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Joined: Dec 25, 2007 Posts: 294 Location: Nashville, TN
timmysoft wrote:
After Duncan from Organic visited the studio, i now definately need an Organic, they play/sound/feel every bit as good as PRS and Blackmachine but they're built 20 miles from my house. Local luthier FTW!
no offence but that guitar design looks like total mott to me, something about it just seems wrong. maybe the fact it kinda looks like a schecter crossed with an argos cruiser 'metalz' model. the basses are nice though!
check out vanquish guitars (.co.uk), i'm demoing for them at the birmingham NEC in november and am hoping I might be able to blag one as they are meant to be pretty awesome (still fugly though).
i don't know about the whole 'luthier' thing in general though, it seems a bit wanky and unnecessary to me when you can easily buy a mexican fender or a load of shit off stewmac and have a perfectly decent guitar (or 3) for a fraction of the price.
back on topic, i bought:
warwick pedalboard and case (thanks to dewbug on here, the board is awesome!)
£18 worth of stuff in topman (using a voucher, managed to get 2 shirts, a hat and a belt all in the sale)
a ts808 clone DIY pedal kit from some dodgy german website (22 euros!!), i'm about to order the hermida zendrive clone kit for a meagre 28 euros.
metal housing box for the pedal, a bue LED and some knobs/switches etc from maplin
some marshall preamp tubes
and a fuckload of guitar bits from timmy, which i am greedily awaiting so i can start my 'mother of all telecasters' project.
After Duncan from Organic visited the studio, i now definately need an Organic, they play/sound/feel every bit as good as PRS and Blackmachine but they're built 20 miles from my house. Local luthier FTW!
no offence but that guitar design looks like total mott to me, something about it just seems wrong. maybe the fact it kinda looks like a schecter crossed with an argos cruiser 'metalz' model. the basses are nice though!
check out vanquish guitars (.co.uk), i'm demoing for them at the birmingham NEC in november and am hoping I might be able to blag one as they are meant to be pretty awesome (still fugly though).
i don't know about the whole 'luthier' thing in general though, it seems a bit wanky and unnecessary to me when you can easily buy a mexican fender or a load of shit off stewmac and have a perfectly decent guitar (or 3) for a fraction of the price.
back on topic, i bought:
warwick pedalboard and case (thanks to dewbug on here, the board is awesome!)
£18 worth of stuff in topman (using a voucher, managed to get 2 shirts, a hat and a belt all in the sale)
a ts808 clone DIY pedal kit from some dodgy german website (22 euros!!), i'm about to order the hermida zendrive clone kit for a meagre 28 euros.
metal housing box for the pedal, a bue LED and some knobs/switches etc from maplin
some marshall preamp tubes
and a fuckload of guitar bits from timmy, which i am greedily awaiting so i can start my 'mother of all telecasters' project.
The pictures really dont do the body shape justice mate, they're more warwick bass as guitar than schecter!
Yeah tried the vanquish guitars earlier this year, to be honest the one that i tried felt just like a 61 SG, even down to the fact it was neck heavy!
I agree about buying a solid instrument and replacing all the parts to make it alot better. Its what i did with my strat. Mexi strat of ebay for £200, new parts totalling £200 and you've got an instrument that slaughters most sub £1000 guitars.
Joined: Feb 13, 2005 Posts: 3961 Location: The Rock Boudoir
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i don't know about the whole 'luthier' thing in general though, it seems a bit wanky and unnecessary to me when you can easily buy a mexican fender or a load of shit off stewmac and have a perfectly decent guitar (or 3) for a fraction of the price.
Because some people don't want a Fender, because believe it or not, some people don't like them (I, for one, think they're far more overrated than any custom). A custom from a luthier is like buying a Brabus-tuned Merc, or a Shelby Mustang. You pay for the name, and for the exclusivity, and hopefully for the quality. _________________ Keep up with local events and plug your own gigs!
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Joined: Apr 19, 2005 Posts: 5136 Location: At the bottom of the garden, amongst the birds and the bees
timmysoft wrote:
I agree about buying a solid instrument and replacing all the parts to make it alot better. Its what i did with my strat. Mexi strat of ebay for £200, new parts totalling £200 and you've got an instrument that slaughters most sub £1000 guitars.
Aye, this is my general route - my cheap-ass Ltd is as good a guitar as you need to play high-gain stuff now I've over-hauled it.
The custom route intrigues for a few reasons though:
Because I can never find the finish I want (silly I know, but everyone seems to have stopped doing trans-green),
Because I have tiny woman hands and have yet to find a really comfortable neck, or a cutaway that really works for me.
Because I want a baritone with a decent scale length (ESP baritones are only 27" or something stupid, it's barely worth the effort, let alone the extra £500),
Because. Just because
You can apply the buy-it-cheap-make-it-better idea to anything, but I'd for a really proper job I'd rather leave it to someone that knows what they're doing then spend forever trying to get it right myself. Changing p'ups is one thing, re-sculpting a neck and body is too much like hard work... _________________ If you're insulted, you're reading it wrong. You fucking imbecile.
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I agree about buying a solid instrument and replacing all the parts to make it alot better. Its what i did with my strat. Mexi strat of ebay for £200, new parts totalling £200 and you've got an instrument that slaughters most sub £1000 guitars.
Aye, this is my general route - my cheap-ass Ltd is as good a guitar as you need to play high-gain stuff now I've over-hauled it.
The custom route intrigues for a few reasons though:
Because I can never find the finish I want (silly I know, but everyone seems to have stopped doing trans-green),
Because I have tiny woman hands and have yet to find a really comfortable neck, or a cutaway that really works for me.
Because I want a baritone with a decent scale length (ESP baritones are only 27" or something stupid, it's barely worth the effort, let alone the extra £500),
Because. Just because
You can apply the buy-it-cheap-make-it-better idea to anything, but I'd for a really proper job I'd rather leave it to someone that knows what they're doing then spend forever trying to get it right myself. Changing p'ups is one thing, re-sculpting a neck and body is too much like hard work...
That post made me miss my trans green PRS CE24.
Do you find that with having small hands you play better on a fatter neck? thats what i've found and as people will tell you i have the smallest hands known to man
Joined: Dec 25, 2007 Posts: 294 Location: Nashville, TN
timmysoft wrote:
That post made me miss my trans green PRS CE24.
Do you find that with having small hands you play better on a fatter neck? thats what i've found and as people will tell you i have the smallest hands known to man
small hands are awesome!! for some reason people with porky little sausage fingers look way cooler when playing guitar. it just looks more comfortable for some reason. I look ridiculous playing guitar with my horrendous clobber-hands. i guess the advantage is that i find pretty much every neck no more difficult/easy to play than the next. that's one thing i forgot about the 'custom' made thing.
Joined: Feb 16, 2005 Posts: 2044 Location: norwich
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That is a lush looking Ibanez you have there.
Ibanez seem to have really stepped-up the quality of their production lines. The products they had on demo at the London Guitar Show this year had finishes and woods that were leagues ahead of the lines they had last year. Even their basses seem to have been revised.
Joined: Feb 16, 2005 Posts: 4694 Location: aylsham
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That's not the exact one, mine has had the stock pickups replaced with D'marzios!
It's a chambered swamp ash body with maple top, I haven't actually got it yet, but I can't wait till it gets here >.<
They need to change the bridge on those ibanez guitars, that one is massively ill.
Already got that planned, a friend of mine is a luthier and is gonna fit a Floyd Rose (flat mounted, EVH style) as these guitars only require simple modification for it!
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