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[michael.lauden]

I knew a guy who would get parts from US and Japanese vintage strat reissues and put the appropriate parts together, get an "L" backplate in which some were real and some were very accurate aftermarket ones, sand the neck and headstock, refinish it to look old, and get the "Fender" sticker, real ones, and place them over the finish as was the case through 1967.

yeah through craigslist i found a guy who was selling an old strat. i met up and the serials weren't period correct.

i ended up building my own partscaster.

body from a early 70's strat and neck from a mid 60s

better view of the neck (stupid iPhone camera )

figured i'd add in a shot of my minimal touring board (for when flying delta $$$$) just so you can get an idea.

and here's my church board

heres my 65 deluxe reverb RI

last one i sware... my custom SG clone, AC30 and valve jr

 

[Andrew K.]

yeah through craigslist i found a guy who was selling an old strat. i met up and the serials weren't period correct.

i ended up building my own partscaster.

body from a early 70's strat and neck from a mid 60s

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Very Nice STRAT!!! Come join us on Strat-Talk.com I am building my own just like yours but with a white pickguard and a Highway One Nitro Body.

 

[michael.lauden]

Very Nice STRAT!!! Come join us on Strat-Talk.com I am building my own just like yours but with a white pickguard and a Highway One Nitro Body.

Andrew thanks for the offer but i did guitar forums for a while. guitargearheads, guitargeek and telecaster forums.


i came to realize i was talking to either 15 year old kids with line 6 2x12's 50 year old men who play classic 30s and got new gear and sat at their house and played it at "2" and said it was too loud.

also i wouldn't say i'm too big of a strat fan kind of sacrilegious as i play 600 guitars.

Standard Mexi Fat Strat, Epi Sheraton, custom SG clone, Partscaster (the one you admire ), Les Paul JR, and a Les Paul Studio.

sadly i was too scared to bring my higher end guitars on the road so i got rid of them (les paul classic, 335, sg custom, and now the partscaster) for more budget minded guitars

 

[Andrew K.]

Andrew thanks for the offer but i did guitar forums for a while. guitargearheads, guitargeek and telecaster forums.


i came to realize i was talking to either 15 year old kids with line 6 2x12's 50 year old men who play classic 30s and got new gear and sat at their house and played it at "2" and said it was too loud.

also i wouldn't say i'm too big of a strat fan kind of sacrilegious as i play 600 guitars.

Standard Mexi Fat Strat, Epi Sheraton, custom SG clone, Partscaster (the one you admire ), Les Paul JR, and a Les Paul Studio.

sadly i was too scared to bring my higher end guitars on the road so i got rid of them (les paul classic, 335, sg custom, and now the partscaster) for more budget minded guitars

What? 600??!!! What exactly do you do for a living? No prob This sites pretty laid back alotta guys in 30's then some 50's and some young, not much. You don't have to join if you don't want it's just very cool site ( no I'm not trying to Spam you sorry if it looks that way )

 

[michael.lauden]

What? 600??!!! What exactly do you do for a living?

ha i was kidding i have never had more than 9 or 10 guitars at a time!

 

[ec51]

This is Mr. Todd Krause (Eric Clapton's builder) with my MB Clapton Sig.



It was a lonnnnnnnnng time I waited for this beauty.

 

[gibbz]

I'm just learning to play. This is my first acoustic, an Art & Lutherie Spruce Burgundy.

 

[sporadicMotion]

My current mod project... I'll post again once upgrades are complete. A friend of mine painted it... the picture doesn't do the color justice. It has so much fine sparkle and it's somewhat metallic. The color appears much brighter in better light... I'm gonna take a better picture later.

Edit: Better Picture

 

[thisonechance]

The photo isn't of my bass, but it is the same model and color. The only difference is that I have a Badass II bridge installed as well as active pickups.
Fender American Standard Jazz Bass.

Edit:
I found an old picture of my friend with my bass and (part of) my rig in the background.

 

[63dot]

yeah through craigslist i found a guy who was selling an old strat. i met up and the serials weren't period correct.

