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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:I wish those knobs would make hardtails strats. Two or three years ago, before I had a better understanding of Fender’s marketing proclivities, I took my Sub-Sonic strat to a local shop to try out amps to see what worked best with it. When I did the case check at the counter, the instrument got a lot of attention from the staff... but not because it was a rare color of an uncommon guitar. It was apparently because it is hardtail and three of the guys had never even seen a hardtail strat in real life before, as the last one from the ‘70s they had come through inventory was sometime around 2009. I’d buy a hardtail new-production HSS in a heartbeat if my bass brainworms stopped at the right time.
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Fender actually is making some hardtail Strats this year: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/de...ple-fingerboard They also have it as options in their Mod Shop semi custom thing. It looks like you can make HSS ones. The cost is more than equivalent production models. If I still played enough to at all justify any more guitars, I'd make some Antigua finish hardtail monstrosity. Shiroc fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Shiroc posted:Fender actually is making some hardtail Strats this year: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/de...ple-fingerboard Thanks for the heads up!
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It seems like making hardtails ought to be cheaper considering you can skip a big complicated rout and use a much simpler bridge.
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Mar 6, 2021 18:51
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BDA posted:It seems like making hardtails ought to be cheaper considering you can skip a big complicated rout and use a much simpler bridge. Whoa buddy, we’re giving you extra tone wood!
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Mar 6, 2021 18:52
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My stupid music poo poo for last year, paying a premium over a regular Tele for an Esquire.
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Shiroc posted:They also have it as options in their Mod Shop semi custom thing. It looks like you can make HSS ones. Aw dammit, what guitars am I gonna offload to make room? I don’t spend a lot of time paying attention to the guitar options, so I had no idea... they would do well to highlight mod shop creations somewhere to show this stuff off.
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How can Fender make a 70's hardtail and not offer it in a sunburst or natural finish?
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:The most razor-thin of lines between cool and stupid and also both simultaneously. widefault posted:How can Fender make a 70's hardtail and not offer it in a sunburst or natural finish? Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Mar 7, 2021 |
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Mar 7, 2021 05:51
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widefault posted:How can Fender make a 70's hardtail and not offer it in a sunburst or natural finish? It’s probably telling that FSR specs are decided by the shop ordering them (and, I guess by extension, how well that shop knows its customers).
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Hardtail strats in Daphne blue, surf green, and transparent red are being mass produced right now with one little catch: https://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/search?q=noventa Going to assume that's a swimming pool rout so should be pretty easy to mod to hss.
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A natural finish calls for nicer patterns of wood grain and hasn't Fender moved away from the woods that have those? Cheaper to just paint over everything and not care what the wood actually looks like.
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Joe Bogan posted:Hardtail strats in Daphne blue, surf green, and transparent red are being mass produced right now with one little catch: Holy poo poo those teles look terrible. Like, I get why they look like that, but I sure don't like it!
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Shiroc posted:A natural finish calls for nicer patterns of wood grain and hasn't Fender moved away from the woods that have those? Cheaper to just paint over everything and not care what the wood actually looks like. Also nice wood is getting rare. Trees just aren’t allowed to grow old enough in enough quantity.
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Mar 7, 2021 16:37
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There's a Fender Custom Shop painter named Jay Nelson on instagram who sometimes does the thing "see that grain? say byeeeeeeeeee!!" and then blasts the guitar with white primer.  His channel is super cool. https://www.instagram.com/jncolor/?hl=en
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Fender has moved away from using ash bodies so much because of the emerald ash borer making nice ash harder to get and not wanting to be responsible for making a tree go extinct.
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They've started using roasted pine on the American Professional II Series and it really has a similar look to ash. They're also using "soft maple" on the Squier 70's Tele Thinline, which doesn't look like ash but at least has decent grain and the possibility of a little flame or figure. Or start using whatever the hell this is on the two early 80s Samick-built Korean hardtails I have.   Samick called it ash in the spec sheets, but the grain is too tight and straight. Sen, maybe? Dang It Bhabhi! posted:There's a Fender Custom Shop painter named Jay Nelson on instagram who sometimes does the thing "see that grain? say byeeeeeeeeee!!" and then blasts the guitar with white primer. ~20 years back I painted a load of trim for someone building a house. All maple, all with massive amounts of figure and birdseyes. The interior doors were similar, beautiful grain with a decent amount of figure, all book-matched. Would have been gorgeous to just do a natural or lightly stained finish, but that was all to "busy" looking for the homeowner, so it all got a thick layer of semi-gloss white.
