So the black SG didn’t last long and went to live with my buddy who wanted to learn guitar. It left behind a hard case for my SG Jr. I then proceeded to trade my ovation and the EB3 bass for the following…
Nobody needs a Floyd Rose in their life, but everyone needs one. Hard to explain. The Jr. is made by a local guy. Plays great and the nitro is already starting to wear in nicely. Played both out this last week.
true! Nice guitars
I wouldn’t mind this Epiphone Epiphone Adam Jones Signature Art Series Les Paul Custom | Reverb
I’m a huge Frazetta fan, too bad I don’t need anymore guitars in my life 
Check out the Gretch Junior Jet. Great axe for the $.
And to think that my wife complained about me buying a Stratocaster with a hard shell case back in 1972-73 for $500.00 new 
Well, US$500 in 1972 is equal to US$3,500 in 2023 dollars. Yeah, I’m surprised to learn that, too.
Since it’s not a sin to own them, Here are mine. An EP LP Special TV Yellow with P90’s, an EP ES335 with Alnico pickups, and a Schecter Diamond Series Omen 6 with humbuckers.
Nice lefties!
I know guitars with in built reverb are nothing new. But a carbon fibre sub $300 travel guitar with built in tuner / reverb and usb chargable that you can abuse looks interesting.
Plus if you’ve never leveled a high fret Phil shows you how.
Any of you guitar fella know about the Fender Baja Telecasters?
Seem to be the bomb from what I read.
There is one pretty cheap near me, and IF I ever bought a guitar it would be a blonde or natural tele.
Someone has a Baja blonde tele for $850 locally and someone else has a natural “Special Edition” with an upgraded neck pick up to a Fender Twisted Tele and the bridge pickup to an older american reissue pickup of some kind for $680.
Any feedback on these?
No experience with this specific model but Fender Telecasters are my most favourite guitars.
Maybe @terb has some experience with these?
yeah, those are very interesting models. not too expensive but still with nice pickups and, if I remember, a cool wiring with the 4-way pickup selector, which adds another sound to the 3 normal Tele sounds. The 4th sound is the two pickups in series.
same 
The Classic Player Baja Telecaster is a specialized Telecaster model with a four-way blade switch rather than the three-way switch typically found on most Telecasters. Without engaging the S-1 switch, the first three blade switch positions deliver standard Telecaster wiring, with a special in-series fourth position that creates a thicker tone with more output. Like so:
** Position one: bridge pickup only*
** Position two: bridge and neck pickups in parallel*
** Position three: neck pickup only*
** Position four: neck and bridge pickups in series*
Engaging the S-1 switch on this particular Telecaster introduces out-of-phase circuitry to blade switch positions two and four only, with positions one and three remaining unaffected. This produces a thinner and more-hollow tone of the kind often heard in, for example, funk and early electric blues. Like so:
** Position one: bridge pickup only*
** Position two: bridge and neck pickups in parallel and out of phase*
** Position three: neck pickup only*
** Position four: neck and bridge pickups in series and out of phase*
this is useless in my opinion. But still, the good pickups and the 4-way selector are good arguments for the Baja.
I don’t know why I would need the extra positions for my uses, even if they sound cool, but to pay a bit more for them seems silly at this point.
The Special Edition one for a bit cheaper has upgraded pickups that basically match what’s in the baja just no extra positions. I know there are other things like wood choice and neck shape etc on the baja.
Test the neck profile if possible to make sure you like it. They have all kind of variations between models.
How do you know what you like without playing one for a long time?
Yeah two of the five switch positions on my Revstar are phased and while with humbuckers it might make slightly more sense, I would not describe this as a required feature.
Same with the transformer, it’s neat but pretty unique. It’s a nice passive boost though. Cool idea at least.
If I stick with guitars I will find a Tele I love someday. Though to be honest the Revstar will take me a long long way, this thing is pretty much pro level.
actually yes, it’s a cool ideal ! I’d like to try it someday.
that’s for sure. but a Tele is just something very different.
I love everything about them except the slab. I’ll find one with a nice contour at some point (they definitely exist) and probably fall in love. They just look amazing and I love the neck feel.
Tele’s are 25.5" too, right? The one drawback of my Revstar is it is LP scale.
