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by Phantom Surfdaddy » Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:22 pm
How can you not want to touch something so pink... truly a thing of beauty. They should experiment with the pink fretboard on the green guitar and vice versa. Shit, remember when steve vai and joe satriani were considered relatively imortant in the guitar world and kids were still buying Ibanez guitars? Some real ugly guitars came out of that era.
As for the old neck. I can understand how a narrow nut can be annoying. I used to get frustrated with narrow nut guitars. But the only time it annoyed me was playing A major. But as I became a more experience (and lazier) guitarist I started playing Amaj with just the first finger barring the D, G, and B strings and the high E only ringing out sometimes, when it happens to not get muted by my finger.
I probably should not be revealing any of the creative or tonal secrets that go into creating my musical web, but I'm sure I can give you one chord voicing with no context and not risk revealing too many trade secrets. These days I prefer to play Amaj here;
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So narrow nuts dont bother me anywhere near as much as they used to. And this isn't a playing adjustment I've employed to deal with narrow nuts either, I just happen to find the most interesting chord voicings for E and A to be around the fifth and seventh frets.
Fret wear doesn't bother me at all either, unless there's like a skinny deep groove in the fret that pinches the string when you try to move or bend it and that is very rare. Otherwise I find years of typical everyday fretwear on a guitar quite charming and it has never inhibited my playing. In fact a brand new set of jumbo frets makes my playing way clunkier than worn down old frets from yesteryear.
The chipped nut is a bit of an issue cosmetically, but if it still holds the string then I guess that's kosher, or halal or whatever you wanna call it.
I'm curious about the maple still. I understand the aesthetics, some guitars look great with maple fretboards. But how do you find playing on it comparative to rosewood or ebony? I hate em personally, Find them really gummy and claggy to play on. Especially at gigs when you start gettin sweat all over everything. I think it may just be a case of too much finish, which is I've sanded down the fretboard on the one and only guitar I have with a maple fretboard. Makes it way more playable, but rosewood is still the shit as far as I am concerned.
I understand that money is an issue. But pretending it wasn't, here's what I make of neck replacement on this kind of guitar. The warmoth with big Fender headstock would suit the vibe of the guitar. But I would still feel weird about it. However a replica Univox neck, with a wider nut and longer scale could be fucking amazing. But it would cost a fortune. But it would be worth it if someone could recreate the contours and beveling on the original headstock. For me that would be the ideal. Obviously this is hypothetical though because real life aint that convenient.
Okay so all in all I think it's a good job. Cant relate to your choice regarding the neck. But the refinish seems like it is done really nicely and I'm a bit fan of the wiring mod.
If it was in my hands and money was no object I'd have left he finish, made up a long scale replica neck (including inlays and binding and the whole nine yards), cleaned up the hardware and made sure the trem was working properly and done the exact same pickup switch mod as you and then put it in weird open tunings. Voila, one Univox Spacerock Dreamweapon.