Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Ian Price on April 20, 2010, 01:57:05 PM
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My partner has just called me to say that my new guitar (a Baja) has just been delivered and that she's moved it into the music room. Apparently it is sat next to the Strat and the Strat is looking very sorry for itself (I think it knows it's going to be sold).
I hate waiting to try new things out! I've got at least 5 hours until I get home and I'm due to be cooking tonight. Maybe I'll cook a take away.
To while away the hours I'll be trying to decide who would win a fight between a Tele and a Strat. At the moment my money is on the Tele.
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The Tele would win every time.
Tele = Vinny Jones
Strat = Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen
:lol:
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Apparently it is sat next to the Strat and the Strat is looking very sorry for itself (I think it knows it's going to be sold).
Now you've got me imagining this:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/guilty-puppy.jpg)
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The Baja's are great Ian, you can get decent stratty tones from them anyway.
Strat's and Tele's don't fight each other though, they gang up on PRS's and beat them up for having nancy bird inlays :D
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Nice one Ian. I'd be interested to here what you think of the Baja after you've played it for a bit this evening. I've been thinking about getting one of these or a CIJ Tele to put a set of Yardbirds in.
Hope you are happy with your new guitar!
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I think Strats and Teles complement each other -I can't say I prefer one over the other but congrats on your purchase.
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I'll look out for a Strat going cheap in the Basingstoke Gazette.....
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I think Strats and Teles complement each other -I can't say I prefer one over the other but congrats on your purchase.
+1 on this for me, but that's possibly cos I've got the ones I want and I'm in a position to keep them together...
Right at the moment I'm a complete strat-o-holic.
If I pick up one of me teles it's "just another guitar", nice but ...
Actually, the SG and the Red Special are getting more love than the teles at the moment.
If I pick up one of the two strats, though, it's more of a spiritual experience every time.
However, this will all change and I'll be favouring something else in a few weeks (hopefully something I have already :lol:)
Anyway, congrats on the purchase, but I really don't envy you the decision/etc... Much as I love it, I'd have to bin my Baja before one of my strats at the moment, and I'd ALWAYS bin my Baja before I had to bin both strats.
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Cheers Andy - I would rather not have been in this position (obviously) but am happy that I am making the right decision at the right time. I've thought about it for a while and think that this has given me the chance to get myself into the right mindset. My partner has also said that maybe I can get myself another strat if I find one I like in future - so I'm hoping that I'll only be stratless for a couple of years.
I've had a good look over the tele and a very quick play. It sounds very nice indeed. It's strung with 9's and will be re-strung with 10s at some point in the next few days.
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The Tele would win every time.
Tele = Vinny Jones
Strat = Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen
:lol:
:D Couldn't have put it better myself!
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Apparently it is sat next to the Strat and the Strat is looking very sorry for itself (I think it knows it's going to be sold).
Now you've got me imagining this:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/guilty-puppy.jpg)
Very good Philly - although the strat didn't have it's c@ck hanging out.
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how & why the hell did you notice that!
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good for you, like all good things though strats & tele's aren't to be compared. if i could only own one guitar it would be a srat , no doubt. i'd like to try a baja though especially as it has 4 way switch(i think).
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Very good Philly - although the strat didn't have it's c@ck hanging out.
:lol:
Oops. Missed that.
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Ian,
Glad to here that you got your self sorted with a replacement guitar. Hope it ends up being a great guitar for you.
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IAn are you getting rid of your strat.....seconds out style-y?
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Yeah - just need to take some good photos of it first. Will pobably whack it on there in the next few days.
Cheers all for the messages - it's srangely liberating to play a guitar that doesn't cost a lot of money!
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Cheers all for the messages - it's srangely liberating to play a guitar that doesn't cost a lot of money!
I'd have thought it was liberating playing a relic guitar anyway, despite the cost? It's not as if it matters if you ding it. :wink:
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Ian, congrats on the Tele. if it's any consolation, i personally think the average tele would beat the hell out of the average strat! :) although of course there are exceptions. i own a tele, and not a strat, and i intend it to stay that way
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Cheers all for the messages - it's srangely liberating to play a guitar that doesn't cost a lot of money!
I'd have thought it was liberating playing a relic guitar anyway, despite the cost? It's not as if it matters if you ding it. :wink:
True but I was coming more from the point of view that the cost of the strat massively outweighed my talent. The baja has narrowed that gap a bit!
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If we had to play guitars of cost/quality proportional to our talent, I would be forced to have one of these. :|
(http://www.dwmusicstore.com/images/products_large/IBO-SBEOFT-YL-B.jpg)
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:D
Anyone wnt to buy a tele? I've just seen my route to musical liberation :)
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Cool that you liked it! :D
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Welcome to the Baja owners club! I play mine more than any other guitar I own, love the chunky neck 8)
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Welcome to the Baja owners club! I play mine more than any other guitar I own, love the chunky neck 8)
Cheers!. I used to like thin necks, vintage frets and 7.25 radius. I now like chunky necks, big frets and 9.5 radius. Perhaps I'll change the frets to 6105s when they need doing (a few years at least!).
I played for a few hours last night and am happy so far - the neck pickup is very stratty sounding. A litte more twangy but stratty in nature. Favourite tones so afr are bridge on it's own and one position back from the neck (with and without the S1 engaged).
So far so good.
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Welcome to the Baja owners club! I play mine more than any other guitar I own, love the chunky neck 8)
Cheers!. I used to like thin necks, vintage frets and 7.25 radius. I now like chunky necks, big frets and 9.5 radius. Perhaps I'll change the frets to 6105s when they need doing (a few years at least!).
It's weird, although I've always preferred chunky necks the Baja's the only guitar I've owned where it was just too big, I didn't get on with it at all.