Your dream guitar
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i like the telecaster's simplicity and.. dunno. something 
there's something about telecaster that i like very much.
i like jaguars for the looks.
i like shortscales for the short scale.
i like strats for diversity.
so my dream guitar would be something with jag/stang-ish body, but without the big butt like jag-stang, made of basswood, thin like a mustang, and with contours. the neck would be jag or stang neck, with a slightly flatter radius, and maybe not vintage thin, but medium frets. the fretboard would be rosewood, and the headstock would be big and painted to match the body colour. i would like it to have a tele-like pickups. bridge pickup should be angled, but in reversed direction, and neck pickup should be straight and just under the 3rd (? the one at the 5th fret) harmonic. there would be volume controls for each pickup, and no tone control, but i'm not sure about this, never really tried that. i would like the pickups wired like in a tele - i can't tell if that parallel or not, but i like the sound of tele in middle position. i would like my dream guitar to have a pickup switch like some duo-sonics have - 3 position switch in the lower horn, or maybe like that of faux 12 - liked it very much when i saw it on hurb's custom faux control plate and pickguard would probably be like mustang's - i like them, however i'm not too picky. now when it comes to bridge and trem, i think i'd settle with mustang bridge and trem, really like that i can use it without trem arm. did i miss something? hmph... bolt on neck.. 
now when it comes to color and other visual features it's rather hard. to mind comes ultrawin's cindycaster, that's very beautiful color. or, maybe i'd like some plain purple paint, dunno.
eh. judging by this post, one can say that i like to daydream sometime
there's something about telecaster that i like very much.i like jaguars for the looks.
i like shortscales for the short scale.
i like strats for diversity.
so my dream guitar would be something with jag/stang-ish body, but without the big butt like jag-stang, made of basswood, thin like a mustang, and with contours. the neck would be jag or stang neck, with a slightly flatter radius, and maybe not vintage thin, but medium frets. the fretboard would be rosewood, and the headstock would be big and painted to match the body colour. i would like it to have a tele-like pickups. bridge pickup should be angled, but in reversed direction, and neck pickup should be straight and just under the 3rd (? the one at the 5th fret) harmonic. there would be volume controls for each pickup, and no tone control, but i'm not sure about this, never really tried that. i would like the pickups wired like in a tele - i can't tell if that parallel or not, but i like the sound of tele in middle position. i would like my dream guitar to have a pickup switch like some duo-sonics have - 3 position switch in the lower horn, or maybe like that of faux 12 - liked it very much when i saw it on hurb's custom faux
control plate and pickguard would probably be like mustang's - i like them, however i'm not too picky. now when it comes to bridge and trem, i think i'd settle with mustang bridge and trem, really like that i can use it without trem arm. did i miss something? hmph... bolt on neck.. now when it comes to color and other visual features it's rather hard. to mind comes ultrawin's cindycaster, that's very beautiful color. or, maybe i'd like some plain purple paint, dunno.
eh. judging by this post, one can say that i like to daydream sometime
i like chocolate, i like fudge
if i can't make any, i won't budge
if i can't make any, i won't budge
My dream guitar for the longest time was the SG-100, which I later obtained:laterallateral wrote:1972 Gibson SG-200
Super-Sonic made out of fender parts, shell pink, non-matching headstock, pearloid Jazzmasterish guard (no plates), with p-90's and bronco knobs.
sorry for the crappy photo
Not much love out there for these Norlin era student guitars. I'd also love to get my hands on a SG-I or SG-II with the mini humbuckers from the next year (1973).
I'm tickled pink green with the flattery, Gabez.gaybear wrote:
Seriously, I had a go with a makeshift band tonight with some Korean Americans from all over Seoul + a cranked JCM 2000, and really had a blast. The Kent Armstrong bridge p'up is really hot and simply roared yet retained lots of top end(w/a slight midrage punch like a P90), and the TV Jones was full and transparent, though it could push fairly hard and responded quite well to the mildly compressed overdrive from the Cool Cat Dist. Notably the Willows guys did a great job with the bone nut and overall setup as well, it stayed in tune almost as well as the Jazzy, yet the non-solidbody nature of the design gave it a fullness and depth I didn't expect. Worthy of being a dream guitar, it's off to a great start.
