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Post subject: Re: Pics of your strat!
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:15 am
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StevePMo wrote:
Hello all, new member here, proudly showing off my baby :D 1976 Strat that I have had since 1979.

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I have only one response: how much would it cost me to help and carry that heavy burden off from your shoulders?


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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:46 am
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my first guitar a squier strat
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Post subject: Re: Pics of your strat!
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:28 pm
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I haven't posted any pics of my stuff since I got my MIJ 54' reissue in about Oct. or Nov. So I decided to take a few quick pics today.

This was the first MIJ '54 reissue
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And about a month after I bought that, someone had this one on CL for $200 cheaper.
It's a 96, the first one was a 93
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And I got this for Christmas from my wife. It's a Epiphone Dot Deluxe. I think a 1998.
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My wife also got me a Peavey Classic 30 tweed amp for my Birthday at the beginning of March, but I don't have a pic of it.

I found this guitar on CL on Friday, it's a 1996 Tex-Mex Strat, in mint condition. Came with a Vox AD30VT amp also.
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Picked this guitar up on Sunday, it's a 1997 Jimmie Vaughan Strat, in good condition, just has a small chip on the bottom.

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I bought this Fender Strat Ultra yesterday off of Cl, it's a 1991. Has a few scratches and some dings on the neck but not bad.
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And picked up this 2004 Telecaster today, it's got a few chips on the body, but the neck is nice, and it was only $80.
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Post subject: Re: Pics of your strat!
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:41 pm
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Thank you all for sharing your works of art with us! After so long on the forum - here's the family. I play piano and I just started the guitar 3-4 years ago. I have a Fender Acoustic, Yamaha Piano and Fender American Mahogany HSS (my dream guitar) - took me 5 years while studying in Grad School and finishing prof. boards to finally pull the plug:

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You can see my taste in the background: Beethoven, Chopin, the Beatles, Clapton, Randy Rhoads (Ozzy) and of course Eddie Van Halen. Genius all

Oh, and there is the matter of the High School Musical 2 book on top - I'm getting my 6 & 8 year daughters into music. That's what they love to hear, so that's what I'm encouraging them to play.

Here's my (just turned) 6 year old's Hello Kitty Squire Axe w/Fender Amp:

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It actually rocks! She digs Clapton - she's always humming the riff from "Sunshine of Your Love" from hearing me play it. Too cute.

Here's my escape from the world - a Line6 amp, headphones, GuitarWorld magazines and Tab books:

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I escape there on the reclining couch after everyone goes to bed for 30 minutes - just sit with my idols practicing the art they've all blessed us with. Tomorrow (Sat) I'll get up before everyone around 5, make some coffee and riff right there next to the window. My little slice of heaven. Not quite #tigerblood w/goddesses (Charlie Sheen reference), but I've got the 3 Gods of Guitar to keep me company:

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OK, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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Post subject: Re: Pics of your strat!
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:17 pm
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Will someone please buy this off me? I think there is somewhere where the economy doesn't suck :(

And it does come with the original white pearloid and knobs.

Is $650 really to much to ask for this USA Lonestar and the case?


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Post subject: Re: Pics of your strat!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:10 pm
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hey everyone!im new here and new at guitars too..i have been playing over a year and really doing good!i like it so much i play about 3 to 8 hours a day!!anyway i own this strat,its a squier cause i cant afford a ferder, its a special edition cherry burst with vintage headstock ,alnico 3 pickups,alder body and rosewood fretboard! for a begginer like me it sounds really great,surely not perfect but thats what i can afford for now :(

So tell me your opinion about her and any advices to make her better!

enjoy your happyness!

Chears!!


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Post subject: Re: Pics of your strat!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:04 pm
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Great pics! Here is my American Select HSS. I'll have to share better images when I get them.
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Post subject: Re: Pics of your strat!
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:29 am
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Post subject: Re: Pics of your strat!
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:01 pm
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Post subject: Re: Pics of your strat!
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:47 pm
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This is the one I won in a raffle last week.Im still tring to get the true colour of it and some more specks any help is apreciated.Image


The true colour of that strat is called 'Surf Pearl' and was placed in the American Hot-rod Series. If this is one of those, it will most likely be a roadhouse strat with Texas Special pickups- although it very well might not be. The guard should be either pearl or tortoise shell. Otherwise, its an FSR. But I have never seen one like that.. Serial Number?

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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 2:37 am
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Here are pics of my two MIM Strats

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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 2:47 am
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Post subject: Re: Pics of your strat!
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 6:17 am
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Post subject: Re: Pics of your strat!
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 6:18 am
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V, you are gonna have to tell us all about that very uniquely set up Strat you have there!!

