GAS Attack... Not sure how to cure it this time...

[stormsedge]

4) I'm mostly rambling at this point. Tell me your stories, thoughts or experiences.

1-3...idk. My story for #4 is...I purchased a Vintage Reissued V6P a couple of years ago...mine is a laguna blue with mint pickguard and trem plate...ivory/cream pickups and knobs. It has been a really good guitar. For some reason, I do not have a picture of it on my laptop...but you can see the one below. Pricewise, they fall between the Rondo and something over $500up. Happy Hunting!

Vintage Reissued Series V6 Black 3 P90 S Style Guitar

The Vintage Reissued V6P expands on the best-selling V6 design, offering up a brand new pickup configuration that is sure to turn heads. However, whilst eye-catching appearances may be one thing, the V6P is designed with more than mere cosmetics in mind; a trio of Wilkinson WO90 SKN pickups and...

www.mainstagemusic.com

Edit: No affiliation...but ^^^Main Stage^^^ (two towns over from here) has had this one on their site for a year or more. There might be a deal to be had. I gave $458 for mine (including shipping and tax) in Jul20...point of reference.

 

[Scott Baxendale]

 

[Believer7713]

I built mine. Compound radius, stainless steel frets, scalloped fretboard, Bootstrap Squeaky Mean P90s, Floyd Rose Special, custom carved body custom puckguard.

 

[Boubou]

This is all I have for you, Fender Noventa Stratocaster

 

[cometazzi]

1-3...idk. My story for #4 is...I purchased a Vintage Reissued V6P a couple of years ago...mine is a laguna blue with mint pickguard and trem plate...ivory/cream pickups and knobs. It has been a really good guitar. For some reason, I do not have a picture of it on my laptop...but you can see the one below. Pricewise, they fall between the Rondo and something over $500up. Happy Hunting!

Vintage Reissued Series V6 Black 3 P90 S Style Guitar

The Vintage Reissued V6P expands on the best-selling V6 design, offering up a brand new pickup configuration that is sure to turn heads. However, whilst eye-catching appearances may be one thing, the V6P is designed with more than mere cosmetics in mind; a trio of Wilkinson WO90 SKN pickups and...

www.mainstagemusic.com

Edit: No affiliation...but ^^^Main Stage^^^ (two towns over from here) has had this one on their site for a year or more. There might be a deal to be had. I gave $458 for mine (including shipping and tax) in Jul20...point of reference.

Hmmm.. Interesting. I waffle between going 2 or 3 p90s. Logic says that if I'm already going this far, then: '¿por que no los tres?'. It would be interesting to have a middle RWRP pickup. If regular Strat single coiles 'quack' in positions 2 and 4, do the P-90s 'quaunck'?

I built mine. Compound radius, stainless steel frets, scalloped fretboard, Bootstrap Squeaky Mean P90s, Floyd Rose Special, custom carved body custom puckguard.
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Very very nice. Some questions:

1) Does the FR trem impact the bass response at all? I have a pointy Ibanez RG with a FR trem. I swapped out the H-S-H pickguard for one that had a pair of H-90 single coils. In that guitar they sounded very thin, with no bottom end at all. In a Squier strat they're definitely more meaty. I'm not sure which one is the culprit. Ideally, I'd have a FR trem on the guitar because I love Surf Music and I'd thoroughly enjoy the "go nuts with no recourse" playing style that a Floyd Rose Trem affords me.

2) How do you feel about the 'hot' P-90s? I can't decide if I want to go hotter or not. I hadn't heard of Bootstrap before, and I was eyeing ToneRider along with all the usuals like Lollar, Duncan, and Fralin.

3) How many positions is that switch? It looks like it's in #4, but that could be the angle of the pic.

4) I'm probably not into a scalloped fretboard, but did you do that part yourself, or did it come off of something Fender makes? Same question for the SS frets.

This is all I have for you, Fender Noventa Stratocaster

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That is a beautiful guitar. If they had a tremolo option, I'd probably be thinking very hard about one. Maybe one just like yours!

 

[Believer7713]

Very very nice. Some questions:

1) Does the FR trem impact the bass response at all? I have a pointy Ibanez RG with a FR trem. I swapped out the H-S-H pickguard for one that had a pair of H-90 single coils. In that guitar they sounded very thin, with no bottom end at all. In a Squier strat they're definitely more meaty. I'm not sure which one is the culprit. Ideally, I'd have a FR trem on the guitar because I love Surf Music and I'd thoroughly enjoy the "go nuts with no recourse" playing style that a Floyd Rose Trem affords me.

