Man I wanna move over there for a while just to stock up on guitars!! I'd have the HH guard from ye....

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"I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so f*ckin' heroic!"

C'mon down

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"Another day in paradise!"

Kong,

Beautiful baby you have there. I love the mod job. Digging the CAR color with the tortishell guard. Awesome job on both points.

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2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
2010 Fender Blacktop
1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

She's the most awesome thing we've ever created, including all of Kong's guitar mods/projects! And he'll admit that too. She's fun already, and she's only 7 weeks. She's already grown out of her newborn clothes, it's going so fast! We've enjoyed just hanging out with her, whether it was in the NICU for the days she was there or as she's just asleep next to us. Kong wants me to go get my administrator's certificate and become a principal so he can be a Mr. Mom. Too bad I love teaching so much or I'd go for it in a heartbeat! Sometimes we forget she's so little because she's got so much personality, including Kong's temper We can't wait to see what & who she becomes. I'm sure lots more of her pictures will find their way into Kong's building threads. Once a modder, always a modder

Oh, and the exactly straight tuners? That's one of his 'things', he couldn't have done it any other way! It would have been a splinter in his brain if he didn't make them perfectly straight.

BoK & Konglet

Thats a wonderful journey you're undertaking. It's going to bring new amazing things, every day.

All the best to the three of you.

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Congrats to Kong, BoK and the newly christened Konglet.

On a slightly more guitar related note: SMOKING STRAT KONG!! How do those GFS's hold up?

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My Rig: Guitar into Pedals then into Amps and out into Speakers.

Thanks. I'm still getting the guitar sorted out. The high e string sounds thin, maybe a bad string. I have GFS 60s set in my sherwood green strat and I love em. Once I get this strat sorted I'll be able to report on this set.

I did a search and found info that Texas Specials can be blamed for thin sounding E and B strings based on the pole pieces. I'm going to quote some excellent info I found from another thread by Martian:



I made the adjustment and it is exactly as Mr Martian said, better balance across the strings, but the G is pretty loud. I've got the pickups adjusted to where I'm very happy with the tone. I think it has that classic Strat bell-like tone, very clear. The neck pickup has real nice warmth and the hot bridge pickup has nice bite. I have 009s on it now, but I might try a heavier gauge for the high e and see if that helps a bit more, but overall the guitar sounds excellent. I'll try and get a soundclip together.

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I was able to get a few proper photos in the daylight today...

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EVeryone's in love

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Hey guys it been a bit since I poked my head in here. First off congratulations Kong! Beautiful girl! Second, nice looking guitar! I also have a blacktop that I modded, which brings me to my third question..I need a new nut on this blacktop as mine is broke, I get what size and all but I cant believe you just drop in a new one and all is well. It needs to be filed, doesn't it? This particular guitar I use the trem on so its gotta be right....right? Sorry for the hijack, just happened along and BAM! hijack..thanks, Guy

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Thanks for the nice words, Guy - and don's sweat the "hijack"!

I'm pretty sure you're correct that there is usually some adjustment necessary when installing a new nut, even if it comes pre-slotted. You're also correct that it must be properly cut for the trem to work properly. When I built my sherwood green strat, I used a Warmoth neck that came with the nut already installed and slotted. It was really out of tune all over the neck and I had to bring it to a pro (Martian) to get properly cut. This is not a knock against Warmoth, their website states that adjustments will be likely necessary.

There are others far more knowledgeable than me who can weigh in on the subject, but I go to a qualified tech for nut work. I do almost everything else myself (electronics, truss-rod, action, intonation).

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Every nut needs some cutting, end of story.
A manufacturer can't second guess how much play the frets on the neck have had. They can't account for variations in the nut route.

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.......all except for you, mate.

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Kong,
Very clean mod, Blacktop to Mexican Special, nice. Sorry to see the Flood-caster go,
but as long as you have visiting rights we understand
So Erin has your temper and her mother's eyes? The little boys will never know what hit them.
Cheers,
John.E

Hey John,
Thanks for the compliment, while I was doing the mod I was like "Fender should make this", then I remembered the Deluxe Players! Almost the same guitar minus the noiseless pickups and gold hardware.

The Sherwood Tele I sold was just a straight build, not one of my Flood reclaimation projects . The Sherwood Strat and Natural Tele are still safe with me (and are not going anywhere).

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