Guitar Thread

[Coastal Fever]

Speaking of Explorers, when I was young I begged my parents to get me this Hamer Slammer and they did.  They shouldn’t have though because I never committed to learning on it, and eventually traded it to my friend for his 7.5 ATM complete with Indys.  Shit deal on my part, but I did become passionately obsessed with skateboarding for the next 10 years so there’s that.

[Banned from the room]

Speaking of Explorers, when I was young I begged my parents to get me this Hamer Slammer and they did.  They shouldn’t have though because I never committed to learning on it, and eventually traded it to my friend for his 7.5 ATM complete with Indys.  Shit deal on my part, but I did become passionately obsessed with skateboarding for the next 10 years so there’s that.

Thats killer

[Willie]

Speaking of Explorers, when I was young I begged my parents to get me this Hamer Slammer and they did.  They shouldn’t have though because I never committed to learning on it, and eventually traded it to my friend for his 7.5 ATM complete with Indys.  Shit deal on my part, but I did become passionately obsessed with skateboarding for the next 10 years so there’s that.

I think I like that more than a real Explorer. There’s something nasty about it.

[manysnakes]

I recently learned that Gibson came out with the Explorer and Flying V because they saw the unusual (for the time) shape of the Stratocaster and thought “I guess guitar buyers want some fucked up shapes. Let’s make some fucked up guitars to rival Fender.”

[Banned from the room]

Got a guitar coming today. Wait till y'all see it

[Banned from the room]

Boom! This took forever to get. Now I just need to fix my other guitar and I'll have 2 to play out

[Frank]

hell yeah, i love white guitars and lp juniors. the coffin for it is sick, too.

hope it plays as nice as it looks!

[Banned from the room]

hell yeah, i love white guitars and lp juniors. the coffin for it is sick, too.

hope it plays as nice as it looks!

It's going very very well so far. I just gotta adjust the bridge height and I'm gold

[fineslime]

just discovered Matteo Mancuso today... he plays with such precision and oozes jazz rock fusion soul. discovered him through and Instagram reel and I've been digging deep since. his tones are perfect.







someone to definitely look out for.

[Coastal Fever]

Daaamn that guy is really sick!  Speaking of YouTube wizards with impeccable tone, I love watching this dude’s videos;

[rawbertson.]

man guitar shit is expensive
i figured out how to hook up my 15w guitar amp + my 30w bass amp together and it actually sounds really sick like that. dont have a bass player will just be me and my friend so i figured might as well use it. i was watching a video of Japandroids a 2 man band from BC and the guitarist had a huge wall of amps, that gave me the idea.

was like "man i could upgrade both to like 50w versions of each for like $700" lol it is so easy to go down that rabbit hole realll quick. i suppose i would get some trade in value on those old ones too though. but that is still quite a bit of money to throw down for me right now and i am hardly ever turning these past volume 3.

heres what it sounds like:

https://youtube.com/shorts/noatM93vQl0?feature=share

[Plan9Customs]

Not mine but spotted at a show last night:

[Banned from the room]

Cut all the bass tracks today on demos. Software is crazy. I'm like a 4 - 32 track person. It's cool tho.

[Frank]

Not mine but spotted at a show last night:

actually my plan for a pedalboard as well!

[Banned from the room]

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Not mine but spotted at a show last night:

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actually my plan for a pedalboard as well!

I'm biting that shit

[Andmoreagain]

thats really clever but I feel it would tip over no? Easy enough to add a third offset brace I guess

[Plan9Customs]

If you look close at the pic the trucks are set so it’s triangulated. So no on the tipping over. Kid had a brain on him.

[Frank]

Just scored an MIJ squier strat for 50 bucks at a yard sale. E6 serial, so its a 37 year old guitar. Other than a scratch, its clean clean clean lake placid blue. Sounds reallllly nice and the neck is sexy as can be. Super stoked. Compared to the artcore ive been playing the quality of the whole guitar is night and day. Ive got a 90s MIM HSS that i kind of don’t like, its just too hot and ive beeen contemplating making it a traditional SSS but this MIJ takes care of that

wow, those things go for a lot nowadays! last time i checked reverb, which is overpriced anyways, those 80s squiers were from 600-1000 bucks.

[manysnakes]

I think that anything Fender which was made in Japan now carries a certain cache. Congrats on that score, that’s a goddamn keeper.

[thanksgiving]

not sure about the squiers but fender MIJ was until about 1997 when they moved from the fujigen factory to tokai(?), where the guitars then said crafted in japan. MIJ is considered to almost always be better than CIJ. love how the plastics yellow on japanese fenders

congrats man. amazing find.

