Recent content by Lewguitar

Sorry...did you say something? If so, I wasn't listening.

I was about to give up and just say it's Rosewood! That's funny. If it is, it's the BLACKEST ROSEWOOD I've ever seen. Anyway, the seller gave me a deal when I bought it and now I know why. It is not the same neck as in the listing. And this morning, he gave me an additional $100 refund and...

It was very dry. Sharp fret ends sticking out along the whole 22 fret length on both sides, Beautifully shaped neck... Just dry as a bone!

It's a WD neck that I'd planned on using on a Warmoth Strat body. When it arrived last night it looked very dark. Almost BLACK! It also felt very dry. Sprinkled a little mineral oil like I use on my cutting boards on a soft cloth, rubbed it in and THIS TIME it did turn BLACK. By this...

To be honest, it would need the pickup mounted to a steel Tele bridge and string through body to get any closer. I had it with a Strat neck and middle pickup for a while. This will infuriate those here who like to argue about EVERYTHING they're deaf to or which they are NOT sensitive enough to...

This is the one and only way to get close. The body was already hogged out for a bridge humbucker and the Tele bridge pickup fit right in. So all it took was a new pickup and a new pickguard.

Take it a little further. None are so deaf as those who rub their skid marked underwear all over their face. But I guess you must like the smell. Must make up for not being able to hear.

There ya go. That's what I'm talking about. Thanks!

Meaningless? My best sounding electric guitars plugged in, are those that also sound great unplugged. When I bought my PRS Silver Sky I tried out every Silver Sky in the store unplugged. I bought the one that rang the longest, and had the fullest, deepest, most resonant tone. Wound up with...

I'm naming this one after my girlfriend Laura Lee, and the font is called Chopin. But I need someone good to make it for me. Any recommendations? There's a few guys on eBay but I'm not sure they're good enough because the mock ups they sent me weren't all that professional looking.

They do. But I have a lot of Dewalt stuff, including interchangeable batteries. So I went with Dewalt.

Looked instantly familiar! I owned a real '63 for about 40 years and it was my main ax. The electric sound seemed to have a little more midrange and growl and little less glassy transparency than most Strats.

10% is a substantial difference if you're a skilled and sensitive professional musician who hears as well as FEELS the sound vibrating through his or her body. I hear and feel the difference between a one piece maple neck and a maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard. The rosewood warms and...

My experience has been different. Maple necks sound different than mahogany necks and when Gibson made the switch to maple necks on guitars like the Les Paul Deluxe in the 70's the sound changed. Not as warm and round. Some players probably preferred maple but I didn't. I wanted to hear the...

Sure will. I post a lot on the PRS Forum and have a 95, 97 and 00 PRS CE22. Those are my faves. Bolt on maple neck. I see them as a cross between a Strat and a double cutaway Les Paul. Carlos Santana's personal PRS guitars have a solid rosewood neck. Might even be Brazilian. Mahogany body...