The tale of your guitar journey

BlackSG91 said:
Well my Telecaster is a natural swamp ash finish...it's a 1952 AVRI edition that I bought new in 2006 which was Fender's 60th anniversary. It also came with a certificate of authenticity. Now with my '98 American Std. Strat I originally thought it was black. I saw it through the window of the store when it was closed behind the counter. I thought that was a nice looking black Strat. The next day when I walked into the pawn shop to check it out I saw the colour wasn't black but a very deep metallic purple which looked real nice so I decided to buy it that day. It almost looks black depending on the lighting. I wish I had pictures to show you but Photobucket messed that up for me.:(


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Black, I just signed up on Imgur. I think I like it even better. I posted a few pics on the Laney Posse forum which I dl'd to Imgur
 
BlackSG91 said:
Wow...you have a 1968 Strat? Now there's a collectors item! That's cool that you put an ebony FB on yours. I don't understand why Fender don't make Strats with ebony FB's. I actually stained the FB on my '98 Strat with ebony wood stain. I would coat the FB and leave it overnight so the stain would soak in. I did this a few times and now my fret board looks like ebonized rosewood. I also applied raw linseed oil on the FB a few times to seal in the wood. It looks and feels great!

This is not the stock neck. I really don't know what it came with. I am the second owner of it and the ebony fret board and neck were a part of the deal. The neck it was born with left hear on another guitar. The ebony neck dates around 1969 to 1970. It is a work guitar and not a collectors guitar. It is great to play and if someone comes in with a cool guitar and wants to trade I will think about it.
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kevinpaul said:
Did you ever install a blue back in any thing? They are very shrill until they are broken in. Breaking one in is very frustrating. But once you get it right there is nothing like them. The V30 60 watts I put in my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe is very similar at this point and I hope it follows the blue back path to fantastic tone. Even my AC30 that had two of them sounded better.
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The Vintage 30's should come around. I have a 4x12 cab with them in it and they are getting better and better.
I really need to get some high volume playing through them...
 
kevinpaul said:
Did you ever install a blue back in any thing? They are very shrill until they are broken in. Breaking one in is very frustrating. But once you get it right there is nothing like them. The V30 60 watts I put in my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe is very similar at this point and I hope it follows the blue back path to fantastic tone. Even my AC30 that had two of them sounded better.
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By "blue back", do you mean the speakers commonly referred to as "alnico blues"?
 
I have played out of many different speakers over the years.
The Vintage 30 is way at the top of the list. This amp had high volume, very very high volume for a total of eight hours. It is just about there and I know it will be fantastic. The Vintage 30 has it own tone different than the other Ceslestion way of great speakers.
 
Weber has some great speakers. I tend to go back to what I know or what I think I know. I great speaker and a really good speaker, I can't tell the difference. When guitar playing get so complex and I look at tube values, how a pedal works with an amp and tone pots. I mean the side show activity is way out of control.
 
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