Guitar Fantasy Camp

shoeless said:
How about just generating a spec for what you want and have a custom builder make it for you. Did you know that Ed Roman guitars is still in business? https://romanguitars.com/custom-shop :wink:
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Wow! What an epiphany!

Ed Roman Guitars could take a vintage LP, gut it, saw the neck off, and replace everything with knockoff import parts. You’d pay a premium, but the guitar you’d end up with would have very little actual value. Brilliant! :baimun:
 
Peen Simmons said:
Well, being down at the bottom of the rabbit hole I’ve psyched myself out that I need all sorts of unobtanium specs on this guitar which I’ve still not decided on and am now letting spec availability determine the purchase.

I think this situation I’m in is actually some sort of cursed fairy boon from some folktale.

At any rate, I was like “this 100% needs to have stainless frets” and then I went and showroomed some shit half remembering that I didn’t exactly dig stainless frets.

Super plinky based on about 7 different samples . At least to my ears which tend to be fussy about random noises to my eternal annoyance. Is this why @Mark Wein doesnt choose stainless and quit destroying frets?

So this whole annoying thing might come in for a landing? Or I’ll wind up dancing in the land under the hill until my feet are stumps while a changeling takes my place in the waking world. Hope you enjoy commuting, asshole.
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I really like the stainless frets on my EBMM Stingray (guitar not bass). It feels super smooth to play, and that coupled with the hand rubbed oil finish on the neck, it's probably the most comfortable guitar to play in my collection. It sounds really good too, I don't know if the stock pickups account for the stainless steel frets but I don't really notice any ping or zing in them vs any of my other guitars... YMMV.
 
smurfco said:
I really like the stainless frets on my EBMM Stingray (guitar not bass). It feels super smooth to play, and that coupled with the hand rubbed oil finish on the neck, it's probably the most comfortable guitar to play in my collection. It sounds really good too, I don't know if the stock pickups account for the stainless steel frets but I don't really notice any ping or zing in them vs any of my other guitars... YMMV.
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The ping/zing is more of a mechanical/acoustic artifact vs. an amplified one. It’s noticeable unplugged and clean. I mean, it’s deal-withable and I would t rule out a guitar I loved because of it. But I’m not certain I need to go for a super custom special order to get them like I was thinking as I don’t think, all things considered, that I prefer them.

I went in wanting to want them and came away a little meh.

Basically I gave myself spec-mania and started building plans for a total Homer car situation. But I’m now trying to reconnect with what I really want/need vs. what I could get.

Basically, I tend to approach guitar shopping as a research project (which it isn’t) and knowledge can get crossways with desire. Plus I’m torn between something desirable and useful vs. something wild and aspirational because I can. This would be a lot easier if there were something I immediately wanted vs. having to suss something out.

I’m also reluctant to commission a custom build because there’s an element of being stuck with it if my amateur guitar design efforts fail to pan out
 
For me, it might be the one PRS that interests me.
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Or one of these
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smurfco said:
I really like the stainless frets on my EBMM Stingray (guitar not bass). It feels super smooth to play, and that coupled with the hand rubbed oil finish on the neck, it's probably the most comfortable guitar to play in my collection. It sounds really good too, I don't know if the stock pickups account for the stainless steel frets but I don't really notice any ping or zing in them vs any of my other guitars... YMMV.
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yeah, I've never really had any issues with SS frets and have owned several guitars with them and more without.
 
Peen Simmons said:
Well, being down at the bottom of the rabbit hole I’ve psyched myself out that I need all sorts of unobtanium specs on this guitar which I’ve still not decided on and am now letting spec availability determine the purchase.

I think this situation I’m in is actually some sort of cursed fairy boon from some folktale.

At any rate, I was like “this 100% needs to have stainless frets” and then I went and showroomed some shit half remembering that I didn’t exactly dig stainless frets.

Super plinky based on about 7 different samples . At least to my ears which tend to be fussy about random noises to my eternal annoyance. Is this why @Mark Wein doesnt choose stainless and quit destroying frets?

So this whole annoying thing might come in for a landing? Or I’ll wind up dancing in the land under the hill until my feet are stumps while a changeling takes my place in the waking world. Hope you enjoy commuting, asshole.
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I own one guitar with stainless steel frets and it was given to me by Mark from Kinghat guitars to try. I love the idea and if I found a guitar I liked with them I'd probably buy it but I'm not going to risk changing the character of the guitars I love by making the change.
 
So I’m still shopping because I have an infinitely long leash for this dumb situation. I have discovered something related to high end guitars that grinds my gears—very expensive custom shop Teles with the terrible uncompensated steel screw saddles. Everyone everywhere knows that these suck and are prone to sitar-like buzzing and intonation woes. And yet, here they are on a $4000 plank. I get the old school uncompensated brass barrels because vintage mojo. But why replicate something with no mojo that also sucks?

I get that it’s an easy enough fix, but at certain price points shit should arrive fixed.
 
Peen Simmons said:
So I’m still shopping because I have an infinitely long leash for this dumb situation. I have discovered something related to high end guitars that grinds my gears—very expensive custom shop Teles with the terrible uncompensated steel screw saddles. Everyone everywhere knows that these suck and are prone to sitar-like buzzing and intonation woes. And yet, here they are on a $4000 plank. I get the old school uncompensated brass barrels because vintage mojo. But why replicate something with no mojo that also sucks?

I get that it’s an easy enough fix, but at certain price points shit should arrive fixed.
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I really hope it won’t be a relic. The Music City bridges fix all those woes for a hundred bucks but I get your point.
 
Dew Knot Humps said:
I really hope it won’t be a relic. The Music City bridges fix all those woes for a hundred bucks but I get your point.
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I’m not into the whole relic thing. It’s one of the things that’s soured me on the Novo stuff. And most of the Fender Custom Shop things I’ve been eyeing have been NOS or closet classic.

Basically, there’s a handful of things I’m kinda into and they are all just different enough to keep me from making a decision.
 
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