faze wrote:frank9310 wrote:faze wrote:Killer tone.
Man I love that Route 66 great job Frank. I like that Hendrix Strat you have too is that a Voodoo Strat?
Hey thanks! What kind of Z iand Strat s that you have there? Looks kind of like a Route 66 and a Voodoo?
My Strat is one of those 60's Reverse Strats that Musiciansfriend made a deal with Fender to make 800 of them and then they sold them all so you still see them floating around here and there for $5-700 on craigslist. It's MIM but the fastest and nicest neck of all my Strats. In fact, after I got it, I sold 6 other Strats because none of them had the feel of that neck which is 1 5/8ths, 7.25 radius. It has lefty reverse wound 68 pickups that sound better than 6 sets of custom shop 69 pickups and most other custom shop pups I have which is around 15 sets.
Cool I know what you mean about those necks with the 7.25 radius all three of my guitars have the Hendrix reverse necks on them. My Puple guitar
is Hendrix Voodoo Strat that the Fender custom shop painted for me inspired by Hendrix's last album The first rays of the new rising sun.
The neck on that guitar which is rosewood came off of another Voodoo Strat I found off of E-Bay. The origional neck on that guitar was maple.
I found a Olympic White body off of E-bay and put some custom shop 69''s in it and built the Hendrix guitar in my avatar from parts it's the best sounding axe
I have it is very fat and warm sounding and it has some of the best clean tones I have ever been able to get from any other guitar i have owned.
I used that maple neck on it. I just actually got done fixing that guitar a few minutes ago my Volume pot was acting up
so i put new 250k pot in it. I also built another Blizzard Pearl Hendrix strat from parts. I just like those necks they just feel right.
The Z I have is the Remedy . I have been wanting to check out the route 66 that amp has a great sound too it and has been spoken highly about.
The Remedy has a real cool Marshall Plexi vibe too it. It gets great cleans and nasty crunch and lead tones. Pretty cool amp.
Awesome! Hey is that the purple Strat in your Avatar the one you had painted by the custom shop? Have a larger pic of it? Kind of looks like it was on fire on the pickguard which looks really slick! The necks you got, are those the maple capped ones or the skunk stripe ones? I wish mine was capped but it plays so nicely I don't really care. I've been trying to buy a reverse headstock maple board Vintage Modern neck with clear gloss and black abalone dots from Warmoth for about 8 months but the first one I custom ordered looked like a slab of plywood after a 6 week wait so I refused it. Now they haven't had any decent ones in their pre-made section for months and as much as they cost all said and done $300+ paying a luthier another $50-75 to put a decal on it and the cost of the decal, I'm almost better off buying another 60s Reverse Strat for an extra hundred with all the hardware and a genuine Fender neck.
I really like those new Fender American Special Series Strats with the big headstock neck, jumbo frets, really nice feel but I hate that dull, boring satin finish and I want abalone dots so there we go back up another couple hundred to get that added. There's a chop shop on ebay that sells just the neck for around $375
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