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Title: Aged Apaches - better pic!
Post by: PhilKing on August 28, 2005, 01:03:53 PM
I fitted the Apache's and can't put he guitar down (well only to see Ben (TO), and fit the Piledriver.  These are the new pics:
Title: Aged Apaches - better pic!
Post by: 38thBeatle on August 28, 2005, 02:30:43 PM
Beautiful. :D
Title: Aged Apaches - better pic!
Post by: chris o'donnell on August 28, 2005, 02:30:50 PM
Lovely Strat Phil.

Would you say that Apaches are better suited to maple necks, or does it depend on the individule overall tone of the giutar.


Chris.
Title: Aged Apaches - better pic!
Post by: steve on August 28, 2005, 03:31:45 PM
The strat is beautiful,i bet it sounds awesome as well.
Title: Aged Apaches - better pic!
Post by: HJM on August 28, 2005, 03:48:38 PM
Figured out teh aging prosses - leave the pickups in a pub for a month....
Title: Aged Apaches - better pic!
Post by: _tom_ on August 28, 2005, 04:06:14 PM
Quote from: HJM
Figured out teh aging prosses - leave the pickups in a pub for a month....


 :D For homemade aging, how well do you think leaving them to soak in stong cold tea will work?
Title: Aged Apaches - better pic!
Post by: HJM on August 28, 2005, 04:09:42 PM
French polish has worked for me too......


Phil - who cut the hole in the esquire scratchplate.....what did he use...chainsaw???
Title: Aged Apaches - better pic!
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on August 28, 2005, 04:25:13 PM
Man, that guitar looks so ... WHITE!!! LOL
Seriously, it's very cool looking!!
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Post by: willo on August 28, 2005, 04:26:46 PM
its very 'Woodstock Hendrix', no?
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Post by: Ratrod on August 28, 2005, 05:32:44 PM
Nice. Caracter guitars all the way.
Title: Aged Apaches - better pic!
Post by: _tom_ on August 28, 2005, 05:52:38 PM
^damn straight Ratrod! I prefer guitars like that to "new" looking PRS etc with their posh quilted tops. Saying that, I'd still have one if the price was right  8)
Title: Aged Apaches - better pic!
Post by: PhilKing on August 28, 2005, 08:57:51 PM
Quote from: HJM
Phil - who cut the hole in the esquire scratchplate.....what did he use...chainsaw???


The problem was that the original scratchplate had already been cut for a strat pickup which is a little longer than the firebird.  Thats why the front looks like that.  When you look at it from the other side of the room you can't tell, and it sounds great.  I used the 4-way switch that BK supplies.  It is nice to have the series/parallel for the 2 pickup combinations.

Quote from: chris o'donnell
Would you say that Apaches are better suited to maple necks, or does it depend on the individule overall tone of the giutar.


I know that they sound great on this.  The Irish Tours I have are a bit bright with my japanese Hank Marvin necked hardtail, but I worked out why when I spoke to Tim.  I thought it would be cool to have a reverse magnet stagger (ala Hendrix)  :oops:   Combine that with a thick maple neck and a hard tail and you have a very bright guitar.  I have a mexican strat that I was going to cannabalise for the Marvin (it is fiesta red), with a rosewood neck.  I will put them in there and see how that works.  

The apaches seem to have every tone in them.  You can get a brighter attack by just playing harder.  They are incredibly responsive to touch (stop the jokes already  :roll: ).  I can imagine that they could give a great rock tone in a rosewood guitar.  The other thing about my strat is that there is really no lacquer on the neck!  This probably mellows it a bit.
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Post by: Tim on August 29, 2005, 08:16:03 AM
My Apaches are in a rosewood board Relic............and as those that see me at the trade fairs will vouch, I'm forever showing how well they rock too.They will produce some classic hard rock tones........plugged straight into a JCM800 you can crank out classic Maiden and Saxon and the tone is spot on :D