFan 9982]

BTW, agreed 100% w jimmy. I learned way back in school that a triangle is the strongest most stable shape.

[Celery Man 21095]

commies and your damn 3 sided squares

[jimmyjazz 47152]

I am nothing if not a math nerd.

[DougO 5264]

I don't think I've ever held a Tele with the contoured back, but I have always liked the idea. The hard edged slab feel of the Tele is one of the reasons it took me so long to become a fan and owner of one. You don't see it when it's being played, it doesn't change the style of it. It's just a silly purist thing to be anti-contour, though there's nothing wrong with that either if you don't mind a bruised rib now and then.

[DougO 5264]

58 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

It's not a perfect metaphor, but have you ever noticed that a 4-legged chair or barstool is never stable, but a 3-legged version is always stable?  3 rigid points define a plane.  4 rigid points can never define a plane in the real world.  (Theoretically, they can get very very close.)

I always wanted a three-bolt strat because people cursed them so much and it was so silly. If you were in the right place at the right time you could find a great deal on them because so many were shamed into trading them in. Never found that deal before somebody else did first, though.

[DougO 5264]

Devil's advocate:  Yeah, three legs are always stable, but they don't have to be level to be stable.

 

 

[Mileslong 4810]

What a loser, didn’t even grow his own rosewood tree, meh, not made from scratch

[NoRagrets 1140]

On 1/6/2021 at 5:00 PM, Bogeywon said:

Good news went to the orthopedic doctor and they said that they didn’t see a fracture or break so I’m good!!

My x-rays came back good as well. Are we the same person?

[Deej 77813]

7 hours ago, DougO said:

I don't think I've ever held a Tele with the contoured back, but I have always liked the idea. The hard edged slab feel of the Tele is one of the reasons it took me so long to become a fan and owner of one. You don't see it when it's being played, it doesn't change the style of it. It's just a silly purist thing to be anti-contour, though there's nothing wrong with that either if you don't mind a bruised rib now and then.

What the fuck are you guys doing to bruise your ribs with a standard tele body? And if you need the belly cut, you should already have a few layers of protection built in. 

Edited January 9, 2021 by Deej

[topochico 1051]

That looks great AUTF! I am definitely on team Fender pastels. 

Regarding the belly cut, I thought all you guys just played like this to avoid any issues.
 

 

[Goredho 17652]

Yep, that pink tele will be glorious.  As for the belly cut...

[Deej 77813]

[Bogeywon 2548]

6 hours ago, NoRagrets said:

My x-rays came back good as well. Are we the same person?

Are you tall and handsome? 

[NoRagrets 1140]

2 hours ago, Bogeywon said:

Are you tall and handsome? 

Yes

[Bogeywon 2548]

4 hours ago, NoRagrets said:

Yes

Hot damn we are the same!

[Bogeywon 2548]

Ac30 2x12 hand wired one  1750 Sweetwater guy said. Difference being it’s obviously hand wired and made in the USA not China and better parts. I want one 

[jimmyjazz 47152]

Not knowing any more details, a point-to-point wired AC30 is a lifetime amp.  Do it.

[Celery Man 21095]

Is that the purty white one?

I'm going to tell you that it will hold its value really well and will be easy to unload if you decide you don't like it.

I don't really know if any of that is true but it's some good bullshit and come on it has to be true so you should buy it.

(I bet it is true, and at any point if I feel stupid for having a big dumb expensive amp I go check and see how much I could unload it for and am fine again)

[Buzzrock 15136]

I am nothing if not a math nerd.

Read that as meth nerd

[Buzzrock 15136]

Fuck I love Strats. It’s inexplicable how I’ve been playing since the late 80s and don’t own some version of a SSS Strat.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJyjAjwDCj7/?igshid=clu8y9xi4e2s

I should dump all these stupid Firefly’s and put the cash towards a decent one.

[AnotherUTFan 9982]

Or build one / have one built, Buzz

[AnotherUTFan 9982]

For some reason I just had the idea to Google Aldo Nova. Anybody know anything about this hockeystick headed Les Paul that turns up in half his pictures?

[jimmyjazz 47152]

Looks like he slapped an Explorer neck on a Les Paul.  Is there any reason to believe otherwise?  Do they not fit?

