Members JC777 Posted March 5, 2007 Members Share Posted March 5, 2007 Here's my latest acquisition. The G&L on the left I picked up 2 weekends ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cymru_lp Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 Here's my 1996 (ish I think) Mexican Stratocaster Recently upgraded my pups to Bridge - Seymour Duncan JB Jnr Mid - Fender Texas Specials Neck - Fender Texas Specials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ged LST Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 I love every single one of these guitars. Ahhhh... - Ged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ConsuminFire Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GarysBlues Posted March 11, 2007 Author Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 Hey I know a fellow here who has one of them......ME! Nice Strats and pretty well priced at the moment. Mines posted somewhere in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lefchr Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 57 ri, been my main guitar for years(although my les paul is becoming it now), the neck on it is shot, I have a warmoth one being shipped too me right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ilovemystrat Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 hat's the 57 vintage reissue? how is the finish on that thing? wears off easily or? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ra_ Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 Strat was driving me nuts with the tuning. How can anyone stand a tremelo bridge? Tuning one string changes the pitch of the others! I finally added a block today. Threw a piece of Lignum Vitae on the belt sander until it fit. Muuuuuuch better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrfreeze Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 Strat was driving me nuts with the tuning. How can anyone stand a tremelo bridge? Tuning one string changes the pitch of the others! I finally added a block today. Threw a piece of Lignum Vitae on the belt sander until it fit. Muuuuuuch better! putting 2 more springs in mine made it surprisingly more stable. I haven't had tuning problems since...if it's a Mexi it could just be a nut problem, as the MIM's biggest problem were nuts and tuners (IMO) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ilovemystrat Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 Strat was driving me nuts with the tuning. How can anyone stand a tremelo bridge? Tuning one string changes the pitch of the others! I finally added a block today. Threw a piece of Lignum Vitae on the belt sander until it fit. Muuuuuuch better! i've never had tuning problems with my bridge on my CIJ strat. I gotta figure out a way to incoporate the tremolo with my blues. In a not wanker-ish way of course.just the crappy squier one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lefchr Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 hat's the 57 vintage reissue?how is the finish on that thing? wears off easily or?That picture makes the guitar look less beat than it is. It seems like it wears down kinda easliy too me, but Ive played alot on that guitar, and I havent always treated it the best. Its basically a partsocaster now, by the end of the week the only thing that will be original is the body and the tuners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ilovemystrat Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 That picture makes the guitar look less beat than it is. It seems like it wears down kinda easliy too me, but Ive played alot on that guitar, and I havent always treated it the best. Its basically a partsocaster now, by the end of the week the only thing that will be original is the body and the tuners. yea, i'm a little weary about getting a guitar that would wear out soon due it its light finish! I have the japanese strat model of the 57 vintage it kicks some major arse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ra_ Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 putting 2 more springs in mine made it surprisingly more stable. I haven't had tuning problems since...if it's a Mexi it could just be a nut problem, as the MIM's biggest problem were nuts and tuners (IMO) No, it's Made In Japan. Tuning has always bugged me on guitars.Always seems a little off.I recently learned that guitars can never be in tune,depending on where on the neck you are playing. I bought the Earvana nut but I can't find it!I'm gonna carve my own compensated nut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ilovemystrat Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 No, it's Made In Japan.Tuning has always bugged me on guitars.Always seems a little off.I recently learned that guitars can never be in tune,depending on where on the neck you are playing.I bought the Earvana nut but I can't find it!I'm gonna carve my own compensated nut. Maybe you have perfect pitch or something? And yes, theoretically, your instrument can never be perfected tuned. Just too much going on for that to happen. All the forces from the bridge, the saddles, the screws, the springs, and the strings in that are in the bridge. The tuning pegs and the strings matter too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ra_ Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 Maybe you have perfect pitch or something?And yes, theoretically, your instrument can never be perfected tuned.Just too much going on for that to happen. All the forces from the bridge, the saddles, the screws, the springs, and the strings in that are in the bridge. The tuning pegs and the strings matter too. Ha. I don't think my problem is perfect pitch.Imperfect pitch is probably a large part of it. It is also impossible to ever intonate properly,especially places like the first fret of the G string.That is the string that is the most compensated with the Earvana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ilovemystrat Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 Ha. I don't think my problem is perfect pitch.Imperfect pitch is probably a large part of it.It is also impossible to ever intonate properly,especially places like the first fret of the G string.That is the string that is the most compensated with the Earvana. 1st fret on the G-string? I've never had a problem with that? Did they have all this fancy stuff in the 60s or anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chiro972 Posted March 11, 2007 Members Share Posted March 11, 2007 Here's mine. Check out the story on my NGD thread. I got it yesterday for a mere $350! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ra_ Posted March 12, 2007 Members Share Posted March 12, 2007 1st fret on the G-string? I've never had a problem with that?Did they have all this fancy stuff in the 60s or anything? Check out the vid It's a fact that the guitar is an imperfect device to have in tune.It's just a question of how much it throws you off, I guess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members walkinblues Posted March 13, 2007 Members Share Posted March 13, 2007 finally took a pic pf my '96 Squier. nothing fancy, but she sounds and plays great. has all new electronics, pickguard and American Standard tuners.EDIT: since posting this i removed the blade pickups (no hum, but too dull sounding) and replaced them with some GFS alnico singles. now it has that bright Strat spank i was missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lowbrow Posted March 13, 2007 Members Share Posted March 13, 2007 I've currently got two. The black late `05 MIM below and a `06 white one that's otherwise visually identical. Both stay in tune great, but only after making sure the nuts were cut properly for my preferred 10s and doing a bit of tweaking on the bridge.Tuners on MIM strats/teles are absoultely fine, you just have to wind the strings properly if you're going to use the trem. The force it would take to make one move from string pull would snap the string before it ever moved the tuner. Simple law of statics & dynamics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lowbrow Posted March 13, 2007 Members Share Posted March 13, 2007 Nice! My GF's dad just got a sunburst last week. Through a local M&P. They had a tech they know in the CS pick one out for him. I was skeptical they were as good as everyone says....till his came and I played it and restrung it for him. Simply sublime. I picked up this Eric Johnson Strat on Friday at MF, scratch and dent. I couldn't find any blems on it. Great guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members relictele Posted March 13, 2007 Members Share Posted March 13, 2007 Love my 98' Am. Std. Natural I think we have the same guitar:It may be sacrilegious but I really like the Vintage Noiseless pickups I put in the sunburst '57 reissue and I was thinking about the SD Everything Axe set to put in the ash Strat just cos I love everything about it but want to 'speriment a little bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members metalheadUK Posted March 13, 2007 Members Share Posted March 13, 2007 Check out the vidIt's a fact that the guitar is an imperfect device to have in tune.It's just a question of how much it throws you off, I guess? +1. Guitars have "tempered tuning" whereby the "out of tuneness" is spread out over the whole neck making every note just ever so slightly out of tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members metalheadUK Posted March 13, 2007 Members Share Posted March 13, 2007 Just watching the vid.Does the Earvana nut only work if you play your guitar upside down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members D34dBaWx Posted March 14, 2007 Members Share Posted March 14, 2007 I wanna be a member too. My wife calls this my orchestra of noise. and here is a coo dog with a strat pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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