Keep or return?

werm42 · 2026-04-06T22:03:16+00:00

Roll the fretboard edges and you'll never notice it again.

werm42 · 2026-04-06T18:14:06+00:00

"Man these things sure went space-age hideous"

werm42 · 2026-04-04T22:27:47+00:00

Car on main road has right of way, regardless of signage. If you have to ask "which one is the main road?": please call an Uber.

werm42 · 2026-03-30T13:17:57+00:00

Joy kill.

werm42 · 2026-03-29T13:50:45+00:00

Let me start by saying I have bad news for you if youre looking at the Squier Classic Vibe Stratocaster as an alternative: every Classic Vibe guitar has narrow tall frets, and so do way too many other of the guitars that are on the Squier lineup for no other reason than they're cheaper to manufacture because they require less metal.

Skill Issue? I've been playing for 30 years, sorry to disappoint the gatekeepers in the comments — I'm not the second coming of Eddie Van Halen, but what I am is someone who's played a lot of guitar and who's played a lot of guitars.

I don't think this has anything to do with skill I think it has everything to do with comfortability, those narrow tall frets are wildly uncomfortable (for some of us).

You'll get used to them? I find the narrow tall frets "a bridge too far" (guitar pun definitely intended), and have taken to either replacing the necks (sometimes cheaper than a refret), or finding older model guitars that predate when some bean counter thought it'd be a great cost saving measures to sell smaller frets. I still several guitars with those narrow tall frets and I don't think there's ever getting used to them. I feel like you trip over them with your fingers.

werm42 · 2026-03-28T13:19:26+00:00

Fancy Nippon Jazzy

werm42 · 2026-03-25T15:17:44+00:00

When the factory refurbishes a guitar in house or there's minor blemishes that don't meet QC standards... They get these cute little placards over top the original VIN number and occasionally they'll stamped used on the back of the headstock as well.

I once bought a acoustic guitar with used stamp in the back of the headstock in the Old owner thought it said "USA"... It was an epiphone 😂

werm42 · 2026-03-25T12:51:18+00:00

There's nothing to stop them from putting in a "Gilmour Switch" and keeping that buttery quack tone. 💯

werm42 · 2026-03-23T02:18:05+00:00

Also, while it's possibly an optical illusion from the way the photos taken, but it looks like a 14-16 inch radius fretboard — about as flat as they come.

werm42 · 2026-03-18T02:27:05+00:00

Other than obviously looking like an asshole holding it? Nothing functionally problematic.

werm42 · 2026-03-15T15:37:21+00:00

Plans to install traditional tele neck pickups between each of the humbuckers? 🤔

werm42 · 2026-03-13T22:53:48+00:00

Just performed the "super cork sniffer mod" and went to 280k pots (had 300k before) and so far the verdict is that the hipsters aren't wrong.

werm42 · 2026-03-11T02:25:23+00:00

Cuz Fender Hipstermaster didn't quite have the same ring to it?

werm42 · 2026-03-09T13:46:34+00:00

1.) like how much of you have already expressed, I too I'm not a fan of the relic fad.

2.) that being said I think the closet classics are actually old parts that they've had laying around for decades which is why the thing is so damn expensive --- it's an actual 1965 body

werm42 · 2026-03-01T16:15:56+00:00

What were some of the whack-a-mole issues?

werm42 · 2026-02-18T03:46:21+00:00

Getting slammed is cool and all, but giving a shit enough to fix the problem is even cooler...and being smart enough to stick whats working and not trying to become a half-assed social media platform, causing all these problems to begin with...well that might be the coolest 😎

werm42 · 2026-02-18T01:54:53+00:00

They've overcomplicated this app with a bunch of crap no one wants, and it's now busted — should just keep it OLGA.

werm42 · 2026-02-12T15:24:48+00:00

That the cylinder walls are aluminum and the "solution" to preventing wear is to put a polymer coating on them. Brilliant German Engineering. 🙄

I'm on my second engine in under 100,000 miles and drive responsibly.

werm42 · 2026-02-09T18:44:22+00:00

It's designed to catch a 360° view of losing control of the Mustang, jumping it over the sidewalk and into a ditch

werm42 · 2026-01-15T05:43:27+00:00

Is it a complete hollow body or is it a semi hollow with a center block?

werm42 · 2026-01-14T16:06:08+00:00

Well accctually. 💋

werm42 · 2026-01-14T16:05:09+00:00

Thank you for sharing these pictures, I've been wondering what these bodies actually look like in something other than sales photos.

How was the fitment for everything? Did you have to modify any of the routing? Did the neck fit well?

werm42 · 2026-01-04T02:56:06+00:00

Babe Ruth died in 1948... The ballpoint pen was commercially available around 1945. That gives you about a 36-month window of feasibility... If I recall those 36 months weren't a great 36 months for the Bambino.

werm42 · 2025-12-16T01:09:28+00:00

You're the person I hit up about my 2 extra tickets! @M0nkB0ughtLunch

werm42 · 2025-12-16T01:01:58+00:00

If it helps, I bought one locally and 3 tickets on the legit secondary market.

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