GAS Alert!!!!

Ever see a really nice body, and think "I want that!"

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And then realize you already have one of those?

 

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Kostas said:
ghostrider25 said:
This one looks a lot like mine. Ooooooh, I wish I could build another. I'm surprised this one is top routed, though.

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You did a good job with yours but I've never understood why they top rout these bodies. These stripes need to be exposed, not a pickguard over them.

I sure prefer mine

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That's a nice piece of wood! I'm not really into the soloist shape, though, but at least it's top routed!
 
ghostrider25 said:
That's a nice piece of wood! I'm not really into the soloist shape, though, but at least it's top routed!
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It's funny how many people say that, the difference is minimal.


 
ghostrider25 said:
Minimal is subjective. To each his own  :icon_smile:
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You got that right. It's surprising how much difference a few thousandths of an inch can make. Look at frets.

Then, neck profiles. The difference between a Standard Thin and a '59 Roundback is only .050" - .060" at the first fret, and maybe .100" at the 12th, but it feels like the difference between a broom handle and a baseball bat in your hand. People talk about hand size, but I seriously doubt that has anything to do with it. It's a matter of feel.

Thing to keep in mind is that the difference really is minimal. You can get used to anything. But, once you get used to something, everything else feels wrong to the point where it almost seems unplayable. That's where you get these characters saying "such and such a profile gives me cramps!" Horsefeathers. They're just not practicing enough. But, you don't want to mix/match your guitar's neck profiles. Pick one and marry it, forsaking all others and keeping only unto it for as long as you both shall live.
 
Cagey said:
But, you don't want to mix/match your guitar's neck profiles. Pick one and marry it, forsaking all others and keeping only unto it for as long as you both shall live.
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Yep, so when you pick up someone else's guitar that ain't to your spec, you'll be justified in blaming the axe if you suck.


Whereas in my case, I suck about equally on all my guitars - the Standard Thins (Quty Pie and the  Hog), the Boatneck (Bete Noire), the Martin, the Peavey... I think I can spot the common factor leading to the suckage.


Although I suck orders of magnitude worse on the lap steel.  Can't really blame the neck for that, either, though.  Except in a more attenuated sense.
 
Bagman67 said:
Whereas in my case, I suck about equally on all my guitars - the Standard Thins (Quty Pie and the  Hog), the Boatneck (Bete Noire), the Martin, the Peavey... I think I can spot the common factor leading to the suckage.
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No doubt: they all have strings. I've noticed that about my guitars, too, even though I have pretty consistent necks.
 
Cagey said:
No doubt: they all have strings. I've noticed that about my guitars, too, even though I have pretty consistent necks.
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I know this is a joke, but I like dabbling with other instruments. When you do ditch the strings, and go for something really weird, like making your lips buzz into a tube and trying to make recogonizable melodies out of it.... it doesn't suck, it blows. Actually, I've also been playing with my 8 month old in the evenings - our yard is infested with deer. We go out sometimes and play with the deer calls, he loves it. We actually called this young buck (fawn, with waaaaaay too much testosterone for his little inexperienced deer brain to manage) the other day.  Anyway - one of the calls I have, apparently was assembled wrong, and the reed was in the wrong end of the tube. It would suck or blow, but it takes a LOT more air pressure to make noise the wrong way. Ironically, the tuning of the resonant chamber doesn't really seem to matter much to the pitch, it's all in the reed. Anyway...

Actually, I've been working on a few kids songs, blowing on his tummy. Absolutely freaking hilarious if you're 8 months old. Still pretty funny at 40 something.
 
Yeah, but my understanding of Leo's attitudes leads me to believe he probably said "why are we spending so much time and money on frets, fer crissakes!?" and only stopped trying to get away with it when warranty claims got out of hand.
 
This one is really nice.  I think it would sport a black Wilky and a pair of p90's quite handsomely.  Or a one-knob, one humbucker superstrat config, perhaps.


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