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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:37 pm
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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:43 am
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Great looking geetar! Man, I was really looking forward to the in between pictures! All that soldering stuff!


Thanks Xhefri, no inbetweens because there is no soldering involved with the EMG-20. Its all a plug-in setup, which is nice because my soldering skills are limited to sweating copper pipes, and thats not pretty either.

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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:39 pm
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Nice job on the strat! I did a black on black strat and put the EMG's in it, kind of a Gilmourish hybrid.

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I didn't get the EXG and SPC units though, I wonder if they make a huge difference in the sound. I really love the pickups as they are.

I also just bought a Candy Apple red MIJ strat on craigslist. After seeing what you did here, I was thinking of swapping the EMG pickups over to that guitar, for a bit more authenticity. I already installed some Texas wound pickups in the red guitar and I'm just waiting for the bridge to come back from getting some minor repairs. I may swap 'em, I'm just not sure yet.

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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:13 am
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Nice job on the strat! I did a black on black strat and put the EMG's in it, kind of a Gilmourish hybrid.

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I didn't get the EXG and SPC units though, I wonder if they make a huge difference in the sound. I really love the pickups as they are.

I also just bought a Candy Apple red MIJ strat on craigslist. After seeing what you did here, I was thinking of swapping the EMG pickups over to that guitar, for a bit more authenticity. I already installed some Texas wound pickups in the red guitar and I'm just waiting for the bridge to come back from getting some minor repairs. I may swap 'em, I'm just not sure yet.


Thanks Kong, is that black one, one of the FSR's GC was selling last year? Looks good.

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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:09 am
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Thanks Kong, is that black one, one of the FSR's GC was selling last year? Looks good.


Nah, it is a 2001 MIM standard. I put in the EMGs & black guard, and a Callaham trem block, otherwise it is stock. It has a great neck and great action. I got it for pretty cheap too. I may put locking tuners on it one of these days, but I'm not planning any other changes.

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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:23 pm
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Are those G&G Cases?

http://www.ggqualitycase.com/electric-guitar.html

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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:51 pm
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Are those G&G Cases?

http://www.ggqualitycase.com/electric-guitar.html

If yes, are they any good?


Yes they are, very nice quality and not really bad price wise($140-$160) when you consider you have somewhere between $700-several thousand tied up in you guitar.

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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 1:06 pm
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I was planning on ordering one but I heard it wasn't a very stable case. But I'll order one anyways :D


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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 3:47 pm
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I was planning on ordering one but I heard it wasn't a very stable case. But I'll order one anyways :D


I do belive these are the same ones (manufacturer) made for the custom shop guitars. So they ain't junk.

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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:30 pm
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Nice job on the strat! I did a black on black strat and put the EMG's in it, kind of a Gilmourish hybrid.

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I didn't get the EXG and SPC units though, I wonder if they make a huge difference in the sound. I really love the pickups as they are.

Those two pots are really the icing on the cake with respect to tone shaping the SA's. The history of those in the Gilmour guitars begins with Dave's need for a pickup which would not be effected by increasing RF inteference that his sound system was having on his existing single coils. This according to Phil Taylor, in his book The Black Strat. What was installed was the circuit in the DG-20. I had one on a natural finish '97 American Standard. I found that lifting the 'tail' of that pickguard was an annoyance, thus I put the battery in the trem rout after removing the center spring, in that I preferred a 'stopped' trem a la Clapton, but I don't see that arrangement hampering the action of a floating bridge. My first thought was to modifiy the trem rout cutting a pocket for the battery as the Clapton has, but in that the '97 guitars had a swimming pool rout, there would have been no back wall for the routing. Yes, there is a difference!! I don't know that I really appreciated that guitar as much as I should have. I swapped it out for an Artist Series Clapton. As a mate for my NOS Gilmour, this mod, using the CAR Vaughan guitar would be more my liking, because I have a preference for the V-neck. I might consider using a white finish against the moto guard. My Strat had a rosewood board. The combination of the mojo guard with the cream colored pups, natural finish, rosewood board was excellent but made way for the Clapton. GAS will out!!

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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:39 pm
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[Thanks Kong, is that black one, one of the FSR's GC was selling last year? Looks good.

I played one of those when they were first offered. Wasn't too impressed with the guitar, or their attempt to capitalize on the then recent release of the Gilmour guitars, though another Forum member who owns a Gilmour, brough home one of those FSR's, and loved it. I felt that Fender should have said "No!" to them on that one, in cosideration for the price point those of us accepted in the purchase of the Gilmour.

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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:45 pm
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You will love it. That bridge pickup alone is just awesome.

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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun/UPDATE......FINI
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:50 pm
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brnmc wrote:
Are those G&G Cases?

http://www.ggqualitycase.com/electric-guitar.html

If yes, are they any good?


Yes they are, very nice quality and not really bad price wise($140-$160) when you consider you have somewhere between $700-several thousand tied up in you guitar.

IMHO, having owned both, I've never felt that Fender's cases are done as well as PRS's...even to the level of the Custom Shop. Probably the best case Fender has ever done, to date, is the one they did for the 83 Mayer guitars. I've spoken to the people at G&G and, if you wish, they WILL build you a custom fitted Strat case.

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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:59 pm
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Man, you work quick! Andy

Indepent of this post, I happened to have viewed the EMG video on the installation of the DG-20. All it requires is a loosening of the strings, clipping a few wires, slipping out the old, and in the new. Twenty minutes is about all they claim one needs, added to the time that all the components were completely interchanged in this case. One needs to use the jack which comes with the unit because it serves to power up the active electronics.

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Post subject: Re: David Gilmour Red Strat Build Has Begun
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:08 pm
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Andybighair wrote:
Man, you work quick! Andy

Indepent of this post, I happened to have viewed the EMG video on the installation of the DG-20. All it requires is a loosening of the strings, clipping a few wires, slipping out the old, and in the new. Twenty minutes is about all they claim one needs, added to the time that all the components were completely interchanged in this case. One needs to use the jack which comes with the unit because it serves to power up the active electronics.


It is a easy and quick change-over, took my longer to let the dogs out and get another cup of coffee.

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