Trey's Guitar Rig

[Marmar]

No problem guys....

If you ever wanna talk shop about rigs, feel free to pick my brains.

I'm currently in the process of building a guitar from scratch. Right now I'm doing a semi-hollow with dual Duncan '59's and the same wiring as Trey. Padauk back with a quilted maple top, maple neck, 25.5 scale, jumbo alloy frets....with a nice added touch of Jerry. Making a buffered effects loop built in. Should be interesting to mess around with once it's complete.

and I can't wait to get my amp back from the shop.....getting all kinds of things done to it besides a complete re-cap and tube job....it's a 1969 Siverface Bassman with the '66 blackface circuitry....my next electronics project is to build a switching system to integrate my rack units with my floor unit via MIDI....

[Lifeboy]

No problem guys....

If you ever wanna talk shop about rigs, feel free to pick my brains.

I'm currently in the process of building a guitar from scratch. Right now I'm doing a semi-hollow with dual Duncan '59's and the same wiring as Trey. Padauk back with a quilted maple top, maple neck, 25.5 scale, jumbo alloy frets....with a nice added touch of Jerry. Making a buffered effects loop built in. Should be interesting to mess around with once it's complete.

and I can't wait to get my amp back from the shop.....getting all kinds of things done to it besides a complete re-cap and tube job....it's a 1969 Siverface Bassman with the '66 blackface circuitry....my next electronics project is to build a switching system to integrate my rack units with my floor unit via MIDI....

Nice! Please post pics of the finished product

I bought a '89 japanese dakota red strat body, and a 2015 classic series 60's neck with the lacquer stain. Put a lace sensor blue and silver in the neck and middle, and a SD hot rail in the bridge.

Yes, its the affordable version of Dean Weens strat.

[Marmar]

Nice!

I'm going for the all out Trey tone....except I'm shooting for the 92-95 era sound.

After I'm done with the semi-hollow, since I'll have all the templates and bugs worked out, I'll be aiming at cloning a Doc......full hollow clone. I've already got the wood for it, I'm just waiting to get my semi finished so I'll have a better understanding of what I'll be up against. I kinda cheated with the semi because I bought the neck pre-made....I wont be doing that with the full hollow....

[Lifeboy]

Nice!

I'm going for the all out Trey tone....except I'm shooting for the 92-95 era sound.

After I'm done with the semi-hollow, since I'll have all the templates and bugs worked out, I'll be aiming at cloning a Doc......full hollow clone. I've already got the wood for it, I'm just waiting to get my semi finished so I'll have a better understanding of what I'll be up against. I kinda cheated with the semi because I bought the neck pre-made....I wont be doing that with the full hollow....

That's awesome.

I'm still in the process of deciding what I want to do next, even though it may be a ways off due to money restraints (house, gf, kids, etc etc), but I was thinking about an HH strat. I love the look of the transparent butterscotch blonde like you see on a lot of teles. That, with a black pickguard and maybe some black EMG pickups and a maple neck looks SO clean. Or a white pickguard if I were to go with another humbucker.

That would be at the top of my list of ideas if I were to go the building route again. If not, I would really like a decent PRS. Maybe a singlecut or hollowbody.

[Lifeboy]

Have you seen any of Rich Hoeg's guitars? He used to work for Modulus (I think?) He built Bobby's strat (among others). I LOVE that strat as well as his other builds (as far as looks go). I would like to be able to play one though. I e-mailed him and he gave me his cell phone number. I would really like to get an idea of what his prices are.

http://www.hoegguitars.com/


I absolutely LOVE the shape of the headstocks for his strats.


ETA- I am thinking about installing seperate pickups switches on my other japanese sunburst strat, where I can use to neck and bridge at the same time. Apparently, its a really easy mod too

[Gundo]

Since when do you have kids?

[Lifeboy]

Since when do you have kids?

My girlfriend has a two year old.

[Lifeboy]

Also, I'm kind of obsessed with this G&L that Jake Cinninger from UM used to play. Its very 80s-Zappa-esque...

It's where I got the idea, obviously

[Marmar]

I was never a fan of Strats....

Don't like the way they feel or sound...I was always more of a Gibson feel kinda person, but their body shapes are boring and bland....

[Lifeboy]

I was never a fan of Strats....

Don't like the way they feel or sound...I was always more of a Gibson feel kinda person, but their body shapes are boring and bland....

I love the boring, plain body. Especially that transparent butterscotch over swamp ash.

But I must say, I definitely think I'm beginning to prefer humbuckers, which is why my next strat (if I get/build another strat) will have them.

I had a Gibson 50's tribute gold top Les Paul for about 3 weeks before I returned it. Super nice guitar, but it just didn't feel right. I'm just not a LP/Gibson guy. I played my buddy's ES-335 and I didn't care for it a whole lot, esp for the price.

In really diggin' the butterscotch strat with HBs or PRS if I want to spend a little more money. Every one I've played felt so comfortable

[Marmar]

if you're looking into a PRS....

[rowjimmy]

That is a lovely axe.
I've never been in love with the PRS stylings (no question that they make excellent guitars, tho) before seeing this one.

[Multibeast12]

I love PRS guitars, I bought one last year that is a blast to play. Is the only thing I have played that feels more comfortable than my strat.

[Lifeboy]

I love the custom 24s too. I've played a handful and every one felt so good.

[Lifeboy]

I loved the singlecut I played too. Those are some beautiful guitars.

I like the look more than a Les Paul to be honest...