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

[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.

 

[0XI0]

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

is truss rod supposed to be a structural element? or it's just for compensation?

the keisel headless are 1. baked to foq like Japan ESP, wood as dry as it can ever get, 2. dual carbon fiber rods running parallel to truss rod. but my Vader lit up like a light bulb once it got tension on the truss rod. before it was kind of flat, from the factory the truss rod was just chilling in there doing nothing.

the LTD korean import evertune is kind of the opposite. wood not cooked as long, if at all, glue joints not as tight, they always generally sound darker than the ESP equivalent. (same as epiphone up against gibson.) but once tension came off of the truss rod to be in that middle floppy position, it started resonating like crazy. maybe the evertune system gets into tug of war oscillation with more wood that way, where before the truss rod was damping some resonance.

 

[Warmart]

is truss rod supposed to be a structural element? or it's just for compensation?

the keisel headless are 1. baked to foq like Japan ESP, wood as dry as it can ever get, 2. dual carbon fiber rods running parallel to truss rod. but my Vader lit up like a light bulb once it got tension on the truss rod. before it was kind of flat, from the factory the truss rod was just chilling in there doing nothing.

the LTD korean import evertune is kind of the opposite. wood not cooked as long, if at all, glue joints not as tight, they always generally sound darker than the ESP equivalent. (same as epiphone up against gibson.) but once tension came off of the truss rod to be in that middle floppy position, it started resonating like crazy. maybe the evertune system gets into tug of war oscillation with more wood that way, where before the truss rod was damping some resonance.

This is one of those toan rabbit holes best not traveled, lol.

I just figure without the neck balanced by it, you pretty much lose all the energy transfer from the headstock and neck - plus backbow is obviously bad!

 

[Eagle]

Nothing to do with transfer of energy from the head. A loose rod will however suck energy making the parts vibrate. It needs to be at least snug in either direction.

 

[la szum]

Making me a little hot with that kind of talk, Andy.

 

[TJontheRoad]

Worked on a video demo for the GX-10 to be released soon.

 

[Aleksi]

Guitar is doing nothing for me right now. I feel like it's clean, bluesy OD or different levels of hi gain. If I try to make it sound different, it's either the same basic sound with FX on top or it just becomes an awful synth sound. Playing by myself just doesn't inspire me at all. Playing along to backing tracks is dull as shit. I don't want to play in a band anymore, not that there's too many chances for that anyway.

I'm thinking about selling most of my guitar gear and just keeping a 6, 7 and 8-string and the baritone acoustic and the FM3 for a while and seeing how I feel after a while. I have no financial reason to sell stuff, but I'm at a point where I'd rather not have all this stuff lying around unused.

 

[TJontheRoad]

Guitar is doing nothing for me right now. I feel like it's clean, bluesy OD or different levels of hi gain. If I try to make it sound different, it's either the same basic sound with FX on top or it just becomes an awful synth sound. Playing by myself just doesn't inspire me at all. Playing along to backing tracks is dull as shit. I don't want to play in a band anymore, not that there's too many chances for that anyway.

I'm thinking about selling most of my guitar gear and just keeping a 6, 7 and 8-string and the baritone acoustic and the FM3 for a while and seeing how I feel after a while. I have no financial reason to sell stuff, but I'm at a point where I'd rather not have all this stuff lying around unused.

We've all been there. It's ok. Stop playing guitar and try something else. Just don't stop the music. Best thing I ever did for my guitar playing is to learn how plays keys. Or, play some drums to shake things up.

Good luck.

 

[la szum]

Guitar is doing nothing for me right now. I feel like it's clean, bluesy OD or different levels of hi gain. If I try to make it sound different, it's either the same basic sound with FX on top or it just becomes an awful synth sound. Playing by myself just doesn't inspire me at all. Playing along to backing tracks is dull as shit. I don't want to play in a band anymore, not that there's too many chances for that anyway.

I'm thinking about selling most of my guitar gear and just keeping a 6, 7 and 8-string and the baritone acoustic and the FM3 for a while and seeing how I feel after a while. I have no financial reason to sell stuff, but I'm at a point where I'd rather not have all this stuff lying around unused.

Hope you get your Mojo back.

 

[la szum]

I am excited, because it looks like this will be the first of 3 consecutive days
off. First extended stretch of time free from obligations in a minute.

Have a set of Creambacks to go into the Mesa Homester, a set of Mateus Asato
Suhr Pickups for the Telecaster, and a Dreamcatcher to put into a Charvel.

These stretches of free and uninterrupted time are priceless. So priceless!

 

[duzie]

I am excited, because it looks like this will be the first of 3 consecutive days
off. First extended stretch of time free from obligations in a minute.

Have a set of Creambacks to go into the Mesa Homester, a set of Mateus Asato
Suhr Pickups for the Telecaster, and a Dreamcatcher to put into a Charvel.

These stretches of free and uninterrupted time are priceless. So priceless!

Relish the time Dave !

 

[la szum]

Thanks, Cheech! I am going to soak it up like a Fat Man in a Hot Tub!

 

[duzie]

 

[norminal]

Guitar is doing nothing for me right now. I feel like it's clean, bluesy OD or different levels of hi gain. If I try to make it sound different, it's either the same basic sound with FX on top or it just becomes an awful synth sound. Playing by myself just doesn't inspire me at all. Playing along to backing tracks is dull as shit. I don't want to play in a band anymore, not that there's too many chances for that anyway.

I'm thinking about selling most of my guitar gear and just keeping a 6, 7 and 8-string and the baritone acoustic and the FM3 for a while and seeing how I feel after a while. I have no financial reason to sell stuff, but I'm at a point where I'd rather not have all this stuff lying around unused.

Nothing a NGD couldn’t take care of!