Lets look at our guitars thread

[Rod200SX]

Picked up my first 7 string today. Super nice guitar for the money! Very impressed with Schecters own pickups. Funnily enough, I find it far more comfortable to play than the 6 string Schecter I sold to make way for this!

Excuse the mess!

[Don1]

Close, but the guitar will never match the sofa colour.

[Rod200SX]

Don1 said:

Close, but the guitar will never match the sofa colour.

The sofa is actually a brighter red but I tihnk it confuses my camera

Temporarily storing it for my sister ended up with it being a perminent man cave addition, it's not the bonniest of sofas!

[rsbmw]

Schecter have to be about the best value around.

[oddball1313]

New Stratocaster day after finishing putting it together last night

Warmoth Alder body in Candy Apple Red, Roasted Maple neck and indian rosewood fretboard
Hardware is from Charles Guitars, pickups are a set i had kicking around but a set of noiseless Kinman Blues are on route. Just needs a good setup now.

Red Strat (1) by oddball13131313, on Flickr

Red Strat (3) by oddball13131313, on Flickr

Red Strat (2) by oddball13131313, on Flickr

Red Strat (1) by oddball13131313, on Flickr

Red Strat (2) by oddball13131313, on Flickr

[OldSkoolRS]

That's lovely Oddball1313 I do like Candy Apple red and the anodised pickguard goes well with it too.

Definitely want to refinish my Jaguar in CAR, but will be a while yet after the recent paint job.

[Sheetmaself]

Okay so i got it, all good apart from the downloaded user amp settings. Im finding that some, even some of the more popular ones) cut in and out and don’t allow any finesse as if i lightly strum i get no sound. Any thoughts as to what i am doing wrong?

[oddball1313]

noise gate threshold too high?

[Don1]

Odball - stunning Strat.

[oddball1313]

Don1 said:

Odball - stunning Strat.

it’s come out quite well I think - the Warmoth stuff is fabulous quality and with some decent hardware and pickups and a good setup and you’re in custom shop territory for half the price

[OldSkoolRS]

oddball1313 said:

it’s come out quite well I think - the Warmoth stuff is fabulous quality and with some decent hardware and pickups and a good setup and you’re in custom shop territory for half the price

Just having another look at it now and I noticed that you've used aged metal and plastic parts, but a fresh body, much like mine: I couldn't bring myself to start sanding and chipping away at it after all my work spraying it. I expect it will wear and age gracefully once I get it out gigging. I love the almost 3D look of the paint on the horn on yours.

Good point about the set up too: Spent the last few evenings fine tuning it all, tweaking the action, neck relief, couple of strokes on the nut slots (ooh err!) and pickup heights. Really got it all settled in now. It's interesting playing it back to back with my other guitars too; especially my other Strat that was re-fretted then professionally set up. Different specs, but I honestly feel like it plays as nicely.

At the risk of being in the dog house I'm off to play it some more as I didn't get through my full set list before tea.

[HighwayToHull]

Candy Apple Red - gorgeous!

I have a CAR Strat project on the go at the mo, photos when it's done. Don't hold your breath, things move slowly around here.

[Sheetmaself]

oddball1313 said:

noise gate threshold too high?

Will take a look later to see if this is the issue thanks.

[redrabbit]

Finally got it (a couple weeks back)...got to say, it's very very good (epiphone 59)

[rsbmw]

Well if we’re posting amps now

[chemistry]

rsbmw said:

Well if we’re posting amps now

Oooh, like!

[HighwayToHull]

Had another little finish-related issue the other day. Brand new body, just finished sanding so it's ready for finish, sat it on top of a pile of washing so as not to scratch it ... came down in the morning to discover that during the night, it had slipped off onto the floor. Sod's law, small dent in it.

Now one technique that sometimes works is to place a drop of water on the dent, leave it overnight and it sometimes pops out. Had several attempts but in this case, no luck. Took it up a notch Dampen a cloth, put it over the dent, then apply a hot iron until you hear it sizzle. Well it hasn't worked completely but the dent is now so small that I can only see it because I know it's there.

So I'm fairly confident that it won't show once the finish is on!

[Sporky]

These were my amps before I went Helix.

Cornell Romany Custom - in the Rambler chassis, with a valve-driven effect loop:


MJW Roadstar, voiced along Matchless lines, with a pair of neodymium speakers:

[gazza285]

Bought this Japanese Strat on the cheap, as a bit of a project...



It has a few issues, the Floyd pivot posts have broken out of their usual home, and the neck pocket is damaged.






I like a challenge.

[singlecoil]

gazza285 said:

It has a few issues, the Floyd pivot posts have broken out of their usual home, and the neck pocket is damaged.

I think I would be inclined to use Araldite on that. Good luck however you do it.