Gonc/Bubinga arrives : Updated with finished pics

[jmcecil]

Wow, what a great looking neck ...  should spruce this thing up proper.  Looks like I'll be sending the neck right back out the door to get it dressed properly.  But, I can do the hardware upgrades in the meantime.

 

[adked]

Oh, that's really nice, you picked some nice wood.

 

[jmcecil]

Before/After for the just the hardware ...

BEFORE

AFTER

 

[jmcecil]

Neck in place ... sadly have to remove it for further fiximication ... but hey I think this is gonna look great.

 

[DangerousR6]

Pretty awesome neck, I think the guitar looks much better now especially with the smaller headstock, I've never liked the CBS..

 

[jmcecil]

Pretty awesome neck, I think the guitar looks much better now especially with the smaller headstock, I've never liked the CBS..

I agree completely about the headstock.  I'm no fan of the shark fin. 

 

[musicispeace]

Incredible neck, great choice. I am awaiting a freshly put together strat with an all Bubinga neck. Yours is a stunner. The GC is definitely nice. Please get back to us on how you like the sound with the new neck if you feel its different.  :hello2:

 

[jmcecil]

Incredible neck, great choice. I am awaiting a freshly put together strat with an all Bubinga neck. Yours is a stunner. The GC is definitely nice. Please get back to us on how you like the sound with the new neck if you feel its different.  :hello2:

I bought the guitar specifically for the body.  But, when I got it, it sounded horrible.  It was the brightest, shrill fest I've ever heard.  I have a 57' Strat and the neck pickup on the new one is far brighter (in a bad way) than the bridge on the old guy.  But, simply putting in some bare knuckle Irish Tours helped tremendously.  So we'll see if the new neck finishes the job.

 

[HTSMetal]

That's one beautiful hunk of wood you got there! And the inlays are the coolest part of all! Enjoy that beauty!

 

[jmcecil]

Cagey did a spectacular job on this neck!

EDIT:  hmm pictures didn't work .. maybe now.

 

[Cagey]

Thanks! I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about how it plays.

 

[jmcecil]

It wasn't pop and play.  The fretwork is awesome, but I have some serious adjustments to do on the saddles.  I think the old neck had medium frets.

 

[fdesalvo]

A real stunner of a neck and nice Morgan!  Which model?

 

[jmcecil]

nice Morgan!  Which model?

RCA35R .. 35 watt combo with reverb. 
Supposedly you just drop in just about any quad pin power tube without rebiasing.  I haven't messed with that yet.  But hope to get round to it soon.

 

[fdesalvo]

Very cool - it's his Fen'dry offering.  I like his el84 stuff a lot.

 

[jmcecil]

It gets along with the bare knuckle Irish Tours I have in that start really well.  I need to plug some of my others into it.  I'm very curious about the ES-175.  Should be a good fit.

 

[rgand]

That really looks great. Nice work on that. Good idea to have Cagey do some additional stuff, too.

 

[jmcecil]

Just thought I'd share a soundcloud diddle.  I swapped Power Tubes in the Morgan to 6V6s.  This is just as the tubes are starting to break up.  I'm literally reaching around twiddling knobs and stuff, so this isn't exactly musical.  1st 3rd or so is Neck, middle bit is middle pickup, last 45 seconds or so is Bridge.  This is all one of those echo walking thingys ad-nauseum.

Chain is the strat above which has BKP Irish Tours -> TCE Flashback mini -> Morgan with a touch of internal spring reverb -> SM57 -> Mackie VLZ -> Lynx Aurora -> Cubase.  Mild compression on the master as there were a few hot spots.  The attack thump is much more pronounced/better than what I get on the recording.  Still working on that.  But, overall I'm liking this combination.

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