Lets look at our guitars thread

[Justin Cyder]

Not sure how it's changed over the years if at all. My 2007 strat has tone control as you describe but I have found this schematic. All I know is I have no tone control at all on the bridge pickup.

[johnbaz]

Hi all

Had this for 4 or 5 years now, paid next to nowt for it from the bootsale!

It's a one piece in a Selmer Croc case, it's a strange owld thing with a jack socket/plug that's smaller than the standard 1/4", has Burns Trisonic pickups and a Rangemaster whammy setup!!

The guitar..











The strange little lead, bottom one is non standard and goes in the guitar, top one is 1/4" and goes into the amp/pedals etc..


The Selmer hardcase..





Cheers, John

[W124]

52' (Apparently - who knows?) Gibson LG2

81 (Pretty sure) Ibanez strat copy.

Gibson sounds as you would expect but the Ibanez is an eye opener. I had one before (An SB 70 I think it was called) with 2 humbuckers on it. Similar ash body. They are great, great guitars. I just sold an ESP 800 series strat from 90' that was the best strat type guitar I've played. As good as than any Fender thus far. Next guitar is a JV Squire Spaghetti Logo Fender telecaster - Gibson bucker at the neck. Ace.

I always change guitars after a year/6 months or so. Always have. Easily bored as I'm pretty shallow.

Edited by W124 on Friday 27th September 17:11

[singlecoil]

Justin Cyder said:

Not sure how it's changed over the years if at all. My 2007 strat has tone control as you describe but I have found this schematic. All I know is I have no tone control at all on the bridge pickup.

Have you had a meter on the pots yet? That could be where the trouble is.

It would be interesting to see a picture of the underside of the scratchplate.

[W124]

That 60's strat looks great. What does it sound like?

[Justin Cyder]

W124 said:

That 60's strat looks great. What does it sound like?

Like a strat only with added awesomeness.

Really quacky through the neck pickup, and with a big bell tone through the neck. Middle pup was never my favourite on strats, but it's a 3 way switch, so you have that tricky balance thing to get the out of phase tones between the pickups. Mostly though, it feels so much nicer than a modern one. The AVRI's are the closest I've seen in feel, with the narrow necks but the Brazilian Rosewood is really warm.

[Lucas CAV]

As the previous poster said, Strats don't normally have a bridge tone control iirc - it is a very common mod though

singlecoil said:

Justin Cyder said:

Not sure how it's changed over the years if at all. My 2007 strat has tone control as you describe but I have found this schematic. All I know is I have no tone control at all on the bridge pickup.

Have you had a meter on the pots yet? That could be where the trouble is.

It would be interesting to see a picture of the underside of the scratchplate.

[Justin Cyder]

Got it. Rolling the volume off is very effective at knocking back the tone on the bridge pickup. Anyway, under the bonnet pics.






And a piccy of my daughter as a pirate that she made on Cbeebies for good measure.
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Edited by Justin Cyder on Saturday 28th September 08:06

[AdeTuono]

Baryonyx said:

As for the guitar in the above video, it's not mine but I wish it was, it's a beauty! Though my dream Jacksons are the Charvel Soloist 750XL and the Jackson Soloist Bengal Tiger...

That Charvel looks almost identical to a Maison I bought over 20 years ago. There's little about Maison on the web. Although I haven't picked it up in years(hence the dust!), it's a lovely piece of kit. No idea of it's value today. I think I paid around £500 in the early '90's.

[Chimune]

Here is my motley collection. 1st up: 1983 USA Strat. Quite rare ( but not valuable )as it was made during a cash limited time at Fender I believe ( something about being bought by CBS and wanting to maximise the company value I think ). That's why its only got 1 tone and the jack is 90 deg into the body. Its lovely to play though and I have had it for nearly 30 years now.


Next is a 1989 Epiphone SG G310 with humbuckers for some fat(ish) distortion. It was left to me by a good friend who played it much better than I ever could. He had lent it to me while he went traveling. He didn't make it back. I took it to the funeral to give back to his folks and they said he had obviously decided who should have it.:


Finally my Yamaha acoustic. Had a birthday budget of around £250 and spent hours in Guitar Guitar trying everything out and really pushing that budget. Despite playing lots and lots of medium price kit, I kept coming back to the £120 Yamaha. Its just really nice to play !! I have mates with £500 Fender acoustics and it amazes them every time !



