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Warmoth is having an awesome sale!

20% of necks and bodys in the showcase!

http://www.warmoth.com/Default.aspx

i just recieved a total vintage 60's strat neck from them ,(its wicked)

ariving soon will be a hollow tele body

the whole guitar will weigh 5.5 lbs!



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Are you assembling it yourself? If you fuck up the tiniest bit you'll have a crap sounding guitar.



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Are you assembling it yourself? If you fuck up the tiniest bit you'll have a crap sounding guitar.


yes i am assembling it myself. Ive done a few before so , plus its easy peasy !

actually it cant sound crap unless the neck and body dont play nice together (bad vibrations, note cancelationing) mostly it just works out tho, my last partcaster tele is soooooo awesme its the reaso i'm doig this one !

the good pickups really help in the sound, no theyre not everythig, but theyre alot.

yeaq i want to get it together but the package with the body hasnt arrived yet



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btw eraser what does ur gem weigh?



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Well, if the lacquer's been professionally applied, bolting the thing together's not so hard is it? Strat neck plus semi-hollow Tele body sounds good, is that H/S, H/H or what? Post pics when you're done.
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btw eraser what does ur gem weigh?


Not sure, but it's a pretty light guitar.
And it's jem with a j, not gem :)



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Well, if the lacquer's been professionally applied, bolting the thing together's not so hard is it? Strat neck plus semi-hollow Tele body sounds good, is that H/S, H/H or what? Post pics when you're done.



yup bolt on mix n match parts!

i'mgonna finnish it my self, ive done ok in the past prolly some wipe-on poly steel-wooled off on the neck, the body somekind of rustic burst is the theme 4 this one as the ash grain on this one are awesome!

yea 60' strat neck, hollow ash tele body with strat forarm and tummy cuts for comfort!

ive been plkaying sitting and i really dislike the back edge of reg tele cutting in to my boob!

H/S H/H ? --haha yea no , traditional tele singles front and back!



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btw eraser what does ur gem weigh?


Not sure, but it's a pretty light guitar.
And it's jem with a j, not gem :)



heh i never botherd b4 either but i developed a curiosity then i developed a crazy want 4 a lighter than air guitar!



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I've recently been eyeing this:
http://www.feedback.nl/electrische-gita ... aul-std-hs

Supposedly it's a very decent guitar for only €650. For a real Gibson Les Paul you easily pay double or triple that and at the store I linked to, the Epiphone is only €399!



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yea ive not played one but peopleseem really pleased with them

i do know korea builds very high quality intruments



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Ibanez JS and S series are very light. My main gigging guitar is an S540 and its main plus point is that I can still play after crippling myself lugging amps about... Also S series are dirt cheap second hand and with some new pickups and a trem stopper they're lovely guitars
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Friend has had an epi LP for about 10 years now and it's his favourite guitar. Nicely weighted and sounds quality
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Friend has had an epi LP for about 10 years now and it's his favourite guitar. Nicely weighted and sounds quality


Dammit, I do want this guitar, but I need the ultimate excuse to buy it.
Next to my Ibanez JEM and RG and my strat it definitely adds something to my lineup. Especially the sustain on the JEM isn't optimal IMO.



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Definitely play the actual guitar you're going to buy before getting an Epiphone; they look the part but I've played a couple I didn't like the feel of, and to a certain extent you're paying for the frilly bits (block inlays, binding, flame top) rather than the actual guitar. There used to be a cheaper Gibson Les Paul Studio model without all of the crap on.

On the other hand, I'd go for a 335 anyway :p

Edit: have navigated your crazy moon language website and this is what I meant:
http://www.feedback.nl/electrische-gitaren/gibson/les-paul-studio-fireb--gh
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I'm not going to buy a guitar without playing it first of course. The Gibson is nice, but quite a bit more expensive than the Epiphone. I'm not sure if, at this time, I can really justify buying a 1000 euro guitar.



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do you even play them?
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yay



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vesp wrote:
Friend has had an epi LP for about 10 years now and it's his favourite guitar. Nicely weighted and sounds quality


Dammit, I do want this guitar, but I need the ultimate excuse to buy it.
Next to my Ibanez JEM and RG and my strat it definitely adds something to my lineup. Especially the sustain on the JEM isn't optimal IMO.



lotsof reasons/excusestoget a paul!

the bigest is totally diff sound feel ,playabilitybecauseof the diff scale lenth

u dont have onethat lenthso get a paul!



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Ibanez JS and S series are very light. My main gigging guitar is an S540 and its main plus point is that I can still play after crippling myself lugging amps about... Also S series are dirt cheap second hand and with some new pickups and a trem stopper they're lovely guitars



i want one!



