View attachment 39373Ya gotta kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince. My "desert island" guitars are my Suhr Classic (with roasted maple neck) and my Suhr Modern with 2x JST humbuckers. The Classic is vintage sunburst and the Modern is a charcoal black. Both play and sound phenomenal. The Suhrs are two of the finest guitars I ever owned. I imagine that Rasmus is an awesome guitar.
Now all you got to do is learn to play the right notesAnytime I play my Les Paul, I think: what a great tone and feel.
Anytime I play my Haar Strat, I think: what a great tone and feel.
Anytime I play my Haar Tele, I think: what a great tone and feel.
I'm a lucky guy.
Spot on!I avoided Strats for years ..... a LP was my first decent guitar back in my youth and any time I picked up a Strat it just felt too weird in comparison (plus too expensive for me back then too which was as big a factor).
I moved on to using Charvels and then my beloved Patrick Eggle which I bonded with from the first 5 minutes of picking it off the wall at the Eggle factory showroom. It became my workhorse for many years (still is). I finally bought a used USA Strat Deluxe a few years back to add to my stable of various things I'd picked up.
There's no denying a Strat is a versatile and good sounding guitar ..... but man there are some annoying things that makes my life difficult. Well more my right hand than anything else ........ if I'm not clattering the vol knob I'm clattering the selector switch and if I'm not clattering either of those I'm clattering my pick off the middle pickup.
It's the only guitar I own that forces me to be conscious of my right hand .... it makes nice sounds and I adapt to it ....... but it's always a fight!
Is it just me?
Sweet! And the Darth Vader goggles on the desk seal the deal. Both guitars look great. Love the natural look, and the lipstick vibe. You are a lucky man.
that goddam triple play is getting in the way of a beautiful guitar!
Now all you got to do is learn to play the right notes
I think my problem is that I have pretty much exclusively played one particular guitar for over 20 years ..... I think a big part in buying all the others was to try and tempt myself off it (well it's as good an excuse as anything). The only other guitar that has come closest to doing that is my EBMM Luke ...... those things have addictive necks
...I guess a 2007 MIM strat is not usually regarded as the holy grail... must have been a fluke off the production line!
What did you swap in?They just want to sing. (And more so after I swapped out the factory pups.)
What did you swap in?
+1.(I like to try out electrics unplugged in the acoustic guitar room at the local music stores before I even plug them into an amp.)
I'm taking the middle road. My thing is super strats with the shorter Gibson scale, 24.75", humbucker equipped and controls out of the way. Mahogany body with maple set neck. 24 frets with great access all over the neck. Hardtail...
For me is the perfect combination. Strat playability + LP tone.
Not easy to find guitars like this so I got it custom made:
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Yeah!Beautiful guitar!