B-stock ordinarily are ok, but not a cracked headstock!? Thats the worst kind of damage and I dont think the price reduction sets off the severity of the underlying risk; basically we are talking a glued headstock here. Nice guitar too, shame.
Yeah I was gonna say a cracked headstock is quite severe especially with those near the locking system.
The top sheet has lifted on that one if I’m seeing the photo right, so not a full neck break but still not great.
Proper repair of that would mean taking that top sheet off and replacing / re gluing. Not easy.
After a hard day I find watching this guy repairing guitars wonderfully soothing for some reason. Yeah, I’m odd.
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Not at all, used to watch Johnny Kincaid videos from Bristol, there’s a full refret on TPS! Sometimes I think it would be a nice life being a Luthier, but I wonder if I would get bored.
If bills weren’t a problem I could easily see my self falling into something like this. Guitar repairs, making wooden surfboards or something like that.
Again it’s all about fiddling.
Sambora sig…
In the wiral.
Sambora has played absolutely everything over time. Decent looking 80’s machine though. I’d prefer his signature strat I think but even that has one of those dastardly Floyd Rose Trems
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So are these things hard to tune?
Say I want to play a song that requires tuning down a (half) step. Is that a ball ache.?
What Kramers? I dont actually know, I just know Ibanez floating bridge guitars are, but I would guess, any modern metal guitar with a floating bridge will be. They are under such tension, then locked off, whilst floating. Once you get them in tune they are good, but that can take a day. Even my guitar tech admitted it to me; he sold me the RG, and I said, they take ages to set up with new strings, he said “I know”.
Tuning down a half step or even a whole is doable but you are also supposed to tighten the truss rod to compensate for the loss in tension. Its not like you can detune and tune up a lot to suit, you are supposed to keep them in a new tuning. Anything lower than D will also need a longer scale length or heavier strings to compensate for the increased loss of tension; lots of Jazzmaster players select them for that, the longer scale will take them down to low C.
As above but my answer would be yes and no.
They are a pain to restring because the trem is balancing on a knife edge and as you put more tension in via the strings, it moves. But once you’ve got it close you lock off the nut (bolty thingy at the top) and you then tune from the adjustment screws on the rear of the trem.
The problems with the cheaper Floyds is that they dont quite return to where they were previously after using the trem arm. The expensive ones are not an issue. There is a comfort thing and in some cases the strings feel a lot higher above the body than on a standard guitar.
You can get these trems now with a switch thingy that will drop the low string to a D and vice versa if you fancy playing in a drop D tuning.
As above to retune you have get the tools out, loosen the nut, retune as close as you can get, tighten the nut back up and then fine tune. There might be several iterations of that process too.
This guitar has the switchy thing
Hmm
Just seen a 2003 Squier strat that’s been fully set up and polished up by a luthier and comes fitted with the Gilmour mod for £175+PP.
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Colour please? and Factory…
I regret opening this thread as I know its gonna cost me.
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Black with a carbon scratch plate. Rosewood fingerboard.
China, Yako, Zhangzhou which probably make sit one of the dodgy ones right?
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Yeah avoid it like hell, the worst, but the colour was encouraging!
Yeah. I’ll often scratch around and if something catches my eye I’ll look closer, even at the cheaper stuff because sometimes people will spend a lot of money on upgrades. Plus that Gilmour mod is a nice addition. If the price was right I’d even upgrade the pickups myself.
It will never be right the neck is made of really inferior wood. real young stuff that just isnt dense enough. Think the Gilmour mod is only a capacitor and a pot, some wiring. I have a capacitor in my partscaster Mex, just to bleed some treble out, with custom 69s, it has a bit more body. It was well worth doing, but you have to start from a strong base, and those Chinese ones just arent up to it. my mate tried it with a Tele, put a bareknuckle mad coil in it, the guitar went on the fire and he took the coil out a few years later.
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Yeah its a switch that allows you to put the neck pick up on no matter where the toggle switch is. So potentially a nice mod to have.
But you’re right, if its made from tissue paper than no point.
Still I saw this today and yet again I’m impressed by the tone this guy achieves.
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Fuck. I should be all over this
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