Speaking of 1 hum pointy headstock Strats!

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madkeithv
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Re: Speaking of 1 hum pointy headstock Strats!

Post by madkeithv »

Love that finish - I've got it on my Ibanez RGIF7, holds up really well under heavy use.

Interesting discussion on the scale length and neck fit in the body - I wonder if that's why my recent player Strat feels so nice compared to all my modern 25.4-and-more superstrats.

nightflameauto
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Re: Speaking of 1 hum pointy headstock Strats!

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I find myself inappropriately aroused by this guitar. Like, probably closer to my ideal spec than any production guitar I can stumble across. Including the oil finish. God damn.

Endtime
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Re: Speaking of 1 hum pointy headstock Strats!

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Thanks dudes!

Yeah I know scale length and where it sits in the body is generally a little too specific and nerd talk, but it’s really sumthin I pay attention to when building. That’s some of the small things I do when I build my guitars. While I’m not against building unique one-off shapes and have done it. There really is a level of R&D that goes into finding all the little quirks and tweaks of new designs. It honestly could take years to perfect! So most of what I do is take cool designs I like, where basically that R&D is done and then i just further tweak it. And one of the things I often look to perfect on ANy guitar I build is that feel of the first fret. I’m gonna post soon a build I’m just about done with for my buddy. A old School Charvel Star shape. I’ve built a number of these based off the original. Which has flaws for sure! But I love the feel of it anyway. And his has all my tweaks and little changes and it seriously feels perfect for the Star shape. I pretty much remedied all the issues I had with the OG version. And one of those was a slight change in where I set the neck in the body

Maddnotez
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Re: Speaking of 1 hum pointy headstock Strats!

Post by Maddnotez »

That's sick dude and I love the no nonsense 1 hum guitars. Neck pickups and toggles have their place but damn....the one guitar I let vet away was the 1 Hum 2005 charvel Reissue and it was incredible. Yours looks pretty similar

Spaced Out Ace
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Re: Speaking of 1 hum pointy headstock Strats!

Post by Spaced Out Ace »

Endtime wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 8:20 pm Thanks dudes!

Yeah I know scale length and where it sits in the body is generally a little too specific and nerd talk, but it’s really sumthin I pay attention to when building. That’s some of the small things I do when I build my guitars. While I’m not against building unique one-off shapes and have done it. There really is a level of R&D that goes into finding all the little quirks and tweaks of new designs. It honestly could take years to perfect! So most of what I do is take cool designs I like, where basically that R&D is done and then i just further tweak it. And one of the things I often look to perfect on ANy guitar I build is that feel of the first fret. I’m gonna post soon a build I’m just about done with for my buddy. A old School Charvel Star shape. I’ve built a number of these based off the original. Which has flaws for sure! But I love the feel of it anyway. And his has all my tweaks and little changes and it seriously feels perfect for the Star shape. I pretty much remedied all the issues I had with the OG version. And one of those was a slight change in where I set the neck in the body
If the guitar hangs oddly on my shoulder and the 1st fret access/feel is goofy, the guitar is not for me.

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