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[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

But with a red 'Bucker at the neck.

Kisekookoo really needs red humbuckers.

I cant get the DIY to work on that.

I commented about your predicament, not knowing which way you're swinging yet, in another thread.  You ought to get a symetrical guitar like a Flying V.  Have side dots put on both sides of the neck and have control routes in the right and left handed orientations.  If you decide to play righty or lefty, you rewire the guitar for the correct orientation and change the nut.  One guitar, 2 orientations.....and purple.

 

[Disco Scottie]

Anyone rocking a Floyd with a D-tuna surely isn't floating.
(EVH fans, represent)

That's probably true. But, it's also probably true that they aren't terribly concerned about being in tune, or aware of whether or not they're in tune. If you can't detune 1 string 1 step in a matter of seconds using the tuning pegs, then there are mechanical problems with the instrument or auditory problems with one's hearing.

:icon_scratch: You just confused the hell out of me. Are you saying anyone using a D-tuna doesn't care about being in tune? Because you can't go to drop-D on a locked Floyd without it. You can turn the pegs all you want, as long as the nut is locked, ain't nothin' gonna happen.

Yes you can, all mine are set up to tune down to D with the fine tuners.... :icon_thumright:

Don't you lose a lot of tuning range that way? You'd need to have it down pretty far to back it out that much.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

[And the only reason for the "'61" in the title is because a friend of mine has a '61 Strat in a very similar color and I'm in love with it. I have no idea if the parts I chose have anything even remotely related to a '61 Fender....hence "modern"

I think # pickguard screws and frets are the first giveaways, otherwise they're all '61 moderns.

 

[AGWAN]

But with a red 'Bucker at the neck.

Kisekookoo really needs red humbuckers.

I cant get the DIY to work on that.

I commented about your predicament, not knowing which way you're swinging yet, in another thread.  You ought to get a symetrical guitar like a Flying V.  Have side dots put on both sides of the neck and have control routes in the right and left handed orientations.  If you decide to play righty or lefty, you rewire the guitar for the correct orientation and change the nut.  One guitar, 2 orientations.....and purple.

XD thanks man, but for now I'm just going to be playing a few cheap right handed guitars. if I can get that down. I'll just keep on keepin on!

Also, I now think part of my inability to play right handed was the horrid action/intonation/neck contour of my warlock!

 

[SustainerPlayer]

 

[AGWAN]

Yes.

 

[NonsenseTele]

Did it come back? tried to enter yesterday and was off

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Did it come back? tried to enter yesterday and was off

It says it is down ... I made mine a little while ago ...

http://www.frankmontag.com/

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I don't know why we're talking about Floyds here, but since we are, I love my Floyds (I have three) , and none of them float. It appears to me that most people who claim to hate Floyds don't know how they work, or how to set them up or adjust them. I am not a heavy user of the "whamy bar", I just like the feel, the sound, and the fine tuners that the Floyd features.

There it is again, when someone doesn't like something, the only reasonable explanation is that the person doesn't understand?  It is possible to understand some things and still not care for them.

I'm not a trem guy to begin with, but have owned them, and have had a Floyd equipped Kramer in my possesion before.  The setup, use, finetuners, and use of tools to change strings isn't an issue for me, I assure you.  I've known guys that owned them that didn't understand them.  "How can I tune it if the nut is locked?  or When I was tuning it the string broke between the nut and the tuner.  Der?!"  The Floyd is a great trem, and IMO the best double locking trem.  To me though, it's still a trem.  No thanks.

 

[Strat Avenger]

I don't know why we're talking about Floyds here, but since we are, I love my Floyds (I have three) , and none of them float. It appears to me that most people who claim to hate Floyds don't know how they work, or how to set them up or adjust them. I am not a heavy user of the "whamy bar", I just like the feel, the sound, and the fine tuners that the Floyd features.

There it is again, when someone doesn't like something, the only reasonable explanation is that the person doesn't understand?  It is possible to understand some things and still not care for them.

