Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: hunter on September 15, 2011, 08:43:34 AM
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Wanted to downsize ... until this one came along ...
Couldn't resist, it was too big a steal.
US Charvel Pointy San Dimas 2005 custom shop reissue, quartersawn neck, compound radius, alder body, OFR, Duncans.
Neck is not as thin as one might think, it is thin compared to a Tyler, but has just enough beef to make the guitar resonate and sing. It's very loud acoustically, more so than my MM Axis and chords are transparent and lively, and it stays fat up the neck.
This one was a guilty pleasure buy, as it has the same colour as my first decent guitar back in the days, a 3A model from the late 80s. So I am coming full circle and I really enjoy playing this a lot. It's a great US Hot Rod. Colour is much better than in the pics, hard to get right without a decent lens.
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Congrats!
That's a stunning looking guitar!
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Oooh nice, that's not helping my GAS for a So-cal...
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Glad here is some love for 80s style superstrats.
Compared to the Pro Mods I tried last week, this feels like a different league right away the moment you pick it up.
I wonder if I'll see a need to replace the pickups. The Duncans seemed actually very nice when i had a quick go yesterday ...
I have no cab here, so can't plug it in :x
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That's a keeper! Love the pickup selection on this one as well. :D
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blue!
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NIIIIICE
I like the single coil in the neck look.
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That's awesome!
I have major GAS for 1 of the dual Humbucker Tele types in white with Floyd :lol:
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That's awesome!
I have major GAs for 1 of the dual Humbucker Tele types in white with Floyd :lol:
Those are pretty easy to have as for dealers the Tele types seem to be regarded kind of a shelf warmer (compared to the strat bodies that sell much better). You might get a good deal on one, then get an OFR and I'm sure it will be very cool indeed.
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What do you guys reckon, should the pickups/frame be cream?
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I'd stick with black, personally. That guitar looks perfect as is.
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Great colour - looks 80s-tastic!
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What do you guys reckon, should the pickups/frame be cream?
Not on blue.... if it was some shade of red I'd say yes to cream.
I'll be predictable and say it's not really my kind of thing - I keep wondering if one day I'll suddenly get superstrat GAS, but it's not happened yet! - but looks a nice guitar! :D
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Yeah Philly I thought it might not be your cup of tea. But it's a 2K$ guitar (though I paid nowhere near close to that) and it shows when you play it, it just oozes substance and quality.
Ok only thing I'll do to this is add a Tremol-no - I need it when I play dropD stuff with the band.
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nice guitar...
But I prefer the amber one on the background!!!!
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nice guitar...
But I prefer the amber one on the background!!!!
I would say the same. But you might well change your mind if you'd play them both.
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A very nice superstrat and I'm definitely in that fanclub. It shares alot with my Feline... :)
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A very nice superstrat and I'm definitely in that fanclub. It shares alot with my Feline... :)
Yeha, sweet Cat you got there!
Anyone got any idea what that neck pickup in my Charvel would be?
The only one I could find on the duncan site that looks like this would be a YJM Sig?
It has 12.6KOhm on my MM
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Does it hum? If not, it might be an STK1 or 4, that seems to be the default single coil for recent Charvels and Jacksons.
Other than that, I wouldn't have a clue...
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I don't have a cab here, so I can't test LOL
But I think it didn't hum
The STK1 or 4 however don't seem to have the same base plate as mine (rounded off with the four wires, see the body pic)
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It's definitely a stack, as you can see by the 4 wires. DC resistance does look about right for the YJM.
They've updated their stack range quite a lot, though, I see - I was only really familiar with the old Classic and Hot Stacks.
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I'm in the same camp as Philly - not quite my thing - but looks like a fine beast.
And I like the blue even if it's not come out as good in the pics as it should.
Nice one... :D
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That's a nice looker. Congrats!
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Found the pickup, an old Classic Stack:
http://www.themusiczoo.com/product/2146/Seymour-Duncan-STK-S1B-Classic-Stack-Pickup-Black/
Also found the 2005 price list, see San Dimas FR H/S w/case Candy Blue: 2269$
http://www.jedistar.com/pdf/CharvelPriceListSummer2005.pdf
LOOOL, not nice to talk money, but I paid 500€!!!!
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sweet :D
i saw something very similar on ebay recently, maybe it was even the same one?
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LOOOL, not nice to talk money, but I paid 500€!!!!
I hate you! :P
:wink:
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A very nice superstrat and I'm definitely in that fanclub. It shares alot with my Feline... :)
It's a little bit like the superstrat I put together and spray-painted about 25 years ago. :)
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/hhhjxgzghk.jpg)
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That's cool Phil - very 80s hair metal!
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It was that very era - around '87/'88 I think. :)
The neck on that guitar's quite interesting, it's made of loads of thin strips of maple laminate so it's probably as much glue as wood, and the fingerboard's some kind of synthetic ebony, like a Steinberger - no dead spots at all! It sounded rubbish with the original pickup (a DiMarzio MegaDrive), but not too bad with the Duncan Custom that's in the picture.
Never really got it into a properly playable state, though. I had to convert the neck pocket to take the 24-fret neck, which went OK, and I managed to recess the Floyd successfully, but the Floyd studs were the old fashioned type which screwed straight into the wood and they kept tilting forward. I hated trying to set that thing up. Gave up in the end, but I've still got it somewhere.
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It was that very era - around '87/'88 I think. :)
The neck on that guitar's quite interesting, it's made of loads of thin strips of maple laminate so it's probably as much glue as wood, and the fingerboard's some kind of synthetic ebony, like a Steinberger - no dead spots at all! It sounded rubbish with the original pickup (a DiMarzio MegaDrive), but not too bad with the Duncan Custom that's in the picture.
Never really got it into a properly playable state, though. I had to convert the neck pocket to take the 24-fret neck, which went OK, and I managed to recess the Floyd successfully, but the Floyd studs were the old fashioned type which screwed straight into the wood and they kept tilting forward. I hated trying to set that thing up. Gave up in the end, but I've still got it somewhere.
If you've ever got the urge to sell it, get intouch 8)
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If you've ever got the urge to sell it, get intouch 8)
Thanks, I'll take that as a compliment. :D
But it's one of the few I wouldn't ever sell, (a) for sentimental reasons and (b) because it's not very good and I'd feel bad for whoever bought it! :lol:
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Thanks, I'll take that as a compliment. :D
But it's one of the few I wouldn't ever sell, (a) for sentimental reasons and (b) because it's not very good and I'd feel bad for whoever bought it! :lol:
You should, it's cool!
I like it, nice and simple (bit like me really :lol:)
I have a good tech who'd be able to sort it out for me if you ever did want to sell it 8)
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Yeah Philly I thought it might not be your cup of tea. But it's a 2K$ guitar (though I paid nowhere near close to that) and it shows when you play it, it just oozes substance and quality.
Ok only thing I'll do to this is add a Tremol-no - I need it when I play dropD stuff with the band.
come on man, forget the tremol-no, get a D-tuna!
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LOOOL, not nice to talk money, but I paid 500€!!!!
wow i missed this yesterday. that's a killer price, and i don't think that's the one i saw on ebay :lol:
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Clip with the Randall, VEEEERY low volume 6AM recording, Heil PR20 about 10" away from the Marshall cab.
The Charvel is fun, LOVE to have a floating Floyd again!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QM0mxg9bSg
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And another one, also the neck stacked PU around half way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIEsebg4US0
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nice :D