[jimmyjazz 47152]

Yup:  here's a quote from a Reverb auction of a knockoff, claiming Aldo Nova said:

Quote

"This is the guitar that I designed that Gibson made for me, it's a Les Paul with an explorer Headstock, there were only 12 made in the world, I have the first one still. Rick Neilsen from Cheap Trick bought all the other ones and at the show we played together in Mattawa, Canada, he asked me how much I wanted for mine, I said sorry Rick but some things are priceless. I love Rick, we had such fun times together when I opened up for Cheap Trick back.I'll always consider Rick, Robin and BunE. the dearest of friends to this day."

 

[Buzzrock 15136]

Or build one / have one built, Buzz

I don’t know what to build. I want the Hendrix/SRV/Knopfler/Mayer Strat. What’s that?

[AnotherUTFan 9982]

I was just coming back to post the same quote I'd found, jj. Interesting guitar.

[Buzzrock 15136]

With a dash of Gilmour

[jimmyjazz 47152]

1 minute ago, Buzzrock said:

 

I don’t know what to build. I want the Hendrix/SRV/Knopfler/Mayer Strat. What’s that?

 

It's a Strat.

[AnotherUTFan 9982]

I don’t know what to build. I want the Hendrix/SRV/Knopfler/Mayer Strat. What’s that?

The value in building from scratch is getting to define what that is for yourself instead of hoping someone else will. What is that you like about each of those?

[Buzzrock 15136]

I don’t know. I’m pretty deep in the bottle this evening for...reasons so let’s pick this up later.

In the meantime I picked up the Breedlove to noodle along with this Isbell show I’m watching on YouTube, and the frets are biting like hell. Dry weather? It’s been sitting on a stand. Is that fixable?

[Chad Fuck 18134]

I don’t know. I’m pretty deep in the bottle this evening for...reasons so let’s pick this up later.

In the meantime I picked up the Breedlove to noodle along with this Isbell show I’m watching on YouTube, and the frets are biting like hell. Dry weather? It’s been sitting on a stand. Is that fixable?

Dry house. Did you turn the heater on?

[Buzzrock 15136]

It’s 36° so yeah. I think I need to investigate a humidity system for the guitar room.

[Bogeywon 2548]

13 hours ago, Celery Man said:

Is that the purty white one?

I'm going to tell you that it will hold its value really well and will be easy to unload if you decide you don't like it.

I don't really know if any of that is true but it's some good bullshit and come on it has to be true so you should buy it.

(I bet it is true, and at any point if I feel stupid for having a big dumb expensive amp I go check and see how much I could unload it for and am fine again)

Yup the pretty white one. I’m going to when I have the cash. I just bought my wife her first Louis purse for Xmas and went over the budget which cut into my amp budget (like all of it) (humble brag cause she deserves one and never asks for anything).

14 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Not knowing any more details, a point-to-point wired AC30 is a lifetime amp.  Do it.

I played one In a studio a while back like 10-12 years ago I’m pretty sure it was a ac30 but it was great 

[noharleyyet 2864]

I'll never look at my Deluxe Tele again without air guitaring widdle dee...

[Deej 77813]

10 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yup:  here's a quote from a Reverb auction of a knockoff, claiming Aldo Nova said:

 

If it's goofy looking, Rick will buy them all up. 

[Chad Fuck 18134]

It’s 36° so yeah. I think I need to investigate a humidity system for the guitar room.

When I turn the heat on, I pack my acoustics away. I’ll see them again in the spring.

[DougO 5264]

On 1/9/2021 at 6:31 AM, topochico said:

That looks great AUTF! I am definitely on team Fender pastels. 

Regarding the belly cut, I thought all you guys just played like this to avoid any issues.
 

 

 

 

Keef's superhuman regenerative powers would obviously reverse any issues suffered from the sharp-edged slab Tele effect.

 

 

Edited January 10, 2021 by DougO

[Deej 77813]

He still has enough heroin in his system from the 70's to dull any pain. 

[Goredho 17652]

His toxic sweat melted a belly cut for him.

[DougO 5264]

I have an old cheapass Epiphone Strat style guitar that has a hockey stick headstock like that, sort of a department store shrink wrap starter version originally. I got it for $10 at a pawn shop years ago.

[BoomMF 1402]

First step, ask her out and treat her like a lady...

[topochico 1051]

[AnotherUTFan 9982]

A few days in and Im absolutely in love with this fat necked, tummy cut Telecaster; even more than i dreamt I'd be. Those ToneRider Hot Classic pickups are everything a Telecaster should sound like, and a bargain to boot. 

[Celery Man 21095]

oooooh fat necked tummy tucked girl, she's my fat necked tummy tucked girl