I'm not a trem guy to begin with, but have owned them, and have had a Floyd equipped Kramer in my possesion before.  The setup, use, finetuners, and use of tools to change strings isn't an issue for me, I assure you.  I've known guys that owned them that didn't understand them.  "How can I tune it if the nut is locked?  or When I was tuning it the string broke between the nut and the tuner.  Der?!"  The Floyd is a great trem, and IMO the best double locking trem.  To me though, it's still a trem.  No thanks.

I was not referring to people who don't like "trems" (I hate that word because it's completely inaccurate -- thanks Leo Fender!). I was referring to all of the bogus reasons stated here for hating Floyds, such as "they float". They don't have to float, that is just a preference. Or that you can't bend strings without the others going flat (increase spring tension or add a spring). Things like that.

I have no issue with someone who simply has no use for vibrato bridges. I rarely use the vibrato bar myself.

 

[MikeW]

I've been lucky enough to see Gary Hoey a couple times this year. Once up at Pala Casino right before Utopia was released and on his Ho Ho Hoey Christmas Tour last Saturday. What a great show. He's got this amazing blue Strat that he played for the first part of both shows. He's also a very cool guy and hangs out, signs autographs and just bullsheets with the audience after the show. I hung out a bit after the show on Saturday and talked guitars with him a bit. He's a big Fender guy, as you all probably know. The blue one was a wish list he gave to Fender for his birthday.

Here's some of the specs:
Body:
I'm assuming that it's an alder body since it's probably standard Fender issue, but could be ash. Quilt Maple laminate on the top, dyed, in his words, "to look like the ocean". So it's a deep blue but has a bit of green tint to it so that when the yellow lights hit it it's almost a green hue. Really gorgeous dye job on it. Standard Fender bridge.

Pearloid white pickguard - HxH configuration with Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge and '59er in the neck. Blade switch but I don't know if it's got 3 or 5 positions. I only recall seeing it in 1 and 5.

Neck:
The standard 22-fret neck with a reversed headstock and an ebony fretboard. I asked him about that because it looked darker than rosewood. He said he liked the brightness and punch of ebony and wanted the reverse headstock because the bottom end of the low strings is enhanced by the extra length from the nut to the tuners. It's got really nice dot inlays too and they looked abalone or MOP. I'm guessing abalone. He's got an LSR roller nut and Sperzal locking tuners on it.

The headstock looks like it's got a matching laminate and dye job to the body. Go http://garyhoey.com/photos/ and check the live photo album for some pics of it.

So, totally inspired by the coolnes of the man, the music and the instrument, I present to you Surfdog.

Specs:
Body - Ash with quilt maple laminate. Blue dye with a smidge of green. Trans blue back with black pinline around the laminate edge. Contoured heel too.
PIckguard - White pearloid. Standard white stratocaster knobs.
Pickups - Bridge: Seymour Duncan JB,  Neck: Seymour Duncan '59er
Controls - 500k Volume, 500k Tone, 3-way blade switch - 1: bridge HB - 2: south bridge coil + north neck coil - 3: neck HB
Standard top mount jack
Wilkinson VS100 Bridge in Chrome
Neck - Canary with ebony fretboard and abalone dots and Wizard back contour. Reverse headstock with matching quilt maple laminate and blue dye.
Nut - LSR roller  (I know the pic has a Floyd nut on it but Kisekae doesn't have LSR as an option)
Tuners - Gotoh/Sperzel/Planet Waves Locking

So the planning is done and now I start the hard part: saving up!

 

[Cagey]

Nice. Very nice. I wouldn't do the reversed headstock, but that's just me.

 

[bagman67]

Neck:
The standard 22-fret neck with a reversed headstock and an ebony fretboard. I asked him about that because it looked darker than rosewood. He said he liked the brightness and punch of ebony and wanted the reverse headstock because the bottom end of the low strings is enhanced by the extra length from the nut to the tuners. It's got really nice dot inlays too and they looked abalone or MOP. I'm guessing abalone. He's got an LSR roller nut and Sperzal locking tuners on it.

The headstock looks like it's got a matching laminate and dye job to the body. Go http://garyhoey.com/photos/ and check the live photo album for some pics of it.

So, totally inspired by the coolnes of the man, the music and the instrument, I present to you Surfdog.