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widefault posted:~20 years back I painted a load of trim for someone building a house.... After I finished proudly I told my dad on the phone, who then paused a long, long time before asking if I did a lead test first. Oops.
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Mar 7, 2021 19:14
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"Bird's Eye? That wood is diseased. Throw it all out."
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Now I’m messing around with warmoth designing a ridiculous strat Bridge humbucker only Volume knob only Roasted maple neck and fretboard with black block inlays Reverse large headstock, painted black Black binding on the neck Goldtop gold body- sadly they don’t paint necks to match Black/white/black pickguard Hardtail string through Side jack Chrome hardware Comedy option: 24.75” scale Approx $1300 with crap like locking tuners
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Mar 7, 2021 19:50
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TIL Lemmy brought a slot machine with him on tour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SHv3N-cVc4
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My Esquire is apparently roasted pine. Its a white blonde so you can see the wood a little bit and it looks really nice. Maybe someday I'll get to play some lovely and obscenely trebley solos for people with it.
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So I got the 8 string Classical that a previous goon turned me towards, my original tuning idea didn't work since two strings poo poo the bed with the tension, however a whole step down and it's working well so far, C Standard with an extra string for a bottom Bb and high G owns. Loving the extended range for arranging.
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https://twitter.com/ShitpostBot5000/status/1368886752740601856?s=20 shitpostbot has our number
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Turns out you can just NASA footage, generally. More accordion this week! https://twitter.com/DatePandemic/status/1368356835229581312?s=19
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkEQCh0RDJY
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sigher posted:So I got the 8 string Classical that a previous goon turned me towards, my original tuning idea didn't work since two strings poo poo the bed with the tension, however a whole step down and it's working well so far, C Standard with an extra string for a bottom Bb and high G owns. Loving the extended range for arranging. Awesome! Shame about the tuning, especially since I seem to remember that getting appropriate strings was not that easy. I'd love to see it! The question remains: does it djent?
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Thumposaurus posted:If you're flailing about enough to knock the switch out of position the chances are pretty high you'll whack your knuckles on that thing and start flinging blood all over the place the edges look awful sharp. So you're saying its useful and metal? 
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hexwren posted:today's stupid music poo poo is I think that when I changed my strings a few weeks ago, I put the b and the high e on backwards today's stupid music poo poo is that I think I'm going to get another 10 to replace the e (the tension on what's on there right now is kind of ridiculous) but leave the b alone so I'd have two 10s on the two highest strings... ...today's stupid music poo poo is that I can never just assume that whenever anyone says "top" or "bottom"/"first" or "sixth" string that I am going to agree with them as to which strings they actually mean
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hexwren posted:
In my head top and first are both the low E, and I’m pretty sure that’s wrong but that’s what it should be 
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But if the first string is the one closest to the floor, how does that account for Albert King or anyone else who played flipped?
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Snowy posted:In my head top and first are both the low E, and I’m pretty sure that’s wrong but that’s what it should be Exactly my belief as well. It's incidentally also the most important string because chugging.
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Wolfwood really mellowed out huh?
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Turbinosamente posted:Wolfwood really mellowed out huh? No I loving don't. 
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Anyone want to buy a haunted guitar? Only $666. https://reverb.com/item/10967219-haunted-paranormal-ghost-guitar
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plerocercoid posted:Anyone want to buy a haunted guitar? Only $666. drat, i'd be lying if i said i wasn't tempted
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plerocercoid posted:Anyone want to buy a haunted guitar? Only $666. All my guitar strings vibrate discordantly.
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Snowy posted:In my head top and first are both the low E, and I’m pretty sure that’s wrong but that’s what it should be see, for me, the low e is bottom and first, though I've seen basically every combination used at this point
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