Kramer/Charvel/Musicman/Fender/Gibson/PRS/WolfGang/Ibanez

[IloveMyMarshall]

Gang!!Which one of these would rather play and why?? I oftened wonder why mr Ed(evh) quit playing those musicman guitars? I fell in love with the feel tone the wood was top notch the tone to die for the pups where awesome.

I dont like the tone and or sound of those wolfies??? The necks are like baseball bats, as where the musicman was nice thin 10 radius I do believe .73 .78 not sure On those measurements but close to it But didnt they use one of Eds favorite necks>? Computer copied to the tee?

Anyways top axes I love and play
Musicman EBMM
Fender Home made strats Found me 9.5 radius huge jumbo frets!!
Gibson and or epiphone which I can afford I a real Gibson many years ago cant afford now lol


TONE

[45auto]

all decent guitars depending what your going for. i've kind of grouped my guitars into two categories.

A: the 24 fret low action hi-performance guitars
B: the "vintage" generally higher action, more toneful

wouldn't try to play too hi-tech on the vintage & wouldn't try to play slide on the hot ones. they all have their moods!

[Tone Slinger]

I agree with 45auto. You do have many choices, but in general, easy playing guitars tend to sound differently than moderate to hard to play guitars.

What I did with my last homebrew (Warmoth), was to finally build a guitar that incorporated everything that I liked in other guitars. It is sorta like what lynch did back in the day.1 humbucker and 1 single coil.

I like the shape and balance of a origional strat, but I like not having a pick guard, so its rear loaded.

I like a bridge humbucker sound, so it has that (mounted directly to the body)

I like a neck posistion single coil, but cant use anything in the middle much cause of my picking. I also like the neck and bridge sound togather, ala Gibson or Tele. It does that.
I like using the tremelo (80's throwback player, I know) but hate going out of tune, so there's a Floyd Rose on it.

This particular guitar is almost 100 % to my likeing with only a few things needing changed. Which are, #1The humbucker (Custom Custom) is WAY more powerful than the single coil(Am. St. Fender) Im gonna hae to get a weaker humbucker or a stronger single coil. #2 I got steel frets on it, which are a little too 'brittle bright' for my likeing, as well as the 10-16 compound radius. I actually like a gibsons 10' or maybe 12' radius better. I also got the small strat headstock, but prefer the larger style. So I'm gonna get a new neck. Also its hard Ash, which at first worried me, cause it's very bright and attacky sounding. This too is growing on me. Notes ring out with tremendous flair.

This guitar has grown on me tremendously. It does a vintage strat sound very well. It can do the 'Gibson' humbucker thing justice as well. In effect, this guitar is all I need. It took me this long to finally figure out what I like most about guitars. This guitar is the culmination of that.

[Brad737]

My Ernie Ball EVH is my favorite to play. Amazing feel. I also have a couple of Warmoth necks with the compound radius fretboards. I love that feature.

Brad

Gang!!Which one of these would rather play and why?? I oftened wonder why mr Ed(evh) quit playing those musicman guitars? I fell in love with the feel tone the wood was top notch the tone to die for the pups where awesome.

I dont like the tone and or sound of those wolfies??? The necks are like baseball bats, as where the musicman was nice thin 10 radius I do believe .73 .78 not sure On those measurements but close to it But didnt they use one of Eds favorite necks>? Computer copied to the tee?

Anyways top axes I love and play
Musicman EBMM
Fender Home made strats Found me 9.5 radius huge jumbo frets!!
Gibson and or epiphone which I can afford I a real Gibson many years ago cant afford now lol


TONE

[IloveMyMarshall]

thxs for the replies!!! I do the same I use the strat for malmsteen type stuff low action tuned 1/2 down have the ernie ball for of course everything but have her set a bit higher in action not much lol but enough to get those screamin harmonics all over!

Once again thanks all for replying, was trying to get some insight from you all and I appreciate it!!

TONE

[IloveMyMarshall]

I agree with 45auto. You do have many choices, but in general, easy playing guitars tend to sound differently than moderate to hard to play guitars.

What I did with my last homebrew (Warmoth), was to finally build a guitar that incorporated everything that I liked in other guitars. It is sorta like what lynch did back in the day.1 humbucker and 1 single coil.

I like the shape and balance of a origional strat, but I like not having a pick guard, so its rear loaded.

I like a bridge humbucker sound, so it has that (mounted directly to the body)

I like a neck posistion single coil, but cant use anything in the middle much cause of my picking. I also like the neck and bridge sound togather, ala Gibson or Tele. It does that.
I like using the tremelo (80's throwback player, I know) but hate going out of tune, so there's a Floyd Rose on it.

This particular guitar is almost 100 % to my likeing with only a few things needing changed. Which are, #1The humbucker (Custom Custom) is WAY more powerful than the single coil(Am. St. Fender) Im gonna hae to get a weaker humbucker or a stronger single coil. #2 I got steel frets on it, which are a little too 'brittle bright' for my likeing, as well as the 10-16 compound radius. I actually like a gibsons 10' or maybe 12' radius better. I also got the small strat headstock, but prefer the larger style. So I'm gonna get a new neck. Also its hard Ash, which at first worried me, cause it's very bright and attacky sounding. This too is growing on me. Notes ring out with tremendous flair.

This guitar has grown on me tremendously. It does a vintage strat sound very well. It can do the 'Gibson' humbucker thing justice as well. In effect, this guitar is all I need. It took me this long to finally figure out what I like most about guitars. This guitar is the culmination of that.

Toner did you ever get the pickup you needed?? For your strat also do the custom custom have alinico II or ceremic?

tone