That has got to be a great sounding setup. A great worn in neck, old body, going through a '65 reissue deluxe with those great effects has got to be one of the best sounds possible.

I miss my mid-70s deluxe reverb with those warm tubes, and I sold it because I was much more interested at the time in volume ala Marshall or Twin Reverb, but neither of those big ones get the great clean sound of a Fender Deluxe Reverb. Little did I know. The only big amp I like for clean sounds is the Roland JC-120 which for it's high wattage doesn't sound harsh like most big amps on a clean channel. I also like the smaller, lower wattage Mesa Boogies for a clean sound, too.

Of course, for distortion, anything with 100 watts will do ... you know, the floor shaking monsters.

That's rock and roll preferences, but for jazz, I want to get my hands on a small Polytone, just like the ones Joe Pass used. Very solid state. Very accurate and dry which facilitates that great bop sound on a neck pickup of a guitar that sports humbuckers (which I have to resort to even though I am a Fender guy through and through). My teacher uses a solid state Fender Frontman 25 and that gets that dry bop sound, but still nothing like those old '70s-'80s Polytones.

 

[63dot]

I like my SG copy very much (LTD Viper 301), but I hated my two Flying Vs (Gibson '67 V reissues) and it gave me a bad taste for later Gibson and Epiphone stuff for a long time. But then I saw this. I have to try one.

It's an Epiphone, by Gibson, and therefore pretty reasonable. It's pretty attractive though I don't play metal anymore.

 

[bartelby]

I like my SG copy very much, but I hated my two Flying Vs and it gave me a bad taste for later Gibson and Epiphone stuff for a long time. But then I saw this. I have to try one.

That is vile looking. I'm surprised it's not a BC Rich

 

[63dot]

That is vile looking. I'm surprised it's not a BC Rich

It's vile, but it looks like a hell of a lot of fun. Another creepy non BC Rich that is cool is one of James Hetfield's main axes from the mid-2000s. ESP and LTD F-Series guitars. And then there's Dean Guitars. Mostly I like these types of guitars when I am in a certain mood. It just doesn't do as well to pull out a Gretsch hollowbody or Telecaster when you feel like serious noise making. Right now though, I don't have any pointy guitars.

But when really serious, get one of the Got Milk guitars.

 

[michael.lauden]

That has got to be a great sounding setup. A great worn in neck, old body, going through a '65 reissue deluxe with those great effects has got to be one of the best sounds possible.

I miss my mid-70s deluxe reverb with those warm tubes, and I sold it because I was much more interested at the time in volume ala Marshall or Twin Reverb, but neither of those big ones get the great clean sound of a Fender Deluxe Reverb. Little did I know. The only big amp I like for clean sounds is the Roland JC-120 which for it's high wattage doesn't sound harsh like most big amps on a clean channel. I also like the smaller, lower wattage Mesa Boogies for a clean sound, too.

Of course, for distortion, anything with 100 watts will do ... you know, the floor shaking monsters.

That's rock and roll preferences, but for jazz, I want to get my hands on a small Polytone, just like the ones Joe Pass used. Very solid state. Very accurate and dry which facilitates that great bop sound on a neck pickup of a guitar that sports humbuckers (which I have to resort to even though I am a Fender guy through and through). My teacher uses a solid state Fender Frontman 25 and that gets that dry bop sound, but still nothing like those old '70s-'80s Polytones.

ha oh yeah. but gotta say - played the ac30 way more than the deluxe over the past few years. i can't stand playing anything over 45 watts. it's just impractical - that will really make everyone hate you while gigging. and you won't be able to get a good tone because the mic' will peak out if you really do crank it.

even at some of my biggest shows they asked me to put the amp behind stage and mic it.

not a problem for me but sometimes i just feel better when i can see a beautiful amp behind me

 

[63dot]

ha oh yeah. but gotta say - played the ac30 way more than the deluxe over the past few years. i can't stand playing anything over 45 watts. it's just impractical - that will really make everyone hate you while gigging. and you won't be able to get a good tone because the mic' will peak out if you really do crank it.

even at some of my biggest shows they asked me to put the amp behind stage and mic it.

not a problem for me but sometimes i just feel better when i can see a beautiful amp behind me

I am going to start gigging again and my drummer has two stacks, JCM 900 at 100 watts and JCM 2000 at 100 watts. I will stick to the lower output passive pickups and avoid any of his guitars with EMG active pickups (he has 20 of them with active and passive setups...his bass is the regular P-Bass with reasonably low output passive pickups and the bass could go through the PA but guitar amp won't get a mic).

