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Lovely guitar with a great neck and nice big lump of a trem block which seems to help it ring.
I've been lusting after a mex strat for a while now.
Changed the pickups again for Entwistle AS57's and I absolutely love it now. At some point in the future I'll get a decent replacement trem installed. Tried one of the cheap Wilkinson ones but it was horrible.
I like having a guitar that you have mucked about with to such an extent it's practically worthless to anyone else yet is highly personalised. Everyone who plays it likes it a lot though.
Got a photo? Would be interesting to see all the different bits of wood.
But if you took it to the extreme and cut a body into matchsticks then glued it back together, surely that would change the properties of the wood to the point of it being as different as a different type of wood?
If so, it would surely then mean that there was a scale of how much the sound is affected based on how many pieces were used?
Here's a thread on it with photos throughout the process. Final post has the finished guitar photos which is where I am now with it, although the colour has definitely darkened since.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/140446/
Incidentally, for reference I bought it used for £220 about five years ago so it was ideal for modding.
The date under the scratch plate is Oct 2008.
Strat finished https://imgur.com/gallery/hTszMgP
Sorry for the thread hijack!
interesting results...
The only thing to use from the video really is comparing the sound of the cut up one vs the full but it's a single arpeggiated chord played once on each so not really enough to properly compare, it could just have been played differently each time for example.
To go in to subtleties that would be obscured by Youtube's audio compression is getting very microscopic. I don't even know what point there would be for anyone to care about that kind of subtlety, what effect could it have on anyone in the real world?
I'd put money on most people being unable to pick out Youtube videos from the original audio in blind tests.