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hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 4:19 am

I did have a music man once,

Mine was a rosewood fretboard though and had chrome vol/tone knobs.

Notice the battery slot which was a "hum canceler"

Two fatal flaws: 1. With the hum canceler on it lacked life. 2. It's a 25/5 scale guitar, but those bodies are TOO SMALL! I was always in pain playing it.....took me a while to figure it out but there you have it.

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 5:00 am

That looks so much better then my OLP clone. I hope your neck lasted longer. It's funny I loved that neck before it warped. Hated everything else about it. Unshieded humbuckers were noisey as all getup and I kept on reaching for a tone control that wasn't there.

Getting back to strat w/ three springs. When I got my strat, They packed two springs in the case and it had three setup. I've never changed the original setup.
I've never had a single problem with intonation. It's almost 30 now been thru hell and back plays better then the day I bought it and has tones of battle scars.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 5:03 am

tapper mike wrote:That looks so much better then my OLP clone. I hope your neck lasted longer. It's funny I loved that neck before it warped. Hated everything else about it. Unshieded humbuckers were noisey as all getup and I kept on reaching for a tone control that wasn't there.

Mine was a first class axe, but those two things were killers. When I traded it and got the clapton strat is was bliss (too bad about it being ruined years later

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Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 5:04 am

tapper mike wrote:That looks so much better then my OLP clone. I hope your neck lasted longer. It's funny I loved that neck before it warped. Hated everything else about it. Unshieded humbuckers were noisey as all getup and I kept on reaching for a tone control that wasn't there.

Getting back to strat w/ three springs. When I got my strat, They packed two springs in the case and it had three setup. I've never changed the original setup.
I've never had a single problem with intonation. It's almost 30 now been thru hell and back plays better then the day I bought it and has tones of battle scars.

I got enough tremolo springs to make a sex swing for gorillas

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 5:04 am

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 5:05 am

Oh, and don't give Hink any more mattresses!

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 5:08 am

hibidy wrote:Oh, and don't give Hink any more mattresses!

dont get me started on mattresses, last winter we bought a memory foam mattress...every night I go in there and ask "who am I?" and it still doesn't remember me

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 5:10 am

Both

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susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 6:21 am

Hink wrote:
hibidy wrote:Oh, and don't give Hink any more mattresses!
dont get me started on mattresses, last winter we bought a memory foam mattress...every night I go in there and ask "who am I?" and it still doesn't remember me

No wonder, like with VGAs the cheap ones use system memory.

Cheers,
susiwong

btw, all you need to know about mattresses :

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 6:42 am

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 6:47 am

susiwong wrote:Seriously, I said it before, try a DGT
through channel 2 mode A or B of your 6100 for rhythm, Klon in front for lead, maybe a hint of delay, it will cover a lot of your bases, and it's big and open sounding, completely different from that typical compressed, nasal PRS tone.

What makes it so different from other PRS's? Is it just the pickups?

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 6:53 am

hibidy wrote:Yeah, because I want to do a dive bomb everytime after a solo

If it means never having to tune again, yes, I'm dive bombing after every solo.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:05 am

Dean Aka Nekro wrote:strat-type through to floyd and Ibanez jobs even though the out of tune thing is less once the locks are down on a floyd that is in tune it still goes out when bending and out of tune is out of tune

What's funny is that I picked my #3 Ibanez after breaking the string on the strat and could absolutely not get it out of tune. Mind you, this one doesn't have a locking trem, it's an early Japanese S model with a strat type trem but the difference is in the locking tuners, pitched headstock (meaning no need for a string tree), graphite nut, 2-point pivot bridge, 2 springs, and locked down saddles. That last bit is important, the saddles themselves are locked down to the bridge plate and don't have height adjustment screws (the bridge plate is curved to match the fingerboard), making the entire bridge act like a single unmoving, unwavering piece of solid metal.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:12 am

Uncle E wrote:
hibidy wrote:Yeah, because I want to do a dive bomb everytime after a solo
If it means never having to tune again, yes, I'm dive bombing after every solo.

Well, I guess with a strat that might be a point. Other than my two ibby/trems have the "g string slip" problem when I pull back too hard all of my trems stay in tune with the way I stretch/tune my guitars. The charvel with the FR only pulls back so far, but regardless it's ALWAYS in tune. The two ibby's are the same as the dude though.....pitch forward (doesn't have to be a dive bomb) and walla! back in tune

I just hate doing it

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:16 am

Uncle E wrote:
susiwong wrote:Seriously, I said it before, try a DGT
through channel 2 mode A or B of your 6100 for rhythm, Klon in front for lead, maybe a hint of delay, it will cover a lot of your bases, and it's big and open sounding, completely different from that typical compressed, nasal PRS tone.
What makes it so different from other PRS's? Is it just the pickups?

the pickups and wiring are a part of it, obviously, but it is the complete package that just feels and sounds right.
You'll find a detailed discussion with David and Paul here:
http://www.tonequest.com/pdf_pubs/TQRAug08_Screen2.pdf
A multitude of little details Grissom requested, setup perfection, neck, frets, weight, body thickness, control layout, trem, nitro top coat - it's my desert island guitar, and it would be the same if it were fitted with Pearlies or something, though I would never change the originals, they are too good..
Don't take my word for it, try one for yourself, but play it loud !

One important mod on mine - had to replace the tone push-pull knob with an Ibanez SureGrip type on hibidy's request, and because it was hit-and-miss pulling up with sweaty hands.

Ymmv,
susiwong

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