My Butterscotch blonde MIA Tele, tobacco burst Epi LP standard, and sonic blue MIM stratocaster.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    31 year ago

    That Tele is awesome.

    The only thing I would add is some form of hollow body. Say a 335 or a Gretch.

    • eggmasterflexOP
      link
      English
      21 year ago

      I’ve been considering an Ibanez artcore, but I have too many guitars as it is.

      • Baron Von J
        link
        English
        41 year ago

        The correct number of guitars is “just one more!”

      • BringMeTheDiscoKing
        link
        fedilink
        English
        11 year ago

        I had an artcore. Sold it and regret it. Lovely sounding guitar, very nice to play and a beauty to behold.

        But sir, you need a P90. A Casino has P90s. I don’t know whether this “too-many-guitars” thing factors in, but a Casino even has two P90s. And it’s a proper hollow body without a centre block, just a pinned bridge and a trapeze

  • @kiwifoxtrot
    link
    English
    31 year ago

    What a great trio, you can play any genre with that lot.

  • dr_rugby
    link
    English
    21 year ago

    Bit of a heretic, with an HSS strat 😉. Nevertheless, nice. Like the light blue. A lot.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    25 months ago

    Beautiful guitars!

    Do you have a favorite, or one you think you play the most? (Bet its the telecaster!)

    • eggmasterflexOP
      link
      English
      25 months ago

      Gotta say, it’s the strat.

      The Tele was by far the nicest guitar I ever bought and perfect out of the box. The strat needed a LOT of work, but I loved the color and the neck felt great, so I bought it on an impulse and made it into my ideal guitar. I have since replaced the 59 bridge in the photo with a white JB and it’s perfect now. I use it for everything from folk to rock to death metal (as a bedroom guitarist).

        • eggmasterflexOP
          link
          English
          25 months ago

          It had some of the worst fret sprout I’ve ever seen and needed a level, too. The G string was rattling at the nut, so I asked the tech to just put in a new one since he was doing the fretwork anyway.

          I didn’t like the stock player HSS set, so I put in SSL 1s and a 59 bridge, which I changed out for the JB later. 59 was great but I just wanted something that had a tighter high gain tone without losing the low/mid gain rock and roll sound. I also did the wiring so the humbucker has 500k resistance while the single coils get 250k, and it auto splits in position 2. JB isn’t great clean on its own (not that I ever use the bridge clean anyway), but it is when split with the middle pickup.

          Aesthetically, I changed out the pickguard, pickup covers, and knobs. This was the “special” 75th anniversary edition which came with the black mirror pickguard. Personally I really don’t like that look, but I knew sonic blue would be beautiful with white, and the body was the perfect color. Sonic blue Fenders seem to all be slightly different. The fact that this one struck me was the reason for the impulse buy. I definitely didn’t need a third guitar but I’m happy I have it now. It feels like all the things I like about my Tele and LP combined.

          I got the guitar for $700 and spent probably $500+ on it. Utterly worthless for value, but now it’s perfect (for me).

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            15 months ago

            Really cool instrument, and its awesome that you’ve made it exactly your own.

            Out of curiosity, was the strat new or used when you bought it with all those fret and nut issues?

            • eggmasterflexOP
              link
              English
              25 months ago

              Brand new, right off the rack at GC. Manufacturing date was 3 months prior.

              This is anecdotal, but most of the MIM strats and teles I saw there had pretty bad fret sprout. The Squiers didn’t. I was thinking it must have been due to the humidity/temperature difference between the manufacturing location and New England in winter.

  • @restarossa
    link
    English
    11 year ago

    Nice, all you need really!