The Retro Rocker
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It finally arrived!!! And well worth the wait I might add!
She's gorgeous! The pictures do not do it justice. It's more red-orange than orange! (G/F says it's "burnt orange"!)
Beautiful flame beneath the finish. Original Guild case is perfect!
Had old flat-wounds on it. Slinky and smooth, but the bottom string kinda thud-y.
Might try new ones at some point, but I put DR Pure Blues 11-50 round wounds on it! (Same as my Robelli, but I used the plain G instead of the wound G). SWEET!
Had to play with the bridge a bit...slide it to the right, move a couple of strings. Good news is the flatwounds barely grooved the saddle so fine-tuning and alignment was a cinch!
Took it all apart and spent two hours detailing it. Hand polished the frets, de-gunked and lemon oiled the rosewood fingerboard and bridge. It was mostly just dust! Polished the metal bridge saddle too.
The pots were a little scratchy...but after spinning the pots for awhile, they work just fine.
Here's something weird...after putting it all back together I just kinda "eye-balled" where the bridge should go, Strung it up and I was almost dead-on as far as intonation goes! I never had a solid bridge saddle on an electric before, always floating bridge with ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic. Anyway, after messing with it for like 5 minutes, the strings are aligned where they should be over the pole-pieces....and the intonation is as perfect as my old Boss TU-12H will indicate! Amazing...well, to ME anyway!
The pickups...wow! After reading so many reviews about the DeArmonds lacking punch, I didn't expect them to sound so good! Such clarity and tone...and warm without being woof-y! And, like yours TX, in the mid position it is dead quiet! The Guildsby is smooth and works fine!
All-in-all...I couldn't be happier!!!
Pics tomorrow!
She's gorgeous! The pictures do not do it justice. It's more red-orange than orange! (G/F says it's "burnt orange"!)
Beautiful flame beneath the finish. Original Guild case is perfect!
Had old flat-wounds on it. Slinky and smooth, but the bottom string kinda thud-y.
Might try new ones at some point, but I put DR Pure Blues 11-50 round wounds on it! (Same as my Robelli, but I used the plain G instead of the wound G). SWEET!
Had to play with the bridge a bit...slide it to the right, move a couple of strings. Good news is the flatwounds barely grooved the saddle so fine-tuning and alignment was a cinch!
Took it all apart and spent two hours detailing it. Hand polished the frets, de-gunked and lemon oiled the rosewood fingerboard and bridge. It was mostly just dust! Polished the metal bridge saddle too.
The pots were a little scratchy...but after spinning the pots for awhile, they work just fine.
Here's something weird...after putting it all back together I just kinda "eye-balled" where the bridge should go, Strung it up and I was almost dead-on as far as intonation goes! I never had a solid bridge saddle on an electric before, always floating bridge with ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic. Anyway, after messing with it for like 5 minutes, the strings are aligned where they should be over the pole-pieces....and the intonation is as perfect as my old Boss TU-12H will indicate! Amazing...well, to ME anyway!
The pickups...wow! After reading so many reviews about the DeArmonds lacking punch, I didn't expect them to sound so good! Such clarity and tone...and warm without being woof-y! And, like yours TX, in the mid position it is dead quiet! The Guildsby is smooth and works fine!
All-in-all...I couldn't be happier!!!
Pics tomorrow!