Plywood Redemption

[lifted]

Hi All,  this is my first post here.   This is such a cool site, I don't know why I haven't joined sooner.  Anyway  I already have my heart  (and almost my wallet)  set on two Irish Tours and a VHII for the bridge in a cheap (Drive brand) strat copy with a nice Carvin neck.  I was told that the body is even Plywood :o    but As good as bareknuckles sound the plywood should be a non issue.   It does sound realy good unplugged though.  After listening to  SDE's Pink Floyd , Jimi and SRV clips  I picked the Irish tours,  But I love that Knopfler tone too, and I listened to StefanPrice's Knopfler clips and was blown away.   Does anyone think that I can get at least 80% Knopfler from the Irsh Tours,  or should I maybe get an Apache in the middle ?   Thanks

[lifted]

I would also like to thank Bainzy  For helping me decide on the VHII  with all his great clips.   And Twilight Odyssey  as well   Cheers, Guys!

[SDE]

Hi Lifted,

Thanks for the comments regarding my clips - with regard to the Knopfler tone, the Irish Tours sound brilliant in the in-between positions, plenty of quack to them which I think is what you are looking for.  My strat used to have Texas specials in it and I have found the 2 and 4 positions more useable since changing over.  The Riviera Paradise clip was the neck and middle together just to give you an idea.

[lifted]

Yes, SDE,   I am pretty confident that no. 2 bridge / middle will be able to produce that Quack that  Knopfler is getting.  I assume that's where he has his switch, too don't you think.    I am going to coil tap the VHII in the bridge and I think it will still be quacky :lol:

[genocidal tendencies]

I bought a carvin neck recently as well. Don't have a (complete) guitar to fit it to though. What do you think of it?

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No idea about the pickups, sorry.

[lifted]

Well,  the first one they sent me had a faulty last fret that was sticking up out of the groove so I sent it back, and the promptly sent me another one.   I love the contour of the back of the neck.   I go to guitar stores and play everything, and it's really hard to beat the playability  and comfort of these necks.  I think Ebony is standard fretboard for the maple bolt-ons, and having previously played a rosewood fretboard, I like the extra no-give hardness of ebony,which added considerable snap to the tone of this very light bodied guitar, but with ballsier bass.  Make sure you look over the fret job for too-tall frets, as I just got a luthier friend to file down the last two cuz I could'nt get  my action low enough.  Now I think it's perfect, but use that 30 day send back policy if you need to, cuz Carvin are good to deal with, and it will be promptly corrected.   Sorry bout the rambling, but hope  this helps.

[genocidal tendencies]

It looked fine, but I will have another look now. It'd probably be cheaper to get someone local to look at it than to ship it back to the US now, but it's still better to know before I expect to be able to play it. The main thing I've noticed about it was just how smooth the diamond grinding leaves the fretboard.

[lifted]

Yeah,  mon 8)   Smooth and silky, indeed.  A joy to play

[Bainzy]

I would also like to thank Bainzy  For helping me decide on the VHII  with all his great clips.   And Twilight Odyssey  as well   Cheers, Guys!

 
:D  8)  :twisted:

I bought my VHII's before I finished my custom guitar, so I put the bridge VHII straight into the wood on my old plywood squier. Even in there, it sounded f'n amazing!  :twisted:

[lifted]

Cheers, Bainzy,   That's even MORE encouraging.  If I did'nt have such a bad CD  habit, I'd already have pickups.   Just plopped 25 bucks on the Essential  Iron Maiden :roll:  but of course it's great.