Gear WANT thread

[singlecoil]

Dr Z said:

Now, I desperately want this:

I love the colour. All it needs from my POV is a rosewood fretboard.

[Evangelion]

singlecoil said:

I love the colour. All it needs from my POV is a rosewood fretboard.

You'd also need to change the scratchplate to a white/black/white 3-ply (or more accurately, mint green) with 11-screw fixing.

[Justin Cyder]

Evangelion said:

You'd also need to change the scratchplate to a white/black/white 3-ply (or more accurately, mint green) with 11-screw fixing.

Why? If it's a '56 reissue, it's correct as it is.

Article said:

White pickguards (single layer): starting in mid-1954 on the Telecaster/Esquire and Precision bass, and from the start on Strats in 1954. Fender used a single layer white pickguard material made from ABS or vinyl about .060 (inches) thick. This relatively new material for the time was cheap, easy to work with, and somewhat flexible. Note bakelite was never used for white Fender pickguards on any model (though many people refer to white pickguards as such; but it's not bakelite). Fender stopped using the white material in mid-1959 except on the Telecaster, Esquire and DuoSonic/MusicMaster. In this case the single layer thickness increased to .080 (inches), and was used till about 1965 (Esquires till about 1967, when all old stock was depleted).

http://www.guitarhq.com/fender.html#specs

[singlecoil]

Evangelion said:

singlecoil said:

I love the colour. All it needs from my POV is a rosewood fretboard.

You'd also need to change the scratchplate to a white/black/white 3-ply (or more accurately, mint green) with 11-screw fixing.

I daresay, but I can't be bothered with all that stuff, I just like the shape and the colour. Although 3 ply 11 screw scratch-plates are less prone to warping.

It would be no good trying to sell me a vintage guitar, or even a vintage re-issue

[Fantuzzi]

http://www.gak.co.uk/en/ghs-fast-fret/2719?gclid=C...


Some of this.

[Turn7]

Fantuzzi said:

http://www.gak.co.uk/en/ghs-fast-fret/2719?gclid=C...


Some of this.

I was looking at that the other day, out of idle curiousity.

I can remember seeing the Hamsters on numerous occasions, and watching Slim Hamster spray his guitar neck liberally with........WD40

[Gaspode]

Fantuzzi said:

http://www.gak.co.uk/en/ghs-fast-fret/2719?gclid=C...


Some of this.

Nope, you want finger ease. Loads better http://www.amazon.co.uk/Finger-Ease-Guitar-String-...

[Dr Z]

singlecoil said:

Dr Z said:

Now, I desperately want this:

I love the colour. All it needs from my POV is a rosewood fretboard.

I love the colour too because its basically the blue in the Gulf livery colour! A much more vibrant blue than the sonic blue. All I'd change in that strat is the trem, tuners and the pickup selector to a 5-way if it is truly period correct 3-way, and then wire one tone to neck and middle, another to the bridge p'up-this would also be a push-push pot to add the bridge p'up to the middle/neck in parallel depending on the selector position. That would basically be my dream strat.

[Justin Cyder]

You could easily buy a standard USA guitar & throw the parts on you want for a further couple of hundred quid & that's what you'd have. I know this as you've pretty much described the strat that I built.

Gotoh locking tuners
LSR roller nut
Jeff Beck pickups
S1 switch & pot

Only I went Olympic white, the true overlord of Strat colours!

[Dr Z]

You're right, but unfortunately the MIA Std don't come in Daphne blue or a soft V neck which are must haves for me! At the moment, the MIA Deluxe strat with the V neck comes closest, but no Daphne blue!

[Evangelion]

Justin Cyder said:

Evangelion said:

You'd also need to change the scratchplate to a white/black/white 3-ply (or more accurately, mint green) with 11-screw fixing.

Why? If it's a '56 reissue, it's correct as it is.

But once you change from the fretted maple neck to a rosewood fingerboard, it ceases to be a 50's reissue and becomes a 60's.

Personally I'd leave it as it is; I think that colour works beautifully with the maple.

[Justin Cyder]

True, although Slab boards started in 1959 & single ply guards ended the same year. There some single ply rosewood strats out there as existing inventory was used up at the factory. That said, an unmolested strat from that era is a very, very rare find these days, but of course the vast majority of rosewood guitars are three ply, 11 hole machines.

[Chimune]

A friend bought me a Roland Micro Cube as a temp and tiny replacement for the Fender Twin, but I keep trying to save enough pennies for one of these:



Proper tube overdrive at 4, 1 or 1/4 of a watt ! and looks nice enough to keep the mrs happy.

[Gaspode]

Chimune said:

A friend bought me a Roland Micro Cube as a temp and tiny replacement for the Fender Twin, but I keep trying to save enough pennies for one of these:



Proper tube overdrive at 4, 1 or 1/4 of a watt ! and looks nice enough to keep the mrs happy.

Ooh yes, that's rather cute, isn't it?

[Fantuzzi]

Gaspode said:

Fantuzzi said:

http://www.gak.co.uk/en/ghs-fast-fret/2719?gclid=C...


Some of this.

Nope, you want finger ease. Loads better http://www.amazon.co.uk/Finger-Ease-Guitar-String-...

Will have to give that a go.

Chimune said:

A friend bought me a Roland Micro Cube as a temp and tiny replacement for the Fender Twin, but I keep trying to save enough pennies for one of these:



Proper tube overdrive at 4, 1 or 1/4 of a watt ! and looks nice enough to keep the mrs happy.

They are meant to be rather good, have you had play on yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6wcP6q71J8

[Gaspode]

Having spent an afternoon looking at YouTube videos when I should have been working, I have developed a fairly sizeable lust for a Laney Lionheart 5 watt combo job:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yruLNrbwCPo

[big dub]

[singlecoil]

I'd like one of these




and one of these



though I would fit a new scratchplate due to the damage by the hand rest,

[IainT]

Not a big Precision fan but would love:

[Chimune]

singlecoil said:

I'd like one of these

Vox trouser press ?