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[HoneyBadgerJM]

You ought to see the Wife!!! Better nick then this....I am a SRV fan so went the tobacco sun burst...I sanded down the vanish on the back of the neck ALA John Mayer style..so not so sticky....Kept it sun exposed by no real reason other then where I had the stand the maple neck looks Vintage and a deep blonde...

[DrNomis_44]

You ought to see the Wife!!! Better nick then this....I am a SRV fan so went the tobacco sun burst...I sanded down the vanish on the back of the neck ALA John Mayer style..so not so sticky....Kept it sun exposed by no real reason other then where I had the stand the maple neck looks Vintage and a deep blonde...

I've been getting back into SRV recently too, a mate of mine wants to put together some Surf instrumentals so he and I can do a surf-medley at an up and coming gig, he wants to do Pipeline, but do it in the way Dick Dale and SRV did it.


One of these days I'm going to have to invest in a good Orbital Sander, my arm muscles are starting to ache a bit from the sanding, being a skinny guy doesn't make things any easier.


But as the saying goes, no pain, no gain....lol.

[FrankenWashie]

I've been getting back into SRV recently too, a mate of mine wants to put together some Surf instrumentals so he and I can do a surf-medley at an up and coming gig, he wants to do Pipeline, but do it in the way Dick Dale and SRV did it.


One of these days I'm going to have to invest in a good Orbital Sander, my arm muscles are starting to ache a bit from the sanding, being a skinny guy doesn't make things any easier.


But as the saying goes, no pain, no gain....lol.

SRV and Carlos Santana were the reasons I picked up a guitar in the first place. I recently acquired a Squire Strat for $99.00 in a similar colour scheme, its got some issues but it still sounds pretty sweet, even through my micro cube.

The orbitals are good, but you've still got to move it around and most of the time restrain it from running away, and its vibrating the hell out of your hands the whole time, so I'm not so sure that it will be any easier on your arms Doc.

[HoneyBadgerJM]

I've been getting back into SRV recently too, a mate of mine wants to put together some Surf instrumentals so he and I can do a surf-medley at an up and coming gig, he wants to do Pipeline, but do it in the way Dick Dale and SRV did it.


One of these days I'm going to have to invest in a good Orbital Sander, my arm muscles are starting to ache a bit from the sanding, being a skinny guy doesn't make things any easier.


But as the saying goes, no pain, no gain....lol.

The whole out of phase surf music dictated what a Strat could do...the along comes a man Named Jimi,,, puts a Fuzz face a phazer and turns the world upside down...2 greatest influences Jimi and SRV

[DrNomis_44]

The whole out of phase surf music dictated what a Strat could do...the along comes a man Named Jimi,,, puts a Fuzz face a phazer and turns the world upside down...2 greatest influences Jimi and SRV

Yep, I'm a big fan of Jimi Hendrix too, I've got a copy of his most recent posthumous album, Valleys Of Neptune, on CD, it was really interesting to hear where he was taking some of his well known tunes on that album, there's a few guitarists that have inspired me to pick up the guitar and play it, Jimi is one, there's also Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Malcom and Angus Young, Eric Johnson, and a few others I could probably mention too, I recently found myself getting back into the Shadows and Hank Marvin, I'm going to see if I can nail that Hank Marvin sound once I get my Gold Strat up and running again so it's playable.