For guitars of the straight waisted variety (or reverse offset).
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Danley
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by Danley » Sun Jan 19, 2020 7:23 pm
Went to the Orange County Guitar Show today; this was $75 on the last day, and I could already see the Seymour Duncan in it; also, that it was pink.
So sold to me:
The good/bad/etc. :
- Turns out the other two pickups are alnico! Possibly Fender Tex Mex, since they have identical bobbins (plastic.) 500k pots?
- The neck is awesome; *quite* thick, glossy, nice and straight with a bullet truss adjust. Plays really nice, and VERY tight fit for what it’s worth
- The Little 59 is a pretty awesome pickup; keeping it, probably
- Plywood. Figured, oh well. Routed SSS, so no swimming pool but less versatility. Typical zinc hardware/diamond tuners, and some mis-spaced fretboard side-does round it out
TLDR, worth it for the neck, pickups and paint. Pics are pre-setup and pre-cleaning, eventually I plan on a mint guard and possible installation of my Rose SC set
King Buzzo: I love when people come up to me and say “Your guitar sound was better on Stoner Witch, when you used a Les Paul. “...I used a Fender Mustang reissue on that, dumbass!
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Embenny
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by Embenny » Sun Jan 19, 2020 8:32 pm
Nice score. The little '59 and pair of miscellaneous alnico start pickups could easily cost $75 on their own, so at that point the rest of the guitar is gravy.
Looks like a fun little thing.
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thenewromance
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by thenewromance » Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:48 am
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Danley
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by Danley » Wed Jan 22, 2020 1:39 pm
I almost hate to say it, but I’m bonding with this guitar pretty well - the switches/jack all seem beyond help though. Researching the company not a huge amt. comes up, only one I’ve found on Reverb/eBay like it. This might be an MIJ ‘G416’ model, ‘83 - ‘86 though the company was in business making slightly different Strat clones till recently. Looks like they covered the whole range of headless/flame maple shred guitars to beginner axes in the ‘80s.
Here are some other pics from the show, there had to be half a dozen Comp-Stangs among other things; enough other cool/pricey guitars to the point where I couldn’t take pics of every awesome offset. But maintained consciousness enough to take these:
King Buzzo: I love when people come up to me and say “Your guitar sound was better on Stoner Witch, when you used a Les Paul. “...I used a Fender Mustang reissue on that, dumbass!