Your next guitar?

[tapper mike]

It's been 5 years since I changed the strings. It's overdue.

It's funny I was experiencing fret buzz on my parker. Granted a p44 doesn't have stanless steel frets like the american made ones. It was in one spot not all the strings just one. Changed the strings...No more fret buzz.

With the strat as I've stated I had a GK mounted fairly high high enough that it road up from rhw pickguard and was rubbing against one of the strings. I promised myself years ago that I'd take the GK3 off but never did.

Also... Yes poorly constructed neck woods can affect warping

summer 1962 the fingerboard was a piece of rosewood milled flat on the underside and glued to the maple. This has become known as a "slab fingerboard". The slab fingerboard was approx 4.8 mm at its thickest point in the center of the neck under strings 3 and 4. From mid 1964-1979 the rosewood and maple were pre radiused and the fingerboard became known as curved, round laminate or "veneer", having an even thickness across the neck unlike the previous slab type. This design change was made because Fender encountered problems with some of the necks twisting with the slab design and this new method of construction reduced this problem significantly.

[Uncle E]

As a rule, gluing separate pieces of wood together is going to be more resistant to warping than a single piece of wood. Even a maple fretboard glued on to a maple neck will be more stable than a 1-piece neck/fretboard with a skunk stripe.

With that said, I've got a quarter sawn 1-piece Warmoth maple neck with the double expanding truss rods and the profile of a baseball bat that's more solid than a lot of my maple necks with rosewood fretboards. I guess the caveat to the above rule is "with all else being equal".

[Hink]

As a rule, gluing separate pieces of wood together is going to be more resistant to warping than a single piece of wood. Even a maple fretboard glued on to a maple neck will be more stable than a 1-piece neck/fretboard with a skunk stripe.

With that said, I've got a quarter sawn 1-piece Warmoth maple neck with the double expanding truss rods and the profile of a baseball bat that's more solid than a lot of my maple necks with rosewood fretboards. I guess the caveat to the above rule is "with all else being equal".

it's tough for all things to be equal with necks when Warmoth sets the bar so high

With the possible exception of my first electric (which I took apart completely and put it back together the first day I had it) I have never had a warped neck on any guitar I have ever owned. I say "with the possible exception" because I might have warped the neck and not have known it adjusting the truss when I had absolutely zero clue about what I was doing (hey, it was the early 70s and I wasn't quite yet even a teenager). So any action issues that guitar was all my fault, but I learned in more than one way on that guitar.

I did discovery a big crack in the body of my old Hagstrom II when I took it out of it's case in Texas, it hadn't been played much for a while and it was stored in a hot closet. (that's when I bought my tele) I also had a guitar that consisted of an ESP body (when they still made just parts) and a Warmoth maple on maple neck (no stripe) neck...both from the late 70s-early 80s. In the mid 90s I noticed the fretboard was lifting off the neck around the 1st fret. I should have injected wood glue into the crack and clamped it but I thought I could pull the fret board off and reseat it...I was wrong Still I only paid 200 for the guitar, I had it for years, it had a real original FR (I still have that) and a single EMG 81 (which is in my Warmoth and has been since 1998) so again no big loss but I learned another few lessons.

FTR the Warmoth is about 14 years old and it has the double expanding truss rod (with a wizard contour), I have never needed an adjustment to the neck. I can't remember the last time I set the string height and it gets an intonation check from time to time (it's a hardtail). Once again I got that guitar for such a low price...I bought the parts from a kid when I worked at one store, the boss almost had my head and told me if it didn't sell I owed him what I paid for it which was next to nothing (of course I had to put it together). When it didn't sell I paid him, put the 81 in it and put an 89 in it...I love that guitar as it represents all the lessons I have learned over the years and plays sooooo nice

[tapper mike]

What climate do you have?

I've got doors that are seriously warped as well as shift frames for them.

[Hink]

I live in New England, we have extreme climate changes...sometimes several times a day ...brutal humidity, heat, brutal cold, plenty of snow...it's the northeast so the gulf stream plays a large role in our weather as does fronts and storms coming from the west.

