Your next guitar?
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- KVRAF
- 21348 posts since 26 Jul, 2005 from Gone
Well I would go for the P-Rails only I have nothing to put them in right now...
With a few other things on my GAS list I think I'd pick them up later when I get a guitar to put them in as they wouldn't fit in my Tele (and I wouldn't want them in it).
With a few other things on my GAS list I think I'd pick them up later when I get a guitar to put them in as they wouldn't fit in my Tele (and I wouldn't want them in it).
- KVRAF
- 14977 posts since 13 Nov, 2012
Picked up this bad boy at a very good price. Very nice sounding guitar.
Michael Kelly Guitar
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- KVRAF
- 4907 posts since 10 Aug, 2004 from Colorado Springs
I bought a Michael Kelly Visionary V5 acoustic for my son off local Craigslist. $60. It has the Variable Set Neck technology on it, and it makes for a very comfortable player for him.PatchAdamz wrote:
Picked up this bad boy at a very good price. Very nice sounding guitar.
Michael Kelly Guitar
- KVRAF
- 14977 posts since 13 Nov, 2012
Great instrument for the money.rockstar_not wrote:I bought a Michael Kelly Visionary V5 acoustic for my son off local Craigslist. $60. It has the Variable Set Neck technology on it, and it makes for a very comfortable player for him.PatchAdamz wrote:
Picked up this bad boy at a very good price. Very nice sounding guitar.
Michael Kelly Guitar
Sound is very clean but punchy, somewhere between a strat and paul.
It was about a quarter of the cost.
Records beautifully.
- Rad Grandad
- 38044 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
I like the fact there is no stop bar and the strings go through the body, I have never been comfortable playing a stop bar equipped guitar. It's not really a deal breaker though because the right guitar could come along with one and it wouldn't matter...never say never right?PatchAdamz wrote:Great instrument for the money.rockstar_not wrote:I bought a Michael Kelly Visionary V5 acoustic for my son off local Craigslist. $60. It has the Variable Set Neck technology on it, and it makes for a very comfortable player for him.PatchAdamz wrote:
Picked up this bad boy at a very good price. Very nice sounding guitar.
Michael Kelly Guitar
Sound is very clean but punchy, somewhere between a strat and paul.
It was about a quarter of the cost.
Records beautifully.
edit: Amazon has this model on prime, and you're right...a very tempting price
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
- KVRAF
- 16395 posts since 22 Nov, 2000 from Southern California
I played one of these the other day, perhaps it was the setup but it didn't play well at all. The PRS SE Mike Mushok Baritone I played recently was much better (although I prefer the Tele's pickup configuration).Hink wrote:
- Rad Grandad
- 38044 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
just dont mistake the fender with mine, I wish Warmoth made the neck with the wizard back but still I love a Warmoth neckUncle E wrote:I played one of these the other day, perhaps it was the setup but it didn't play well at all. The PRS SE Mike Mushok Baritone I played recently was much better (although I prefer the Tele's pickup configuration).Hink wrote:
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
- KVRAF
- 5054 posts since 16 May, 2002 from Brisbane , Australia
I was thinking SD Alnico II but no idea of how to do it. Sadly I'm no guitar tech. Do I need a soldering iron to do it?robojam wrote:Interesting to hear. I've had my eye on one of those for a long time, with a mind to rip out the pickups and replace them with Seymour Duncan P-Rails.morelia wrote:Just got this:
Setup is not 100% perfect and there seem to be some slight intonation issues but it comes with a free setup so that should all be sorted. I love the feel of it. Never had an SG and this feels great to play. For the money I'm pretty impressed with how nice it feels to play. Only had it plugged in for about 15 minutes so far but from that I'm pretty happy with the way it sounds too. Seems like a good buy.
How could I get an idea of what the P Rails sound like?
