Friday, August 03, 2012

Axe-Claimation!!

This was supposed to be a site for a service I provided before but since I finally realized I'm still a noob in that so I decided just to blog about what I always and could never stop to do.. GASSING (GAS = Guitar acquisition Syndrome). It's what in the musicians' world address those guitarists that are wanting more and more (even tho sometimes they don't even need them or in my case afford them). I will try to talk about the findings I get from the internet especially ebay and guitar companies updates on their new and latest products and also from any guitar stores i go. I will also be blogging about my guitar projects cause I have alot in mind and lots and lots of guitar parts. So that would be it for now.


So, first blog will be about my very 1st baby. Not my 1st guitar tho because my dad used to have a Kramer 600ST and gave it to me in the 90's but sold it off because I was more in drums and he mainly plays acoustics which I am now seriously feel so stupid for letting it go.It looked something like the one below but in a more metallic purple-ish color (think hair metal)

Okay I'm a bit off now so let's get back to my main and favorite axe which is the Squier Telecaster Custom in Black. Why my favorite? 2 words Maple fretboard. Don't get me wrong, I love other fretboards too but I am attracted more to Maple. It is kinda like the marriage of the traditional looks of tele with a modern vibe guitar with 2 humbucker pups.
It is relatively heavy in weight but not as heavy as a Les Paul. I did a side-by-side comparison to an Ibanez RGA42 with actives pups and surprisingly this tele won over the ibby in both clean and dirty category. The cleans on this axe is twangy with a lil bit crispy side whereby the dirty tones are heavy maybe because of the Agathis wood used (which some says a relative of Mahogany) that produces a darker sound compared to Alder. For now everything is stock and I was thinking to change all of the hardwares to black but I dunno bout now. Definitely I'm gonna change the pups because they can get very harsh with dirty channel. So yah for now this is my 2cents of the day. I'm out of juice (furthermore it's Friday and it's almost 5pm) so let's continue another day. 

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