new strat....buyers remorse and cant return

Andybighair · **Joined:** Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:22 am **Posts:** 2175

orvilleowner wrote:

PeterGrant wrote:

The op is back. I been having lots of anxiety with a bad case of insomnia that has been getting worse. When I came across the suhr site talking about the woods not going together good it really bothered me and I was very upset with myself. Im so glad I came on here and posted. I read every reply and they put me in a better mood and some cracked me up they were so funny. I dare to say I'm liking my new strat more then my deluxe which has been my number one. If you hear sizzle you know its me jamming...

Here's the kind of sizzle I don't like: the sizzle of brand new strings. IMO the new strings make a guitar sound too much like a piano. Luckily, that sizzle goes away with a little playing and then I get to the sounds I like best.

Enjoy that guitar PeterGrant ...

+1

I hate the sound of new strings. That "tinny, rattle, jaggle" thing they do before they settle in has always bothered me.

My Rosewood & Ash (Lace Hot Golds, S-1, Tbx & Clapton Mid boost) Partcaster is my No. 1 at the mo.

Andy

Claude Gallichand · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:33 am

Was the guitar previously owned by some Russian spy? If so it could be the sound of high speed data transfert that you're hearing. I am also considering to offer the Ash Stratocaster Burial services. Don't like your Strat anymore? Send it to me, I'll take good care of it.
Claude.

Andybighair · **Joined:** Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:22 am **Posts:** 2175

Nevin1985 wrote:

I hate new strings too.... except for some country twanging.....

Yeah, they do the country twang thang...

??? wrote:

Here we have both types of music. Country and Western!

Andy

cedarblues · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:08 am

I actually love the sound of freshly installed set of D'addarios on a Strat, reminds me of the sweet Robert Cray tone..

adey · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 12:41 pm

Yes, me too. New strings are just the ticket on a Strat.

Infact new strings on ANY guitar.. guess we're all different..

Xhefri · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:04 pm

roballan wrote:

If you want to say "man this guitar has sizzle" to a buddy, then fine... If you play a gig with that guitar, I personally promise you that nobody in the audience is going to come to you after the show and say "wow-- you really ruined the show. that guitar has too much sizzle."

That's too funny! :lol:

Really, I have a few Strats: Alder, Ash, Ash laminated on Alder, Basswood, some with Maple and some with Rosewood and even Ebony fret boards. I think too much is made of the tonal qualities in all these woods. It effects them some but nothing a little tweak on an amp can't change. Density also plays a factor in tone and sustain. For me it is the touch....you pickup a guitar and it just has that feel. Then with good pickups and a good tube amp....wow you get what you need...so ya, I am with everyone else on this one. Play it and then decide...... this just shows the power of suggestion..... Peter, read this: "give your guitar to me....give your guitar to me......give your guitar to me.... :twisted:

Now reagrding the swaping of necks on these guitars..I think it is a great idea...sorry Peter! Check out these two picts and see which way you like them the best:

way cool jr · **Joined:** Tue May 18, 2010 7:34 pm **Posts:** 6911

dude that is some smokin photoshop right there. wow.
yep they look even better than i thought they would changed.
i would do it.

cedarblues · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:10 pm

Great work! Now it looks a lot like mine

Ash + maple is the shiznit

do it!

PeterGrant · **Joined:** Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:16 pm **Posts:** 94

Nice photoshop.. The deluxe has a contoured heel and the standard doesn't. Only 3 bolts line up....

jnastyNE · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:45 pm

Its wierd the strange notions people get about tone woods/ specs. In high school I owned an ash Telecaster, and refused to play a Fender with an Alder body. I dont even recall where I heard Ash was better (possibly from some website). Now I only have Alder Fenders. It just took me picking one up and thinking "that guy was full of crap.... even though I dont even remember where I heard that Alder was inferior."
A guy I jam with would only play guitars with set necks becasue some kid that worked in a music store told once him that bolt-on necks were garbage. He plays exclusively Fenders today, but wouldnt touch one for years because of a comment some tool at Best Buy made.
I would like to think that I am more enlightened today, but I still dont like basswood bodies. I probably read that online when I was 14 and just decided that I dont like them?

Xhefri · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:58 pm

PeterGrant wrote:

Nice photoshop.. The deluxe has a contoured heel and the standard doesn't. Only 3 bolts line up....

I didn't think you would really do it, but man, I think the rosewood on the dark body and the Maple on the Ash looks pretty cool. One time I was told that all MIM Fenders were garbage, so after that, for a few years, I would not touch them—then I picked up a MIM Tele and then later a MIM Strat. Wow, great guitars for the price. I overcame the power of suggestion! I recorded a blues piece and a few guys asked me "What guitar did you use on that?" thinking for sure it was one of my custom wired USA Strats...but they fell over when I told them it was a stock MIM Tele!

Regarding Basswood.....I have had a bunch of MIJ Teles and Strats made with it. I really could not tell much difference but on a couple of the guitars I knew the wood was softer as it dented easier. Great thread by the way!

pcheng · **Joined:** Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:16 pm **Posts:** 95

OP; Glad you've seen the way.....

BTW I guess I really must like sizzle:

The Cherry Burst in the middle is an Am Ash DLX, and the Natural on the right is my '78 Strat Hardtail (as sizzlily as the come)

Oh; and....

Nevin1985 wrote:

Can you imagine how much sizzle an ash bodied telecaster would have with a rosewood neck? OH MY GAWD!

:lol:

Why, yes I can....

My partscaster Tele w/ Ash body and '62 AVRI neck

Personally, I think you did good.

way cool jr · **Joined:** Tue May 18, 2010 7:34 pm **Posts:** 6911

what is a AVRI neck?
i like the binding on that tele body.

JasonSD · **Posted:** Sat Jul 17, 2010 7:44 pm

AVRI = American Vintage Reissue

way cool jr · **Joined:** Tue May 18, 2010 7:34 pm **Posts:** 6911

thank you.

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