Intel Core i7 8700K, 16gb, Windows 10 Pro, Focusrite Scarlet 6i6
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- KVRAF
- 42529 posts since 21 Dec, 2005
@morelia: Yep, you'll need a soldering iron. If you are unfamiliar with the guitar specs, see if by any chance the website has a diagram. Pickup companies have MANY diagrams you can look at. I don't want to scare you off because it's really not that hard but you'll need to know what impedance the tone/volume pots are and such. but likely, they are easily swappable.
It helped me to take a photo of the guitar with the cavity plate off and then look at the pup manufacture's diagram so I knew what I was doing.
It helped me to take a photo of the guitar with the cavity plate off and then look at the pup manufacture's diagram so I knew what I was doing.
- KVRAF
- 5054 posts since 16 May, 2002 from Brisbane , Australia
Woh, impedance? That's out of my league. I figured I could wack any humbucker in there as long as I wired it the same.
Intel Core i7 8700K, 16gb, Windows 10 Pro, Focusrite Scarlet 6i6
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- KVRAF
- 2973 posts since 10 Sep, 2003 from Karlskoga, Stockholm, Sweden
If you're changing a humbucker with a humbucker chances are you don't need to change the pots.
How do you go on if you change to P-Rails though? I would assume as humbuckers and then use tone control to adjust when splitting
How do you go on if you change to P-Rails though? I would assume as humbuckers and then use tone control to adjust when splitting
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- KVRAF
- 42529 posts since 21 Dec, 2005
No, but you do need to pay OHMage to the type of pot You will likely have 500k's for buckers.Crackbaby wrote:If you're changing a humbucker with a humbucker chances are you don't need to change the pots.
How do you go on if you change to P-Rails though? I would assume as humbuckers and then use tone control to adjust when splitting
- KVRAF
- 2022 posts since 15 Aug, 2012 from Australia
I have too many. 16 at last count.
Wish I could play properly.
:-/
Wish I could play properly.
:-/
I'm tired of being insane. I'm going outsane for some fresh air.
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- KVRAF
- 4907 posts since 10 Aug, 2004 from Colorado Springs
If someone wants their Next Guitar to be a 2001 MIM Fat Strat with some mods, mine is for sale.
Black body, white triple-ply pickgaurd, rosewood fingerboard
Mods:
1. Rewired so that neck pup tone control is master tone (standard wiring has tail pup uncontrolled for tone - too crispy in many situations)
2. Middle pup tone control is variable tap on the HB (at 0, it's singled, at 10, it's full both coils on)
3. Replaced bent steel saddles with Graphtechs - no more broken strings at the saddles
4. pup cavity lined with copper foil
5. Back of pickguard lined with copper foil (to eliminate static buildup that sometimes occurred with rubbing of fingers on pickguard
Mods 1&2 easily reversed - I can provide the wiring diagrams if necessary. Mod 3, I will have to dig around to find the bent steel saddles and include them, but I'm not changing them back. Mods 4&5 not changing that back either.
Comes with a hardshell case, the heavy kind!
Photos available on request.
$250 OBO
Local pickup/deliver only in Colorado. PM me if interested.
Black body, white triple-ply pickgaurd, rosewood fingerboard
Mods:
1. Rewired so that neck pup tone control is master tone (standard wiring has tail pup uncontrolled for tone - too crispy in many situations)
2. Middle pup tone control is variable tap on the HB (at 0, it's singled, at 10, it's full both coils on)
3. Replaced bent steel saddles with Graphtechs - no more broken strings at the saddles
4. pup cavity lined with copper foil
5. Back of pickguard lined with copper foil (to eliminate static buildup that sometimes occurred with rubbing of fingers on pickguard
Mods 1&2 easily reversed - I can provide the wiring diagrams if necessary. Mod 3, I will have to dig around to find the bent steel saddles and include them, but I'm not changing them back. Mods 4&5 not changing that back either.
Comes with a hardshell case, the heavy kind!
Photos available on request.
$250 OBO
Local pickup/deliver only in Colorado. PM me if interested.