[Willie]

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Just scored an MIJ squier strat for 50 bucks at a yard sale. E6 serial, so its a 37 year old guitar. Other than a scratch, its clean clean clean lake placid blue. Sounds reallllly nice and the neck is sexy as can be. Super stoked. Compared to the artcore ive been playing the quality of the whole guitar is night and day. Ive got a 90s MIM HSS that i kind of don’t like, its just too hot and ive beeen contemplating making it a traditional SSS but this MIJ takes care of that

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wow, those things go for a lot nowadays! last time i checked reverb, which is overpriced anyways, those 80s squiers were from 600-1000 bucks.

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No kidding. I knew the MIJ are good, perhaps better squiers than 90s standard MIM strats, but I didn’t realize they were valuable! Regardless, im happy to have it to play around with. I was thinking i may have had to take it apart to check electronics but its not going to be necessary. Got a nice tweed case at the junk shop for 20-30 bucks a while back thats needed a guitar. Sorry. Not trying to boast or gloat, just hyped on an $80 80s fender and hardcase.

Only found it cuz i was teaching my
Partner to drive stick shift on a street instead of parking lot for the first time. What a day!

Dude, that’s an amazing deal! I have an E7 Squier (there’s a pic back on page 10) and there are a lot of times I’ll go to a guitar store and think “Well, I haven’t played anything here with a neck I prefer to my Squier.”

You couldn’t sell one for more than $300 for the last 30 years and now they’re $500-800. Which isn’t unreasonable because if you spend $800 on a new MIM Fender you’re probably getting sharp ass frets.

The stock pickups are rather one-dimensional. Swapping those out is an easy improvement. I put 57/62s in mine but they are very quack-y. I like the vintage voice and bell-like sounds but they’re not ideal when you want to rock. I’d go for something a hair darker if I did it again.

The selector switch is pretty shitty but if it cuts out you can cycle it back and forth really fast to wear off the oxidation. I never bothered to replace mine.

Great score!

[jgonzalez]

Congrats @fineslime . Always worth splurging to get them setup, you would be cheating yourself otherwise. Plus, you get to support your local tech. 

As for hollow or solid bodies that’s why you gotta have like 5 guitars lol.

[manysnakes]

Any time someone disparages a Squier or other cheap electric solidbody guitars, I think about this video (which apparently made the owner of PRS absolutely furious).

[thanksgiving]

any more info about that prs guy being upset?

[manysnakes]

any more info about that prs guy being upset?

https://guitar.com/news/gear-news/paul-reed-smith-tonewood-doesnt-matter-dipped-in-tone-rhett-shull-zach-broyles/

I haven't actually watched it, I just heard it talked about and found it through some Googling. For the record, I think that tonewood for acoustic instruments is hugely important, but almost completely irrelevant for solid body electric guitars.

[Banned from the room]

Anyone ever try the Gibson H p90 yet? It comes in the Billy Joe Armstrong Gibson from a few years back.

I'm thinking about ordering one. I just worry that it won't sound like a real p90 and I should just get a real mini humbucker

[Banned from the room]

i love this riff. i have shorts on
lol

[ungzilla]

it's fine if you don't have shorts on you can admit it we're all pals here

[Banned from the room]

it's fine if you don't have shorts on you can admit it we're all pals here

away from my ig i always rock the boxers. Naked guitar sessions will increase in like a week because i got a string of shows coming up.

im so stoked

[Willie]

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any more info about that prs guy being upset?

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https://guitar.com/news/gear-news/paul-reed-smith-tonewood-doesnt-matter-dipped-in-tone-rhett-shull-zach-broyles/

I haven't actually watched it, I just heard it talked about and found it through some Googling. For the record, I think that tonewood for acoustic instruments is hugely important, but almost completely irrelevant for solid body electric guitars.

I don’t think there’s a magical tonewood out there but I can see why PRS has issues with that video. If you read the comments there’s like 12,000 people crowing that it “proves” guitars have no intrinsic musical quantities beyond their pickups.

 
There isn’t really a big enough sample size to prove that different woods and bodies have no impact on tone. Different woods have different densities, different densities vibrate at different frequencies. That’s going to have an impact on attack, sustain, and brightness.

My friend has a cheapie Strat copy that feels like wet driftwood. Even with new strings, a fretted bar chord dies out in 3/4 of the time the same chord will ring on my old MIJ Squier Strat (alder and maple).

That his 2x4 sounded like the Tele was cool but maybe not surprising because a Tele is essentially a 2x4, he’s using a nearly identical neck, and the absence of a bigger body isn’t doing much to interfere with your basic Bright Ass Tele sound. Would a basswood body and rosewood fingerboard have made a difference? What about a chambered body?

The “air guitar” test seems mind blowing but it’s really more of a “no duh” thing. Identical open  strings at identical tension should sound identical. That doesn’t prove that any number of available combinations of materials, sizes, shapes, scale lengths, bridge types, nut materials, etc. will always sound the same - even with the same pickups.