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Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 4:32 pm
by Jim.h
GrantB wrote:Voxshall wrote:
Looks like my JM body!
Strat shot for legitimacy - my since gone '63.
Gutted i let that 63 slip....
Dibs? - whoever it is out there?
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 6:27 pm
by GrantB
Jim.h wrote:
Gutted i let that 63 slip....
Dibs? - whoever it is out there?
I checked in with the owner the other day when you mentioned you were looking. He has no intention of letting it go, but that changes, we’ll get first crack at it!
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 10:50 am
by null_pointer
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 12:40 pm
by KNNZ
null_pointer wrote:
hey Tim who did the respray for you?
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 12:58 pm
by null_pointer
KNNZ wrote:null_pointer wrote:
hey Tim who did the respray for you?
Guy down here in the Tron, $300ish I think but really good work.
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 3:29 pm
by GrantB
$300 for a re-spray is flippen good. Is it nitro?
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 6:18 pm
by null_pointer
GrantB wrote:$300 for a re-spray is flippen good. Is it nitro?
Not nitro, some sort of really thin auto-style paint which I can’t remember the precise details of now. I’ll ask! Saved a few mm of depth on the body and weights a noticeable amount less with the poly finish gone.
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 6:26 pm
by GrantB
null_pointer wrote:GrantB wrote:$300 for a re-spray is flippen good. Is it nitro?
Not nitro, some sort of really thin auto-style paint which I can’t remember the precise details of now. I’ll ask! Saved a few mm of depth on the body and weights a noticeable amount less with the poly finish gone.
2-pack probably...works well on a guitar and no buffing really required. That's where nitro is less efficient.
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 6:36 pm
by StratMatt
null_pointer wrote:
That makes me really want a Suhr again. Not that I've owned one before, just wanted one.
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 9:53 pm
by Molly
StratMatt wrote:null_pointer wrote:
That makes me really want a Suhr again. Not that I've owned one before, just wanted one.
That does look really nice.
What killed my first few Suhr for me was, I think, the stainless frets. I felt they had a hard / brittle edge to the tone that was just kind of unpleasant to my ears. My latest one has regular frets and I'm much happier with it.
This could also be balls. I've said exactly the same thing about the sound of a quarter-sawn maple neck and about how I don't like the immediacy of them but the Suhr is quarter-sawn and it's fine (albeit with a rosewood board).
I'm trying to check myself a lot more on this crap these days.
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 6:17 am
by kdawg2a
Check yourself, sure, but for the love of god please don't wreck yourself.
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 7:36 am
by Kiwiaxe
I rather like the FAQ at Xotic
https://xotic.us/support-faq under the guitar tab:
- can I have stainless steel frets? No
- can I have a thinner neck? No
- can I have a side jack? No
- can I have a shaved heel? No
Reasons for the ‘no’ answers are that they affect the tone and Xotic aren’t willing to do that
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 10:36 am
by sizzlingbadger
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 10:51 am
by Terexgeek
sizzlingbadger wrote:Strat inspired..
Nice headstock, please forgive my ignorance, but what brand is that?
Re: Show us your Stratocasters!
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 10:59 am
by sizzlingbadger