2) How do you feel about the 'hot' P-90s? I can't decide if I want to go hotter or not. I hadn't heard of Bootstrap before, and I was eyeing ToneRider along with all the usuals like Lollar, Duncan, and Fralin.

3) How many positions is that switch? It looks like it's in #4, but that could be the angle of the pic.

4) I'm probably not into a scalloped fretboard, but did you do that part yourself, or did it come off of something Fender makes? Same question for the SS frets.

I don't have much problem with bass response. I do need to get a couple springs to put under the neck pickup because it sits a bit low and the foam I used didn't do the trick. It causes me to lose a bit on the high e string tough. I just haven't taken it back apart but as for the low end I really like what I am hearing.
The hot P90s are pretty nice but as I said, I need to spend a little time playing with the heights to get it dialed in completely. The last strat I did with P90s had three in it and they were crazy hot...like 10.6k 11.9K and 15.7k hot. I absolutely loved the way that guitar sounded and part of me wishes that I never traded it but I got a case of undefined gas and traded it for a hollow body Ibanez.
The switch on mine is a 5 position switch and all five work. 1. Bridge, 2. Bridge/Neck out of phase, 3. Bridge/Neck parallel, 4 Bridge/Neck in series, 5. Neck.
The scalloped fretboard was given to me by a friend here that noticed a clicking from the neu every time he used the trem to dive. I found that it had a rounded nut shelf and flattened it out. He did the scalloping on it when he first used it but in the end decided he didn't like it because of that clicking. Once I sorted it out I still got to keep it in the end. (Cool dude for sure). The neck is actually a Warmoth that he had the decal installed on because he never planned on selling it. He did not sell it to me either, he actually gave it to me and I will never sell it either. That neck means quite a bit because of the gifting.
As for the body, it is from a 1996 MIC The Bullet Series Squier. I did all of the carving with a saw rasp and some Iwisaki Files. Then I filled in the bridge route and routed it anew for the Floyd. After the reshaping I did the paint job to be reminiscent of the Bullitt Mustang (both old and new). I even had the paint code of the car matched for the color.

 

[GrooVey]

gassing really hard for a dual P-90

Everybody needs one

 

[stormsedge]

do the P-90s 'quaunck'?

My memory says it does...but I'll pull it out later today and verify.

 

[stormsedge]

If regular Strat single coiles 'quack' in positions 2 and 4, do the P-90s 'quaunck'?

It does in 2, but fuller. 4 will do it, but I have to bear down.

Also, the P90s are a bit darker…probably a factor.

 

[StratUp]

I went here to advice a Noventa too.

I have never tried a Strat, but had the chance to play a Tele Noventa and it was very (I mean VERY!) good. Give it a try, you may love it ;-)

That Tele Noventa is cool. Sort of a Tele - LP Junior.

 

[cometazzi]

It does in 2, but fuller. 4 will do it, but I have to bear down.

Also, the P90s are a bit darker…probably a factor.

Excellent. Thanks! Regarding the 'darkness' of p90s, I also notice with regular Strat singles that the 'quack' is much more pronounced on SS amps than it is on tube amps. Along with the icepick, sometimes SS amps give nice sparkle too.

 

[Johnnyg123]

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It's so complicated being from the US...

Gas means.... Well gas. As in not solid or liquid.

It also means petrol.

It seems to mean some kind of stomach discomfort as above

It obviously means guitar acquisition syndrome.

What about "Jumping jack flash it's a gas gas gas"?

I may have missed a few.

Here in Ireland it means "very funny" or "surprising" as in... "That's gas"

However when my eldest was working in England they used to look at her funny when she used the expression.

She eventually discovered that it meant "you're lying" or "that's [email protected]#"

How about that for on topic...

Sorry folks...

 

[mwmeci]

Dies anyone have one of these?
I Bought it last month. Just under $200 shipped. The neck is nice. Better then Squier for me buts that's a personal choice.
I needed something to do so I put Alnico magnets in the pickups. The original ceramicks ones were fine. The color is beautiful. Rondo's pictures don't do his guitars justice.
I had to putz with the bridge pu. The height adjustment screws were 1/2" out of the pickup but it was flush with the pickguard. They missed the springs when installing it.
The springs were on the bottom of the pickup. I used tubing instead.
Buy it! You'll love it.


Here's what mine' like.
43mm nut 1 11/16"

Jumbo frets .115W x .055H 6100

12” radius

1st fret thickness .875” ⅞"

12th fret thickness .938” 15/16"

25 ½” scale

52.5mm string spacing 2 1/16”

1 ⅝" body thickness

N 7.78KΩ B 8.8K