Do you have a semi-acoustic guitar?

MIKE BURN

With "zero-fret"!!!

Seismic Anamoly · Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 3039

She's beautiful, bro....really super... :thumb

MIKE BURN

I still have my old Hoefner (year unknown) Semi-Acoustic.

I equipped her with new strings today and played a bit

))

MIKE

LarreeMP3 · Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 1935

MIKE BURN · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 6:04 pm Post subject: Re: I own one of these!

Seismic

I had to replace the mechanics to let this beast stay in tune somehow :lol

But the tone is very percussive and warm

Errrrrrrrrr..... I KNEW, Larree would come up with something like that :lol

And she MUST have P90's :ohno

LarreeMP3 · Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 1935

Actually, she has P-100's!

MIKE BURN · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 6:50 pm Post subject: Re: I own one of these!

I thought you have taste? :ohno

Better replace them with some good, handwired P90's :lol

LarreeMP3 · Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 1935

One of my teles has a P-90 in the neck position. Awesome sounding pickup. The P-100's sound exactly the same with no hum. I wouldn't change a thing about my Blueshawk!

questionnaire · Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 640

Got a nice natural finish dot-neck hard-tail 335. If you want to hear the clean sound from it have a listen to 'Madmen Do The Business' at www.mp3.com/thequestionnaires.

Steve H

LarreeMP3 · Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 1935

Cool! An es335 is on my "must have" list!

questionnaire · Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 640

I also like to use a Strat, especially for rhythm work. I don't play live much these days, but I do 'deps' with various bands when their guitarists are on holiday or whatever, and I still find the Strat to be most versatile guitar you can get.

Instead of spending a huge amount of money on a vintage or a re-issue, I bought a cheap Mexican-built Fender and replaced the pick-ups with a set made by a guy from Northern England called Tony Burns, which included a humbucker on the bridge position. Tony's a top-class electrical engineer (he's in charge of the local power-station and he works as a consultant for academics designing new energy-sources) and he imported two of Leo Fender's original hand-winding machines and reconditioned them.

Hand-winding is the only way, he says, because factory machine-winding leaves little air-pockets all over the place, which interfere with the even distribution of the magnetic field. He recently got 4.5 stars out of 5 in a review in the 'Guitarist' magazine, and he recently sold sets to Chris Rea, Mark Knopfler and whoever plays guitar with Kelly Rowland. They're certainly the best I've ever heard, and also cheaper than the big-names. His details are on the bottom of the home-page on our website at www.thequestionnaires.com if you know anyone looking for a set.

Steve H