He won't mic his drums so I will have to try and get a reasonable sound w/o being too harsh sounding. Too many beginners in gigging get the 100 watts or whatever, get the active EMGs, and then drown out the drummer and vocals. That's very stupid but so many bands do that.

Below are the amps to the audience and drums to the audience. What is not good is that in this outdoor scenario, facing the ocean, the drums are completely drowned out fifty feet back, and one side is guitar heavy as the other is bass heavy. Putting mics everywhere and letting the PA do the lifting makes the most sense for a balanced sound. It's going to take a lot of convincing to tell the drummer that since he sets up the PA which is his.

 

[michael.lauden]

I am going to start gigging again and my drummer has two stacks, JCM 900 at 100 watts and JCM 2000 at 100 watts. I will stick to the lower output passive pickups and avoid any of his guitars with EMG active pickups (he has 20 of them with active and passive setups...his bass is the regular P-Bass with reasonably low output passive pickups and the bass could go through the PA but guitar amp won't get a mic).

He won't mic his drums so I will have to try and get a reasonable sound w/o being too harsh sounding. Too many beginners in gigging get the 100 watts or whatever, get the active EMGs, and then drown out the drummer and vocals. That's very stupid but so many bands do that.

IMO when playing larger shows - being un mic'd sounds horrid.

one side you can only hear one guitarist+some drums (especially with 100 watts)

being in a band is a collaborative effort.

however i guess when you play smaller shows it isn't mic'd - two different situations.


everywhere i play i use in-ears and usually isolate my amp - sometimes if we are playing un mic'd at a smaller venue - i will use my valve jr 5 watt.

it's all based on what you're doing - but i can see no grounds where you would ever need more than 30 watts, even WITH headroom taken into account.

 

[paddingtonpear]

Intrigued

Me and my friend snapped this up today down in the West End, totally caught our eye, I wonder why

 

[Andrew K.]

Me and my friend snapped this up today down in the West End, totally caught our eye, I wonder why

HAHAHAHA! How the eff-you-sea-kay are you gonna play all those necks? And does it have one output for all those HBs? Or each section has one? ROFL

 

[Andrew K.]

This is Mr. Todd Krause (Eric Clapton's builder) with my MB Clapton Sig.



It was a lonnnnnnnnng time I waited for this beauty.

VERY NICE what kind of amp do you have? I just got a Blues Jr. for around $300 last week.

 

[ec51]

VERY NICE what kind of amp do you have? I just got a Blues Jr. for around $300 last week.

Thanks man...

Blues Jr, is a great amp. I use it a lot at home.

I went through a few amps already, first I used an old Princeton 112 (first amp) - then I got a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe (1x12), great amp.

Sold that, ran into some money - bought a Soldano Hot Rod. Traded that in for a Soldano SLO-100 (think Clapton on "From the Cradle," any 335 song was recorded using one - and all of "24 Nights," actually almost all early 90's EC was a SLO-100). I use that with a Soldano 2x12 loaded with Tone Tubbies (HBOMB config - one Ceramic one Hemp). Before I had a Marshall 4x12, which was waaay too much volume and just too big.

The setup I have now is great, and prob my favorite. The Tone Tubbies, work very well with the SLO. Its actually what W. Haynes uses as well.

 

[sporadicMotion]

Dear god you guys are giving me a bad case of GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome for those not in the know). I just started to buy gear again after selling my collection due to having to move for work so much. The amps I had have gone way up in price too which kinda sucks.

