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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2016 20:50:59 GMT
I've been looking for one of these for ages. I even considered commissioning one but then I got lucky. A guy on ebay twice seemed to mess up the listing so on the third week I pounced. It's got everything I wanted: maple board, right colour, binding, through stringing...and P90s.. on a tele. I'm in telebliss. Should sound great through last month's Fender Champ bargain. Should be with me by the weekend. Hope it's as nice as it promises to be. Hmm, I wonder what colour strap.... Pictures courtesy of the seller.![]() |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2016 21:56:33 GMT
Nice man! Now we must make a tune with 2 P90 Teles  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2016 22:44:59 GMT
Hmm. Don't know much about the pickups. They may need an alnico upgrade. Yours sound really fine.
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Post by salteedog on Sept 6, 2016 11:57:08 GMT
Nice guitar. A thinline is high on my wishlist too.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 12:27:06 GMT
Trouble is, since emptying out my dining room so that my son could turn it into a 1940s kitchen for a retro SciFi drama he's making (all good for a university portfolio) my guitars and basses are strewn around the house like the trees around Mt St Helens after an eruption. And worse still the film shoot didn't happen because, at the last minute, one actress couldn't get a babysitter (f*** f*** f***). So I'm living amongst my instruments for the foreseeable future.
Time to get creative with some cupboard storage I think.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 12:43:42 GMT
Nice guitar. A thinline is high on my wishlist too. Odd saltee. I thought you didn't like these (ugly scratchplates or something) or was that somebody else? My brain seems to have turned to mush last couple of days  |
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Post by salteedog on Sept 6, 2016 13:44:25 GMT
Somebody else I reckon. Scratchplates wouldnt bother me much.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 14:29:46 GMT
Somebody else I reckon. Scratchplates wouldnt bother me much. Hurray, you're part of the thinline gang. |
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Post by tarn on Sept 6, 2016 17:38:40 GMT
sweet axe  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 21:18:19 GMT
sweet axe ...and another member! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 8:01:33 GMT
Just when I thought I'd got a good deal (£96) on this guitar because the seller had cocked up the ebay listing twice before, it turns out he cocked it up again and got the postage too cheap too (£2.80!). It's on it's way overnight. I like this guy.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2016 8:00:01 GMT
It arrived yesterday afternoon. It is in mint condition. Headstock is all shiny with not even scratches from being strung. Can't find a mark on it. Just peeled the protective film off the P90s and then realised there was still protection on the scratchplate too, so within minutes the thing looked even better!
I'm going to work my way across the wiring first then do a setup. The nut is the typical Chinese job; cut deep with loads of excess left above the strings. This has led to the usual sitar buzz on the top E. I'll sort that out too. And one string isn't quite intonnated correctly.
I want to get used to how it feels and sounds now though, for a while before doing anything to it.
The P90s SOUND ceramic to me. There's a bit too much instant snap plus an odd mix of too zingy AND too boomy (though it COULD be the strings. Who knows what they are). I'll check out the pickups for ceramicness later when I disassemble it. What I'll probably do is buy a few alnico magnets of different makeups and try swapping them about. So easy and cheap in comparison to replacing the pups (alnico P90s seem to be harder to find at the budget end). I'm quite keen to find out how those different alnico magnets perform. Might even mix 'em till I find what I like.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2016 9:28:47 GMT
Forgot to mention, as this guitar came with the strings slackened off I thought I'd take the tuning up to a bit below full tension to start with, knowing I'd be taking them off again soon. So I tuned the bottom 5 to a semitone flat. Then, as I was tuning the top E I decided to stop at B(b), the same as the B string next to it, and a funny thing happened. I tried picking out what would normally be a D chord and I was playing A Design for Life. I don't know many other people's songs but could remember Crazy Little Thing and that sounded great but odd too. What was happening here was that the B string was being doubled as in a 12 string and creating both a pleasing chorusy sound and some jazzier chords since standard triads were not being played.
I took all the strings up a semitone so the guitar was now at concert pitch but still with that doubled B string. A is now played either as a single barre across the second fret or, for a more interesting sound like we would all play an open A but now the top E string is playing a B. D and Dm sound great whatever I do with that E string. Only open C takes a bit of decision making, if I play it like a standard C it can sound a bit off so playing it with the index finger barring the top two strings sorts that out.
Even lead lines became interesting as a rapid riff through the top 4 strings resulted in some pretty amazing double B string stutters that would be all but impossible strung normally.
I decided to see how many of our band's songs could be played this way and pretty much all of them could but with a whole new feel.
I like this sound, especially if I capo it at the third or fifth, and may permanently string this guitar with two B strings. It's a quick way to do some crowd-pleasing covers in a way they've never heard before as the song's melody sometimes has to be adjusted. I'm tempted to throw in A Design for Life at next month's gig to see at what point the crowd get it.
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Post by marit on Sept 9, 2016 11:21:06 GMT
Sweet deal!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2016 11:31:15 GMT
It is indeed very sweet...but which case?!  |
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