or maybe one of these:
uhh ok this is a crazy design but this is what i was thinking when i made this
kind of an extremely hot rodded bronco with 6 single coils and 1 humbucker jag switches for sc's on off and volumes
toggley for the humbucker on off and its volume. master tone buy the first setof sc's and master volume by hb
final toggley is for a kill switch i was thinking this or maybe like a on board distortion or coil tap/ blender if so ill add an extra knob for blender
EDIT. pics not working. ill find another way to poast this
uhh ok this is a crazy design but this is what i was thinking when i made this
kind of an extremely hot rodded bronco with 6 single coils and 1 humbucker jag switches for sc's on off and volumes
toggley for the humbucker on off and its volume. master tone buy the first setof sc's and master volume by hb
final toggley is for a kill switch i was thinking this or maybe like a on board distortion or coil tap/ blender if so ill add an extra knob for blender
EDIT. pics not working. ill find another way to poast this
my melody maker has the dream feel, but not the dream sound.
my silvertone (dano) 2 pickup has close to perfect tone, for certain things, and my am std tele has another kind of perfect tone. the only thing i lack now is a vintage spec humbucker for rhythm.
the mods i had planned for my MM will get me really close to my dream guitar. apparently this desire makes me an asshole, but here is goes:
dream guitar:
1966 pelham blue MM, neck minihumbucker, overwound singlecoil bridge pickup with similar to p90 response. lyre vibrola.
my silvertone (dano) 2 pickup has close to perfect tone, for certain things, and my am std tele has another kind of perfect tone. the only thing i lack now is a vintage spec humbucker for rhythm.
the mods i had planned for my MM will get me really close to my dream guitar. apparently this desire makes me an asshole, but here is goes:
dream guitar:
1966 pelham blue MM, neck minihumbucker, overwound singlecoil bridge pickup with similar to p90 response. lyre vibrola.
always liked those vibrolaswilliam wrote:my melody maker has the dream feel, but not the dream sound.
my silvertone (dano) 2 pickup has close to perfect tone, for certain things, and my am std tele has another kind of perfect tone. the only thing i lack now is a vintage spec humbucker for rhythm.
the mods i had planned for my MM will get me really close to my dream guitar. apparently this desire makes me an asshole, but here is goes:
dream guitar:
1966 pelham blue MM, neck minihumbucker, overwound singlecoil bridge pickup with similar to p90 response. lyre vibrola.
i am having a hard time setting mine up. i have had to raise the bridge much higher than i normally would to keep the strings on the saddles. im thinking maybe i need to get higher gauge strings to pull the vibrola down a bit more, so i can lower the bridge again. it was probably made with much heavier strings at the time.
it is a bitch to tune, like you have to make numerous "passes" to get an equilibrium, because when one string is tuned up, another goes flat. but once its in tune, it is surprisingly stable. and it looks damn cool.
i heard that elliot easton spec'd one on his signature sg because he thinks they sound better than a stoptail, even though he never uses is for vibrato. just mojo or teh science? i can't tell (so its probably mojo)
it is a bitch to tune, like you have to make numerous "passes" to get an equilibrium, because when one string is tuned up, another goes flat. but once its in tune, it is surprisingly stable. and it looks damn cool.
i heard that elliot easton spec'd one on his signature sg because he thinks they sound better than a stoptail, even though he never uses is for vibrato. just mojo or teh science? i can't tell (so its probably mojo)
deaner33 wrote:How would you compare the Vibrola to other trems?
its a bit stiff, compared to say a bigsby or a "floating" strat trem.
it feels alot like a strat trem with enough springs on it to "lock it back"
except that the leverage is different because the pivot point is behind the bridge.
it has more range than youd think, if i touch the bar to the body, thats about 6 half steps there. if the bar were farther from the body it could go deeper. frankly i dont know how hard i want to push it, given the way it works (benting a piece of curved steel over and over again, into the face of the body), and the age of the guitar. i may refelt the contact point of the leaf spring, to ensure im not causing any further damage to the top.
overall better than the strat trem, which is the only other trem in my collection right now. ive always found strat trems really awkward, the way they stick out right at the bridge. too much angle. i prefer long handled JM or bigsby styled vibratos. this one is somewhere in between.
if you are freaked about tuning stability, id steer clear. but that goes for just about any trem, besides maybe a floyd. and dont use one of those. so just get a digiwhammer or whatever.
EDIT: oh yeah. and i cant get the screw that mounts the arm on to stay tight for shit. its great for a second but then its all floppy and feels really bad. i cant think of any improvements that wouldnt permanently modify the instrument. any ideas?
