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nah- mine aren't costly either, i don't make it a point to go for collectors' items. these has very little in store for me... i'd like to embark on what fgl & many others here are doing- assemble a guitar to my specs.
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aiyo... so calculative... many of my stuff are <$1K, the cheapest being the Ironbird ($340).
gliew
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As always, you are my hero
. As it is I am already running out of space. how do you find the place to keep all your gear??
Anyway, been doing some mods on some of my gear so thought i would share
1. Ibanez SZ320
I like this guitar quite a bit, so not much was done
- Added a push-pull on each volume pot for individual parallel/series pickup switching, and removed the coilsplit on the 3 way switch.
- Decided to change the original chrome pickup rings to cream, which matches the cream binding perfectly.
2. Ibanez SAS36
Construction of the guitar was great but was not a fan of the standard pickups at all
- Fender single coils in neck and mid. The standard single coils had vintage stagger magnets which drove me nuts due to the volume drop from G to B striangs especially, so changed them to a pain of non-staggered Fender pickups. Also found out that Ibanez uses non standard sized cutouts for their single coils so had to do a lot of filing on the pickup bases to make them fit, killing one of my pickups in the process!Argh!
On the plus side, i love tha fact that the white single coil covers match the white binding, have some black covers too but the white just seemed to fit better.
-Dimarzio Air Zone in bridge. The true-duo pickup sounds great in theory, but in the end they were an unacceptable compromise. In single coil mode the sound was ok but no hum-cancelling when combined with the middel pickup, not ok where i play! In humbucker mode the sound was just pathetic, all highs with no mids and bass.
Now it sounds great when split and fantastic in humbucker mode, with more than enough bass to tame the thin mahogany body.
- Grover Locking Tuners
Haven't made up my mind on these yet, tuning is easy and trem work now super stable. However, the past 2 times i changed strings i have had trouble with the G string not fully locking. At first i thought it was the tuner, swapped the tuners and still happens. Seems to be a design issue. In retrospect I think maybe the Planet Waves locking tuners may have been a better option..
cheers,
geoff
As always, you are my hero
. As it is I am already running out of space. how do you find the place to keep all your gear??Anyway, been doing some mods on some of my gear so thought i would share
1. Ibanez SZ320
I like this guitar quite a bit, so not much was done
- Added a push-pull on each volume pot for individual parallel/series pickup switching, and removed the coilsplit on the 3 way switch.
- Decided to change the original chrome pickup rings to cream, which matches the cream binding perfectly.
2. Ibanez SAS36
Construction of the guitar was great but was not a fan of the standard pickups at all
- Fender single coils in neck and mid. The standard single coils had vintage stagger magnets which drove me nuts due to the volume drop from G to B striangs especially, so changed them to a pain of non-staggered Fender pickups. Also found out that Ibanez uses non standard sized cutouts for their single coils so had to do a lot of filing on the pickup bases to make them fit, killing one of my pickups in the process!Argh!
On the plus side, i love tha fact that the white single coil covers match the white binding, have some black covers too but the white just seemed to fit better.
-Dimarzio Air Zone in bridge. The true-duo pickup sounds great in theory, but in the end they were an unacceptable compromise. In single coil mode the sound was ok but no hum-cancelling when combined with the middel pickup, not ok where i play! In humbucker mode the sound was just pathetic, all highs with no mids and bass.
Now it sounds great when split and fantastic in humbucker mode, with more than enough bass to tame the thin mahogany body.
- Grover Locking Tuners
Haven't made up my mind on these yet, tuning is easy and trem work now super stable. However, the past 2 times i changed strings i have had trouble with the G string not fully locking. At first i thought it was the tuner, swapped the tuners and still happens. Seems to be a design issue. In retrospect I think maybe the Planet Waves locking tuners may have been a better option..
cheers,
geoff
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echoist: bro- your baby never disturb? he he... 
fgl
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U mite be rite coz I definately do more plugging into the former than the latter:mrgreen:
echoist
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echoist: bro- your baby never disturb? he he...
Of-course she will! She's nearly 2.5yrs now... Very curious girl...
But she's home only on weekends (fri-sun). The grandma takes care of here la...
So i'll try to "hide" the guitar from her! Hahahahhhha... :lol:
Anw, she have her own keyboards!
How about your baby? I guess she/he(?) is just trying to crawl rite?
I can foresee your baby crawling towards your "other babies"... Serammm...
Hehehehhhe... :mrgreen:
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my girl's 13mth now, can walk. when i play during weekends (when she's awake), i'd have to put decoy pedals for her to mess with. other than that, she won't go after the instruments...
fibredrive
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i've always wondered what it would be like to have my kids running around my equipment...
think i'll find out soon..
think i'll find out soon..
echoist
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my girl's 13mth now, can walk. when i play during weekends (when she's awake), i'd have to put decoy pedals for her to mess with. other than that, she won't go after the instruments...
Ohh my... you are one lucky dad... hehehheehhhe... :lol:
I guess she loves pedals for their "colours"?
My girl loves to copy what we do (me and the mrs)!
So i'll play only when she's asleep, otherwise, she wants to be a guitarist!
@fgl
When our kids says "Can i play too?", quite difficult to say no, rite?
Hehehehehhhhe...
echoist
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i've always wondered what it would be like to have my kids running around my equipment...
think i'll find out soon..
You'll worry if they trip over anything and hurt themselves.
or...
You'll worry if they trip over anything and hurt "the anything"!
Hehehehehhhe...
That said, you can always buy another "anything", but not the kid...
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