Recent content by simonallaway

I confess I don't know much about Reb Beach so I did a swift googling and found some shots of his Suhrs. Beautiful! I do see a likeness. http://www.rebbeach.com/gear_gallery.htm

That's a bummer! I know what you mean about shims. I don't imagine it makes a tonal difference but just knowing shims are present makes a guitar feel 'impure' to me somehow. Been there, done that.

There are two: 1) You can lean the guitar against things with much more confidence that it isn't going to fall over. 2) When I slob on a couch and want to play guitar I will move my strap to the lower button. I can't claim this as my own idea. Schecter used to do it back in the late 70s on Mark...

Freshly assembled Koa-on-mahogany, maple neck 'strat' type thing. It's got a normal Floyd Rose with the R2 nut. For pickups I went with the 'classic' Seymour Duncan pairing of a jazz in the neck and a JB in the bridge. I have to say that the prep Warmoth did for the nut was spot-on accurate. I...