Pretty strat.............

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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    lucylespian wrote:
    Be a dull old world if we were all the same.
    I had a sunburst strat when I was a kid, piece of crap it was.

    I don't mind em, my wife hates em, and before you all say "pussy-whipped", I probably am, but she tends to pick some damn nice pretty gear, and the only reason I have the H&K Triamp is cos of the pretty blue lights, so as pussy-whipped goes, I am not doing too bad.

    Also, I tend not to beat up my gits, I love em too much, though my KH-2 is getting some play wear, which I don't mind. Means I play it more than clean it. Once a year is enough isn't it ??

    I just think an old sunburst strat looks cool. I take EXTRA care of my gear, but I have to admit, my dad has an old gibson, his grandfathers, beat to shit. I can't imagine it having the same kind of vibe if it was perfectly clean.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • MLC2006
    MLC2006 Posts: 861
    keeponrockin wrote:
    If I ever got one I'd change the pickgaurd.

    But hey, SRV was over the top!

    yeah, I would too. I love SRV, but I have no want of having his initials on my guitar unless his estate pays for it.

    totally off topic, but speaking of tribute guitars....Dean was going to make an exact replica of Dimebag Darrel's main guitar. the guitar I guess had a KISS sticker on it. but Gene Simmons was such a dick that he wouldn't let them put the sticker on the guitar. maybe it's just me, but that's pretty lame.
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    MLC2006 wrote:
    my wife thinks I paid $350 for my Gibson LP Standard (because that's what I convinced her). she doesn't care about colors, models, etc, she cares about $$$.


    MIne is the opposite. All she cares about is pretty, and that stuff is GOOD !!!!! She is pretty good at checking into the performance aspect of stuff, and she gets GAS pretty bad when looking at LP's esp, that and White Penguin Gretsches. She just loves those things !!
    I respect her opinion a lot. It has helped me choose some very nice stuff, including my namesake LP standard, as well as Buffy and Violet.

    I earn the dollars, so she makes sure I get some nice stuff in return.

    I maintain that it is never a mistake to buy quality. Your LP will lst a zillion times longer than an Epi for that $350.
    Music is not a competetion.
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    keeponrockin wrote:
    I just think an old sunburst strat looks cool. I take EXTRA care of my gear, but I have to admit, my dad has an old gibson, his grandfathers, beat to shit. I can't imagine it having the same kind of vibe if it was perfectly clean.

    They all get knocked around eventually if they get played esp over a few generations.

    Again, I have to say that it is so cool that guitars last decades and become heirlooms. Yet another reason to buy quality, it really is still so cheap compared to everything else.
    Music is not a competetion.
  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    lucylespian wrote:
    Awesome !!

    I want singles all teh way if I get one.
    It's funny paco, you say tehy come in so many forms, to me they are pretty much all the same. I think it's cos I can't see teh wood. I cruise the Les PAul forum drooling over flame tops, and the solid PU paint just coveres all that up. BUt the tones are cool, so I'll probbaly get one. It's so easy to pock one up at a good price, there is no hurry, not like the last train is gonna leave the station.

    Now R9 custom reissue killer top LP's, that's different. Drooooooooooooool!!


    nice, I'm the same way especially looking at gustavssons.

    why not check out some custom options http://www.warmoth.com

    you can see the woods on those, then get a nice fat neck too, and I can only imagine Kinmans are cheaper in your area.

    http://www.warmoth.com/showcase/sc_guitar_bodies.cfm?type=guitar&numResults=200&start=1&menuItem=1&subMenuItem=2&subMenuItem2=0

    http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=fender+showmaster&category0=

    http://www.usacustomguitars.com/customerpics.html

    http://www.suhrguitars.com/guitarGallery.aspx?gallery=1

    http://www.andersonguitars.com/newsite/gallery.cfm


    I just wanted you to see some pretty S style wood guitars ;)
    My Girlfriend said to me..."How many guitars do you need?" and I replied...."How many pairs of shoes do you need?" She got really quiet.
  • MichaelMcKevin
    MichaelMcKevin Posts: 1,161
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    moster78 wrote:
    As an owner of a signature Strat, I have to admit, its awesome. The SRV is a little over the top though with the big SRV initials, but thats a great strat.

    Yeah I'd replace the pickguard immediately with a tortoiseshell. It would look like the Mayer strat before it left the store.
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  • DOSW
    DOSW Posts: 2,014
    MLC2006 wrote:
    yeah, I would too. I love SRV, but I have no want of having his initials on my guitar unless his estate pays for it.

    Hey, the guitar with the SRV initials on the body is nothing... did you ever see his custom-made guitar with his entire signature inlaid into the fretboard? Now that's a little over the top. :D
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  • MLC2006
    MLC2006 Posts: 861
    DOSW wrote:
    Hey, the guitar with the SRV initials on the body is nothing... did you ever see his custom-made guitar with his entire signature inlaid into the fretboard? Now that's a little over the top. :D

    yeah, if you have that guitar, unless you can play like SRV (and very few people on earth can), then you end up looking like a douche.

    I'd say though, Fender makes these guitars (may be the very one you're talking about) that is made by their custom shop and they are made exactly like the real guitar....every scratch and dent, every turn of the pickup wires are exactly the same, etc etc. I'd like to have THAT SRV guitar. I know they just made one of Clapton's black Strat. and they cost something like $20,000. but it would be cool to have one to see if it's really like the real thing. I know Gibson just made one like that of Gary Rossington's (Skynyrd) Les Paul. I'd like to try that out.
  • ianvomsaal
    ianvomsaal Suncoast, FL Posts: 1,224
    DOSW wrote:
    Hey, the guitar with the SRV initials on the body is nothing... did you ever see his custom-made guitar with his entire signature inlaid into the fretboard? Now that's a little over the top. :D
    Yeah, I know that guy that made that for him - he works at M.A.E. (Music Arts Enterprises) in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
    But I never really liked the headstock - made it look like an old Krammer guitar.

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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    ianvomsaal wrote:
    Yeah, I know that guy that made that for him - he works at M.A.E. (Music Arts Enterprises) in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
    But I never really liked the headstock - made it look like an old Krammer guitar.

    - Ian

    Didn't Billy Gibbons have that custom made?
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V

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