Thank you. It is solid Hawaiian Koa body. Just add brass pic guard and bang! Not for the light weights.Originally Posted by hippiebob01
Thank you. It is solid Hawaiian Koa body. Just add brass pic guard and bang! Not for the light weights.
Through a 1960 big box twin tweed, add left hand smoke and we are jammmmmingIt's byootiful. Judging from the back, looks like it's solid Koa. Is the neck Koa, too?
And can that island guitar play "the Reggie music"?
(Maui) Waui! I'll bet that thing smokes!!
Sure is beautiful. THose things are just escalating in price beyond belief due to the Koa shortage.
I shoulda grabbed one while I had the chance awhile back; those bodies are now almost prohibitively expensive like the Brazillain Rosewood necks. Thats sweet as can be.Makes my Walnut strat look like gutter garbage.
Youre looking at close to 1 grand for a new Koa body and also grand for a new Brazillian neck.
Thanks Jerryjg. I started out building this guitar because I wanted something different, not just a production Stratocaster. I told myself if this turns out to be a tone turd I could always part it out and loose no money on the deal. To much of my surprise it turn out great . I highly recommend everyone should try this guitar buildiing experience. It makes a great conversation piece everytime I pull it out to jam with someone. Its my creation and it feels good.
(Maui) Waui! I'll bet that thing smokes!!
Sure is beautiful. THose things are just escalating in price beyond belief due to the Koa shortage.
I shoulda grabbed one while I had the chance awhile back; those bodies are now almost prohibitively expensive like the Brazillain Rosewood necks. Thats sweet as can be.Makes my Walnut strat look like gutter garbage.
Youre looking at close to 1 grand for a new Koa body and also grand for a new Brazillian neck.
She's a beaut, Leseattlepaul!Thanks Jerryjg. I started out building this guitar because I wanted something different, not just a production Stratocaster. I told myself if this turns out to be a tone turd I could always part it out and loose no money on the deal. To much of my surprise it turn out great . I highly recommend everyone should try this guitar buildiing experience. It makes a great conversation piece everytime I pull it out to jam with someone. Its my creation and it feels good.
It is cool to have such a unique guitar, isn't it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4nAvamvIWs
Fender Stratocaster Highway One with Custom 69s
Finally got a digital camera, so here's my #1. It's a 2006-2007 Fender Deluxe Player's Stratocaster, bought new a little less than a year ago and upgraded this year with a Callaham block. Transparent Crimson on ash...mmmm.
"I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long." -- Mitch Hedberg
Here are a couple of new additions to my guitar arsenal. The maple neck strat is a John Cruz Custom Shop "Master Vinage Player Series" 1955 Strat which inludes the S-1 switching system. (allows for series and parallel pickup connections) And the other is a 1960 Fender Custom Shop Seafoam Green built by Yuriy Shishkov.
The luthiers at the Fender Custom Shop build fantastic quality guitars.
Bro you are out of control! lol! wow! That stage shot is killer! I thought I had a bad habit of overamping onstage. I love to bring about three just to see the look on people's faces when it's all workin. Are you using all those live? Do tell man. And an open chassis to boot? And your sittin down gettin your hair blown off your head? You rock brother. Hey, on another note. That fulltone tape drive. How is it? I know it must be killer or you wouldn't have it, is it reliable? I use a danelecto reel echo. built like a tank and the closest I have found to tape drive with no probs. What group do you play with? ok. No more questions.My 58 Reissue Into my fulltone pedals & then my marshall's.
All In one,my #1
Michael Holt.
blues: get em!
Here's some shots of my favorite strat. 1958 MIJ reissue. Made in 1992, nitro paint, custom order MIJ custom shop. This guitar is crazy. Period correct right down to the pickguard screws. Nickel hardware and the pups are fantastic and measure out all about 5.5k. The neck is the closest to a real 58 that I have ever played. The last pic is me playing it live. Love this guitar!
blues: get em!
I use the 18 watt handwired & ext. cab for stage monitoring and the JTM45 & 2X12 cab for the audience. The open chassis was just getting tested for some reason or another and It Is a real Plexi. The tube tape echo Is the cats ass. I run through the pedalboard Into that and split It after Into the two amps. To me It Is very reliable, I use It at every gig like this. Group wise back then was called Retro Fit. I'll post some more pics of other rigs I have used for these gigs.
Oh the tone
At a bike club party,
A rig I play In the studio,
In this shot I'm using a Bassman 4X10 and a JTM45 & 2X12 cab.
I'm using the stack and the bottom 2X12 & top head (tte) on top.
