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In any case I am deeply envious of all these drat guitars available to you normal handers. I don't think there's a non-Thomann HH telecaster available for lefties under $600 in regular production. And don't even get me started on hollowbody and offsets
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When I made my lefty Tele custom-ish I took a regular SX Tele body and carved out room for the neck pickup and the new controls with a drill, a chisel, and a dremel, and used a custom warmoth guard. I put a standard PAF sized bucker in there though.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:In any case I am deeply envious of all these drat guitars available to you normal handers. I just gave up and decided to build my own. It's week 15 and I'm still waiting on my body and neck to come - yay!
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TheMightyBoops posted:did they cut the FR down to fit in the cavity? No, they cut off the front corners where the bridge hits the posts so it would fit without cutting the pickguard. Shimmed into place with a slice of a credit card  Thankfully not much damage to the original screw holes.  I did find almost every pickguard screw hole is stripped out. Time to go buy a box of toothpicks. Also, the nut is borked, so that makes ~4 projects I need to replace the nuts on.
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My youngest son is a leftie but due to a lack of leftie guitars in the house when he started learning at 12, he learned to play right handed
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TheMightyBoops posted:Did you see that video where fender was putting single coils in mini humbucker cases and calling them mini humbuckers in Gretsch Basses? I know this is true but the junior jet is like the best feeling/sounding bass I've played so I still love it (I think I would actually like it less if it was real humbuckers)
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TotalLossBrain posted:My youngest son is a leftie but due to a lack of leftie guitars in the house when he started learning at 12, he learned to play right handed I started playing in middle school because the music teacher was into guitar and did lessons after school out of the goodness of their heart and when I picked the guitar up and she saw I was lefty she said absolutely not and told me to flip it.
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landgrabber posted:really craving a tele deluxe or something with fender wide range buckers lately. i love how you can still get a jangly sound out of them on the middle setting, but something fun and gainy on the other settings. Make sure you play real wide range buckers because the cheaper ones aren't the same. Then again, just play them first. I had the squier vintage modified dual humbucker thinline and it sounded nice ... but not "jangly" and definitely not the typical telecaster tone. It was warm, but darker, more output. No spank in the bridge which lost all the tele magic. Neck was really deep and dark. It looks 1000% country but didn't sound the part at all. No twang or jangle. No twangle or jwang. I just couldn't really find a tone that I liked with it. I've also played fenders with modern versions of the wide range pickups and they weren't what I thought they would be. Not nearly as jangly as I would've thought. I think the vintage wide ranges had something special the new ones don't. That's why I'm building a new telecaster with a Filter Tron in the neck and a tv Jones telecaster single in the bridge so that the neck jangles and the bridge stays true to a telecaster. Also, bigsby. I think filtertrons have more of that jangle than the wide ranges do, listen to cabronitas for instance. Plus they're smaller, those wide ranges are massive. I also really like the idea of d'armond dynasonics.
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currently i just want loving anything because my frets are worn now and the season's changed and i can't confidently play different notes because they might sitar and something about that makes me feel like i'm dying. i'm so frustrated.
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Ah yeah. The frets on my squier strat looked like a snake run over by a truck before I level and recrowned them. I finished that fret job and then decided to refinish that guitar and it's currently sitting in pieces in my closet. No idea how the neck even plays.
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i have half a loving mind to just buy another guitar so i'm not out of luck for however long this takes to get sorted out but that would be a really stupid idea when what i want is my guitar free of the bullshit.
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I’m lovely at slide guitar but I had heard these “Rock Slide” glass slides are great so I ordered one. It is pretty great. It sounds amazing and I wasn’t fretting-out even without changing the action. Super fun to just pick up and get your Blind Willie Johnson situation together. They’re thirty bucks tho. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GRS-MA--the-rock-slide-amber-glass-slide-medium
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landgrabber posted:i have half a loving mind to just buy another guitar so i'm not out of luck for however long this takes to get sorted out but that would be a really stupid idea when what i want is my guitar free of the bullshit. This was a Fender right? Have you thought of throwing a Squire neck on it until you can get the good neck redone?
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a little checklist for guitar ergonomics and posture... 1. are you fretting the notes as close to the fret wire as possible? this is the #1 cause of strain, it takes a lot more effort to fret in the middle even though the middle is intuitively where you'd want to go. and people don't talk about this enough, it drives me nuts!! 2. thumb position: with the caveat that there is TONS of variation in how people use their thumb, the best way is to have your thumb resting on the back of the neck between your 1st and 2nd fingers, with as little pressure against the neck as possible. imagine the neck resting in your hand and gravity doing the work of applying pressure to the string. 3. try the "buzzing strings" exercise: pick any set of single notes, a scale or whatever you like. run through the notes WITHOUT pressing the strings down at all, so they buzz. now repeat, and slowly increase the pressure bit by bit until the notes ring out. you might notice this takes much less pressure than you think! also notice that if you want to play louder, it takes more pressure to keep the note ringing clean. if you really want to get into posture and ergonomics stuff, there's also Alexander Technique which lots of musicians use to reduce tension. thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4012457
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Great Guitar Build Off for 2023 if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oUEDdXbG_Y Don't really have any great ideas, much less the means to realize them as I have hand tools and my kitchen table, but I might get a kit from somewhere and just enter an assembly and paint job, maybe a weird pickup or neck swap or something.
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Not terribly exciting, but I've just ordered a 3-pack of these and I'm interested to see how well they work out. I like having the heavier gauges for the top strings but not so much on the bottom so these could be a good fit.
