Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: tomjackson on April 15, 2011, 04:42:32 PM
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I'm down to just a Tele and Strat now so I decided to put 2 humbuckers in my strat and do the blacktop wiring.
I quite like it. It's had single coils in for the last 15 years so the hums make a good change.
The knobs are Gretch. There should be 3 but I ordered the wrong pickguard. Doh!
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Sorry Tom but I don't like that at all!
100 lines after school please - "I must not put dual humbuckers in a strat" :lol:
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I like it. Looks classy with the covers.
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Sorry Tom but I don't like that at all!
100 lines after school please - "I must not put dual humbuckers in a strat" :lol:
it does look classy as hell though
I've butchered one strat into a double humbucker guitar. That still leaves me three strats with just single coils and one HSS though. A guitar collection isn't complete without at least three SSS strats.
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I must admit it took me a while to get used to it, but as I'm pretty OCD about strats I've decided it will never be the strat I really want so I may as well do something completely different with it!
It has a swimming pool route and 2 pivot trem so it doesn't satisfy my vintage strat gas but with the hums it does have the best of both worlds.
It will be my bashing around gigging guitar....
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That looks nicely done. What pickups did you put in there?
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They are Tonerider AII's. They will do until I can afford some Stormies....
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A guitar collection isn't complete without at least three SSS strats.
Despite my sizeable collection, I've only got one Strat!
(but I have enough parts to make 3 or 4 more.... :oops: )
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looks great to me. stormy bridge for sale in seconds out.
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A guitar collection isn't complete without at least three SSS strats.
Despite my sizeable collection, I've only got one Strat!
(but I have enough parts to make 3 or 4 more.... :oops: )
I've about 16..............
1957 Original - Apache's
1956 Bravewood
1960 Original
1963 Original
1964 Bravewood - VHII & 2 MM's
1981 57 reissue - Slowhand Bridge & 2 A5 Apaches
Black HSS - Stormy Monday & 2 Sultans
Flamed Redwood - HD & 2 Sinners
Daphne Blue - 59 Slabboard
Black - 69 Custom Set
White - Apache's with baseplates
Shell Pink Hard Tail - custom AII Mother's Milk set
Sunburst - Crawlers
Custom Hollowbody - IT's
1967 Bravewood on the way
new hardtail - A5 Apaches
I like Strats!
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I have owned quite a few Strats over the years (11 or 12 I think, plus some partscasters). Nothing really high-end, mostly American Standards, an American Vintage, a Squier, a couple of MIM and MIJ. But I always end up selling them. Never seem to find one I really like.
Maybe my new relic hardtail will be "the one"... :?
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I don't see what is wrong to ''Blacktop'' a strat. Fender did the HH several times in a strat. Like the Fender Big Apple. Uncovered though.
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Love it :D
You're give me serious GAS, I'm current have 3 Strats (all SSS), next one must be HH
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I quite like it, although PQMustSellMePartsToMakeAStratAtAMassivelydiscountedRate i'm not sold on the knobs
On a side note, does anyone PQMustSellMePartsToMakeAStratAtAMassivelydiscountedRate believe that subliminal messaging works?
Mark.
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Very nice :D
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On a side note, does anyone PQMustSellMePartsToMakeAStratAtAMassivelydiscountedRate believe that subliminal messaging works?
No.
I might have some parts to sell though (ButNotAtAMassivelyDiscountedRate).
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I'm actually starting to like this strat now. Think it's growing on me. Maybe I need to get out of my vintage mindset!
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I'm actually like you Ian , I like strats to be vintage correct but that's actually why this one has always bugged me... that big swimming pool route and 2 point trem. My strat OCD meant it has never ticked the right boxes for my perfect strat. So now it's a different guitar almost I'm a lot happier with it...it's not trying to be what it's not now it just is what it is. And it means I can have a humbucker guitar until I can afford something else in a few years.
Phil King, that is an amazing collection of strats!
Re the Knobs, I was going to go for Fender amp ones like the actual blacktop strats but Gretch buttons are the best for swells and as I use swells a lot I went for them.
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I'm actually starting to like this strat now. Think it's growing on me. Maybe I need to get out of my vintage mindset!
I'm almost going the reverse direction - I always favoured 22 frets, modern hardware etc but in recent years I've started to prefer some aspects of vintage stuff, especially the bridges and tuners. I don't think I'll ever get into a 7.25" radius and tiny frets though!
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I'm actually starting to like this strat now. Think it's growing on me. Maybe I need to get out of my vintage mindset!
I'm almost going the reverse direction - I always favoured 22 frets, modern hardware etc but in recent years I've started to prefer some aspects of vintage stuff, especially the bridges and tuners. I don't think I'll ever get into a 7.25" radius and tiny frets though!
Played recently some old strats and customshops at stujos (stujos.nl if you want to check out), and I experience the same. The 7.25 radius doesn't fit my playingtechnique/style. And I don't like the tiny frets too.
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I like it. It's always nice to see a non-traditional strat. It would get boring if they were all "vintage-correct!" :)
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I don't think I'll ever get into a 7.25" radius and tiny frets though!
I think its fine (quite nice in some ways even), but the setup/fret dress needs to be right. I think people are scared of it when they hear horror stories of fretting out, which I've still yet to experience on the Bravewood.
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I don't think I'll ever get into a 7.25" radius and tiny frets though!
I think its fine (quite nice in some ways even), but the setup/fret dress needs to be right. I think people are scared of it when they hear horror stories of fretting out, which I've still yet to experience on the Bravewood.
I've owned a few vintage spec Strats and never got on with them at all, they just seemed hard work. To be fair, it might be the frets more than the radius - bigger frets on the 7.25" would give more to dig into, I think.
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It's weird, I'm reasonably happy with any radius, but I do seem to gravitate towards 7.25".
I'll agree on the small frets though - my CIJ/MIJ strat and teles have the leetle frets, and it takes 20 minutes of "getting to know you" time if I've been playing something with bigger frets. I am seriously considering getting the strat refretted now so that it matches my Roadworn strats...
Funnily enough, the biggest "getting to know you" time I need is when I pick up my Baja tele. The huge frets I put on it are great, but the radius (9.5 I think) is flatter than I'm expecting and it just feels "odd" at first. Jonathan did offer to reprofile it to 7.25 when he refretted it, but I dedided not to. I have trouble getting used to it regardless of whether I've just come from 7.25 Fenders or from flatter Gibsons... no idea why. But after half an hour or so, when I do get used to it, it's perfect... glad I didn't change the profile. It's strange, though, I can go straight to 7.25 with medium frets from this (or from Gibson) without even batting an eyelid.
On Tom's black-topped strat... I held off commenting at first because I felt fairly negative about it. I didn't even think it looked pretty... :lol:
But it's kinda grown on me, and I can fully understand the reasoning... I've even been wondering about doing something similar... except none of my strats are obvious candidates for this heinous butchery :lol: (none has the swimming-pool rout, and the Fiesta Red CIJ, the one least "doing the job", has far too much sentimental value).