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Explain more clearly please. What type of guitar is it a Strat style? What do you mean by humbucker bridge? Is it like the one on a les paul?(tune-o-matic bridge and stop tail piece). Does it have a strat pick guard? I just finished rewiring a strat with two humbuckers (still have to put on strings, tune & test). Let me know and then I can help you.
Bootlegger
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Keep practicing you'll get there.
If your going there. Etta James.
Not in particular order:
1.The Outlaws-Green Grass & High Tides
2.Lynyrd Skynyrd-I Know a Little
3.The Allman Brothers-Just about any of there songs
4.Stevie Ray Vaughan-The same as above.
5.Derek & The Dominos-The whole album/cd.
6.Cream-Badge
7.UFO-Rock Bottom or Love to love, live.
8.Kenny Wayne Sheppard-Deja Voodo
9.Led Zepplin-Achillies Last Stand
10.Jimi Hendrix-All Along The Watchtower.
And a whole lot more.
Robert Plant, David Coverdale, Chris Cornell.
Canned Heat: let's work together
& Going up the country.
Arlo Guthrie: Coming in to Los Angeles
There nice for the money, I buy strap locks, cords and machine heads from Carvin. They have a store in Covina, Ca. (USA) about 12 miles from my house. I have played there cobalt series when there. They use fishman matrix electronics although I never plugged them in. They sound good and are comfortable for me a good mid priced higher intermediate guitar.
Bootlegger.
Bootlegger guitars.
He's right,along with your road crew. He's the one who get's you paid.
I will have experienced 46 years of life this april(24th). People told me when I hit 25 wait until your thirty. My reply was I was very lucky to make 25 everyday after that is a blessing. I'm still being blessed and most of the times I have to look at my license to know my age.
Bootlegger.
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There's no "All of the above?"
It's possible to own more that one guitar, folks. <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">
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+1 for Jerome.oneil.
Both!
Bootleger. <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_twisted.gif" border=0 alt="Twisted Evil">
I usually do it when I change my strings, on electric guitars right now once a month (I just practice, new band coming together in the summer) and I use big bend nut sauce (lube the nut)on the nut. When I'm playing once every two weeks (I have eleven electric and after alot of thought cost of building a new guitar vs buying a new one next month (Michael Kelly Patroit Q series) it will be 12).
Another satisfied customer with a guitar properly set up. I bet as you said it plays great.
Bootlegger
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<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>whiskeyridge wrote on Mon, 26 March 2007 21:17</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
Tell your tale to Yngwie Malmsteen. You can get many different sounds from any electric, as opposed to acacoustic
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Read the reply. "IN PRACTICAL THEORY AN
ACOUSTIC AND ELECTRIC GUITAR MAKE SOUND THE
SAME WAY!." Read the complete post.
The type and the way the sound is
presented is different.
Yes in the hands of someone who knows what to
do with it different sounds will come from
the two types of guitars.
Bootlegger.
To:bigdjindustriez
Your repair of a metal brace lessened the value of your one of a kind guitar (not to mention the astetics,looks). The correct tepair if taken to a qualified luithier would have been to glue (if the headstock was glueable) and or to make a new headstock and attach it by means of a scarf joint.(this will also lessen the value of your guitar.
To:Jimmyriddle74
If your set on an Epi then as wewin03 suggested try as many as you can to find the one that sounds and plays great for you. Otherwise if you want a les paul body style guitar look at the Michael Kelly's, Dean Evo series, Aira's, Samick's and such. You can always hot rod it.
Bootlegger
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<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>firefly wrote on Sun, 25 March 2007 01:33</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
Just wondering how different pickup heights change the sound of the guitar. Anyone.....help.......please? <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_sad.gif" border=0 alt="Sad">
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Depending on what type of pickups you use, ie: staggared (pole pieces/magnetics) on a single coil or humbuckers. Pickups to close to strings can cause a muddy sound. The magnets draw your strings through its polarity amplifing the vibration or ocillation of the strings. The farther away the more magnetic draw hence clearer tones.
Guitar manufactures have recommended pickup heights published (I know that atlease Fender does). Check out the manufactures site and look up for users manuals under set ups.
Hope this helps.
Bootlegger
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<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>firefly wrote on Sat, 24 March 2007 18:59</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
Well a lot of rockers die of a lot of causes. Lynyrd Skynyrd with a plane, plenty others in travel related accidents, some by drugs. There have been lots who have made from the seventies to today. Clapton to name, Iron Maiden to name another. Hey James, how did the lead guitarist of Pantera die? (Should be easy, but i couldnt think of anything harder off the top of my head)
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The orginal posting was an average age of death 27 years old. That elimnates Lynyrd Skynyrd deaths and also Dime bag Darrell's death. By the way an obsessed fan shot him in the head while on stage in front of an audience (I Believe in Ohio, USA).
