Guitar Nerds Anonymous

I've always added another string tree to my J basses to hold the A string down otherwise they just pop out too easily. I do hammer my strings though.

thinking of getting the dildobass resprayed.

is there a thread approved rattle canner? can you get the hardware done at the same time? does the fact that it's a thru neck present any i$$ues?

Blick?

Not really a problem for me, I mainly used it for insipid indie-pop.

lord no.

white with blick widdly bits.

Mostly because i really don't like wood finishes.

thusly:

Forum approved nitro refinisher is (possibly?) Rich in Wales - he's done a few for me and @Nahguavkire, and a couple of others - all really good.

My set neck Les Paul was c.220, but it didn't need stripping - give a shout if you want his WhatsApp. I think he'll take hardware off, and put bushings and so on back in again after.

cheers

tho Wales is a bit of a round trip. Did you just ship it?

Yeah, I have a gator case, but also bubble wrapped and boxed it quite significantly.

Hey folks, on the lookout for a Walrus Audio Julia and Slo and/or Fathom reverb if anyone is selling!

Also, I have a Electro Harmonix Soul food and Mooer Blue Faze (rare little fuzz) for sale too :)

£35 ONO for each.

https://reverb.com/uk/shop/jacobs-gear-depot-287

So I had actually forgotten I'd bid on this and now I own a Frankenphone Twelve Paul Jr :)

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Such a mad guitar!

Vera funky! Guess it's 25.5" scale? Do you know what model the neck is from?

That neck looks vintage, or do I just have poo in my eyes?

No poo... zero fret, maybe a 70s Japanese FT160 acoustic neck...?

I say.

https://www.thomann.de/gb/cuntz_guitars_cwg_23s_indian_rose_custom.htm

Those mains outlets are almost as impressed as I am... I miss my old 70s Wilshire, didn't need a vibrato the neck was so bendy but it sounded terrific! Kat probably still has it...

I'm not sure but my suspicion is that it's a 60s or 70s neck... hopefully be able to figure it out when it arrives?

That actually looks a lot like one I nearly 'just went for' - not sure I want to stick with an annoying volume knob and tremolo though:

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/212051/fs-trade-for-telecaster-fender-classic-player-50s-2tsb-nitro-fsr-750-including-uk-shipping/p1

When I tried the American Tele it was in a PMT (which was really grim) - they had some of the Japanese ones in and they looked nice, but there's just not enough of a price difference between those and the US-made ones.

That's what Mike Dawes uses. It's a great indication of how the perfect 3+3 headstock design, to get straight string paths, is inevitably ugly.

It really is isn't it... 6-in-line makes for a far prettier headstock or else just live with the string paths like literally every single guitar player has successfully done for the last century...

I am surprised some nerds haven't used Steinberger tuners or extended tuner shafts on an aesthetically pleasing bigger headstock to get the same effect... I've yet to see it anyway?

extended tuner shafts on an aesthetically pleasing bigger headstock

You could, but then you’d have function following form in a visually jarring way, with extra material for the longer tuner shafts and surplus wood bulking out the headstock. I know lots of parts of an electric guitar are driven by aesthetics, but for most of it you can at least make an argument about functionality.

yeah but. "cuntz" u guise.

this place has changed.

By Cuntz, for cuntz...

You're not wrong... If an SUV were a guitar, what guitar would it be? 🤪

Epiphone Les Paul obvs