General Music Chat

Great value for the money.

And kids n $2000 guitars don't mix...

Let the Fat jokes commence...

This will be my next one.
Freekin beautiful prs copy for pennies...

Let the Fat jokes commence...

Naw... I would not cast the first Stone Oven Pizza... I' just prolly eat it ... Guilty as charged. But Age..that's a bitch... Cant change that.

Awesome guitars GZ. I enjoy your post. These days it seems like everyone has to show off their $3000.00 guitars. It is nice to see some down to earth guitars! I understand the Strat started off as a poor mans guitar. Don't know what the HELL happened with that!

Which kid broke your guitar and what scars does he/she bear now? lol

I hang my crap from the rafters, but even that won't save em sometimes.
It's just farther to fall.

Nice strat, like the color. What it needs though, is a pickguard similar to this one.



Found that at a local shop and just had to have it. He had a dozen different styles, but that one caught my eye immediately. I checked it against one of his guitars on the rack the same color, had to grab it. For $10, I couldn't pass it up. A guy here I do repairs for saw it, went over there and grabbed a different one for his black strat.

I also shielded this one and all my other guitars I could open up. Helps eliminate most of the noise single coils make. Aluminum foil, spray glue and a good hobby knife...takes a little time, and patience but it's worth it. This one was already painted with shielding paint in the pickup cavity, all it needed was a sheet of shielding on the pickguard.

Fender Squire Strat by the way. I've had it since about 1995 or 96 and will never let it go, no way...I was pretty sure I wanted it before I plugged it in, pawn shop find and they had no amps so I brought mine in the next day and tried it out, all I needed to hear was that neck pickup for about 30 seconds...MINE....traded an absolutely horrible Epiphone strat copy for it. I definitely got the better end of that deal, the Epi wouldn't stay in tune if you pulled a gun on it.

excellent choice of P/G for that strat, pete. and $10??? nice score. i picked up a grey pearloid p/g for similar scratch a few yrs back for a strat that's pewter grey (or whatever color they call those Robert Cray models...mine isn't a "Cray"....but the same color.) the p/g has been sitting in my parts drawer the whole time because i really do like the white stock p/g against the grey...it just looks "right" to me. but seeing your Squier sporting that is making me reconsider changing mine out.

OH PETE YOU WHORE..

10$?? WTF>?.

That's the best deal I've heard yet and I thought I'm in the "no more surprises category".



GTZip, you look like a guy I know from this area.
He's a pretty nice guy as well, you're in good company.

I think I am going to show him the pic and ask him if if can play a V. LOL

I guess I need to see if I still have a picture with the original white pick guard. No comparison whatsoever...bland, dull, boring...still sounded good though...

Scott - Yep, 10 bucks. Local guitar store with probably 20 or 30 vintage guitars at any given moment you would drool over...amps dating back to the 40's, a dozen blackface Fenders at any given time, and I got to know the guy pretty well, he also taught me a lot about guitar maintenance and repairs. I got all my parts there, and he had a pile of these in a box marked $10. I grabbed that one. Also got some cool used pickups there, 5 bucks each, vintage tuners for my epiphone, a buck each...

Unfortunately he auctioned everything off and close up about 2 years ago, best shop in town, only person in Louisiana allowed to touch my guitars in the same room with any kind of tools. He did my first nut replacement, then taught me to do it next time. I paid for parts, he refused to take a penny for teacher time.

Here's the job I did on a tele copy I had to sell later.

Before



After



At the same time I swapped the pickguard, I replaced the neck pickup. I got it and the pickup from the same place, pickup came out of a Peavey. Sounded better than it ever had, and the stock bridge pickup was probably the best sounding one I had when I punched up the Ibanez SD 9 distortion pedal. Great sounding clean too, I played several songs always on that guitar for the great sounding pickups. Really unhappy when I had to sell it...

Let the Fat jokes commence...

Naw... I would not cast the first Stone Oven Pizza... I' just prolly eat it ... Guilty as charged. But Age..that's a bitch... Cant change that.

I thought that was a great pic.

Which kid broke your guitar and what scars does he/she bear now? lol

I hang my crap from the rafters, but even that won't save em sometimes.
It's just farther to fall.

Naw... Too young to harm them.

I'll keep my eyes open for creative pick guards. The chinaman is going to be my "practice guitar tech" guitar.
Cost less than a big tank of gas, so i'm not afraid of mauling it.

Funnily enough, the one to rule them all is my mid 90s Peavey Axcellerator usa.
Bought it for 200 used about 12 years ago.
Never goes out of tune, never break strings, pickups sound awesome (though they're starting to get a little microphonic)


Don't let it fool ya. It's like a sleeper car.

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