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Post subject: Re: Strat Plus/Ultra Custom Builds
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:04 am
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Ill send you a message soon- Just thinking though, I bet lace get a bit of interest from your site with people becoming interested in lace pickups after reading info about the plus/deluxe/ultra- I know it's your hobby and interest, but have you ever thought to ask Lace about a little bit of advertising on your site? To be fair mate- as far as the site goes, Google 'Strat Plus' and your site is second on the list next to Wiki, which incidentally takes a lot of reference from your site anyways. I reckon if they did a little advertising, they would get more traffic on their own website which would only benefit in sales.. Maybe it wouldnt hurt to ask, you don't really have to benefit from it if you don't want to. But I wouldnt mind betting that your site would get more hits than theirs :)
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Actually, I was approached by Google to have advertising on this site. The hits is gets is amazing. This month so far is 923,996 hits, and this is only the 25th of the month, so there is one more week to go. A hit is a visit where person goes to a page and reads it for short period of time. And the actual "visits" (which in website management is more realistic) is pretty big, enough to attract the attention of a person from Google. This is people who actually find the site and spend time there reading and looking around for an extended period of time, verses someone who simply opens a link, reads for awhile and then closes it. Visits so far for Jan is 8,859. The number of pages in Jan where people looked at more than one page is 25,751 for a period of time.

Anyhow I turned it down for the mean time because I worked things out with eBay to allow it to be used as an eBay reference page. It gets used a lot for that, and my myself when I sell on eBay. As soon as an advertisement goes on there, eBay will bump auctions that quote my site (if they catch them) and I would not be able to use it for that either. One friend told me if I let advertisers on there, every time there was a hit on their link, I would get some money. He said it could be making hundreds of dollars a month is I get some big name music stores, vendors, etc to advertise. I just have not wanted to go commercial with it as yet. I like the pollution free look! LOL

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Post subject: Re: Strat Plus/Ultra Custom Builds
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:30 am
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Blertles wrote:
Ill send you a message soon- Just thinking though, I bet lace get a bit of interest from your site with people becoming interested in lace pickups after reading info about the plus/deluxe/ultra- I know it's your hobby and interest, but have you ever thought to ask Lace about a little bit of advertising on your site? To be fair mate- as far as the site goes, Google 'Strat Plus' and your site is second on the list next to Wiki, which incidentally takes a lot of reference from your site anyways. I reckon if they did a little advertising, they would get more traffic on their own website which would only benefit in sales.. Maybe it wouldnt hurt to ask, you don't really have to benefit from it if you don't want to. But I wouldnt mind betting that your site would get more hits than theirs :)
:idea: :wink:

Actually, I was approached by Google to have advertising on this site. The hits is gets is amazing. This month so far is 923,996 hits, and this is only the 25th of the month, so there is one more week to go. A hit is a visit where person goes to a page and reads it for short period of time. And the actual "visits" (which in website management is more realistic) is pretty big, enough to attract the attention of a person from Google. This is people who actually find the site and spend time there reading and looking around for an extended period of time, verses someone who simply opens a link, reads for awhile and then closes it. Visits so far for Jan is 8,859. The number of pages in Jan where people looked at more than one page is 25,751 for a period of time.

Anyhow I turned it down for the mean time because I worked things out with eBay to allow it to be used as an eBay reference page. It gets used a lot for that, and my myself when I sell on eBay. As soon as an advertisement goes on there, eBay will bump auctions that quote my site (if they catch them) and I would not be able to use it for that either. One friend told me if I let advertisers on there, every time there was a hit on their link, I would get some money. He said it could be making hundreds of dollars a month is I get some big name music stores, vendors, etc to advertise. I just have not wanted to go commercial with it as yet. I like the pollution free look! LOL


WHAT!! :!: :!:
You don't want to make a "quick-buck" :!: :?: :!: :?:
How un-American... :wink:

It is a great web site you have and I have mentioned it to others to check out. No where the number of people that you are receiving...but if I tell 2 people and they tell 2 people...

I didn't know you were on ebay so I'll take a peek there too.
Many thanks for the info and pics!
I've heard mixed reviews about all pickups..including Lace. What do you like about them?