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There a lot of knobs I like seeing on the Metal Zone, should I get one? If not why not?
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Just out of curiosity, does anyone know anything about Michael Kelly guitars? Local music place has a pile of them and I’ve never heard of the brand.
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help im addicted to octaves
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If I got something like a Voodoo Lab Iso 5, which has 3 9v, a 12v, and an 18v plug - which pedals benefit the most from having the higher voltages, and is it worth spending extra on the power supply trying to run as many as possible at max voltage? - My delay and tuner only run at 9v so that's easy. - My Electric Mistress clone runs at 12v-18v and "prefers 18v" - My Bluesbreaker clone can run 9v-18v - My Nobels ODR clone can run 9v-18v
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More voltage generally means higher headroom on drive pedals. Less compression and more dynamics. I'd run the Mistress at 18 and then whichever drive pedal you like the sound of best at 12v.
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darkwasthenight posted:More voltage generally means higher headroom on drive pedals. Less compression and more dynamics. I'd run the Mistress at 18 and then whichever drive pedal you like the sound of best at 12v. Thanks for the info. It's also only $29 more to get a Cioks, which can run them all at 18v if needed. That's pretty tempting.
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luchadornado posted:If I got something like a Voodoo Lab Iso 5, which has 3 9v, a 12v, and an 18v plug - which pedals benefit the most from having the higher voltages, and is it worth spending extra on the power supply trying to run as many as possible at max voltage? imo drive pedals do not necessarily sound better at higher voltages, mostly because they have clipping stages with clipping diodes that clip at very low (9v-driven) voltages. For example the Nobels' first clipping stage uses 1N4148 diodes that start clipping at about 0.6V. It could sound better at high headroom but I doubt it.
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Something like a compressor, EQ, or clean boost might benefit from the increased headroom l, but if you have clipping stages it doesn't really matter.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:"Sultans of Swing" is just fun to play every time. Every. Time. I really love "Down to the Waterline," too. A guy does a fantastic two-part video for it: Kottke's version of Last Steam Engine Train is a good one, sounds great but not super complicated.
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Clayton Bigsby posted:Kottke's version of Last Steam Engine Train is a good one, sounds great but not super complicated. "The Fisherman" is extremely straightforward and is a great place to start learning his stuff. Honestly, "Vaseline Machine Gun" is fast but easy to build up to, and is a fun intro to slide. Man, 6- and 12-String Guitar is just a phenomenal album, it never gets old. Anyone who wants Kottke tab, I have a few good ones stashed away. "Gewerbegebiet" is just so much fun.
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This is embarrassing, I can't find the arm for the floyd rose on one of my guitars. What places should I look into for a new one? A cursory search is putting them around $30 and that seems pretty steep edit: should I trust an ali express one? Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 16:53 on May 1, 2023 |
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Spanish Manlove posted:This is embarrassing, I can't find the arm for the floyd rose on one of my guitars. What places should I look into for a new one? A cursory search is putting them around $30 and that seems pretty steep The only thing I could see them possibly doing in an Ali express one that would be an issue is if they messed up the thread size on the fastener on the arm.
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i'm dumb, it was in a different guitar's case because I was careless when doing a big clean a few months ago. Maybe i'll try an ali express one as a backup in case this happens again
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Spanish Manlove posted:i'm dumb, it was in a different guitar's case because I was careless when doing a big clean a few months ago. Maybe i'll try an ali express one as a backup in case this happens again buy one of the ones that has the wrench built in the bottom so you can use your arm to undo the locking nut and saddles
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muike posted:buy one of the ones that has the wrench built in the bottom so you can use your arm to undo the locking nut and saddles !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is this wizardry and where can I buy it?
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muike posted:buy one of the ones that has the wrench built in the bottom so you can use your arm to undo the locking nut and saddles Is that this? Because man, I don't even really use or like my Floyd Rose all that much, and now I want one of those.
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Cross posted from the instrument purchase threadVerman posted:Well this thing just
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Christ that's a steal.
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halfway through a move, staying at the old place tonight and realized I moved all of my instruments already sucks
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Now that I finished my partscaster I’m absolutely in love with how the gold Lace Sensor I put in the bridge sounds since I corrected the wiring that I did a terrible job on before (and didn’t have set to the right height either, Lace recommends putting them a lot closer to the strings and it makes a huge difference). It sounds great and now I’m kind of disappointed in my Squier Cyclone. I like the sound enough that I want to get a Lace Sensor in the bridge of that guitar as well (I actually really like the stock neck pickup, no desire to change that). Problem being that there’s no pickguards with a dual single coil configuration (mine is the early 00s model with a humbucker and a single coil, not the newer one with 3 singles) and a dual Lace Sensor seems like overkill for me. I’m left with just shoving a single coil in the humbucker cut out and trying to make it look okay. If I pursue this route, is there anything sold that can fill the gap around the single coil in an aesthetically pleasing way? I guess I could just get another similar pickguard and cut it up and fill in the spot but I’m pretty sloppy with that kind of work.
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holefoods posted:Now that I finished my partscaster I’m absolutely in love with how the gold Lace Sensor I put in the bridge sounds since I corrected the wiring that I did a terrible job on before (and didn’t have set to the right height either, Lace recommends putting them a lot closer to the strings and it makes a huge difference). Maybe one of these https://www.guitarfetish.com/Humbucker-Rout-adapter-ring-Fits-Stratreg-pickup-Straight--Black_p_17721.html ?
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