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Love/hate relationship

erogenousjones17

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Anyone out there have a guitar they love and hate at the same time? For instance, I love the way my surf green partscaster looks and sounds, but I find it harder to play than any of my other guitars. The strings are too stiff, the action is a touch too high, and the high e sits just a tad too close to the edge of the fretboard. I tinker with it almost constantly, but it's never quite right. Still, it's my number one, even though it's probably hurting my playing (though it is a poor workman who blames his tools). Anyone have a similar story?
 
Yes. All of them.
They need to be tuned and setup and have strings changed, and the inconsistencies are torture compared to a good keyboard.
It's also hard to get the drool wiped off from under the strings when it comes time for a cleaning.




 
Steve_Karl said:
They need to be tuned and setup and have strings changed, and the inconsistencies are torture compared to a good keyboard.
It's also hard to get the drool wiped off from under the strings when it comes time for a cleaning.

This is true. Though in my case it's crud, not drool. Awwww yeah.
 
I'm finally fixing most of the "hate" issues with my guitars.  I'm down to the few things I'm not comfortable doing myself, so I dropped three off at my luthier yesterday.

The one "hate" issue that I can't solve is keeping all my guitars dust-free and playable.  I might have too many.

-Mark
 
I had one.  My early 70's Gibson SG standard.  Always wanted one . . . always loved SGs.  But this one never sounded quite right and it wasn't until later in my life did I decide to do something about it.  So I changed the pick-ups and discovered the guitar I always dreamed it was.  The lesson?  Never give up . . . there is a guitar inside of almost every one of them that will someday burst out, grab you by the nuts and make you squeal like a school girl.
 
My old mustang, my first electric
I really wish I still had it and it would be displayed in a case
it really played like shit
 
My Epiphone Thunderbird,
My first bass, i loved the guitar and the tones it gave off.
but (and this maybe just while i was building up strength) was heavy as hell, very neck heavy, and difficult to use neck wise.
However most of them are probably a case of play it now and it would be fine, part from the neck heavy bit maybe.
The jack is a bit dodgy now, but sometime when i get it back off my friend who i lent it too for recording while im away at uni
believe i will update the electronics, possibly the pick ups, might route it into a active if you can get the pickups as active versions.
 
I love everything about my Ibanez, except that it sounds  like the pickups are wound with mud. Might be the amp, though.

Oh, I so need to get me a Warmoth... even just getting all the parts I need for my Kramer would be nice.
 
Kind of. My first guitar, an Epiphone Joe Perry LP, is the only guitar I have that I simply refuse to modify in any way. The toggle switch often breaks and kills the signal in the rhythm position, the nut had alwways been about 1.5mm off-centre, one of the frets hangs slightly over the fretboard so the high E occasionally gets stuck underneath it, the controls crackle and by now are pretty much just on/off controls, the frets are worn down randomly so barre chords are near impossible, the finish is so thick that there's no hope of sustaining a note any longer than a couple of seconds at best, I still can't get on with the terrible LP fret access, it's one of the heaviest guitars I've ever had and kills my back and shoulder after twenty minutes of playing it... but it's still the guitar I get the most joy out of playing, it's still the one that gives me the best tone, it's still the one I can play best on. I've got two (making a third) Warmoths, several Fenders, another few Epis, some ESPs and ESP LTDs, I've had Gibsons, Gibson Custom Shops, Fender Custom Shops, Ibanezs, PRSs, G&Ls, Mayones, you name it. My Epi is still the best, to me. It's flawed, worn out and broken beyond belief, and I'll never change it.

Got a Kramer Jersey Star that's a similar case too. The frets are so worn you just can't play it, all the "gold" hardware has dulled or is flaking off, it buzzes like crazy, the control pot, jack and mini switches don't work, it's got a Floyd which I've never gotten on with - but to me it's the best-looking guitar in the world and represents why I took up guitar in the first place.
 
My main strat. I love it, but i'm wearing through the frets at an alarming rate. I could get a new neck, but it's the neck that really make this particular guitar special, so idk what to do.
 
NLD09 said:
My main strat. I love it, but i'm wearing through the frets at an alarming rate. I could get a new neck, but it's the neck that really make this particular guitar special, so idk what to do.
i can only hope you learn the joys of stainless steel frets someday.
 
Märkeaux said:
AprioriMark said:
I might have too many.

you may be right about that :)

From rearranging the den today...

denguitars.jpg


-Mark
 
AutoBat said:
NLD09 said:
My main strat. I love it, but i'm wearing through the frets at an alarming rate. I could get a new neck, but it's the neck that really make this particular guitar special, so idk what to do.
i can only hope you learn the joys of stainless steel frets someday.

yeah i was a dumbass and didn't get stainless on that neck. It was my first one and I didn't think it through.
 
Steve Stevens has a Hello Kitty guitar.

pk, at what point are you a collector and  when do you reach that point, because I can see owning 4 or 5 for different sounds, but that is a lot of Axes
 
graceshredder said:
Dude!  Is that pink one in the background a "Hello Kitty" axe?  You SO rock!!   :party07:

Lol, no.  It's a pink strat with a Warmoth Maple/Ebony neck and Pearly Gates bridge pickup and STK1 in the neck.  White pearloid pickguard.

-Mark
 
nope. there is nothing i don't like about any of the geetars/basses that currently reside in my collection. if i get a new one and i find after awhile it doesn't say "play me", it's gone. i'm always adding to my collection. there is no such thing as too many guitars, hehehe.
 
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