It just goes to show you guy's! That's a great story Soloist BTW
But seriously, those £1000 guitar player types are out their looking down their noses at us!!
The first record I came across where I say a big name playing a Squier Strat was on Accept's Metal Heart. This made me think, hell if Wolf Hoffman is playing a Squier then they must be ok!! He moved on to a million other guitars since but again it just goes to show you.
For Christmas last year my girlfriend bought me this no namer! Because it was green. There is much randomness about this guitar. I'm still trying to work out if it is any good or not. It seems well made but some savings have been made on hardware. Howeve the pickups are Wilkinsons, and the most insanely loud passive pups! The guitar had no tone control, so the pups ran wide open! f**king too much trebel for me! So I was real clever and fitted a concentric post that allowed me to have a two tiered control, so the bottom one was a tone control for both pups and the top was a volume. Then I got the two tiered control knob (which is ugly) and hell it worked like a dream!! However......................
I got not fit the pot in initially and I had to do quite a bit of jiggery pokery by grinding down some wood in the existing hole for the pot. When I ground down a few extra millimeters, my new concentric pot was able to sit deep enough for the shafts to poke through the other side of the body far enough so as the concentric control knob could be fitted properly and have room to turn!
The guitar only says one thing on the head stock! Jack Butler. It is modeled apparently on Steve Vai guitar (I am no fan of Vai BTW) called the "Green Meanie" which I think was in the movie he was in with the Karate Kid guy. Anyone shed any ight on this for me? The guitar looks like a Charvel strat to me. It is strangely made up of regular household screws as opposed to guitar screw types. Which kinda makes me believe this was a guitar somebody built for a project and then decided to sell on.
Even more bizarre! The guitar has a locking trem that has a floyd rose logo on it! But this trem is not a floyd rose. It looks like the trems on my Stagemasters/Showmasters. But somehow the floyd rose logo is properly embossed on the trem base plate! So someone with some skills went to a lot of trouble to do certain things on this axe. I am determined to get it playing the way I like. I may swap the pups out, I dunno! You can see this guitar in the video I was in from another Thread. It's like a green metallic colour!
@ Richard
If I recal guitars like Orville and Greco where companies that turned into Epiphone. The Greco's are big in Sweden form some reason, seem to be a lot of them out there according to the band I toured with last year who where from Sweden. Their bassist had a rickenbacker copy which was a Greco.
Epihones - Never really enjoyed any Epiphones I played, they are decent guitars though I will say that much. I think Squier is better value for money though. Epi's are near twice the price of a basic Squier.
When I went to buy a flying V that I could afford, I basically was looking at the Epiphone version. However after much research, I found out Tokai's Flying V copies where better than Epiphones. So I bought a Tokai Flying V instead. It also looked nice with the older style Head stock as to the very pointy Epiphone flying V. The Tokai FV40 was modeled on the 1969 Flying V where as the Epiphone versions I was looking at seemed to be their own modern take on the Flying V, kinda like the Gibson USA newer Flying V's (which I don't like). In saying this I have seen some nice Epiphone FV's since. I nearly bought one a few years ago, nearly! I'm currently not getting anymore axes until I flog (sell
) two I no longer want.
Then I'll may be pickup another nice Westone or my dream Fender HM that I've mentioned to Tomy before!! They have to be in great condition though or else I aint interested. Have thought about getting a fender Talon also see below
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