Anyhow. My new Vox Ac4tv mini is arriving tomorrow and im gonna have fun with the Vox Stompbox 1g I ordered last week. Ill be happy with my lot after that ( although I really fancy a tele one day )
Photos were on crap phone at 8am this morn. I may replace them with better ones !

Edited by Chimune on Thursday 10th October 15:10

[Justin Cyder]

Your strat is from the arse end of the CBS era when they were cutting corners off production costs left right & centre. A year or two after it was made, Bill Schultz led a management buy out & started to rebuild the brand. If it plays & sounds good though, who cares?

Meanwhile, back in vintage collector land, I am £200 lighter.

[HereBeMonsters]

Finally allowed to get both of them up on the wall as the kid is not taking over my study/practice room after all.

[Chimune]

Justin Cyder said:

Your strat is from the arse end of the CBS era when they were cutting corners off production costs left right & centre. A year or two after it was made, Bill Schultz led a management buy out & started to rebuild the brand. If it plays & sounds good though, who cares?

Not me !
Yes that CBS thing sounds familiar. So its from the lowest point in the companies history Still it makes for an interesting story - and I don't see many around !

[LDN]

Chimune said:

Next is an Epiphone SG with humbuckers for some fat distortion. It was left to me by a good friend who played it much better than I ever could. He had lent it to me while he went traveling. He didn't make back. I took it to the funeral to give back to his folks and they said he had obviously decided who should have it.:

Lovely story and a treasured instrument. Sorry about your friend.

Chimune said:

Finally my Yamaha acoustic. Had a birthday budget of around 250 and spent hours in Guitar Guitar trying everything out and really pushing that budget. Despite playing lots and lots of medium price kit, I kept coming back to the 120 Yamaha. Its just really nice to play !! I have mates with 500 Fender acoustics and it amazes them every time !

Snap. I have a Yamaha acoustic that was around the 160 mark and it sounds bloomin' lush. Better than some a lot more expensive; it is odd.

[Chimune]

re the Yamaha, a month after I bought it I had an bloke round fixing the washing machine. He spotted it and told me he had an 800 quid budget for his 50th (he a jazz man). He ended up with the same model and gigs with it every week.
thinking about it I'm sure it was around the 160 mark. Model is FX370C.

[6th Gear]

Thinking about pulling the trigger and buying this Strat at WG.

http://worldguitars.co.uk/63-stratocaster-heavy-re...

I respect not everyone is a fan of the heavy relic guitars, but I just love that worn in feel, particularly the necks.

Has anyone on the forum played a Strat with the Abby pickups? Any views appreciated.

Many thanks.

[Fantuzzi]

6th Gear said:

Thinking about pulling the trigger and buying this Strat at WG.

http://worldguitars.co.uk/63-stratocaster-heavy-re...

I respect not everyone is a fan of the heavy relic guitars, but I just love that worn in feel, particularly the necks.

Has anyone on the forum played a Strat with the Abby pickups? Any views appreciated.

Many thanks.

I think its been sold the link leads me to a page dosnt exist anymore message, sorry!

[singlecoil]

Fantuzzi said:

6th Gear said:

Thinking about pulling the trigger and buying this Strat at WG.

http://worldguitars.co.uk/63-stratocaster-heavy-re...

I respect not everyone is a fan of the heavy relic guitars, but I just love that worn in feel, particularly the necks.

Has anyone on the forum played a Strat with the Abby pickups? Any views appreciated.

Many thanks.

I think its been sold the link leads me to a page dosnt exist anymore message, sorry!

It was there earlier, now it isn't, so either 6th Gear pulled the trigger or someone else had it.

Personally I can't see the issue with the pick-ups, at that price a set of different pickups wouldn't make much difference to the overall cost!

[Justin Cyder]

That was a very strong price for a strat, even a CS one. I'm sure if you kept your eyes peeled you'd find a better guitar for the money.

[6th Gear]

Just bought her gents!

She is being shipped to me shortly. Will update once received.

Cheers.