Specs:
Body - Ash with quilt maple laminate. Blue dye with a smidge of green. Trans blue back with black pinline around the laminate edge. Contoured heel too.
PIckguard - White pearloid. Standard white stratocaster knobs.
Pickups - Bridge: Seymour Duncan JB,  Neck: Seymour Duncan '59er
Controls - 500k Volume, 500k Tone, 3-way blade switch - 1: bridge HB - 2: south bridge coil + north neck coil - 3: neck HB
Standard top mount jack
Wilkinson VS100 Bridge in Chrome
Neck - Canary with ebony fretboard and abalone dots and Wizard back contour. Reverse headstock with matching quilt maple laminate and blue dye.
Nut - LSR roller  (I know the pic has a Floyd nut on it but Kisekae doesn't have LSR as an option)
Tuners - Gotoh/Sperzel/Planet Waves Locking

So the planning is done and now I start the hard part: saving up!

Yeah, Gary's guitar is kinda purty, but not quite my cuppa tea.  Reverse headstock is very un-ergonomical for my brain, but his rationale for it is more sensible than "Dude, it looks totally BITCHEN!".  The body looks like it's actually got a Lake Placid Blue burst edge on it - nice job, Fender, but Gary can keep it.  Here's a good shot of the guitar in question from GH's website.

 

[richship]

The one I'm working on. Or at least something close. I don't know all the tricks to this thing.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I hope you can find Quilt that big.

 

[Cagey]

I hope you can find Quilt that big.

Hehe! Yeah, I think the Kisekae program has a scaling problem there.

 

[NonsenseTele]

Actually you can choose to downsize or upsize it in percentage and change the position both on X and Y axes...

 

[DangerousR6]

Neck:
The standard 22-fret neck with a reversed headstock and an ebony fretboard. I asked him about that because it looked darker than rosewood. He said he liked the brightness and punch of ebony and wanted the reverse headstock because the bottom end of the low strings is enhanced by the extra length from the nut to the tuners. It's got really nice dot inlays too and they looked abalone or MOP. I'm guessing abalone. He's got an LSR roller nut and Sperzal locking tuners on it.

The headstock looks like it's got a matching laminate and dye job to the body. Go http://garyhoey.com/photos/ and check the live photo album for some pics of it.

So, totally inspired by the coolnes of the man, the music and the instrument, I present to you Surfdog.

Specs:
Body - Ash with quilt maple laminate. Blue dye with a smidge of green. Trans blue back with black pinline around the laminate edge. Contoured heel too.
PIckguard - White pearloid. Standard white stratocaster knobs.
Pickups - Bridge: Seymour Duncan JB,  Neck: Seymour Duncan '59er
Controls - 500k Volume, 500k Tone, 3-way blade switch - 1: bridge HB - 2: south bridge coil + north neck coil - 3: neck HB
Standard top mount jack
Wilkinson VS100 Bridge in Chrome
Neck - Canary with ebony fretboard and abalone dots and Wizard back contour. Reverse headstock with matching quilt maple laminate and blue dye.
Nut - LSR roller  (I know the pic has a Floyd nut on it but Kisekae doesn't have LSR as an option)
Tuners - Gotoh/Sperzel/Planet Waves Locking

So the planning is done and now I start the hard part: saving up!

Yeah, Gary's guitar is kinda purty, but not quite my cuppa tea.  Reverse headstock is very un-ergonomical for my brain, but his rationale for it is more sensible than "Dude, it looks totally BITCHEN!".  The body looks like it's actually got a Lake Placid Blue burst edge on it - nice job, Fender, but Gary can keep it.  Here's a good shot of the guitar in question from GH's website.

You should look up the definition of ergonomics....

 

[JaySwear]

honestly i think left tuners are more ergonomic. when i sit down in a chair with my arms resting on the arms of the chair i don't sit there with my palms up, i have my hands down.

either way, reverse headstocks on strats are just strange :-\ jackson's look great, ibanez's look ok, but strats don't work for me with the reverse

 

[AutoBat]

is he playing a 9/8ths guitar, or is he just tiny?