New guitar/stupid project day - Aria DM-01

[F15hface]

I’ve been interested in mosrites for a while. To save myself from spending a lot of money on one, I found this and spent a little bit of money on something that looks like one:



It’s an Aria DM-01, that was allegedly b-stock and therefore cost me about as much as an affinity series squier. It’s nice for the price. Sounds good, feels solid. Unfortunately, the neck feels really wide and the profile is quite flat, making it quite unpleasant to play anything resembling a chord above the 7th fret or so.

I was going to sell it, but then had a foolish thought. The treble corner of the heel looks a lot like the corner of a tele neck. Checking with the neck I have for the ‘72 style thinline I’ve got on the back burner, I believe a telecaster neck should fit quite well. Therefore, retrofitting a nice neck should be relatively easy, giving me a cool mongrel to bash out nirvana tracks on for less than new classic vine money.

Now I just need to find a neck and a friend with a drill…

[JSett]

I had the bass version of these and I really rated it. If it had had a J-bass neck profile, instead of the P-bass one they have, I'd have kept it. I played one of the guitars at a shop and it was good fun, especially for the dirt cheap price.

[F15hface]

I had the bass version of these and I really rated it.

Reading your positive comments about the basses and McSleazey’s positive comments about his friend’s one of these were what got the purchase over the line. There’s not really a huge amount of discussion of the DMs out there that I could find otherwise.