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I'd probbaly go through a lot of double cutaway les pauls. And then pick on of those.


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I guess I'm lucky. The more I thought about this, the more I decided that I already have it. My home-assembled Zencaster is totally it.


Have you posted pics of this?


Yeah, but when the threads died down I removed the links to conserve bandwidth at my site. Here it is, in the studio with its best friend, the Fezzter "Prince G" amp.

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The Zencaster features:

A chambered mahogany Strat-style body, finished in Danish oil and beeswax. Warmoth compound radius neck (10"-16"), "Clapton" soft-v profile, tall/narrow frets, ebony board, abalone dots, tinted satin finish, Schaller locking tuners with ebony buttons. Vintage bridge with a Callaham block and a custom made trem arm. EMG Strat Vintage pickups wired with one volume, one tone, and a blender pot (Fralin style). Black pearl plastics, ebony barrel knobs (added after this pic was taken). The headstock features a stylized version of my signature and the guitar's name. Absolutely one of a kind, sounds like a cross between a Strat and 335. The best guitar I have ever played, bar none. Here's a close-up, with its new knobs and Taoist badge:

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Gravity Jim wrote:
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I guess I'm lucky. The more I thought about this, the more I decided that I already have it. My home-assembled Zencaster is totally it.


Have you posted pics of this?


Yeah, but when the threads died down I removed the links to conserve bandwidth at my site. Here it is, in the studio with its best friend, the Fezzter "Prince G" amp.

Image

The Zencaster features:

A chambered mahogany Strat-style body, finished in Danish oil and beeswax. Warmoth compound radius neck (10"-16"), "Clapton" soft-v profile, tall/narrow frets, ebony board, abalone dots, tinted satin finish, Schaller locking tuners with ebony buttons. Vintage bridge with a Callaham block and a custom made trem arm. EMG Strat Vintage pickups wired with one volume, one tone, and a blender pot (Fralin style). Black pearl plastics, ebony barrel knobs (added after this pic was taken). The headstock features a stylized version of my signature and the guitar's name. Absolutely one of a kind, sounds like a cross between a Strat and 335. The best guitar I have ever played, bar none. Here's a close-up, with its new knobs and Taoist badge:

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That's SWEEEEET!!!!!!!! Nice job!

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That's SWEEEEET!!!!!!!! Nice job!


Thanks, Chet. I love it. Seriously, it's the one guitar I would choose above any other, and that's after 40 years of playing everything. This one is mine.


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That's SWEEEEET!!!!!!!! Nice job!


Thanks, Chet. I love it. Seriously, it's the one guitar I would choose above any other, and that's after 40 years of playing everything. This one is mine.


I have seriously been considering building my own but just haven't got around to it yet. I have been on the Warmoth site several times and picked out exactly what I want.

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If I could buy any guitar, price no object, than I would look hard at what I own and try to improve on it. I basically own the guitars I want.


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I think I would have to go with a call to the custom shop to have my own Strat built from the ground up all by hand including hand wound pick ups. It would be that or a made for me only E335(dont be angry Fender lol.)


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Now that is some sweet rig you have there.


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vcartier wrote:
Now that is some sweet rig you have there.


vcartier, if you're referring to mine, thank you very much.

If you meant someone else's rig, then, ooops. :D


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Of course it is your rig..I love the color of that strat..it is sweet...


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If I could have any other additional guitar (to the ones I already own), I'd prolly go for a Gibson Firebird V with a trem. I love those things. Reminds me of an old sports car, but sounds like a freaky strat with a les paul in its mouth. Love it!
If I could have only ONE guitar I'd prolly go for a custom job. Strat body, prolly mahogony, maybe a floyd rose trem. Tele pickup for bridge, texmex for mid, and a high output humbucker for the neck pickup. Maple neck, maple fretboard, jumbo frets, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pair tree with a danish oil satin finish. :wink:

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crazymandolinist wrote:
If I could have any other additional guitar (to the ones I already own), I'd prolly go for a Gibson Firebird V with a trem. I love those things. Reminds me of an old sports car, but sounds like a freaky strat with a les paul in its mouth. Love it!
If I could have only ONE guitar I'd prolly go for a custom job. Strat body, prolly mahogony, maybe a floyd rose trem. Tele pickup for bridge, texmex for mid, and a high output humbucker for the neck pickup. Maple neck, maple fretboard, jumbo frets, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pair tree with a danish oil satin finish. :wink:


i hear that the two turtles doves realy help you get that fat blues tone :wink:

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Being Beatles Freak, I have owned a few Rics, a Casino, Rosewood Telecaster, Gretsch 6120. I have gotten rid of them all. I also have owned a 52 re-issue tele, an American Deluxe Strat. sold em all. I have kept my trusty teles and clapton strat. Not one guitar is what you would call a top shelf guitar. With the pick up modifications they sound as good to me as any of the ones I have sold or played in a guitar store. My Clapton strat is great as are my lite ash tele, partscaster tele with bigsby, Esquire and Squier Master Series Thinline, I am complete. I also have two Martin's to cover the accoustic side of things. You know, I don't need no stinking custom shop models! If I had a choice and as you can see I have, I am keeping the guitars I have, they have passed the test of gas and time.


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Hmmm....

Any ONE guitar???

I'd like to have one guitar worth about 19 thousand dollars...so I could sell it and buy 18 or 19 guitars....

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Now that is what I call a gas attack!


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