But let me state my guitars very rarely ever leave the house, really they are always basically in the same room.

[hibidy]

I changed the pups in the 1420. It's a breed in the bridge and a fred in the neck. I like the fred, not sure about the breed. What I am pissed about with the breed is that even though poles are chrome, the base plate is black I like the "brass-ish" look for DM pups.

Anyways, I'm about as handy with a solder iron as I am with a daw host So it's really a feat that I got it done right

[Uncle E]

What don't you like about the Breed? It's supposed to make a basswood guitar sound like a Les Paul.

[hibidy]

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate replacing pups even though the end result is usually satisfying? Had to wait for the DM screws, pull my head out of my ___, take the pups BACK out, put in the wood filler, wait overnight, and then get the pups in THEN strip the wires (that is the part I REALLY hate ) and then go out in the garage.....wait for the damn soldering iron to heat up, then put them in. AND OF COURSE, after I did the initial testing, when I went to "close" one of the wires came off So, had to wait for the soldering iron again and then resolder and now it seems to be great

Got the gravity storms in, still haven't tried the fret erasers, still having computer trouble, what else is new

[hibidy]

What don't you like about the Breed? It's supposed to make a basswood guitar sound like a Les Paul.

Sorry I missed this, I like the breed nicely What I don't like is that it's a black mount and these are direct mount guitars so now instead of having the nice brassish looking plates, I've got one (the fred) and then the black for the breed. Looks "ok" but not as good as if they had just made them all the same

[Hink]

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate replacing pups even though the end result is usually satisfying? Had to wait for the DM screws, pull my head out of my ___, take the pups BACK out, put in the wood filler, wait overnight, and then get the pups in THEN strip the wires (that is the part I REALLY hate ) and then go out in the garage.....wait for the damn soldering iron to heat up, then put them in. AND OF COURSE, after I did the initial testing, when I went to "close" one of the wires came off So, had to wait for the soldering iron again and then resolder and now it seems to be great

Got the gravity storms in, still haven't tried the fret erasers, still having computer trouble, what else is new

have you thought of drinking more coffee?

[hibidy]

I'm not sure exactly what that means, but regardless.

Coffee is a morning drink, wine is a night time drink

[tapper mike]

I've never been one to follow convention on that one. Coffee in the morning, coffee in the evening, coffee in the summer time.

I still haven't put strings on my strat. Everytime I start walking toward it I have to pass by the parker. It's very hard to walk past that guitar without picking it up. Equally I've been thinking about ztar tutes I've yet to complete. And for all the talk on facebook and elsewhere it seems that I'm the only non employee who's ever done one.

[Hink]

I've never been one to follow convention on that one. Coffee in the morning, coffee in the evening, coffee in the summer time.

I still haven't put strings on my strat. Everytime I start walking toward it I have to pass by the parker. It's very hard to walk past that guitar without picking it up. Equally I've been thinking about ztar tutes I've yet to complete. And for all the talk on facebook and elsewhere it seems that I'm the only non employee who's ever done one.

hibidy, that's what I mean

sorry tm, just funnin

[Dean Aka Nekro]

What don't you like about the Breed? It's supposed to make a basswood guitar sound like a Les Paul.

Sorry I missed this, I like the breed nicely What I don't like is that it's a black mount and these are direct mount guitars so now instead of having the nice brassish looking plates, I've got one (the fred) and then the black for the breed. Looks "ok" but not as good as if they had just made them all the same

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

Argh! I'm kind of happy with the pups in my HSS Strat but it's bot really a metal machine.. been thinking of swapping the bucker out for a Pearly Gates.. urgh..

I've been thinking of picking up a cheap Tele Plus as a project guitar and swapping all the pups to turn it into a shredder, but.. dunno.

I'm afraid of jacking the Strat up as it's a perfect rock/blues/clean guitar, but I really don't know if I want a second guitar cluttering up the place ARGH ARGH ARGH!



I'd get an Epi or something with dual buckers but I'm not fond of Gibson-type necks and most of the Ibanez axes I've tried have a tremolo and I hate hate hate those.