Your next guitar?

[hibidy]

Not new guitar exactly, but I have a basswood Bullet Strat that I am thinking about putting a Dimarzio PAF Pro and a Fred into.

I tried an Ibanez with that combo today and I liked the sound.
I've been wanting to change the pickups in this.

I will keep the middle pickup and wire it 5 way.

I want to avoid the problem of too much bass in the neck pickup and I think the paf pro should work.
The Fred has a nice tonal balance that isn't too mid range.

v(it's absolutely criminal how much better the ibby edge pro is for "tricks" and such)

I would love to know how so, not disputing the fact..I'm just curious of what makes it better, what tricks are you talking about etc

When you do the "pulloff G second fret-tap harmonic squeal it rings and stays regardless of how the arm is being moved. Plus the arm fits rather nice as opposed to the idiot design of that rose. Can you tell I'm a bit miffed about the rose

[Hink]

Not new guitar exactly, but I have a basswood Bullet Strat that I am thinking about putting a Dimarzio PAF Pro and a Fred into.

I tried an Ibanez with that combo today and I liked the sound.
I've been wanting to change the pickups in this.

I will keep the middle pickup and wire it 5 way.

I want to avoid the problem of too much bass in the neck pickup and I think the paf pro should work.
The Fred has a nice tonal balance that isn't too mid range.

v(it's absolutely criminal how much better the ibby edge pro is for "tricks" and such)

I would love to know how so, not disputing the fact..I'm just curious of what makes it better, what tricks are you talking about etc

When you do the "pulloff G second fret-tap harmonic squeal it rings and stays regardless of how the arm is being moved. Plus the arm fits rather nice as opposed to the idiot design of that rose. Can you tell I'm a bit miffed about the rose

the first part is a little confusing but I use a lot of harmonics, pinching, tapping above frets, natural harmonics and even the thumb lay (my term for extracting a squeal while a note is sustaing by laying my thumb on my picking hand on various places along the string)...I have no problem with a rose doing any of those, including a total dive and coming out of it with different squeals. (I sometimes do a quick divebomb which will 'slap' the string against the neck and as I'm coming back up I'm catching a harmonic along the string depending on what degree of squealing I'm after)

The second part I can understand but myself I do not like my bar tight, I prefer it to hang loose and I have adapted to checking the tightness of the knurled locking nut on the bar to ensure it's how I like it...that's all just a matter of playing styles I suppose

[hibidy]

That's just it, it's not loose as in will fall down/swing it's loose as in there is a significant amount in give. Hard to explain (both)

I tried to email a local auth/fender place to see if they will do the charvel (that is what charvel told me to do) we'll see if/when they reply.

[Hink]

That's just it, it's not loose as in will fall down/swing it's loose as in there is a significant amount in give. Hard to explain (both)

I tried to email a local auth/fender place to see if they will do the charvel (that is what charvel told me to do) we'll see if/when they reply.

I wish there wasn't 3000 miles and a bunch of mountains between us...I do appreciate your input on the ibby system, maybe that will be next for me

[Uncle E]

@PRS: The one uncle e bought from me had this issue to some extent.

Honestly, it works well for me, even with 4 semitone bends. It's even got the same strings on it from when you sent it, I've never restrung it.

Anyway, a little triangle file and some sand paper is all you need to work nut issues out. File out the back of it - that's not impacting intonation or tone, anyway, so it can only get in the way - and then sand the rest. Like everyone else said, a good repairman can do it quickly and cheaply but I personally enjoy fine-tuning my guitars, especially when something like this is so easy and can be tailored over time.

[hibidy]

Yeah, yours actually had the work done Yeah no worries, I just find it weird that the three GN's I've tried (this includes the one I ordered and sent back) have done this.

btw, I think it's really great that I got two better guitars instead of that one not quite right guitar Of course I seem to have "new and shinny" idis on all of my guitars

[Cordelia]

What if I wanted a guitar with a humbucker at the bridge, a single coil at the neck, a rosewood fingerboard, bigsby vibrato or Fender style tremolo, and a flat-ish neck- nothing too chunky.
Not too heavy to hold and under $1,200.

What would you try out?

[Hink]

What if I wanted a guitar with a humbucker at the bridge, a single coil at the neck, a rosewood fingerboard, bigsby vibrato or Fender style tremolo, and a flat-ish neck- nothing too chunky.
Not too heavy to hold and under $1,200.

What would you try out?

a trip to the music store though if it were me and had 1200 earmarked I might build a cool tele with those pick-ups, get a wizard neck and I would probably go with a maple or a swampash body, get it with a carved top and they route it for a whammy. Get them to put on finish on it and all you do is get some pups, hardware and put it together

[hibidy]

Edit, DOH, misread

[susiwong]

What if I wanted a guitar with a humbucker at the bridge, a single coil at the neck, a rosewood fingerboard, bigsby vibrato or Fender style tremolo, and a flat-ish neck- nothing too chunky.
Not too heavy to hold and under $1,200.

What would you try out?

Nothing wrong with the classic, I guess :
http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/prod ... sku=423687
Try to find a slightly used one, current model preferred for the compound neck, but the previous ones were mostly allright, too.
And as always, play before you buy, they do vary.
Ymmv,
susiwong

[Klemperer]

a trip to the music store though if it were me and had 1200 earmarked I might build a cool tele with those pick-ups, get a wizard neck and I would probably go with a maple or a swampash body, get it with a carved top and they route it for a whammy. Get them to put on finish on it and all you do is get some pups, hardware and put it together

Now Hink, did you ever think of moving to Hamburg? (cough). After our latest misunderstandings I would save money and know there is a guitar wizard in town who would build me (edit: deleted ) a nice guitar... Do you sometimes build guitars for a little profit??

[Uncle E]

Yeah, yours actually had the work done

Sweet! Bonus!

[Uncle E]

What if I wanted a guitar with a humbucker at the bridge, a single coil at the neck, a rosewood fingerboard, bigsby vibrato or Fender style tremolo, and a flat-ish neck- nothing too chunky.
Not too heavy to hold and under $1,200.

It's funny, HSS was the pickup combo de rigueur 10 years ago but not many guitars feature it now. Check out the new Suhr Rasmus Standard S100, it fits what you're looking for exactly:

http://www.rasmusguitars.com/

For more commonly available guitars, the best thing I found that fits what you're looking for is the Fender American Standard Stratocaster HSS, its 2-point tremolo, high mass block, staggered tuning machines, thin finish, and no-load tone pots (really important for the humbucker) make it seem like a really big improvement over previous strats:

http://www.fender.com/products/search.p ... 0110100700

You can also check out the American Special Stratocaster HSS, Parker MaxxFly's, Parker MaxxFly Radial Neck's, and Gibson Les Paul BFG with Tremolo (this one's probably too heavy):

http://www.fender.com/products/american ... 0115700300
http://www.parkerguitars.com/MaxxFly-Models/
http://www.parkerguitars.com/MaxxFly-Ra ... nt-Models/
http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electri ... emolo.aspx

[Uncle E]

Nothing wrong with the classic, I guess :
http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/prod ... sku=423687

I played one of these recently and, while it seems stellar on paper, I really found it to be totally underwhelming. It's got 11 tones on tap, all of them bad.

[tapper mike]

I'll ask the obvious at this point. Why not one of those Korean James Tyler Variax guitars?