What Did You Do With Your Guitar(s) Today?

[Aleksi]

I've been trying to play the guitar on sundays while watching my youtubes. Pulled out the strandberg 8 to mess around with. Shortened my DIY board, now it's just the FM3 with one mission exp pedal and tasty chips ir reverb. I could do without the tasty chips as well. I used to have 2 mission pedals, the FM3 and an HXFX with a small shelf for H90/Meris. Waaaay overkill

 

[la szum]

Played a few different axes through the Mesa Homester last night, and quickly realized more
than one of them is in serious need of a string change and some TLC. Getting on it as soon
as I finish putting some Chicken in the Smoker.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Getting on it as soon
as I finish putting some Chicken in the Smoker.

 

[Warmart]

Been having issues on a couple of my trem equipped Balls - with some ATG songs where it's pretty intense picking between 5th-6th-6th-5th-6th-6th-etc. The trems put just a tad more give that causes enough fight to make me flub up too often.

Finally let @FuzzyAce's years of planted suggestions sink in and put 10-52 on the Majesty and Cutlass and wham, problem solved! Gave me a bit more bass strength, too - these two are a bit lacking in bass, depending on what preset I'm playing - of course.

Now we'll find out if more guitars, even hardtails, are going to get the same nudge with 10-52's. Gawd, has anyone else, in the history of guitar, flip-flopped strings gauges so damn much?

 

[Warmart]

Maybe 10-50.83's on the hardtails?

 

[FuzzyAce]

Finally let @FuzzyAce's years of planted suggestions sink in and put 10-52 on the Majesty and Cutlass and wham, problem solved! Gave me a bit more bass strength, too - these two are a bit lacking in bass, depending on what preset I'm playing - of course.

Glad I could help!

 

[Warmart]

Glad I could help!

You fought the good fight, thank you!

 

[la szum]

Haha! Chicken is not done, but I did restring 3 guitars.

Progress!

 

[duzie]

Haha! Chicken is not done, but I did restring 3 guitars.

Progress!

Priorities man
What type of wood are you using in the Smoker ?
Dry Rub on the chicken?
We need to know

 

[la szum]

Is there anything in this world that smells good as smoked meats??

Soy Sauce, Black Pepper, Garlic Marinade overnight. Cooked over Hickory
for about 3 hours in the Smoker, and then put in the Oven under the Broiler
to crisp up the skin a bit----as the Skin in a Smoker can get a little rubbery.

It's so juicy that when you go to Temp it it literally squirts.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Besides playing guitar, I did manage to get a thin coat of finish on my scalloped neck. I mixed some graphite powder into satin polyurethane and wiped it on. It's a very subtle enhancing of the maple color, but I will be putting on more coats as the week goes by.

 

[la szum]

Excited to see it when you are done, FA!

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Besides playing guitar, I did manage to get a thin coat of finish on my scalloped neck. I mixed some graphite powder into satin polyurethane and wiped it on. It's a very subtle enhancing of the maple color, but I will be putting on more coats as the week goes by.

I hope you're taking progress pics for us?

 

[FuzzyAce]

I hope you're taking progress pics for us?

I'm the worst with that. At least the step by step process. I'd fail at being a Youtuber.

But I'll take a few pics this week of the neck. The body is already done, it's a hat tip to a EVH guitar.
Once I get the neck closer I'll start a thread about it.

 

[nightlight]

Been playing this one from last night into today. Super fun guitar to play. According to Bill Kelliher, "The best sounding Tele ever."

I can't agree with him, because I've never owned a Tele, but it sounds awesome. Over 30 years old.

 

[Eagle]

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Been playing this one from last night into today. Super fun guitar to play. According to Bill Kelliher, "The best sounding Tele ever."

I can't agree with him, because I've never owned a Tele, but it sounds awesome. Over 30 years old.

Most Teles sound great acoustically because it’s built it by design. It’s pretty hard to make one that sounds bad .

 

[nightlight]

Most Teles sound great acoustically because it’s built it by design. It’s pretty hard to make one that sounds bad .

Never played one, so no idea really! This is literally the first time I’ve played one. I’ve never played a real Strat or a Gibson as well, so yeah, my life sucks haha

Les Paul’s The Log comes to mind, he said you could pluck it, go out of the room, come back and it would still be ringing.

While that sounds great in sonic terms, I bet that thing would have sucked to play haha!

This thing is an amazing feeling guitar. Just the right heft, a baseball bat neck that feels unlike anything I’ve ever played yet is somehow more comfortable to my hands than a skinny Wizard neck, and a great bridge pickup. I’m still ambivalent about the neck one though.

A lot of people say EMGs sound the same in all guitars as well, but that was not my experience at all. I’d really have to try more Teles to objectively weigh your experience!

 

[nightlight]

Here’s a clip of the guitar. I love how dynamic the pickup is, and when you roll back the volume, it has a markedly different voicing (though I didn’t do that in the video).

 

[0XI0]

lowered the action on a LTD MH-1000 evertune with the truss rod until it played lightening fast like a rocket powered hovercraft at the cost of 4th fret G string becoming a hi hat. then backing off the truss rod realized that with modern dual direction truss rods there's about a 1/2 turn in the middle where it actually spins free not putting tension in either direction.

on the some guitars I've had (keisel headless?) they just didn't resonate well at all until the truss rod had some pressure on it, in either direction, then once it had some truss rod support it started to vibrate really well.

on this set-thru neck LTD, with the truss rod floppy and just the wood holding all the weight, it's night and day in the tone department. maybe it had something to do with the carpentry chirotherapy of an ideot doing yoga with the truss rod back and forth 7 times. but it sounds so much better now. brood for thot

 

[Warmart]

I'd agree, if you're not feeling some tension then it's not doing its job.