Guitar Nerds Anonymous

€1350 for the standard model is a aluminium

Such a pretty little guitar...

It is but... it’s going!

So I've been diving deep into the 335, strange that it plays so well when the neck is so chunky... It sounds gorgeous, I probably need to roll a bit of dirt off the amp as the humbuckers have got much more grunt than my Jag, which has been my daily driver for ages, but it's beautiful to play...

My favourite setting at the moment is compressor on for even more saturated dirt plus the Space Echo on slapback, the tone is monstrous!!! Fat and bright and alive... It's great, go and buy one!!

Took my old Tele Deluxe in for a setup today as the neck has moved a bit and showed my guy the 335 at the same time, he's happy to stain the fretboard a bit darker so that will improve its looks a little as well...

Strange that they selected a fretboard with such a noticeable knot (at the fourteenth fret), I actually quite like it but it's odd!

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Get yourself some Montypresso for that fingerboard mate! I've got some for the Broncobird neck and I'm going to use it on the fingerboard of the Dimeicorn too. Works a treat!

OK, I'll try it! Will I need to buy the 'food' as well or will good old fashioned lemon oil do the trick?

Is it possible that the fretboard has lightened in sunlight/general ageing, and the knot has revealed itself over time? Looks great, beautiful guitar.

It's great, go and buy one!!

Gah! Get out of my head!

I’ve said this before but I love a chunky neck. I think it’s mostly a question of what you’re used to (unless you’re a proper shredder and need super flat/thin).

I'm going to just use the wax on the Dean fingerboard but for the Bronco I'm stripping the finish and using Danish oil first and then the wax on top!

Random show-and-tell. I was thinking about selling this for a while after I recently got a Tokai jazz bass, but I'm probably too attached to it to ever sell it. Top-of-the-line Vantage model from '81, MIJ obviously. Great condition, all original apart from the Bartolini neck pickup. Impractically neck heavy, but otherwise really nice to play. Has the nicest rosewood fretboard I've ever had in any guitar. With reinvigorated ownership I've been thinking of experimenting with the wiring. The pots and switches have contact issues anyway, and I'm not sure the preamp is worth preserving.

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Thats really lovely.
Reminds me of my Westone Thunder 3a fretless I had from the same era.
Wish I still had that.

I believe both brands were being built by Matsumoku. There's definitely a lot of family resemblance between the different brands and models. I also used to have a passive double pickup neck-through Aria Pro II with the same style of body and neck as the somewhat famous SB1000, but ended up keeping only this one primarily because I preferred the wider string spacing at the bridge.

on topic

This is absolutely lovely and deserving of looking out for an Alembic or similar preamp if you want to get spicy with the wiring!

I've been addicted to this guy's videos for a little while now

Me too!

Is it possible to get a univibe style pedal without breaking the bank? I’ve convinced myself I need one but I don’t have any money...

^ TC Viscous Vibe?

I was about to buy this but stopped myself as i'm trying to sell stuff and save rather than spend...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274672440887?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&itemid=274672440887&targetid=1141640586171&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1007076&poi=&campaignid=12125450855&mkgroupid=118098821258&rlsatarget=pla-1141640586171&abcId=9300480&merchantid=115167833&gclid=CjwKCAjwvMqDBhB8EiwA2iSmPPxRuiBpZfpNz8emkXm_0hSWeSoFqFwdGlAj2qon6tTXAGh9vCyQMRoCq34QAvD_BwE

Thanks... Both those pedals are more in my price range. I’ll watch some video reviews on them now.

There are some really cheap ones (eg the Moen MO-VB) but I don’t think they’re proper univibes. The TC one is specifically an imitation of the original Shin-ei univibe (though I’m assuming it’s digital) as is the MXR (which I’m fairly sure is analogue).

Dunlop also do a Hendrix-branded univibe, I’m not sure if it’s the same as the MXR one or tweaked in some way.

I've just been playing some blues type licks with my low E string ringing through. And when I do a big bend, on for instance the B string 17th fret, the low E drops in pitch quite significantly. It's not something I've really noticed before, but it's a bit of a pain. The whole point of the low E ringing through is to provide some harmony, which it's not doing when going out of pitch. Any ideas on how to remedy this?

Buy a Telecaster... ;)

All guitars will do that to some extent, but it depends on the guitar. If the guitar has a tremolo/vibrato system that can exacerbate it. Also thin necks. Telecasters are very solid slabs of wood and are famed for resisting that effect.

^yup. Block off your trem if you have one.

Edit: sorry read your post wrong. I need to do more univibe research!