So I'm reviving this Blog from the dead because after being stagnant for the last few years, I'm moving to the next level. Guitar builds.
Since the last post, I've been collecting pedals, and modding guitars and basses like always, and upon modding my last guitar (2018 Fender Player Series in Surf Pearl), I started thinking of a guitar that doesn't quite exist. Then I decided to do a bass build including finish. Well, I practiced some finishing techniques, but living in Wisconsin, it's just getting too cold for spray finishes.
So I went back to the guitar design I had in mind, and decided to do a version where I can do the finish by hand through the cold months. I'll be posting pics throughout the process on Instagram. As of writing this, I've been experimenting with finishes, and I have another guitar on the way that will be a Guinea pig for some mod tests I want to try.
The mod project will be an Ibanez RGRT421. This is definitely out of the wheelhouse of my guitar taste, but I've been intrigued with the more modern Super-Strat type of guitars, and this is a neck-thru design with a type of mahogany body, it's a hardtail, has a slimmer 3-piece maple neck, has 2 humbuckers, and a reverse headstock. I'll post more about it as I work on it, but Sweetwater is taking their time getting it in stock and shipping it to me. I did get a cool strap for it from Musician's Friend though.
Also, I've been experimenting with some BOSS pedals to see what I've been missing over the last 30 years. Some of the more rare BOSS pedals have been cloned by TC Electronic and Behringer, and I've been trying some of those as well. The TC Electronic 3rd Dimension is a spectacular chorus that I've been really digging and it's a clone of BOSS' DC-3 chorus from the early 80's. Another pedal that's been a boatload of fun has been the Fender Pugilist Distortion. Definitely worth a try.