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Post subject: Re: Pics of your strat!
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:31 am
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Hollis Prince wrote:
V, you are gonna have to tell us all about that very uniquely set up Strat you have there!!


What, they're not all like this? Man I'm going to have to talk to that guy who sold it to me.


Really, though, I just finished this for the last time (I think) last night. A luthier (an awesome guy named Domingos Fialho) and I designed this together and we each did different parts of the build (he did the routing [there's not that much wood routing, actually]/layout/initial wiring scheme/custom plate fabrication, I designed the overall circuit/switching implementation and did the final wiring after deciding on a final pickup layout). It's probably actually weirder than it looks, but more intuitive to use than it will sound. Sort of a combination of a lot of different guitar concepts, some Fender and some not so Fender.

So, the two blade switches are 4-position tele switches. One controls the neck/middle pickup group. The other controls the humbucker and single coil in the bridge. These are each wired exactly as a 4-way tele switch would be wired. Series/Pickup 2/Parallel/Pickup 1 (The reason for this will be more obvious in a minute.)

The Jaguar plate is the same circuit as is used on a Jaguar Bass but instead of mixing between two pickups, it mixes between the two GROUPS. So, the top switch is group 2 (middle/neck pickups) on/off, middle switch is group 1 ("bridge" pickups) on/off, the bottom switch is series/parallel mix between the two groups. You could also use a 4-way tele switch for this but I found this design more visually intuitive (and generally just cooler looking).

The middle knob is actually a stealth rotary switch. This controls only the humbucker. I should note that the humbucker is actually pretty much identical in design to the other three single coils. It's basically two alnico v strat pickups housed together.

(This is the not so Fender part, but ends up delivering very Fender sounds in reality.) The rotary has 5 positions.
1. Normal Humbucker (aka both coils in Series)
2. Coil 1
3. Parallel Humbucker Out of Phase with Itself (aka hum doubler :lol:)
4. Coil 2 Out of Phase with the Other Pickups
5. Normal Humbucker but Out of Phase with the Other Pickups (sounds identical to position 1 if it's being used by itself)

Now, remember, each coil of the humbucker is basically a strat pickup (very close to the same resistance, same alnico pole pieces but non-staggered, and hand winding pattern).

So, what that switch allows you to do is get a ton of combinations within the bridge group. Because of which coils are selected at a given time, putting the "humbucker" in series or parallel with the bridge single coil and turning the rotary yields noise cancelling results in positions 2/3/4. (I am actually not sure why position 3 cancels hum with the single coil. It didn't do this before I installed a new humbucker last night! My guess would be somehow the hum produced by the single coil and position 3 are close in level and out of phase with each other but why...not entirely sure.)

So in position 2 you get something very close to a classic bridge/mid strat quack if you've got the pickup selector in parallel. In series (on the tele switch, now), the same position on the rotary switch becomes a humbucker between the pickup closest to the bridge and the coil closest to the middle (a "wider" humbucker sound).

In rotary position 4 you have the two coils closest to the bridge on but out of phase (either series or parallel) so it's very trebbly.

Rotary position 3 gives you two coils out of phase in parallel and then the single coil can be added in series with them or in parallel. Parallel is a very very quacky sound and series is a thicker/louder version of that sound.

Now. Ok, don't freak out (there's still more, by the way).

So this sounds very confusing. It's actually not when you have the guitar in front of you! You have a ton of options, but to get at the most useful moves between sounds it tends to be a flick of one switch for a big difference and what you end up getting in each position is usually kind of a familiar sound that has an obvious application.

But there are also some useful sounds that are not very familiar to anyone. Maybe not so odd is the neck/middle in series by itself. This turns those two pickups into a widely-spaced humbucker for sort of a gibson neck pickup sound. But you can also add to that anything you want from the bridge group. If you add the humbucker by itself in parallel, you get a Gibson mid position kind of sound (not so weird). But add that in series and you have a DOUBLE humbucker. Twice as loud, very fat, and noise-cancelling but also still articulate. This almost makes it sound as if you've downtuned your guitar.

You can then add still another coil for 5 in series and get an even louder sound with the total hum content of one single coil (since 5 coils don't cancel out evenly).

A favorite of mine is bridge single in series with bridge humbucker. This is wonderful for big ringing chords into a dirty amp. A new one that's been becoming a favorite is middle in series with both bridge pickups in series. This is darker and louder than the position i just mentioned and is hum cancelling as well (mid and bridge sc cancel/humbucker cancels itself). Basically it's like having two humbuckers in your bridge and running them in series.


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