I'm too scared of buying a fake to spend big money on vintage.
I've seen too many copies in Austin that are so good you'd be surprised.
The only vintage I have now is a 72 Strat that was, if you can believe it, built the day I was born.
I have a fender mustang 2 that I bought on FB marketplace for $80 4 years ago, and I keep it under my desk in my office for stress relief between calls. It's fantastic for low-volume practice and I can get some really great tones out of it. My suggestion, however,is save up a bit more and get a...
1. Neo magnet speaker. (planned as I have a Marshal+Fender wet/dry rig and the Origin 20c is waaay lighter. )
2. Pre-amp tube swap in position one to AT7, I did this to mine and it's amazing!
This is my 1st "real" guitar, a 91 Stratocaster that I purchased new in New Orleans, in the summer of 91 after saving Christmas and birthday money while in college. Her name is Victoria, I played at least 3 dozen Stratocasters between 7-8 music stores in person before selecting her because of...
Just get a King Tone strat knob to replace the 2nd tone and also a free-way 5-way/10-position pickup switch and have the most versatile guitar imaginable!!!
King tone switch demo:
free-way 5-way/10-position pickup switch demo:
There are USB rechargeable 9v batteries that you can store in the body cavity and then flush-mount a USB C connector into the back or leave the cable in the term cavity.
Yeah, I'll spare all the details, but I've lost almost everything. I was out of work for a long time, and had a squatter take advantage of me who was neither sick, nor unemployed, and then when I was just getting ready to go back to work I got sick. REALLY sick. And, well, I'm part of a research...
The pandemic hit me hard financially, even physically; and I'll spare all the sad details of how much I have lost, because many have lost more, including their lives. Nonetheless, the last 2 years have required me to sell about 2/3rds of my 30-year-old collection of guitars including some...
I have an Asian EVH Wolfgang special hardtail, that has - and I'm not kidding - the best playing neck I've ever felt in over 30 years of guitar collecting.
It's a 12-16" compound radius with polished vintage SS frets and an asymmetrical back profile like the original Kramer/EBMM et al.
It...
I was just about to join a cool band here in Austin that does a mix of originals and classic rock, right around Feb of 2020. We haven't even gotten together and jammed since then because people moved away, etc.
I'm sure it's a great playing/sounding guitar, but you have a partscaster, not a custom shop.
Honestly, I'd part it out, sell the body with neck plate and CS certificate for the most $, then sell the loaded guard and neck.
3 different reverb/eBay auctions.
But worth it.
The question is so poorly worded that I cannot understand what you are even asking.
Can you reduce it to a simple, direct question?
It reads like:
Having only eaten at Denny's after midnight except for 4 times after going to see a movie (grand slam breakfast with extra bacon) I am curious as to...
yeah, I havent 3 gaurds sitting here and trying to decide.
One thing I've thought about doing, was putting a nickle cover on the bridge and seeing how I like that.
The bridge PU is too hot, so I swapped it to my sweet and mellow favorite, Duncan pearly gates. And it didn't come with locking tuners.
Both of those are resolved, as well as polished frets and a setup job I've gotten rather good at over 30 years.... and it's magical now.
Everything about this...
Every time I hear/read someone trashing Tx specials, I can't help but wonder if they have them wired wrong, wrong caps/pots, etc. I have had several guitars over the years with TX specials, and have at least 3 HSS strats now with SD hum bridge and 2 Tx specials in N+M, and it's the best combo I...