Guitars you always play

Cadorman said:
One of these five. I tend to rotate between the blueberry and amber bursts the most. I love the way the V hangs on a strap. It's very comfortable to play. The SG standard travels with me and every time I pick it up I realize what a great guitar it is. SGs just have such a pronounced upper midrange that really gets in your face and lets you know it's talking. The white Les Paul gets played the least. It supposedly has a slim taper neck like the rest of them, but it is definitely a bit fuller shape. I can't wait until the trans black fade SG Modern arrives. It's going to be interesting to see what the ebony board and maple top do to an SG.
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Looks like your guitars have the same manufacturing defects as mine where they accidentally built them upside down backwards ;)

Anyway, this guy has probably seen more action in the last 9 or so months I've had it than all my other guitars ever combined:

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Fender Limited Japan Traditional 60's Stratocaster, or something like that, with the following mods so far:
  • Rautia 63F Pickups with left-handed vintage stagger (which is pretty hard to find on off-the-shelf sets...)
  • Volume / Master Tone / Blend wiring
  • Gotoh "Barrel" type string tree.
  • I had a Kluson steel block for a while but the tremolo arm I had for that snapped and the fit wasn't perfect anyway... So I'm currently back to the stock block but waiting for a whole Gotoh steel-block bridge to arrive
  • Charles Guitars vintage spec tremolo strings, all 5 of them. It's very sproingy.
  • Schaller strap locks and a strap my wife got me for christmas.
  • The stock jack started having problems so I replaced it with a Neutrik.
 
A little clip of YelloStrat. This was the very first time we played this song together, and it was my first time ever playing it, because I didn't grow up following The Beatles...

This was filmed in a barn up around 6,000 ft asl and it was cold that night!!!!!
 
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Back to guitars I always play. I am beginning to get more acquainted with my newest guitar. You guys may get sick of my talking about my Jackson RR3 V with Jackson Licensed by Floyd bridge. But, I am learning my way through the nuances of a Floyd and locking nut. JTCNJ messaged me the procedure for stringing it and tuning it up. I muddled my way through it until messaging him that I was close to figuring it out by instincts.

He mentioned how they need to be shimmed with bridge level. then nut clamps loose enough for strings to move with the tuners, tune it up as normal, lock down the clamps and then take the shim out. Fine tuning and intonation obviously go from there.

Anyhow, as this is my first Floyd, AND locking nut, I noticed the threaded nut plates have a ridge in them on the top like a mini roof. This made my mind wonder, exactly which direction these sit in the nut, Side to side, or with the high points going the same direction as the strings. From pics I saw, it looks like the latter.

Time for me to recheck how my initial stringing effort looks and sounds.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Back to guitars I always play. I am beginning to get more acquainted with my newest guitar. You guys may get sick of my talking about my Jackson RR3 V with Jackson Licensed by Floyd bridge. But, I am learning my way through the nuances of a Floyd and locking nut. JTCNJ messaged me the procedure for stringing it and tuning it up. I muddled my way through it until messaging him that I was close to figuring it out by instincts.

He mentioned how they need to be shimmed with bridge level. then nut clamps loose enough for strings to move with the tuners, tune it up as normal, lock down the clamps and then take the shim out. Fine tuning and intonation obviously go from there.

Anyhow, as this is my first Floyd, AND locking nut, I noticed the threaded nut plates have a ridge in them on the top like a mini roof. This made my mind wonder, exactly which direction these sit in the nut, Side to side, or with the high points going the same direction as the strings. From pics I saw, it looks like the latter.

Time for me to recheck how my initial stringing effort looks and sounds.
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You would be correct chilli. The latter.
Welcome to the locking trem community. I currently have 4 of them, and prefer them over regular nut.

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Robert Herndon said:
I'm looking at moving a couple of mine too...
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I have a handful of lower end Jacksons and an old Ibanez that is way too small for me, and I don't think I love a Floyd anymore. Might keep the white one, it's a Japanese guitar and really is very nice, just in case I need a Floyd for some reason in the future, but the rest of them collect dust and take up space. Totally useless to me if that's all they're gonna do.

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mcblink said:
I have a handful of lower end Jacksons and an old Ibanez that is way too small for me, and I don't think I love a Floyd anymore. Might keep the white one, it's a Japanese guitar and really is very nice, just in case I need a Floyd for some reason in the future, but the rest of them collect dust and take up space. Totally useless to me if that's all they're gonna do.

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I do love the Floyd Rose. I've had zero issues with mine, but I keep going back to my Les Pauls and my Yellow Stratocaster and I can dive bomb the stock 6 screw Fender as much as mu Floyd's, so I'm kinda looking at it like why do I need two Floyd equipped guitars when I'm not really playing them???
 
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