Custom HotRod Strat Build.

[wazkelly]

Machine Head was one of their best albums and I also love Fireball too. Great examples of the Ian Gillan & Roger Glover MkII era.

Interestingly under Zandit's Zodiac post from left field it would suggest I transition from Aries to Pisces?

The mother of one of the drummers in an early line up was into astrology big time and was fascinated that her son being pisces and me an aries could get along well with one another as that was not typical. She then dug a bit deeper into what time of day we were born as that had something to do with the 'house' we were born in, blah, blah, blah and it was through this analysis that she discovered a common thread that linked the two of us as compatible companions, something about both of us having sagitarius rising, whatever? Needless to say he was an awesome drummer and the best I have ever played with. Left handed too but played with a right hand setup thus giving him the benefit of a massive snare beat from his dominant hand. God knows where he is now. He was that good he could have been a session muso.

[DrNomis_44]

Machine Head was one of their best albums and I also love Fireball too. Great examples of the Ian Gillan & Roger Glover MkII era.

Interestingly under Zandit's Zodiac post from left field it would suggest I transition from Aries to Pisces?

The mother of one of the drummers in an early line up was into astrology big time and was fascinated that her son being pisces and me an aries could get along well with one another as that was not typical. She then dug a bit deeper into what time of day we were born as that had something to do with the 'house' we were born in, blah, blah, blah and it was through this analysis that she discovered a common thread that linked the two of us as compatible companions, something about both of us having sagitarius rising, whatever? Needless to say he was an awesome drummer and the best I have ever played with. Left handed too but played with a right hand setup thus giving him the benefit of a massive snare beat from his dominant hand. God knows where he is now. He was that good he could have been a session muso.

One of my best mates is a Pisces, he and I get along really well, I've also got another great friend who is a Sagittarian, for some strange reason, I find I tend to get along really well with most Fire signs, me being a Virgo, I'm an Earth sign.


In Astrology, each of the twelve Astrological signs are grouped together so that there are four groups of three Astrological signs associated with the elements, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth, here are the four groups:


Air:

Aquarius, Gemini, and Libra.

Fire:

Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.

Water:

Scorpio, Cancer, and Pisces.

Earth:

Capricorn, Taurus, and Virgo.



My mum is an Aries, she and I get along really well.

[wazkelly]

All I know is that male & female Gemini are slightly different, thankfully as most of the female kind I have encountered (my mother and eldest sister) have had very strong opinions, fairly quick witted, and quite intuitive. Thankfully the males I have known (my youngest son and plenty of other band mates & work mates) have been quick witted and intuitive but not as strong or domineering with their opinions thus easier to get along with.

[DrNomis_44]

All I know is that male & female Gemini are slightly different, thankfully as most of the female kind I have encountered (my mother and eldest sister) have had very strong opinions, fairly quick witted, and quite intuitive. Thankfully the males I have known (my youngest son and plenty of other band mates & work mates) have been quick witted and intuitive but not as strong or domineering with their opinions thus easier to get along with.

I've got one mate who is a Gemini, she tends to be quite talkative, although she reckons that she has a lot of trouble expressing herself.


My godmother is a Gemini, and she is a really nice lady.

[wazkelly]

Sounds like you may be more compatible with them.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:


I've managed to make quite a bit of progress with my HotRod Strat, and I'm about to do all the final wiring-up prior to testing to see if all the electronics work, and then stringing/setting up, if things go well i might see if I can record a quick and dirty demo of the guitar for you, stay tuned.




Update 2:

All of the electronics test out as working, next step is to install strings and do a complete setup of the guitar.


Update 3:


She hasn't been properly set up yet, but, she sounds surprisingly good, considering that the pickups I installed came from a cheap electric guitar i bought from my local Cash Converters store, it has the typical Strat tones, and the overall tone is pretty warm, but I'm hearing it through my Audioline powered monitors, will be interesting to hear how she sounds after a good setup, but she is making sound at last.

[wazkelly]

Great news Doc.

[Simon Barden]

Hurrah! And twice hurrah!

[DrNomis_44]

Cheers guys, I tried the guitar through my Marshall amp's clean and overdriven channels and it sounded pretty good, although one of the pickups might be slightly microphonic, the installed pickups will do for the time being till I can afford to buy a good set of Seymour Duncans, or DiMarzios.

[Simon Barden]

Have you tried any of those Tonerider pickups? I haven't but I often use Irongrear pickups in my guitars. They are a very similar concept to Tonerider - UK designed but built in China, and I've seen very similar comments about both of them on UK guitar forums in the past. There are certainly better pickups, but it's that question of paying three to five times more for maybe a 10% improvement. And sometimes it's not an 'improvement' but just 'different'.

The Irongear 'Blues Engine' PAF-style pickups I put on my Flving-V to replace the nasty Gibson ceramics are just the job for that guitar. I'm also got covered versions of those to put in my ES-3. The vintage Tele types of theirs I put on my Mexican Tele when the pickups on that (TexMex models) went very microphonic, sound slightly better to me than the originals, and the neck pickup sounds really nice and full, and not weak as some Tele neck pickups can do. I did fit a set of the Irongear vintage Strat types to a friends cheap Squier, which sounded just about OK, rather than the change I was expecting, but it might simply have been the guitar. Some guitars just seem to sound bad whatever pickups you put in them.