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Post subject: Re: Strat Plus/Ultra Custom Builds
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:10 am
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tyronne wrote:
WHAT!! :!: :!:
You don't want to make a "quick-buck" :!: :?: :!: :?:
How un-American... :wink:

It is a great web site you have and I have mentioned it to others to check out. No where the number of people that you are receiving...but if I tell 2 people and they tell 2 people...

I didn't know you were on ebay so I'll take a peek there too.
Many thanks for the info and pics!
I've heard mixed reviews about all pickups..including Lace. What do you like about them?

Ya, just not that interested in my site being commercial at this point. I sell on eBay when I get the time, but my real job has me pretty busy. About Lace pickups. Some people love them, some hate them—kind of like a Strat verse Les Paul or MAC verse PC debate! I like the fact they are quiet and have different tone values. Looks is a factor too, like Black on Black or the Chrome Domes. I like the tone, but do find them to be a bit temperamental, like if they get bounced real hard they will short out and put out 1/2 k of their rating. The people at Lace have been good to work with and I have talked to Jeff Lace a few times. One time I did an interview via phone for this forum about their pickups verses Fender Noiseless. Thanks for your comments and for sharing the site! Hope it is a blessing to you and your friends.

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Post subject: Re: Strat Plus/Ultra Custom Builds
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:46 pm
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This is a longshot but, do any of you guys have any pics of creme colored Lace Sensors installed in a Strat? I'm trying to get an idea of the actual shade of creme mounted in a pickguard. I'm modding a Strat w/Sensors...I like them, I had some in my Tele Plus years ago.


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Post subject: Re: Strat Plus/Ultra Custom Builds
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 3:05 pm
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This is a longshot but, do any of you guys have any pics of creme colored Lace Sensors installed in a Strat? I'm trying to get an idea of the actual shade of creme mounted in a pickguard. I'm modding a Strat w/Sensors...I like them, I had some in my Tele Plus years ago.

I have used them but have no picts to show. They are close to the same color as the pickguard and knobs seen in the picture below. They are very vintage white looking.

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Post subject: Re: Strat Plus/Ultra Custom Builds
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:00 pm
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Xhefri wrote:
tyronne wrote:
WHAT!! :!: :!:
You don't want to make a "quick-buck" :!: :?: :!: :?:
How un-American... :wink:

It is a great web site you have and I have mentioned it to others to check out. No where the number of people that you are receiving...but if I tell 2 people and they tell 2 people...

I didn't know you were on ebay so I'll take a peek there too.
Many thanks for the info and pics!
I've heard mixed reviews about all pickups..including Lace. What do you like about them?

Ya, just not that interested in my site being commercial at this point. I sell on eBay when I get the time, but my real job has me pretty busy. About Lace pickups. Some people love them, some hate them—kind of like a Strat verse Les Paul or MAC verse PC debate! I like the fact they are quiet and have different tone values. Looks is a factor too, like Black on Black or the Chrome Domes. I like the tone, but do find them to be a bit temperamental, like if they get bounced real hard they will short out and put out 1/2 k of their rating. The people at Lace have been good to work with and I have talked to Jeff Lace a few times. One time I did an interview via phone for this forum about their pickups verses Fender Noiseless. Thanks for your comments and for sharing the site! Hope it is a blessing to you and your friends.


Mr. X,
Did the interview with Jeff Lace ever get published in this Forum?
I did a search and couldn't turn it up...though maybe the powers-that-be deleted it?
I notice that Lace's web site doesn't have much for sound clips of the various types.
I'll check out u-tube.

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Post subject: Re: Strat Plus/Ultra Custom Builds
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:03 pm
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I was trying to find a prewired pickguard with creme colored sensors. My solderig skills are complete crap and I really dont have any experience wiring guitars even though I've been playing for going on 30 years.


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Post subject: Re: Strat Plus/Ultra Custom Builds
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:50 pm
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Mr. X,
Did the interview with Jeff Lace ever get published in this Forum?
I did a search and couldn't turn it up...though maybe the powers-that-be deleted it?
I notice that Lace's web site doesn't have much for sound clips of the various types.
I'll check out u-tube.

