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I'll be getting it in the garage tomorrow so will do it then and report back. I'll also lubricate everything so I'm expecting tuning stability to be great! Cheers! I'll consider a mint guard, maybe, but... White!
I agree on the headstock. It's pretty lame! I was thinking of a fiesta funkocaster decal. Seems suitably lame. Naw, I'm liking going down to 10s! But the top strings could use a touch more break angle.
Laugh out loud moment - I'm so used to locking tuners that I had to look up the correct method of restringing. It now looks tidier
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It feels right on 10s actually, but I will get a string tree. I'm looking forward to lubricating everything and seeing how good this bad boy can be.
Hopefully I'll get a clip up tomorrow.
I have 12-56 on my jazz guitar. 10-52 on my Ibanez Artist and 10-46 on a Tele.
I don't mind flat wound strings though - they make me challenge my playing. But I wouldn't have a guitar permanently with them...
They just drive me mad.
She does wire jewellery. If she can do a nice wire outline of a logo, then somehow get that onto a larger metal plate, it will make a stamp. Heat it with a blow torch and burn on a picture of...
... Well, something. Should/could look good, I think (after some practice. Not sure how graham would feel knowing I'm going to burn his neck...).
And I think I'll put a string tree on. Maybe. I don't know. I've played with it some more and the tuning stability has improved - the strings are settling in, the neck seems to have settled more and everything is quite hunky dory. Once nut-sauced, I reckon this will be a monster. But it looks so naked without one...
@alnico the strings are 10-46. Actually, I already need to bring the treble side of the pickups higher than bass to compensate for output so if I had my usual skinnier top, heavier bottom style set, that would probably be bass dominant with the single coils.
Very comfy to play, though. I'm really pleased at how decent the set up is - I didn't cut the nut, UK I've done everything else and it's rather good, just needs the intonation fine tuning really!
Ground wire in place (after finally getting the solder to take to the claw) and it's quiet and a very toneful guitar.
I'll see if I can bargain for a minute or two of loud noodling so I can stick a mic in front and demo. It sounds really damn good.
Also lubricated all points of contact (and found one that shouldn't be there - the low e makes contact with the fingerboard a bit, so I'll be filing a small notch there), and the tuning stability is very good. Not perfect - it won't dive bomb and return perfectly but it's fairly close, and I won't be using it for that anyway - just a bit of shimmer really. It's set to float, just a little bit, so it can do a very nice shimmery effect without any real effort.
I'm immensely proud. It sounds like a custom shop strat.