BWAH ha ha ha haaaa...this thread surfaces again!!!
Since I started this thread way back when, my number one has changed. Now, it's my Squier CV '50s Tele. It's that good.
Great with that Harvard clone, too. And the Vibroverb, and the Tweed Super, and...
"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
Scary, isn't it? My CV 50s Tele and Strats get way more attention than their more expensive siblings. A coupla' of which I've orphaned recently.
I'm just wonderin' how much more attention those Strats will get once I get off myand replace those trem blocks with some iron!
My new #1.
I think you posted the wrong pic. That one is a les paul something or otherThis one goes in the pine box with me... I've never been so completely connected to a guitar like I am to this one.
The funny thing is... I never intended, expected or even wanted it to be. It just is... And that makes it even more special.
"Oh, Mister D.J.,
I keep wondering why you don't play much blues anymore
I don't know what you got against me
Whatever it is, I sure would like to know"
I guess I never posted in this thread because I figured you guys could see it in the avatar. Here's my Number One (because it's the Only One), in the dark with the Rebel:
This is my latest strat and my favourite
http://img706.imageshack.us/i/36332444.jpg/
#1 for this week, at least. I need to do a string change and setup...
I don't know why the link ain't working... ah well..
My #1 by default, but a really nice 'un any way
2009 MIM standard tele
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC01218.jpg
My #1 by default, but a really nice 'un any way
2009 MIM standard tele
Not a great photot,
but you get the idea......
Its a tossup - between this and a monster that I have created.......
I honestly prefer the tort over white, but here is the original shot, for those of you who prefer it Untouched.
Kenny Belmont
>:^{I)>
Nice. The tort makes it look badass.
"I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long." -- Mitch Hedberg
Here's my #1. '08 MIA that I just love!
Heck, they're all "#1" to me -- even the "cheapest" Strat in my stable......
The best thousand-dollar guitar I ever paid five hundred bucks for.
Of course it's not exactly your "garden variety" MIM Classic '50s re-issue anymore. Lurking beneath the hood is a full set of DiMarzio Virtual Vintage pickups, connected to US-made CTS pots and CRL switch and linked together with cloth push-back wiring. A MIA vintage trem with steel block and "PATENT PENDING" saddles handles the bridge chores while a set of single-line Kluson repros keep everything in tune. For added vibe, the neck plate is stamped with a period-correct-for-1957 serial number.
(the famous Fender amp needs no further introduction)
"When injustice becomes law then rebellion becomes duty."
My #1 is a gold on gold '82 Stratocaster, very "road worn"!
I wil never part with it!!
One of (too) many, but my current favorite. MIJ Richie Kotzen signature strat. Replaced the stock Dimarzio pickups with Texas Specials. Swamp Ash with flame maple cap. Super jumbo frets.
My other Kotzen strat. Same make and model - SOB's sold it in 2 different finishes, so of course, I had to get both. Kept the Dimarzio's in this one though.
I still same Oly White trumps them all! I love my numero uno
"Oh, Mister D.J.,
I keep wondering why you don't play much blues anymore
I don't know what you got against me
Whatever it is, I sure would like to know"
Damn!#1 for this week, at least. I need to do a string change and setup...
I don't know why the link ain't working... ah well..
How did I miss this?
Alright...I had to laugh but it was low:
"You should have pushed that POS off the roof while you had a chance".
Outstanding Adrian Jackson, GT.
What's the scale length on that Jackson? It's as tall as the Chrysler Building!
"I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long." -- Mitch Hedberg
Yeah I get that every time I post one of my "out on the edge" pics!
:lol:
Its regular fender strat scale - 25 1/4" or whatever.
On the right is my #1 since 1979; a '79 Blonde Hardtail Stratocaster
and on the left is #2; an '07 Blonde Eric Johnson Artist Series in training.
Love the EJ!
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Just a HWY1 upgrade. Totally stock. I love her.
Difficult question narrowing it down to only 1...but I will have to say it is my '59 Tele.
But again, it could be my NAMM 2003 Floral
i posted in this thread 4 years ago!!
heres some more photos of my same 73 strat.
i love this guitar, and recently have been really getting into the outro of 'sheep' in the studio with a drummer mate, and it sounds really good.
thats through 18W on 10, just using a good lead.
brilliant guitar.
4 years down the road, the refret is now seriously needed(as is a total pot clean job), but i think this guitar was made for cranked 18W, so it stays 'in need'
I have to choose 2
- CS Strat 60 relic
- 52/57 LP conversion
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May the tone be with you
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