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Post by salteedog on Mar 5, 2018 13:22:39 GMT
Nice. I like the look of it.. fingers crossed it plays and sounds good.
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DefJef
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Post by DefJef on Mar 5, 2018 13:45:05 GMT
I like the look of it too salteedog ...in the pictures. Sometimes these things translate to very underwhelming box opening for some reason. At the moment it looks like a very grown up instrument with some great reviews and a ton of flexibility. I did chuckle at one review though that criticised the tremolo for having 'cheap, bent metal saddles' when the rest of the internet seems to be obsessed with having them over the block type. The guitar world is an odd lot and I include myself in that bunch. I did play one of the solid body versions in a shop in Cardiff a while back and, whilst it felt like a lovely neck and was finished beautifully, I felt slightly surprised at the smaller-than-Jazzmaster body size. I've got over that now and will accept it for what it is...might have to shave off that weird headstock though. At the moment it looks like a truculent child having a pout. Perhaps it's a little shelf to hold a selection of whisky miniatures.
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Post by salteedog on Mar 5, 2018 16:05:59 GMT
Bass type string tree also?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 21:02:06 GMT
please tell about how bad the neck dive is once you hang it around your neck I find my tele being a bit neck heavy (its missing that strat horn which thankfully Leo incorporated in his ultimate guitar trumpets !!! Ladies and Gents I present to you the one and only the king of ergonomics the mighty Stratocaster ... standing ovation ... fade out)
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Post by blablas on Mar 5, 2018 22:25:24 GMT
No neck dive with the Bass VI version, roughly the same body and even longer neck (30" scale). How do I know? This one is mine. Unbelievable good build quality for its price.
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DefJef
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Post by DefJef on Mar 5, 2018 22:51:43 GMT
I've always loved this version of the Bass VI blablas and that's the colour combo I'd go for too. Have you tried the whammy? I've not had neck dive on tele's either. Not even my thinline. If anything bodies normally edge towards heavy on teles which is why the thinline was offered. Must agree that the strat sits beautifully under your arm and I may miss the lack of chamfer there that a normal Jazzmaster has but it's never caused me a problem on teles and thinlines...only my Les Paul which leaves a groove in my forearm. Nice!
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Post by blablas on Mar 5, 2018 23:30:29 GMT
Toyed around a bit with the whammy and decided it's not my thing, doesn't add anything interesting to the way I (try to) play.
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DefJef
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Post by DefJef on Mar 6, 2018 8:29:33 GMT
The cruelest of false alarms. At 8.20 this morning - coo this is early - a chap in a cap came to my door. Spent a little while there - probably setting up his delivery hand held device - then knocked. I tripped balletically to the door ( OK 'toddled joyously') to swing it open. "I've come to read your meters." W T actual F?! He should try reading my G.A.S. meter.
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Post by salteedog on Mar 7, 2018 23:55:41 GMT
Don't talk to me about cats. B'stard ****ed on my bed the other day. (Herself insisted that the cat could sleep inside on account of the Siberian weather we had.... )
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 8:21:25 GMT
Strange you are still waiting for yours to be delivered from UK to ehm UK since I've received my Ironstone in record time! Tony has some UK Secret Postal Service working for him
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