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Post by Vincent on Apr 6, 2019 20:55:21 GMT
I like the color of the epiphone also! It is everything else that looks wrong to me.
I have a older SE Standard 24 without binding. It is second user but was like new when I got it. My mechanics were good but I changed them for locking type just because I thought it would be a good idea. The tremolo on mine is fantastic but only because I set it up myself. The original owner had played around with everything and did not really know what he was doing. I have never needed to adjust the tremolo again except when moving from 10s to 9 gauge strings. When it had 10s I needed to widen the nut slots a little. I think that is all that I have done since the initial setup.
No idea about the Fame guitar, sorry.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2019 22:00:17 GMT
I think that Epiphone looks horrible. And why the inlay at the first fret position? Most guitars with block inlays have one at the first position. It's purely an aesthetic thing, like block inlays themselves. You may just as well ask 'why block inlays?' |
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Post by Vincent on Apr 7, 2019 4:44:21 GMT
Yes I have noticed that other guitars with block inlays have them at the first position too and I have seen similar with dots. But besides looking good or bad they are there to help us find the first fret too I think. I suppose if they were not there we might be asking 'where is the first fret on this guitar?' I do not like block inlays, @defjef  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2019 10:28:11 GMT
I don't like them either, Vincent . I have a couple of guitars with them and in both cases they would play better without them. I want a non-dragging surface beneath my finger and these mother of plastic inlays actually offer resistance to my finger tip when bending strings. It's subtle but it's there. Considering how much effort and, in some people's cases, money we invest in tweaking our instruments to marginally (some may say say imperceptibly) improve them it seems a little daft to start with something that marginally worsens them. I've never had a guitar that I thought would be improved by inserting plastic into the fingerboard. Or having a plastic fingerboard. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2019 10:45:00 GMT
Are we talking about what we like and dislike? I really REALLY hate Swedish Surstromming  I much rather endure the plastic block inlays! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2019 10:50:45 GMT
I mean it IS REALLY BAD check these Germans! BTW, never ever touch surströmming with your bare fingers they will smell of it for a week!!! Much worse than plastic block inlays!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2019 11:26:33 GMT
If ever a thing failed it was videoing a smell or a taste.  |
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Post by ttmax on Apr 7, 2019 12:51:13 GMT
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Post by Vincent on Apr 7, 2019 16:31:10 GMT
For your resistance readings is the tone control pulled up to split the coils? How are you getting 2,07K?
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Post by Vincent on Apr 7, 2019 17:08:09 GMT
Well, that 2,07K DC reading does not look right to me. I do not have the original pickups in mine and cannot remember exactly what they were.
SE models sent to America go direct to the PRS factory for QC before they are given to the distributors. For Europe they do not go to America before we get them. This is my understanding. Maybe someone can confirm this to be true or not?
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Post by Vincent on Apr 7, 2019 22:06:49 GMT
The absence of the Quality Control card could indicate that the guitar was not inspected but I doubt it. Probably forgot to put one inside.
Are those mécaniques okay now? Sometimes it can take a lot of fine adjustments to get the torque just right.
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