My strat arrived.
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My strat arrived.
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Love the white Strat!!!!! Looks so classy
Love the white Strat!!!!! Looks so classy
Yeah, I tend not to go for the "CRAZY" designed guitars. If you look the body shapes are all oh so similar and overall I find a maple fred board the nicest
Tumeke!
Gratz and happy NGD
Maple is always a nice thing, and a white strat with a maple board and pickguard has a very classy, refined and unique elegance to it.
Looks great beside the VBK, I always loved the baroque inlay in that range of guitars.
The beauties on the wall, and the beasts lurking behind that door.
What an excellent gratuitous gear porn picture
problem is those thick polyurethane paint jobs kill the tone of t guitar that is my opinion, I do not wish to argue about it as I've been down this road before but I've compared, tried strip guitars and I know it changes the tone
And those thorn guitars have ...envelope please .....a thin nitro paint !!! Hence why the sparkle is there.That is a small part of the equation,having a good sounding body and neck also , everything is put together is a factor . But those thick poly pain't jobs do suck the vibrant tone of a guitar
In my opinion there is nothing that supports that and nobody has ever demonstrated in a blind test that guitar tone changes with and without poly or any other coating (or "superior tone woods") in an electric guitar.
If that was the case then the ultimate marketing for every guitar brand would be to demonstrate their guitars with A-B sound comparisons showing how much more "air" they have. There are severeal obvious reasons why no proof test like that exists after all these years. I can get great spanky and "airy" fender tones from both poly, nitro, alder wood, even heavy plywood bodies. The number one reason I prefer poly on my guitars is because it offers much better protection.
And good for you if you like poly protection . You are entitled to your opinion and so am I
I won't argue about this ! Been down this road before and honestly I have better things to do like, go play guitar, or go walk my dog ! Fine that you believe what you believe, possibly you just don't hear it. And yes there has been test done that do support this, and I ve done some myself. Stripped a poly guitar and compared the tone pre and after and yes the tone was changed! Take it as you want !
Some know and some are in the dark, you don't hear it and that's fine...
Why do some makers still use nitro paint on their guitars ?
Anyway im out on this debate ! Enjoy
1) If the paint were made of metal that had magnetic properties maybe it could affect the tone by interfering with the magnetic field. But seeing how it decreases by 1/2 every doubling of distance I don't see how that would appreciably affect the tone unless it were not flakes but a solid wrapping of metal.
2) Thickness of paint if stiff enough might in theory allow for more sustain. But since that is more effected by string tension and whether the neck is firmly attached to the body, plus the wood density (and whether neck and body density match) I don't see that being much either. (btw, my bolt on tremolo Thorn SoCal has more sustain than my LP or Tele, so wood matching density and a well thought out neck pocket seems to be the key issues there)
3) Breathing wood? Well, I suppose IF wood is not covered AND it absorbs moisture in a highly humid environment, it COULD become denser and thereby affect the tone. But it would ALSO warp by that point to hell, throwing off a number of things. IF anyone thinks "breathing" makes a guitar sound better, just scrape the finish off and soak your guitar in water overnight and wa-lah, there you are. The best tone money can buy. (If it still plays after warping)
There are a lot of variables to a great guitar tone. Luthiers know which are true and non-true. There are so many variables it's easy to think an unrelated variable has an appreciable amount of influence. But when you hear Luthiers talk about coatings, its not about tone. It's about whether the coating shows the underlying wood (aesthetics) or will last or clean up well, etc. Nothing about tone.
So until I read a well known Luthier making guitars w/o any coatings due to the affect on tone, I'm thinking it's not one of those optimal variables to affecting guitar tone. I'd put my concern more into pickup magnets, pickup wire wrappings, pickup wire thickness, wood density, neck pocket, strings used, electronics, metal pickup cover or not, guitar cord, fingers vs picks, type of pick used, what your ears have been hearing the last hour, etc.
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Glad owner of a Music Man Majesty - love it a lot.http://www.soundside.de/studio/images/…ars-021-big.jpg
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It's very nice looking guitar!
Yeah, that thing really is majestic.
I can hear the Imperial theme from Star Wars looking at that picture. I bet that neck plays fast.
I've received that one some months ago, couldn't resist as lefty Charvel are quite rare...
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Niiiice man!
Love wood tones, and the tone of wood... and wood...
My first self-built guitar. It's a Carvin Koa body and neck. I did the finishing and building job.
Very nice.
That's my favourite shade for mahogany (regardless of what yours is made from). I wish the Suhr Modern Satins had gone a couple o' shades darker in order to be like this; they look anaemic IMHO.
B-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!
My latest.
My latest, Folreden John Mayer strat, Klein Big dipper pu's
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I just ordered from Folreden, too (thanks for the tip, Bert haha!). Not a custom job this time around, but maybe next time
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I'm going to put this pickguard on it and black knobs. Should look great!
I just ordered from Folreden, too (thanks for the tip, Bert haha!). Not a custom job this time around, but maybe next time
I'm going to put this pickguard on it and black knobs. Should look great!
Sweet choice for a pickguard, Sam. It will definitely look great with that on top!
Sweet choice for a pickguard, Sam. It will definitely look great with that on top!
Thanks, Zapman! Yeah, it's a young Swedish girl that hand-paints them that I stumbled across on Instagram. It's really great work that deserved a new guitar as a foil, haha!
I just got this guy. Ibanez AR300RE-CS , made in Japan.