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Definitely play the actual guitar you're going to buy before getting an Epiphone; they look the part but I've played a couple I didn't like the feel of, and to a certain extent you're paying for the frilly bits (block inlays, binding, flame top) rather than the actual guitar. There used to be a cheaper Gibson Les Paul Studio model without all of the crap on.

On the other hand, I'd go for a 335 anyway :p

Edit: have navigated your crazy moon language website and this is what I meant:
http://www.feedback.nl/electrische-gitaren/gibson/les-paul-studio-fireb--gh



damm good advice that there

and yes 335 :drool:



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I'm not going to buy a guitar without playing it first of course. The Gibson is nice, but quite a bit more expensive than the Epiphone. I'm not sure if, at this time, I can really justify buying a 1000 euro guitar.


i myself amwaiting forthe right japaneze vintage paul

like a tokai

or a gibby v.o.s. if and wheni canjustify it lol



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the body came yesterday

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/986/dsc08520.jpg

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/8874/dsc08523b.jpg

checkout how nice the neck pocket and neckplate holes line up

cnc perection ey!

sofar its just barly over 4lbs!

i want to see how it sound but i have to order 60'sbridgs and ferrels

i punk assed out and havnt gotton tothat yet :(

tonitei hope



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so far very nice
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Nice. Odd to see a strat neck on a tele body. Dumb question maybe, but shouldn't you put a finish on there before assembling the neck and body? Or are they not fixed together yet?



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eeyy so after a long time i finally put a finish on this thing

i had it together back then and played it unfinished for about 8 months maybe and then decided i was going to put
actual nitro-cellulose old time finish on there.

so i ordered some mohawk brand nitro in a mary kay type white finish and it took 6 months to arrive :shrug: !

then i started having 2nd thoughts about the nitro because it never really cures and it isnt inert, plus its toxic as hell
to apply

so i avoided thinking about it for a long time, then i finally decided to not do the nitro and instead to do a more inert type finish.

about a month ago i started on it, i used a whitewash wood dye, then waterbased spray poly on the body.

for the neck i wiped it down with acetone , which seemed to bring out the figure, then put wipe-on oil poly.

all the metal is pre-meltdown japan stuff(awesome quality)

the pickups are vintage 1970 excell strat pickups, they came in ibanez and greco lawsuit strats.
they read in the 4k range , so very weak , they sound awesome, very springy and boingy! jazzy in the front and twangy in the back.

http://imageshack.us/f/6/dsc03117sn.jpg/

it looks awesome up close the grains look velvety and 3d-ish


when i was avoiding finishing it , i put this partcaster tele together from stray parts i had around.


it has a very old growth 1 piece pine body and a massive one piece USACG neck, the rear pickup is a NOS gibson marauder(gibsons version of a tele) pickup from the late 70's , and the front pickup is a NOS 70's gibson S1 (gibson version of a strat) i almost always use strat pickups in teles in strats because i find them a truer tele tone lol :kooky:

the metals are japan too

ive been playing the shit out of this thing for about 18 months

the finish is rattle can gold and water poly on the body and wipe-on on the neck and weighs about 51/2 pounds

http://imageshack.us/f/9/dsc03120qm.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/f/254/dsc03124n.jpg/

i am going to up some sound samples but keep in mind i am really a metal player and twanging is quite different and new to me still heh

also i have a body for another one its 1 piece old old pine with a flamed ash top, i want to put a short scale mustang neck on it. when i dont know tho



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Very cool, looks great :up:



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ey thanks!

going to post a pick of it together soon!



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eyy plained you can work on my wood anytime hehe :nang :drool:



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thanks guys

yea i put most of it together and found the pickups had been played with by my kids!

have to repair them first now



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ey no big deal

i had them in a little bin in my office, i let my kids check out everything, they learn stuff ey.

if i am to lazy to fix them i have more

i even have a back up set of the 70's excel's

* edit

now that i'm on one i realize ive mistold you they are 70's excel's

these are actually early 70's maxon single coils, theyre still from ibanez and greco and other brand strat copies

these read in the 3.7k type range, the excel's are in the 5. k range

theyre taller than standard fender coils

theres my old temp fix when i bought them they were all broken with the inner coil wire gone (common) alot of people say they are write-offs like that but i found that i can wiggle technique the bottom black piece off and , waalaa there it is , the gone forever inner coil wire, of course it is a super tricky endeavor but ive repaired many that way

so this time i'll solder it , the thin coil wire, it just likes to disintegrate with heat tho thats why i shy away from it

then i'll somehow hardmount the lead to the pickup somehow for a heavy duty mechanical connection so it wont happen again.

http://imageshack.us/f/831/dsc02230yu.jpg/

i wanted the baseplate in the tele slot so i bashed in the sides!



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so now i repaired the pickups and assembled it, now i just have a few things to do to it

like this ey

http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/3474/bild1769.jpg

i massage/vibrate it till the brink of ecstasy ey so it will be very excited when i play it

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