those are really the only ones i play nowadays... and the jaguar doesn't get picked up much.
prolly cause I have it!
Anyways, I've just gone through a big guitar collection overhaul but right now the one I pick up the most is a Mustang. Followed my 24.75 Jap Epiphone Et 270 copy and SX tele with buckers.
I need to get the badly cut brass nut replaced but other than that (and a fair amount of wear and tear) its perfect. Fran's comment about the humbuckers in the replacement pickups thread was spot on, they're clear as crystal with plenty of output but also a sorta vintage tone. I had to muck around with the heights of the individual poles on the bridge to get the sound I wanted out of it but now its fine. I do still have this idle fantasy of sticking a BKP Warpig in the fucker and dooming out though.
Most of the time I favour the Sonex because I use a flattened coin as a pick and love the nasty sounds I can get out of the dirty fingers. Also I have the action on the SG so low I'm hesitant to take a metal pick to it, even if its beat up already ahah.
I need to get the badly cut brass nut replaced but other than that (and a fair amount of wear and tear) its perfect. Fran's comment about the humbuckers in the replacement pickups thread was spot on, they're clear as crystal with plenty of output but also a sorta vintage tone.
You have the exact one i've always wanted. Gorgeous.
Yeah the pickups are amazing, i'd love to know what they based them on.
Richard wrote:My main guitar is my 69 Maverick. I don't own a shortscale right now but I've had a bunch of Mustangs, two Jaguars, two Jag-Stangs, a Bronco and a Music Master II. I will definitely own more of them in the future. I love shortscales but I'm more comfortable on the 25.5".
My only bass is a shortscale. It's the Epiphone Allen Woody sig.
The Maverick is my favorite guitar on the the board, i'd say.
Thanks! It's one of my two dream guitars. The other is a Guild Thunderbird.
CP Jazzmaster is my main guitar. Cyclone II backs it up.
69 Hagstrom HIIN, because of it's super flat fretboard and metallesque neck profile, I reserve for very low tuning.
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I do use my jag an awful lot, but if I were to choose my "main guitar" it owuld be my 50s tele.
I rock a CV duo at home, and my bass is a mustang bass.
I put no because my hollowbody is a Gibson copy. How would I measure to figure out the scale though? I measured from the end of the headstock to the end of the fretboard and got 25 inches. The nut to the end of the fretboard is 18 inches.
Blue Cool wrote:I put no because my hollowbody is a Gibson copy. How would I measure to figure out the scale though? I measured from the end of the headstock to the end of the fretboard and got 25 inches. The nut to the end of the fretboard is 18 inches.
Blue Cool wrote:I put no because my hollowbody is a Gibson copy. How would I measure to figure out the scale though? I measured from the end of the headstock to the end of the fretboard and got 25 inches. The nut to the end of the fretboard is 18 inches.
the nut to the bridge.
The low E side measures 24.5 and the high e measures 24 and 3/8. Is this technically a short scale?
Blue Cool wrote:I put no because my hollowbody is a Gibson copy. How would I measure to figure out the scale though? I measured from the end of the headstock to the end of the fretboard and got 25 inches. The nut to the end of the fretboard is 18 inches.
the nut to the bridge.
The low E side measures 24.5 and the high e measures 24 and 3/8. Is this technically a short scale?
I'd be willing to bet that your guitar is a standard Gibson scale which is 24.75. That would be considered a standard scale.
