Broken old man seeks lightweight guitar

[Jkist7]

Hils are psychos, and have wired the pickup selector arse about face. "Up" is bridge and "Down" is neck. This is just wrong, but easy enough to adapt to (or to fix if it really bothered me).

This is definitely a factory mistake, my HILS was not like this. Might be as easy as loosening the switch and flipping it 180 deg.

I traded my last HILS and I miss it a lot. Probably the best "travel" guitar I ever owned. Might pick up another...

 

[Eagle]

Nope, all stock, which is not normal for me . I do have a set of pickups that I want to install and a Tesi kill switch, but the stock pickups sound surprisingly good.

Try a Sanwa arcade button it’s a very responsive kill switch much better than the Tesi imo ,and Buckethead,and Aristides, and anyone else who has tried both that I know.

 

[sandmannn69]

Due AFAICT to dumb luck and a lifetime of poor self-care, my back and knees are currently buggered beyond belief. Rehearsals and gigs essentially leave me crippled, hobbling about like <insert vulgar simile here> and unable to bend over to pick my pedalboard up, stand up straight, or walk properly. So obviously I'm still doing both, and cutting back on other fun to compensate.

Whilst the physio and medical professions work their very slow magic to restore me to my former not-quite-glory, it occured to me that this is an excuse to get another guitar, as, pissing in the wind as it will be, I'm sure lugging a 6lb guitar for 3 hours will be better than an 8.5lb one.

What suggestions do the good folks of TGF have to offer (for guitars, not for back/knee remedies or for trips to Dignitas)?

Current main gigging guitars are @Cirrus reject Gretsch Elliot Easton (twin humbuckers and a Bigsby) and a Guild Starfire V (twin humbuckers and a Bigsby). Ideally I need some kind of trem, but lighter than a Bigsby, and I tend to prefer humbuckers but am not totally anti-single coil. I do tend to think Strats are for kiddy fiddlers, which might be a limiting factor, and I know that I hate the neck on Squier Classic Vibes.

Available for cheap on the UK secondhand market is an added bonues.

Inspire me, people, inspire me.

The Squier Contemporary teleasters are usually pretty light. Mine is 6 lbs 13 oz. Comes with jumbo fretwire, 12" radius, and rail humbuckers. Put '51 nocaster pups in mine, sounds like an excellent tele and comfortable with belly cut and rounded heel....

 

[Snags]

This is definitely a factory mistake, my HILS was not like this. Might be as easy as loosening the switch and flipping it 180 deg.

I traded my last HILS and I miss it a lot. Probably the best "travel" guitar I ever owned. Might pick up another...

Hrm, that's interesting. I queried it with Anderton's (out of interest, as you say it's not a mega-hard solve) and the response was basically "Oh, they're all like that sir". I'm sure the nice person answering email at Anderton's wouldn't bullshit a customer just to make them go away

I'll take the backplate off and check I'm right, but certainly the "up" position has more bite and treble, so aurally it does appear backwards.

 

[Warmart]

Hrm, that's interesting. I queried it with Anderton's (out of interest, as you say it's not a mega-hard solve) and the response was basically "Oh, they're all like that sir". I'm sure the nice person answering email at Anderton's wouldn't bullshit a customer just to make them go away

I'll take the backplate off and check I'm right, but certainly the "up" position has more bite and treble, so aurally it does appear backwards.

You can lightly touch a screwdriver (or something) to the pickup cover area and tell which one is active.