 

[63dot]

IMO when playing larger shows - being un mic'd sounds horrid.

one side you can only hear one guitarist+some drums (especially with 100 watts)

being in a band is a collaborative effort.

however i guess when you play smaller shows it isn't mic'd - two different situations.


everywhere i play i use in-ears and usually isolate my amp - sometimes if we are playing un mic'd at a smaller venue - i will use my valve jr 5 watt.

it's all based on what you're doing - but i can see no grounds where you would ever need more than 30 watts, even WITH headroom taken into account.

I totally agree. I do have two lower output passive pickup guitars so that's OK but my amp is a 10 watt Crate practice amp. Too small. So I use my drummer's 100 watt 900 or 2000 heads but just a single 4 x 12" cabinet. I would prefer a 2 x 12" cabinet but this all belongs to the drummer so I will largely be playing on his gear. The other cabinet, or cabinets stay at the studio. The tone is great at a huge volume but I can't find a suitable sound at a lower small club volume. I may have to use something like a Tube Screamer to get the peak Marshall sound on a turned down Marshall.

With lower volumes, there's so much more with dynamics one can play with. It's just too hard to control an ear splitting volume clear or distorted. We can use a cheap SM-57 to mic it since that's all we have. We have an SM-58 for vocals. I wish we had some high end AKGs amidst all those amps and guitars but we're keeping with what we can do.

Our PA is 250 watts rms so we have to also work within the boundaries of a small system there. A 30 watt Marshall would be just perfect for our PA and unmic'd drums. I will avoid his Ibanez metal guitars or the Jacksons and stick with a regular ancient 3 pup strat and unmodified, equally old Les Paul as backups to my guitars. They have the regular passive pickups and not the higher gain ceramic pickups like his ESP, Dean, Ibanezes (some with EMG 81s), and Jacksons. They are just too loud in conjunction with a Marshall stack. I rather think the underpowered strat with single coils gets the best tone on the big amps. If we play a huge venue, which I doubt, then I will borrow his ESP or Ibanez S-series or R-series metal guitar and have to somehow mic his drums. But maybe the headliner band has a lot of better mics.

The band I want to play with mics everything from what I can see and use a very small amp going through a 4x12" inch cabinet. He gets a great tone with his Silvertone and it's all very controlled and warm sounding. They have their mics set up so you can hear every nuance in the singer's voice and that's part of what makes them such a great live act. They play at a reasonable volume and so will we, or learn to very soon.

Again, we don't want to sound like beginners who crank everything up to 10 and sound like mud. It's good at hiding sloppy playing but my drummer is so good I don't want to cover his work up. My guitar is so-so and I have to focus on singing all the songs.

 

[63dot]

Me and my friend snapped this up today down in the West End, totally caught our eye, I wonder why

I understand the 6 string, the fretless guitar, and the 12 string. But what are the other two 6 strings for, or maybe I can't see the picture too well. It could be a way to experiment I guess.

With three dual humbucker 6 strings, I would go stock on one, get something akin to Seymour Duncan Invaders or Duncan Screamin' Demons on the second one and have a coil tap option, and humbucker sized P-90s on the third one. You could get basically every main Gibson style sound out there. It looks like fun like a 10 piece drum set with unlimited cymbals. Lots of options.

 

[Andrew K.]

I understand the 6 string, the fretless guitar, and the 12 string. But what are the other two 6 strings for, or maybe I can't see the picture too well. It could be a way to experiment I guess.

With three dual humbucker 6 strings, I would go stock on one, get something akin to Seymour Duncan Invaders or Duncan Screamin' Demons on the second one and have a coil tap option, and humbucker sized P-90s on the third one. You could get basically every main Gibson style sound out there. It looks like fun like a 10 piece drum set with unlimited cymbals. Lots of options.

Not even Neal Peart's Drumset is that overdone!

 

[Andrew K.]

Dear god you guys are giving me a bad case of GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome for those not in the know). I just started to buy gear again after selling my collection due to having to move for work so much. The amps I had have gone way up in price too which kinda sucks.

I know it well, and I just started playing!