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hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:11 am

@uncle e: If I did not have a clear need for a hardtail, you'd be in for a run (and I don't know shit about ebay

) but I always wonder.....why so cheap?? Also, thanks for taking the time to post those, a couple of them are really good finds. I looked up a couple of the necks and they are a bit bigger than I want to go or I have not been able to find the specs yet.

This is my buddy:

I got it new for 1000 out the door and it meets/exceeds my metal/hard needs. Doesn't do bad for other things, but I've got the high gain stuff covered. The one I'm thinking of is one mm thicker neck wise but has the same radius. Considering my indo ibby actually has a thicker neck and is still small compared to the one I sold you. Well at any rate I think with the prestige fret work it's gonna be sick.

@Hink:

Looks terrific and the bound neck to me is a bonus. (wish my new one was going to have it)....uh oh.....a hint!

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:21 am

hibidy wrote:I always wonder.....why so cheap?? Also, thanks for taking the time to post those, a couple of them are really good finds. I looked up a couple of the necks and they are a bit bigger than I want to go or I have not been able to find the specs yet.

The Satriani and the blue one seem like great deals to me and there's no question that they'll play amazingly well. For the one I like, it's pretty cheap because of the messed up finish, although even with that major flaw, it may still go up quite a bit since the model is so rare.

Crackbaby · Post by **Crackbaby** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:28 am

Chapman ML-2 in end of mars

unless i go the warmoth route .. black korina body with wedge neck and .. not sure yet what fretboard, maybe ziricote or gonco

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:35 am

Hink wrote:my newest guitar

An ESP LTD MH350FR
neck-through
EMG 81 and 85
Carved top (hard to see in pics
Black Nickle hardware

I love it, it has a small feel compared to my ESP LTD MG-750, the action is sweet, tho body is thin...I love it

really a gift from my wife (I pitched in a few bucks but she payed most of it), it's not made in USA but it is awesome

I'm bumping this so it wont get lost, less than five minutes to tune it to my tuning of choice and it plays as sweet as the one I tried...it's so much smaller than my other one (which like the hibidster I have small hands) and it was made in China...but that's okay.

Crackbaby, Warmoth rules...I have a hardtail strat and I built a tele custom baritone using a Warmoth neck. My next guitar will be a Warmoth tele body with the tele neck I replaced for the bari

Tempest · Post by **Tempest** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:17 am

Uncle E wrote:
Tempest wrote:It comes down to the pickups more than anything.
The bridge makes a big deal. For example, I downgraded my #1 strat from boutique Kinman pickups to cheap Fender noiseless pickups and simultaneously upgraded the bridge from the light stock Fender to a heavy steel aftermarket thing. The guitar because snappier and more resonant acoustically and this fully transmits through the pickups. The bridge upgrade is what made that guitar my #1.

Good point! A solid block like a Callaham makes a huge difference in a strat.

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:44 am

Nice Hink, It looks alot like my stolen USA Custom Shop Horizon with the mahogany neck-thru and Maple carved quilt top the only cosmetic difference really from a picture is that the non-reverse headstock had a matching brown quilt top piece covering it. Nice guitar as its fused with the more shred-like M-Model which i think makes them slicker to play

Good stuff mate

Dean

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:20 am

thanx Dean, I'm quite happy

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:19 am

I doo-did it

Should be here wednesday.......very worried (even though it's absolutely what I want)

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:59 pm

hibanez then again?

Sorry could not resist that one mate and when it coems PICS

I feel bad about your japam additicion but then again if you can afford it then why not?

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:08 pm

NEKRO.MACHINE wrote:hibanez then again?

Sorry could not resist that one mate and when it coems PICS

I feel bad about your japam additicion but then again if you can afford it then why not?

no, no, no it's hibibby

Congrats hibidy, why worried?

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:28 pm

Nice Axe there Hink. You could do some serious damage with that one, I'm sure.

BTW, is there anything SEXIER than a significant other that goes out of their way to make that stuff happen? My wife has bought (and surprised me each time) 3 guitars for me over the past 15 years. And she's hit it dead on each time.
[my Alvarez oversize C model acoustic and my Fender American with the lace pickups being my absolute faves].

Happy shredding.
-B

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:19 pm

Thanks BERFAB

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:42 pm

NEKRO.MACHINE wrote:hibanez then again?

Sorry could not resist that one mate and when it coems PICS

I feel bad about your japam additicion but then again if you can afford it then why not?

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:44 pm

It's been shipped, it will be here tomorrow

Ian B · Post by **Ian B** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:23 am

Will not be a string thro' body..........

I set about restringing my otherwise excellent Acepro AE625 PRS-alike last night and wished I'd never started as it took about 45 minutes to do. To be fair, as annoying as that was, not all of the time was spent trying to get the strings thro' the body (tho' each took at least half a dozen attempts

) but also because I'd previously restrung it in the same way my guitar tech prefers and getting the strings free from the pegs was a pita, with not a few puncture wounds to my finger tips in the process.

Your next guitar?