Post your black guitars.

[andy]

OK, these are a few shots of my Japanese Squier Strat, soon to be 'bid farewell' on Ebay. As with any guitar, I'll be sad to see it go, but as I have told myself many times, I'm more of a Tele man overall, and both the extra space, and happy wife will be worth the loss!

Sorry the shots are very Ebay-ish, and they are mostly to point out the scrapes and dings, but you will spot the holes from where I had a four-bolt-neck on there for some time. The wiring is just for a master volume and master tone, as I kept knocking the volume down with my strumming hand so wanted it out of the way! The original control-hole was filled with a rubber bung, and while I found it more usefull overall with a tone control for eack pickup, I missed the ability to use the mixed positions with one pickup with the tone right down, and one with it right up.While I was using it I had a Seymour Duncan Li'l '59 in the neck position, a Dimarzio Virtual Vintage 2.1 in the middle, and a Seymour Duncan JB jr. in the bridge (now mid-position in my Tele).

The serial number is SQ59353, making it an '83-'84, and the branding on the hardware is 'Fender Japan'.

[andy]

Just thought I would pop up some pics of another instrument! This was my main bass for some years, and then replaced on the top slot by Ibanez's, so still goes everywhere with me, but as a spare. It is a Fender Deluxe Active 5-string Jazz Bass (yep, thats the official title!). It sounds pretty much like your average Jazz with the active electronics flat, and cutting the highs works much like a passive circuit, although the boosts are very powerful, and as with any active bass, I only boost the treble to bring out slap parts, and boost the bass to make the bridge pickup sound a bit fatter. I think that if there weren't any project related requirements involved I would just stick with straight ahead P-basses (and lust after a nice semi-acoustic), but for now I need 5's, so this remains on board.





We're all guitar geeks here, so note the single pole-piece per srting arrangement on the pickups. It seems an odd choice, given the reasons for the two-pole-per-string idea in the first place, especially with the wide swing of that low B string. I would proffer that it does notice a little on the low string, particularly when played hard around the 'E', but playing a little more softly does make the note sound a bit more even, and in fact helps with the slight volume mis-match of that string too.




On closer inspection, I probably shouldn't have worn a white T-shirt with bare feet to take these photos, and (should you give a toss) in the lower shot, that is a sideways guitar case and plastic tub of effects pedals in the reflection. David Bailey I ain't...

[angelodp]

Here is 2nd build for me its a 1457 Silvertone homage guitar w/ single coil pickups. I have swappable pick-guards for the lipstick pickups. But... the single coils kill in this guitar.

cheers Ange

[ChrisK]

For some strange reason this guitar doesn't seem to fall over when resting on the bottom strap pin.

[newey]

I like the swap-out pickguard option, you can go back and forth anytime you change strings with ease.

You should post up some sound clips of the lipsticks vs. the SCs.