Bootlegger.
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If an electric and an acoustic were the same thing, they wouldn't have made an electric. Hope that gets the point accross.
(quote from previous posting by bigdjindustriez)
I Do play both. But I stand by my decision to learn on an acoustic always. Yes I know there are different neck shapes, such as flat, rounded and scalloped. electric guitars created for swing bands were hollow body electrics, made in a simillar fashion to the acoustic, where as a strat type guitar is made from a solid piece of hardwood. The last electric guitar I made was a solid piece of maple, and it sounds quite different from an acoustic.
(also quoted by above)
What I replied to above (#1 quote) there was never any questioning your choice to learn acoustic first. The reply was to if there the same they would not have made electrics. (#2) Yes you will get a different sound from electric than the sound from an acoustic.
The sound coming from the ocillation of the string vibration produced by striking (strumming) of the string creates a sound which is amplified in a sound chamber and is heard as the sound is echoed in the sound chamber (acoustic guitar body).
Since an electric guitar is made for the most part out of a solid piece of wood(one piece or 2 & 3 pieces glued together) it does not have a sound hole (althoght semi hollow bodies are made) and have magnetic pickups to help the amplify the sound.
Once again the vibration of the string ocilating due to striking (strumming of the string) is picked up by an electromagnetic pickup. The pickup turns the vibration into sound waves and the sound siginature is amplified through an amplifier. That's when you hear the sound of the guitar. So in theory they are the same producing sound by the same principle.
The maple wood you made your electric guitar will produce alot of highs hence forth the tonal difference of the electric vs the acoustic. Where as if you would have had a maghogany back with a maple top you tonal characteristics would have been warmer.
Bootlegger.
There is 2 schools of thought on this subject. (1)Some think that you should only take off all your strings at once if your going to give your guitar a good cleaning & polishing. This is because as stated when all the strings are off there is no tension on the neck causing the neck to want to bow forward(relieving the stress on the neck trom the string tension).
(2) The other thought is if you change one string at a time the tension on the neck will always remain the same.
I do both, when I change all strings at once is to do a deep cleaning and polishing, tightining my tuning head knobs and oiling my fret board (yes they do tend to dry). I also change strings one at a time as I do routine maintainence (as described above).
The suggestions made by other postees are viable as the string gauge comment but play the gauge string you are comfortable with and get your action set up to that gauge. When checking the straitness of your neck (which requires an 18" imperial steel straight ruler) other things to check for is a high fret (not seated properly on the finger board) or high spots on the frets themselves.
Typical acoustic guitar truss rods are located and accessed through the sound hole at the heal of the neck joint. Although my Guild and many other brands have access on the head stock under the truss rod cover.
Do not attempt to adjust the truss rod unless you have done so before or are experienced in guitar repair. You can snap the truss rod loosing the function of it to either relieve stress or straighten the neck. If this is done you have to take off the finger boart and ot the neck at the neck joint to replace it.
The cost of the repair would be as much as a new decent made acoustic.
Hope this helps.
Bootlegger.
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I'll second what alvee says and add something that is often overlooked. Make sure you avoid prolonged hand exposure to water before playing.This softens your skin and makes it easier for the guitar strings to tear the fingertip tissue.
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Nick Drake refused to do the washing up apparently. Mind you so does Quentin Crisp as far as I know and he doesn't play anything.
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But do wash your hands the oils and any other matter on them can cause shorter string life
Bootlegger.
DUDE! There are a varity of electric guitar neck shapes and radius's, where have you been (go to www.edenhaus and check the neck conture's)? The reason electric's were created were to hear them over all the brass instruments (swing type music) because the pickups for acoustics were arcaic and of lousy construction. Too much feed back and lousy sound.
To address your major differences in both type's of guitars would merely be construction and materials. Which would affect the tonal qualities of both instruments. Of course shape and sound is also affected as electric guitar pickups require amplifacation to for sound other than string sound to be heard. Where as an acoustic or box guitar sound comes from the hollow cavaity of the guitar's body. Play both.
Bootlegger.
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No brains, no pain!, I mean no pain, no gain. As A.C.T (abbrieviated) your just paying your dues. Keep practicing.
Bootlegger.
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Pico Rivera, California, USA. (22 miles east of Los Angeles). Going to be 46 next month, been playing for 33 years (self taught) still have the first guitar I bought (1964 Fender mustang, date on the neck Oct.8, 64). I bought it used and it already was 10 years old. Started building my own electric guitars 5 years ago. (also self taught)
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If your set on buying a squire strat buy a satin trans one. It has a basswood body (it will sound ok) and you can hot rod it later. There $149.00 at sam ash this month. What is the price range you want to spend?
Bootleger.
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www.fendr.com, when site opens go to resources, open products & customer services, open set ups.
Good Luck.
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