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Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:07 pm

tapper mike wrote:The three big things about the originals.
More slender necks (I think they are thinner then wizards) Better harmonics. Tone pot on the piezo, 3 way trem system on the butt. Locked, down, floating

You'd absolutely adore my original, early model MIDI Fly.

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:55 pm

Uncle E wrote:
tapper mike wrote:The three big things about the originals.
More slender necks (I think they are thinner then wizards) Better harmonics. Tone pot on the piezo, 3 way trem system on the butt. Locked, down, floating
You'd absolutely adore my original, early model MIDI Fly.

I'm sure I would. Got a pic?

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:03 am

It looks like this:

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:08 am

Okay, I have to look away right now and think of something else/ Women, sports, beer all those things I don't participate in.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:31 am

tapper mike wrote:Okay, I have to look away right now and think of something else/ Women, sports, beer all those things I don't participate in.

Aim for the tramp stamp:

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:25 am

Ovation CS257 (nothing special) on left and on the right is an old Dean that I decided to tear out the frets, put on steel strings for slide playing...I posted this today because of Mike noticing my acoustic

oh and that's my guinea pig in the middle

JCJR · Post by **JCJR** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:55 am

KungKrille's Hagstrom is beautiful.

A friend got excellent service from an inexpensive import parker nitefly, though it wasn't "hardly ever have to tune it" solid. His fly had a conventional neck with brass frets.

Tapper, is your import parker neck sealed in composite like at least the early usa parkers? Am very ignorant of geetars but like my early usa nitefly. Might post a picture, but it is just a 100% factory standard strat style white usa nitefly, just like old catalog pictures.

Am curious because a long time ago I read that it is difficult to pound stainless frets into a conventional neck, and ferinstance the chapman stick guy had to use non conventional materials, so he claimed, in order to get stainless frets to stay in place?

Just dumb curiosity from a keyboardist.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:18 am

JCJR wrote:Am curious because a long time ago I read that it is difficult to pound stainless frets into a conventional neck, and ferinstance the chapman stick guy had to use non conventional materials, so he claimed, in order to get stainless frets to stay in place?

I got a cheap Chinese electric many years ago with stainless steel frets and they've stayed in place with no problems.

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 3:03 am

E, I prefer the neck thru's even though I have a bolt on.

Hink.
I know this will read like another story but here it is.

For a time buddies and I were thick with cash, single, and stupid. We would gamble with Guitars. I won an Ovation Custom Elite. I forget the model number. The guy I won it from was heart broken but he was the guy who suggested playing for guitars. I loved that thing ...not as much as he did so after two weeks we had another poker party where I lost it back to him. But regained my Kramer Stagemaster ii.

Anyway I had this ES 165 that I took to the table one night and lost. Instead of giving me the chance to re win it. He sold it to a pawn shop. When he told me I went to the pawn shop to buy it back but it had already been sold. Needless to say that cured me of my gambling habit.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 3:33 am

tapper mike wrote:E, I prefer the neck thru's even though I have a bolt on.

Hink.
I know this will read like another story but here it is.

For a time buddies and I were thick with cash, single, and stupid. We would gamble with Guitars. I won an Ovation Custom Elite. I forget the model number. The guy I won it from was heart broken but he was the guy who suggested playing for guitars. I loved that thing ...not as much as he did so after two weeks we had another poker party where I lost it back to him. But regained my Kramer Stagemaster ii.

Anyway I had this ES 165 that I took to the table one night and lost. Instead of giving me the chance to re win it. He sold it to a pawn shop. When he told me I went to the pawn shop to buy it back but it had already been sold. Needless to say that cured me of my gambling habit.

that would do it for me

When I worked in a small store I had just got two guitars in that were used, one was a James Burton Tele and the other was a Guild acoustic...I sold the tele and the next day a guy comes in, sees the Guild and says "that's my guitar"...now my first thought was "great a stolen guitar" but then he tells me he lost it when he broke up with a girl...I guess she was a bit

and he said he never got his guitars back. He ended up buying from me because he loved it so much which was good because he had glued a guitar pick to the headstock and I was afraid I would never sell it. Then he said "if you ever see a James Burton Tele..." but I didn't have the heart to tell him.

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 3:40 am

Here is my Les Paul.
I think it's fookin' wicked.
I was tripping out for many years,
and one of my manias was a 'Gibson Natural'.
I found this on eBay like 5 years later and got it.
It is truly divine looking.
The action is screwy though,
across the equator into south Australia didn't treat it well.
I've been working on it and it's, u know, playable-
but not truly sick.
The pickup covers are magnetized on the back,
and pop out- if I had the replacements I could switch nearly on the fly.
Hope you like the photos, it's a nice clear day to take them.
Cheers- I will up 3 in this thread, they are my neatest ones.

KrisM · Post by **KrisM** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 3:42 am

I got my Carvin DC125 back from my ex, who I'd let borrow it, and then the bitch pawned it to pay rent. Needless to say I paid $150 (a fraction to replace it) to get it out when her tax return 'fell through' -_-

A '95 Strat Plus I scored for $800 a little over a week ago:

Uncle E wrote:Aim for the tramp stamp

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 4:51 am

JCJR wrote: Tapper, is your import parker neck sealed in composite like at least the early usa parkers? Am very ignorant of geetars but like my early usa nitefly. Might post a picture, but it is just a 100% factory standard strat style white usa nitefly, just like old catalog pictures.

So that would make yours a P38?

No mine doesn't have the composite seal/ cook and press job that American models do (I wish)

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:18 am

nix808 wrote:

Love that!

Is it possible to use non-Gibson pickups with it? Will anything work?

We showed our Tone Bakery Creme Brûlée pedal at the LA Pedal Show yesterday and the guy who was demoing for us had WCR Fillmore pickups (designed to sound like Duane Allman) in his 90's Les Paul. After listening to the sweet, juicy tone coming out of that guitar all day, I finally realized that it sounded almost exactly like the '68 Les Paul Deluxe modded with early 60's patent sticker PAF's that I had 20 years ago. Really remarkable stuff. If you can fit those in to your guitar, I highly recommend them.

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:48 am

Am I the only guy in the universe with a Strat Plus that has a rosewood fretboard?

Nice Paul nix. I've seen some that were junk but mine were great though a bit heavy.

Re Strat's in general.

Re James Burton Tele
For awhile I really really wanted one. There have been several versions over the years. I liked the blacked out silvers (three pickup lace sensor silver) models the most.

I disagree with Scott Grove on a few things. things.
One
My blacktop tele with alnico5 humbuckers is a hell of a lot thicker then the s1 humbucker on that JB Tele

Two
Yes wood does make a difference. So does everything else about a guitar.

Three
Seymour Duncan makes great pickups if you think about what you are getting into ahead of time. Of all the noiseless single coils on the market imho Seymour Duncan vintage stacks sound closest to 50's/60's single coil pickups with out the noise.

Re Strat's. They say all strat players become tele players eventually. I'm finding that to be true for me. I look at my strat and then pick up my tele. I can think of three different tele's I'd still like to own but only one strat. That being the mim Jimmie Vaughan.

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