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View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
A well setup guitar with a good feeling neck is the starting point. If your fretting hand develops a relationship with the neck your playing experience will increase dramatically. The tonal outcome depends on your pickups and amplifier. But if you’re able to squeeze more out of your playing because of a good neck then everything else will become easier to finalise.
I haven’t bothered to read a single other comment btw so I have no idea what has been said.
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That said, I have a new neck on the way....
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
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There does seem to be something in the idea that the CS guitars are built from better-chosen necks and bodies. That doesn't mean that you can't find a cheaper guitar with an equally good neck or body, although the chances of both together - so the whole thing resonates better - on the same guitar is probably lower. Whether that degree of selection is really carried out for the CS, I don't know.
I honestly believe all the rest is in the care of the finishing and assembly, and perhaps the artificial ageing process (not the faked wear) on the Relics, since they always seem to sound good. This is labour-intensive and does justify to an extent why the CS prices are high.
If true, what it means is that you *can* get a cheaper model to sound as good as a CS if you add the extra work, but you have to be lucky with the combination of neck and body in the first place. If you aren't, the best you will get is close. Maybe very close, but the CS guitars I've played have all been consistently better - interestingly, the 'team built light relics' more so than the 'masterbuilts' and 'heavy relics' which I have always found a bit average.
That said, the absolute best P-Bass I've ever played is my friend's bog standard off-the-shelf Mexican one. But he briefly had another - apparently identical model - one, which was a complete dog. I really don't think the dog could be made anywhere near as good as the one that is just great anyway, no matter how much work you do on it.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Obviously the Classic Player was custom shop designed/influenced and its a great guitar, plays lovely, sounds lovely, light-ish nice and resonant. However whilst it's not night and day, the CS is easily a better guitar, as it should be of course, it was 5x the price new. It just resonates like a beast and it's light as a feather, and feels better quality too. Plugged in the pickups are way better than the classic player ones, and they are US pickups too. Money no object a CS is usually a better guitar but it doesn't mean there aren't exceptions, or that its not closer than you think.
I agree with above, if you start off with a good guitar whatever it is, you can improve it. If it's awful to begin with you can't polish a turd.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
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Its not as good as a Custom Shop.................it's miles better !
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
Maybe I need a worse quality guitar?