Man, part of the telephone interview is somewhere buried in this thread or the Forum. There was discussion regarding the Fender Noiseless pickups and the Lace Sensors, why the change at Fender, and why the Signature models went over that way, etc. I just looked for quite a while and I can't find it. I know I posted this on my website shortly there after:

There is an interesting story behind the change of the Clapton Strats from Lace Sensors to the new Noiseless Fender pickups in the year 2000. When Lace's (EGI) exclusive contract with Fender ended in 1996, there was a push to get the signature models guitars, which were using the Laces pickups, to move to Fender's newly designed Noiseless pickups. I simply think there was an idea of keeping the pickups in-house and not promoting Lace pickups (a secondary vendor) on Fender's top line guitars (AKA: Custom Shop, Strat Plus Series and Signature series). So it was just a matter of time before Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton Signature guitars moved over to use Fender's new Noiseless pickups. In fact, Lee Dickson, Clapton's guitar tech insisted on it for some reason and he said Clapton needed to make the change.

The question I have, is why would Lee Dickson insist on it? What was going on with that? Personally, and this is just my own preference, the Fender noiseless pickups are just too glassy and bright for me. I owned a 2000 DX Strat (replacement for the Strat Plus DX/Ultra guitars) and kept it like 2 weeks and then sold it. I tried and tried to get to where I liked it and just gave up. There are a lot of other pickups I like, DiMarzio, Seymour Duncan, etc.. which you will see me using on this website, but just have not been sold on the Fender Noiseless or the Vintage Noiseless.

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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:18 pm
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Post subject: Re: Strat Plus/Ultra Custom Builds
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:46 pm
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Maybe you guys could help me on which sensors to choose. Heres what I'm trying to find.

Neck: Think SRV and Robin Trower...

Middle: Tonally and db equal with just a hair more top end but still retain the quack for positions 2 and 4 for the Dire Straits stuff I do

Bridge: A hotter version of the neck for over the top rockin blues almost bordering on an Eric Johnson type tone.

If it helps I run an A/B amp setup. A side is a SRRI with a Music Man HD130 4-10 combo and the B amp is a 50 watt Marshall "plexi" clone


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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:08 pm
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Jeezez.....I am drooling all over the desk at work. Your an incredible craftsman, Your Strat's are gorgous. You must have people taking numbers for that maple flame one, I am going to your site right now!!! Can i take a number for it too??? :oops: :oops:

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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:30 am
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randini wrote:
Maybe you guys could help me on which sensors to choose. Heres what I'm trying to find.

Neck: Think SRV and Robin Trower...

Middle: Tonally and db equal with just a hair more top end but still retain the quack for positions 2 and 4 for the Dire Straits stuff I do

Bridge: A hotter version of the neck for over the top rockin blues almost bordering on an Eric Johnson type tone.

If it helps I run an A/B amp setup. A side is a SRRI with a Music Man HD130 4-10 combo and the B amp is a 50 watt Marshall "plexi" clone


Lace has a few pre-wired pg...
This one may be what you are looking for:
http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/ ... sku=482399

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Post subject: Re: Strat Plus/Ultra Custom Builds
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:46 am
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Jeezez.....I am drooling all over the desk at work. Your an incredible craftsman, Your Strat's are gorgous. You must have people taking numbers for that maple flame one, I am going to your site right now!!! Can i take a number for it too??? :oops: :oops:

Actually several people have contacted me...but I do this as a hobby and am not out to make a "sale." Hey how do you like your Martin and what model do you have?

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Xhefri wrote:
ozrv wrote:
Jeezez.....I am drooling all over the desk at work. Your an incredible craftsman, Your Strat's are gorgous. You must have people taking numbers for that maple flame one, I am going to your site right now!!! Can i take a number for it too??? :oops: :oops:

Actually several people have contacted me...but I do this as a hobby and am not out to make a "sale." Hey how do you like your Martin and what model do you have?


I have a DX i think 12 or 15???, Lol, Sorry a cheaper Martin. I searched for Acoustics, for a month or two, Played a lot, Honestly thought i would buy a takamine high end, Dont like the Maton, Dont like the cole clark they both feel like they have really high bad action to me even the 2g plus models, The fenders were nice but just no personality to me, Etc, Then i picked up this little dreadnought martin with no fret inlays and not the best action which i fixed, But it's tone was just so full bodied bottomy and midy and dense woody and the neck just felt so slick and comfy. I also have a block of wood under the bridge about 3 inches high with string holes and chamferd at the end that sits under the bridge so the strings go though the bridge with no pins lock into the block of wood and act like a piano bell sort of and give me double the volume of a normal dreadnought, It's such a little tone machine i love it!!!!!

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