Guitar Nerds Anonymous

Anyone tried the Vintera 50's modified tele or the Baja Tele?

Nope soz. Looks good tho.

I’ve been gifted a bag of bits from a friend clearing out his dad’s guitar collection. It’s mostly junk. A couple of beat up cheapo necks and some cheap strat pickups. These look interesting tho. They appear to be late 70s or early 80s DiMarzios. Maybe Super Distortions? From a quick google, identifying them is a bit of an art but looking at the s/h values, worth doing!

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Score! I had a super distortion in the bridge position of the '81 Gold Top I played when I was a kid. It sounded fuck-ing-fan-tas-tic.

They seem to go for about £200+ each if they are what I think they are. Tempting as money is tight right now and i'm looking to shift some stuff. Should probably keep them tho...

Have been looking at Tele necks rather than re-fretting or re-shaping the old one. Seems to make more sense given the price of a refret vs the value of the guitar etc. Plus i've always preferred the look and feel of rosewood boards anyway.

So, what i'm thinking is try a new neck on that, and seeing as I have the tools (also inherited from my friend's dad) practice fret dressing on the cheapo no-name necks I inherited yesterday. If that goes well, maybe have a crack at dressing the frets on the old tele neck. If I fuck it up I'll still have the new one and can always get the old one refretted when money is a bit less tight.

Kind of tempted to flog the DiMarzios to fund the new neck but I'll see what else I can do to make some budget I think. I've quit beer again which helps.

I've quit beer again which helps.

Good for you. New neck sounds like a smart idea, rosewood sounds even better. Go '62 Tele Custom and you've got a Steve Cropper guitar with that white body. The Tele I always wanted.

re-shaping the old one

Quite a bit of work I imagine, as you'd have to get the old finish off the entire neck then refinish it. No harm in trying of course but, but a new neck definitely makes sense to me.

I always have a fear of shaping / sanding through the back of the neck to the truss rod channel whenever I make one (I've seen someone else do it and it's irrecoverable).
I think the fear of doing it would be irrationally higher reshaping a neck where I didn't know know exactly how deep the channel was.

Have been looking at Tele necks

An opportunity to build a Snakehead Telecaster?

Anyone tried the American Performer Jazzmaster? One has popped up on MarketPlace for cheap, quite fancy trying one for a bit. Any good?

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Looks lush - press the button.

Check out Warmoth necks - they are top notch. US import tho.

I bought a Warmoth neck. It's great. But the price and the shipping and the import costs are... not great. If you get roasted maple be VERY careful about fitting tuning machines. VERY.

It pretty cool but I dunno... think they look a bit Fisher Price without the weird switches that nobody uses.

Thanks for the neck tips. There seems to be a huge varaince in price and it's hard to undestand how much of that is branding and how much is quality. The Fender stuff is insanely expensive!

Some of Warmoth's pricing is down to exchange rates, shipping, etc, but also longstanding reputation. I'm sure some of the cheaper suppliers are of similar quality. If you can do some fretwork yourself then I bet you can take something very affordable and get it playing nicely. If you can't, then getting that done somewhere decent will take the price of a cheap neck up towards the price of an expensive neck. Bit of a tricky decision. I'm happy with my Warmoth neck, although it's on a guitar I made myself so it's not my best instrument by far!

I’m currently looking after this thing for a mate as well. Might take it out tonight as another mate out here is about to open a new rehearsal and recording studio and he needs someone to test drive his new amps! Oh well if you insist.

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Amps bought mainly from recomendations on here btw. He bought an Orange AD30 and 2x12, an AC30 and and JCM900 and 4x12. Oh and a fender DeVille thing.

He's in Whitstable and is opening in two weeks.

Trying to up my fingerpicking game. Day 3 on Never going back again and I'm not even at the chorus yet! fuck

That looks amazing! Always loved a Firebird, though the reverse has to take the cookie for me 😍 Certainly on my "maybe one day..." list. Still, those P90s will sound great through the AC and AD30s!

Found myself sinking in a reverb rabbit hole and have two more pedals arriving today, a UAFX Evermore (after getting and loving the Heavenly the other week) and an internet AliX folk hero, the M-Vave Mini Universe.

I'd promised myself that I'd only keep one of the UAFX but since I found the Heavenly to be excellent at the more subtle reverb thing I fear I'll see the Evermore as the perfect big, ambienty stuff.

The M-Vave will go head to head with another cheapo AliX special, the Ammoon Pockverb, and Digitech Digiverb to see which one does the best pre-gain swell/bloom/reverse thing, because Kevin Shields. The humble (but capable) TC Sky Surfer is most definitely homeless, guilty of nothing but sharing the same stage as the UA pedals.

If anyone fancies adding some atmosphere for £25, do shout..!

Man alive! I desperately want a non-reverse Firebird. I've played some incredible ones lately that have made the want so much worse (a real '65 included)... particularly fell in love with a Custom Shop '65 reissue specced by Yamano Music in Japan which had the beefiest neck I've ever played on any guitar!

I'd love a proper reverse firebired.

It's a fun thing. Haven't really bonded with it but that's probably a good thing as it's not mine! It had three P90s a 5-way switch, three volumes and a master tone and every knob is a push-pull (phase reverse?) switch as well. It plays great and the finish is amazing.

I would much rather have this!

So I’ve been plugging away with the a minor pentatonic scale and can noodle around all positions pretty happily and go up and down with octave intervals n all that good shit.

Recommend me a good song to learn to put it together?

These look pretty great too but I think I'd miss the JM bridge more than the toggley doo-dads...
I had a Staytrem on my MIJ Jazzmaster and it was fantastic, come to think of it I think the switches were disconnected on that guitar!

I'd probably be more tempted by a Player II for less money if I were going for a JM without historical accuracy?

I've got a staytrem bridge and collet/bar on my Jag (thanks again, @Dooks-Fatberg), they're fantastic and a massive improvement on the stock stuff.

If I move a Junior in the next few days I might put in a cheeky offer, don't think I'll keep it but I would like to play one for a while. I love that glassy, super hi-fi JM sound.

All Your Love is fun to play.

https://youtu.be/rUUEtCBhn_Q