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Yeah, I have a Dean ML XM that has exactly that problem.
The classic guitar shape, adapted as it was in the Telecaster and Stratocaster, are the time-tested practical shapes.
Jay Turser has a really good reputation. Their stuff is Asian-made, but the higher-end stuff (they do make some very cheap strat kits, for example) is about as good as anything coming out of Asia, and better than a lot of it. One of my all-time favorite guitars to play (and it really had a sound!) was a Jay Turser strat.
There’s probably no place you can go to see one before you buy it, though. Most new ones are sold by one supplier online.
I would guess that a Samick or Cort guitar today is at least the match of quality of any Strat built in the 60’s.
After all, you can buy all the parts today to build a Model T today, but if you did, you would have a better car than Ford built in 1927. Better steel, tigher tolerances, better rubber, etc.
These factories that build a million guitars per year are probably doing a better job than Fender did in the 60’s.
After all…a Chevy Impala coming off the line today is probably a better all-around car than any Rolls Royce ever built, when it comes to dependability, etc. But you would pay for it what you paid for a Rolls, even though the Rolls leaked all its fluids from the day it was made (and I have some experience with that, having driven one back in the 80’s for one of the owners of the company I worked for then).
The link works, the program installs…but it doesn’t recognize these new browser windows that this site opens as “popups.”
Yeah, it’s all set up.
Actually, what this site does is open popups in new browser windows, unlike any other site I visit.
On those basses, I would suggest you go and look at a few BC Rich guitars and see how the points are knocked off!
Spam has been such a problem that one forum I visit occasionally has just given up and closed. Another requires a very stringent registration.
But this is one of the very few sites that my FireFox (newest verstion) does NOT kill the popups, for some reason.
A few minutes of lessons (which you can get for not much money, or even for free from some willing helper) can help a lot, but the most useful thing you can do is play with someone else.
Washburn is one of the sponsors of this site, so we certainly shouldn’t denigrate their quality.
I have an Alvarez acoustic guitar I bought in college for $75, 35 years ago. I could have bought a better one for twice that, and it might be a $2000 guitar today.
Unfortunately, a lot of labor goes into a good acoustic. On the other hand, the inexpensive (less than $200 actual price) electrics today are probably better guitars than the 1960’s Fenders that today bring $15,000+.
But if you go to several guitar stores, including the big ones, you can probably find an excellent guitar in your price range.
I have a little house (cabin might be more accurate) up in the woods in Arkansas, and little black bears are pretty common. “Little” is a relative term, though. Twice as big as a German Shepherd, and a lot more teeth! Heck, we have bobcats up there, and I wouldn’t want to run into one of those in an angry mood, either. The deer are numerous, the wild turkeys walk across our porch on a regular basis, armadillos dig up the yard, possums and raccoons are around all the time.
Sometimes living close to wildlife is closer and wilder than I would prefer!
There’s no Jay Turser factory, either. Or SX (sometimes Essex). Or any of a dozen “store names.”
On the other hand, that means that some of these factories are making as many guitars in a year as Fender has made from the day it was started. That’s not necessarily bad. The Model T was exceeding inexpensive, but undoubtedly one of the best cars of its day. When you make millions of something, it’s possible to get very good at making them.
I would doubt, for example, that anyone would try to make the case that a 1960 Fender Strat is really a better guitar than a new Jay Turser JT300.
I would guess the two adjusting screws that hold one end of that trem spring are pulling out of the wood. You can try screwing them back in, which should effectively pull the springs tighter and pull the bridge back down. They may have just loosened with the vibration of the guitar. BUT, if you can’t screw them back in because the threads in the wood are stripped, you’ll have to have some repairs done. If I were doing it, I would first try putting a wooden toothpick in the screw hole, then screw in the screw. If that doesn’t work, I would next go up in size one number.
How can I be sure that’s the problem? Note that in the photo of the springs, the coils of the springs are almost touching each other, so they have no tension on them any more.
I just wondered. Seems like you could put a block on the poster’s ID and an automatic delete on any message with certain words in it.
I’ve been a moderator, and I know what you’re dealing with. Part of the problem is that I usually see the BBS during hours when Europe is asleep.
[quote=”glw”]Blimey! What’s that blue thing with the green neck in pic 38?[/quote]
Sorry, can’t help you on that. Think it’s worth maybe $5K?
