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Gone back to my original problem now which is that the vol pot is well in the wrong place for me on my SL3, I wore the tape holding it out and I keep hitting it and turning it down.
I'II fix that first as have been advised already. Played it so much yesterday I put a gurt stratch to the primer in the back of it. Don't worry about stuff like that, as its on the back and its for playing eh, but at the back of my mind, I do worry that one day I will wake up and worry and be depressed about it though or maybe someone else might worry about it one day. But that doesn't worry me, maybe it kind of does.
To me buckle rash is a sign of a good guitar with experience though. I'm always wary of 'mint' guitars. I know some people do keep them that way, but its like an engine, you can't leave them standing for too long as the condensation will start to rust the cylinder walls and if its got no marks you kind of wonder if the player really dug it and maybe they rejected it because it couldn't cut it. Obviously you don't drop it or put a big chip or dent in it, but I think I'm in a minority there with that attitude towards used guitars though.
I have a habit of wrecking strap button fixings also, as I press down so hard on the thing when I get a bit carried away. You know how it is, when its sounding good, its so good, you just wanna eat the thing, its so wholesome. I need some longer screws.
The way the SL3 is set up now isn't very rock and roll anyhow, with 009's and the bridge parallel against the body, which is how I guess I should set it up, it obviously doesn't suit my style, as when you play notes hard and you can hear it detune slightly as the springs give in response to your pick hand. Anyway 11's or maybe two extra springs will fix that.
Without the hand rest bridge technique on bends, it sounds bad man, in a bad way. Too out of tune for anything. But with the hand rest thing you can do unison bends easy, a few runs and then end out with a violent bar dive vibrato on a pinched harmonic...cool! Its still set up very light, too light for me I think, but don't know whether to change it or just use the guitar for some stuff and adapt to it a the lightly setup floating trem can do some crazy stuff if you are careful. Also notice that I wear frets out quite fast. Around 6-8 months and its starting to buzz from the unworn upper frets on the lower string up around the 18-24th fret. Bloody thing has started to buzz a little bit on D and G strings and the action is fairly high still. My other guitars are like that. 12 months max without a fret dress. I though Jumbo's might last a bit longer than that though and didn't think I played it that much really.
Anyway its nice to have something completely different to the TOM Bridge guitars as, mostly due to the Jackson radius fretboard, it does pull something else out of you and its not good to be stale and tread water and stay the same eh.
I'II fix that first as have been advised already. Played it so much yesterday I put a gurt stratch to the primer in the back of it. Don't worry about stuff like that, as its on the back and its for playing eh, but at the back of my mind, I do worry that one day I will wake up and worry and be depressed about it though or maybe someone else might worry about it one day. But that doesn't worry me, maybe it kind of does.
To me buckle rash is a sign of a good guitar with experience though. I'm always wary of 'mint' guitars. I know some people do keep them that way, but its like an engine, you can't leave them standing for too long as the condensation will start to rust the cylinder walls and if its got no marks you kind of wonder if the player really dug it and maybe they rejected it because it couldn't cut it. Obviously you don't drop it or put a big chip or dent in it, but I think I'm in a minority there with that attitude towards used guitars though.I have a habit of wrecking strap button fixings also, as I press down so hard on the thing when I get a bit carried away. You know how it is, when its sounding good, its so good, you just wanna eat the thing, its so wholesome. I need some longer screws.
The way the SL3 is set up now isn't very rock and roll anyhow, with 009's and the bridge parallel against the body, which is how I guess I should set it up, it obviously doesn't suit my style, as when you play notes hard and you can hear it detune slightly as the springs give in response to your pick hand. Anyway 11's or maybe two extra springs will fix that.
Without the hand rest bridge technique on bends, it sounds bad man, in a bad way. Too out of tune for anything. But with the hand rest thing you can do unison bends easy, a few runs and then end out with a violent bar dive vibrato on a pinched harmonic...cool! Its still set up very light, too light for me I think, but don't know whether to change it or just use the guitar for some stuff and adapt to it a the lightly setup floating trem can do some crazy stuff if you are careful. Also notice that I wear frets out quite fast. Around 6-8 months and its starting to buzz from the unworn upper frets on the lower string up around the 18-24th fret. Bloody thing has started to buzz a little bit on D and G strings and the action is fairly high still. My other guitars are like that. 12 months max without a fret dress. I though Jumbo's might last a bit longer than that though and didn't think I played it that much really.
Anyway its nice to have something completely different to the TOM Bridge guitars as, mostly due to the Jackson radius fretboard, it does pull something else out of you and its not good to be stale and tread water and stay the same eh.
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