Guitars... what you've got / what you want

more here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LKxmoZv-nE

i just saw that today! i was doing some basic research on my guitar and someone pointed that out on another board.
the other funny thing is that no one can agree what kind of pickups it has. the consensus seems to be minihumbuckers but some people say single coil.

Seems unlikely they’d be humbuckers, it’s going for a Jazzmaster equivalent and that era is rife with single coil pickups inside humbucker cases, I doubt they would do it the other way round.

Wow that is some complex switching. I bet it’s full of dust and oxidation, deoxit will be your saviour.

https://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=75313&start=15

whoa thanks for finding that. that does seem complex, though that must be for the three-pickup model. i would hope that the repair places i took it to did the dust/deoxit thing but maybe it's susceptible to dust getting in there.

They might be unlikely to use deoxit, it’s a bit of a niche product. I know it from fixing up old hifi gear.
You can get it in a little bottle with a brush applicator like nail polish, good for wiping between contacts. Can’t do any harm. You want the red stuff, the gold is a lubricant for faders etc.

i did open up my guitar and deoxit the button switches, and i thought it fixed the issue because they did work correctly immediately after, but they stopped working again shortly after. still glad i got over my fear of opening it up. might give it another pass at some point.

Very encouraging start tho, there are no serious issues beyond signal path. It’s possible there is a shield or a wire touching part of the switch assembly, maybe taking a pickup signal to ground, which was taken out of contact by opening it but settled back into place after.
You can try plugging it in to a practice amp while it’s opened up and tapping on pickup poles with a screwdriver to hear what’s working or not. No danger to you in doing that.

Instructions unclear. Pickup plugged directly into wall outlet. Amplifier in bathtub. Beginning to smell smoke, hair approaching Christopher Lloyd levels. Losing consciousness. Await further direction.

press "record" and play hard

Just coming here to say that matttkkkk's guitar upthread looks awesome. A Jaguar or Jazzmaster in Candy Apple Red with white pickguard and pickups and a rosewood(?) fretboard is exactly the kind of thing that floats my boat.

I feel like the only weirdo who never wanted an offset guitar. Don't hate em but don't particularly like em.

snoball you’ll probably like its sibling I restored it couple of years ago - https://i.imgur.com/KVxTecr.jpeg

argh “a couple” I meant

Yeah, I commented on the Jaguar upthread.

I feel like the only weirdo who never wanted an offset guitar.

I've got to say that it's really only the Jaguar and Jazzmaster that I like. Most other offsets look strange to me the way I imagine that all offsets might look to other people.

They kind of look like they’re in flight to me. But if you forced me to choose just one guitar it’d be a Telecaster.

I think that offsets without the floating trem look extremely weird (too much unused real estate), but also JM's with smaller/strat-ier headstock look even weirder:

https://i.imgur.com/4KvuudS.jpeg

Wish that Fender/Squier would do more period-correct reissues in terms of body/headstock shape (EXCEPT for the bridge lol)

Guessing you're not a fan of the Offset Telecaster then!

Yeah that guitar looks amazing

I have been using this beautiful ES-350 clone with a single P90, I tried in on a whim in 2017 and fell in love immediately and have been using it ever since…

…but I’m resigning myself to the fact that a single P90 is just too hum-risky and I’m considering my options (replacing the pickup, or installing a second P90, idk idk idk)

Kinman and Lindy Fralin both make hum canceling P90s - I believe the Kinmans sound better but are eye-wateringly expensive

damn this hits such a very specific set of pickups/body style/etc that i've been looking for

https://reverb.com/item/78494451-vintage-revo-series-surfmaster-thinline-twin-electric-guitar-greenburst

Oh wow, same -- though that set of features at that price almost makes me worry there must be some weak spots. I always find myself looking at Reverends in vaguely similar territory, but they only ever do Bigsby or Wilkinson vibratos, and I've come to really depend on the JM/Jag one.

Sure is pretty!

I just had a dream Chrissie Hynde came to my house and I got to show her my Telecasters, she was so down to earth and friendly too.

ve come to really depend on the JM/Jag one.

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i'd had guitars with the classic fender style or a bigsby but not a jazzmaster trem until i got one installed in a guitar a couple years ago and it was definitely like a "oh yeah the porridge is just right" moment for me

The only bummer is thinline offsets (usually?) don't have contoured bodies. I've just come to really want that. I can tolerate a thick slab of Les Paul. But like a Tele for example? Definitely prefer something shaped.

A nice offset trem is really really sweet.

this guy does some of the best pedal videos out there, always has unique approaches to things that you've maybe not thought about before and a fun way of presenting stuff too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fetsd_qURtg

that was fun, the sega genesis lead tone cracked me up

Had my Greco P-bass up on Reverb for a couple of months, but then I made the mistake of playing it again and realising it's better than I remembered.
So I might have to keep it now. The pickup doesn't sound especially impressive on its own, but it sits in a mix quite nicely. So it's useful as a recording tool.
I installed some lightweight tuners and that made a big difference. It was too heavy before but now it's manageable. You wouldn't think 170 grams less would make a difference, but I guess it's more about the balance than the overall weight.

Dirt cheap Dolamo overdrive from eBay, YES. Beautifully cranked on my Tele, wide range of tones, no background noise, goes from a bit burred to snarly in very good ways. $A31 delivered so probably $US 20?

Apparently it’s a Timmy clone. Nice quality for no money, and I can dial in the sounds I want to hear very easily.

following my acquisition of a shijie strat a couple of months ago, i've continued my quest to acquire high-quality knockoffs of established design classics with this mij tokai love rock, which arrived earlier in the week

https://i.ibb.co/BqzjjVS/IMG-6276.jpg

that's pretty love the classic gold top look

gorgeous!!

went to put a fresh set of strings on the love rock and the nut fell clean out of the fretboard, having apparently only been held on by the tension of the strings

ffs

That’s common enough and not a major issue. All you need is a dab of superglue / krazy glue to tack in in place, make sure it’s snug to the end of the fretboard and the edges of the neck, then hold it down firmly for a few secs while the glue sets. Only a small amount of glue, less than you may think, and doesn’t need to cover the surfaces completely.