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You probably don't remember me. Sometime ago i showed you my homemade orange neckthrough star.
The guitar is playing great. I never adjusted the truss rod because i'm not confident at doing that. I could take the guitar to a shop to have a set up made but the case of the guitar is huge and i don't drive yet.
The action is low and has some minor fretbuzz but it's not a problem. I'm using 0.11's to play on E standard and its great.
The sound is also great even though i have only played it on a roland cube 60. The SD distortion is more powerfull than the SD custom 5 on my fender toronado gt. I think that i like the custom 5 on my toronado more but it wouldn't sound that good on my star because its made of ash and the fretboard is from ebony. I think that it would sound too thin. Thats why m toronado is made of mahogany and has a rosewood fretboard.
For those who think that single pickup guitars are limited, they are wrong. The switch is giving some great tones. Single coil and paralel or normal. A guy from a band tried my guitar and played with the pickup on paralel and the tone closed and thought that it was a neck pickup. Thats a great sound. Its hard to describe. With the tone closed it sounds dark but the brightness of a paralel switch compensates the darkness so it sounds strange.
Playing on single coil is also nice.
The tone's spinning direction is wrong. The wiring is probably wrong. The tone only works when its fully closed. When open i can move and it doesnt affect the sound but when almost closed, it works.
The paint is not that good. It looks good on pictures but the back of the neck is shinny. Near the pickup and the bridge is also getting shinny. Some wood pores can be seen. I should have been more patient with that.
The bridge is great. I like it because its easy to palm mute each string. The tuners are also good.
This summer i'm going to strip the paint and put more wood filler and sand all the small imperfections. I'm going to give it a shinny finish. I'm also goint to wire it again. I might put a tone control that only opens 70º. I'm also thinking on putting a floyd rose from gotoh or schaller. The gotoh's are 110 € and the schaller's are 195 €. Also the stock nut is a gibson style one that is glued and i don't know how to remove it.
I want to know what do you think about this. Will the floyd rose ruin my guitar? How can i remove the nut? Do you recomend gotoh floyd roses?
Theres also another problem with the nut.
I don't think that theres enough surface to put a locking nut. How deep must the locking nut be?
I'm sorry if i wrote a big text but some of you here have lots of experience on this subject.
The guitar is playing great. I never adjusted the truss rod because i'm not confident at doing that. I could take the guitar to a shop to have a set up made but the case of the guitar is huge and i don't drive yet.
The action is low and has some minor fretbuzz but it's not a problem. I'm using 0.11's to play on E standard and its great.
The sound is also great even though i have only played it on a roland cube 60. The SD distortion is more powerfull than the SD custom 5 on my fender toronado gt. I think that i like the custom 5 on my toronado more but it wouldn't sound that good on my star because its made of ash and the fretboard is from ebony. I think that it would sound too thin. Thats why m toronado is made of mahogany and has a rosewood fretboard.
For those who think that single pickup guitars are limited, they are wrong. The switch is giving some great tones. Single coil and paralel or normal. A guy from a band tried my guitar and played with the pickup on paralel and the tone closed and thought that it was a neck pickup. Thats a great sound. Its hard to describe. With the tone closed it sounds dark but the brightness of a paralel switch compensates the darkness so it sounds strange.
Playing on single coil is also nice.
The tone's spinning direction is wrong. The wiring is probably wrong. The tone only works when its fully closed. When open i can move and it doesnt affect the sound but when almost closed, it works.
The paint is not that good. It looks good on pictures but the back of the neck is shinny. Near the pickup and the bridge is also getting shinny. Some wood pores can be seen. I should have been more patient with that.
The bridge is great. I like it because its easy to palm mute each string. The tuners are also good.
This summer i'm going to strip the paint and put more wood filler and sand all the small imperfections. I'm going to give it a shinny finish. I'm also goint to wire it again. I might put a tone control that only opens 70º. I'm also thinking on putting a floyd rose from gotoh or schaller. The gotoh's are 110 € and the schaller's are 195 €. Also the stock nut is a gibson style one that is glued and i don't know how to remove it.
I want to know what do you think about this. Will the floyd rose ruin my guitar? How can i remove the nut? Do you recomend gotoh floyd roses?
Theres also another problem with the nut.
I don't think that theres enough surface to put a locking nut. How deep must the locking nut be?
I'm sorry if i wrote a big text but some of you here have lots of experience on this subject.
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