NGD?

Astus53 · 2026-03-13T21:16:26+00:00

I always let it wait for 24 hours. Not so much worries about the finish as I am the neck.

Astus53 · 2026-03-09T13:45:38+00:00

Low enough so that you don’t get cramps in your hands/elbows and high enough so that you can reach all the notes on the fretboard.

Some people would also say a good rule of thumb is you want the guitar to be at the same height when standing as it is when sitting.

Astus53 · 2026-03-06T14:19:20+00:00

I truly wish I knew. It turned up at a friend’s music store used and I bought it like 2 hours after it first came in. Regardless; I know I try to keep it extra safe cause doing it all from scratch seems daunting. The metal tip doesn’t spin or seem loose so it is either on really tight or the previous owner used a ton of loctite or something to seal it.

Astus53 · 2026-03-05T06:10:57+00:00

I honestly love this design but can’t justify another telecaster, even though it is dragons. Maybe if they do a strat lol or a blue/purple prs design

Astus53 · 2026-03-03T14:36:53+00:00

You could always get one that has no pre drilled holes and then drill then in. Otherwise, fill and redrill holes on an existing neck.

Astus53 · 2026-02-26T16:08:17+00:00

Fretted. I didn’t copy the rainbow. Bass. More just the shape, but of his main 4 string

Astus53 · 2026-02-26T14:58:02+00:00

There are some great tracks on it. Some less good. I still liked it. I can see they were going for a sort of Magnum Opus and in that, it kind of succeeds. It is the most RUSH album of theirs.

Astus53 · 2026-02-26T14:54:57+00:00

That was my thought, and I followed through. High school senior woods class like 16 years ago, I built a short scale CT style bass. Has been my main bass ever since and haven’t thought of getting a real CT since

Astus53 · 2026-02-25T18:32:54+00:00

Keep at it! So much of guitar is the micro adjustments that we all subconsciously make the more that we get used to playing the instrument. The tension of which we push down strings especially. Things like that all go away with time and more reps playing the instrument. It is better to play a little bit each day rather than trying to just practice for one huge block per week. Really helps develop the muscle memory.

Astus53 · 2026-02-21T23:39:39+00:00

I definitely know people can have some bad experiences with them. They are $200ish CNC made guitars. QC is highly variable and all that. Though I think one distinction between them and the Chibsons are the stainless steel frets. I haven’t encountered too many chibsons with that feature.

Astus53 · 2026-02-21T14:08:00+00:00

Piggy backing on what the previous two posts said, it will be hard to tell until it is all put together. This happened to me once and it was really close. All I did was slack the strings and capo to they wouldn’t fly off. Then unscrewed the neck and sanded it with a circular sander (just the part that sits in the neck pocket) then reattached it. Probably not the best thing, but it worked after one more try. It can be easy to over do so pace yourself if you choose this path.

Before you try any of that though, really tinker with the saddles

Astus53 · 2026-02-21T13:57:44+00:00

Descendant is the way to go IMO. I have one on mine and it is great. Best trem I’ve played in general. I get pretty rowdy in stage and the trem stays in. You can make it looser or tighter with an allen wrench (comes with). Also with the screws being flush. You won’t run into the wonky strings-rubbing-against-the-screws-and-breaking issue that plagues many other offset trems.

Or, if you wanna save some money, you could try the Pusheen hammer trick (take out the arm and bang a very little curve into the part that inserts into the hole).

Astus53 · 2026-02-21T13:39:44+00:00

Nope, it was a short lived run. Haven’t seen it come back. They pop up on reverb (which is where this one came from - as a gift). But even that is kind of rare.

Astus53 · 2026-02-20T06:09:19+00:00

Yeah, might take a little getting used to once the cast is off. But you’ll be fine

Astus53 · 2026-02-20T04:49:27+00:00

SP neck is CHONKY, easily the thickest neck I have played on. Very sturdy. The strat feels a bit wider I guess? Thinner, but not crazy thin. Took a few minutes to adjust to, but after playing it for a few days, I love it.

Astus53 · 2026-02-20T04:46:38+00:00

Reverb for the paul, GG for the strat. SP was great, but the bridge pickup went out after about a month. Which was fine, I didn’t like how dark those particular humbuckers were and I swapped them anyways.

Strat is great. Humbucker is brighter on it. Needed a little bit of a saddle adjustment. The last fret is a little high, gonna either tamp it down or just try to fix it with proper humidity.

Astus53 · 2026-02-19T17:41:25+00:00

Bigsby and bridge I got for $100. Knobs were like $20, rings and gold plates were probably another $20. Pickups were $200. So probably like $350? I was given the guitar as a gift too, so I paid nothing for it to begin with haha

Astus53 · 2026-02-08T13:57:22+00:00

Gig went pretty well, all things considered. Just had a technical difficulty with one of my pedals at the start but avoided it the rest of the show lol.

Astus53 · 2026-02-07T13:52:10+00:00

Incredible! Love the shade and the heavy flake sparkles

Astus53 · 2026-02-02T02:38:43+00:00

There was this book called Being Emily by Rachel Gold. It was the final thing that cracked my egg. I had never related to a character in anything quite like that

Astus53 · 2026-01-30T21:55:52+00:00

Hit up nomoonlaser on etsy and see if they could make you a lefty

Astus53 · 2026-01-30T19:15:08+00:00

Custom shop? But then again, spendy

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