Suhr Content - I just got back from FEDEX!

[Moshaholic]

This is a truly amazing guitar...

The feel of the neck on this guitar is unmatched by anything I own or have played....

But after playing it last night and switching back to my usa charvel and hot rodded usa strats, I dont think I'm going to keep this guitar.

I think I will order a Suhr with an alder traditional strat body and a 22 fret neck and I will be listing this guitar for sale today.

 

[jlbaxe]

This is a truly amazing guitar...

The feel of the neck on this guitar is unmatched by anything I own or have played....

But after playing it last night and switching back to my usa charvel and hot rodded usa strats, I dont think I'm going to keep this guitar.

I think I will order a Suhr with an alder traditional strat body and a 22 fret neck and I will be listing this guitar for sale today.

Damn dude. I find my Les pauls, Strats and Tele all feel different but not enough to off any one of them. How drastic of a feel is it? This is why I prefer to play them first.

 

[Moshaholic]

This is a truly amazing guitar...

The feel of the neck on this guitar is unmatched by anything I own or have played....

But after playing it last night and switching back to my usa charvel and hot rodded usa strats, I dont think I'm going to keep this guitar.

I think I will order a Suhr with an alder traditional strat body and a 22 fret neck and I will be listing this guitar for sale today.

Damn dude. I find my Les pauls, Strats and Tele all feel different but not enough to off any one of them. How drastic of a feel is it? This is why I prefer to play them first.

Over the past four years or so I have totally gravitated to USA Charvels and American Strats.

I have 4 Fender American strats all hot rodded, three of them are just tits and bacon for me these days. I have different pickup configs too. The Charvel I have is just a sweet singing tone monster.

Eric Johnson Strat - Rosewood, 12 inch radius, the thick 60's style maple neck is to die for, 300k pots, nitro finish, JB Jr. in the bridge, neck and middle pups are stock EJ pickups. I have had this axe for two years and this guitar can do it all period... It's is a 80 shredder with the JB jr. in the bridge and plays smooth as butter. Can everything you can think of rock and blues wise too. I really just need to do a vid of this guitar in action as it impresses me every time I play it.

Black American Deluxe V-Neck - These Deluxe V-neck guitars are just amazing, soft "V" (very comfy) compound radius, locking tuners, sweet bridge, etc. I installed a custom WD music products pick gard with two zebra duncan humbuckers - JB & Alnico Pro APH-1 pickups w/3 way switching. The APH-1 in a maple neck strat will blow your mind, it is my "secret sauce" weapon of choice for insane tone. Has a fat strat like sound in the neck kind of P90-ish but humbucker too. The way this pickup sounds in a maple neck strat will make you do a double take. This one kind of looks like a classic Dave Murray style strat with the black bosy, maple neck and two humbuckers . Changing the springs and block is a nice upgrade too on these guitars.

1999 Hard Tail Strat - Hot rails bridge and classic stacks for the rest. Classic stack in the neck wails. I orderdd this strat brand new from Fender back in 1999. Avid strat haters have played this guitar and said "I think I'm going to buy a Strat now" this thing plays and sounds so good. This one came out really nice from the factory for a 899.00 guitar. I would never sell it in a million years.

I have another American deluxe Strat for it is two tone sunburst and is for sale at present. JB jr. in the brisge and stock passive mid 2000's fender single coils. This was my main player for a while until I go the black V-neck.

USA Charvel San Dimas Pro Mod - JB and Duncan APH-1 combo - man this axe just delivers. I bought up like 4-5 usa pro mods all at once and this one was the keeper for me and I liked its tone more than the usa custom shop san dimas Charvels I had. go figure...

Anyway these are what I have been playing and I really like the strat body style, the tight punchy sound of ALDER, and 22 fret feel... and especially the sound of a neck pick up in a 22 fret guitar. There is just no comparison when it comes to the singling lead tone of a neck pickup in a 22 fret guitar for my tastes...

I have a 2011 Gibson R8 that is beyond a keeper too.

That said this shur is very amazing in its own right and that's why I want to change course before I change my mind.

After seeing and playing the neck on this Modern guitar I keep thinking how a roasted birdseye maple neck will sound and feel on a Suhr vintage guitar body with a JB in the bridge and just a classic stack in the neck position with no middle pickup... Schwing !!!

Here are some cheesy pics I had on my phone of the guitars I have been playing for a while now.

 

[zewango]

There is something about a big thick chunk of alder that is hard to beat in a strat.
My favorite sounding Suhr was mahogany/maple top with pickguard.

 

[Moshaholic]

There is something about a big thick chunk of alder that is hard to beat in a strat.
My favorite sounding Suhr was mahogany/maple top with pickguard.

The pickgard make a guitar sound louder to my ears both acoustically and plugged in to some degree. I noticed this between my charvel so-cals and regular san dimas guitars a bit.

 

[Moshaholic]

There is something about a big thick chunk of alder that is hard to beat in a strat.
My favorite sounding Suhr was mahogany/maple top with pickguard.

Alder + JB + JVM 210 on orange channel + boost (OD-9 for me) makes me not want to stop playing.

 

[jlbaxe]

Very nice collection

I am a C-shape fan....or was.....Played a soft v clapton guitar years ago in GC and couldn't believe how nice it felt and easy to play. Asked the guy what neck it had and didn't want to believe him....could change my whole way of thinking about strats

I had a Standard tricolor I sold...didnt feel as good as My USA Deluxe. I have a Tele maple neck C-shape vintage honey that I luv, makes me try harder to play but feels great.

I have a "Blackie" Fender start soft V neck on the Fed Ex truck today out for delivery.

I need a super strat H/S/H like my '80's RG550 was set up, with out the floyd rose

 

[Moshaholic]

Very nice collection

I am a C-shape fan....or was.....Played a soft v clapton guitar years ago in GC and couldn't believe how nice it felt and easy to play. Asked the guy what neck it had and didn't want to believe him....could change my whole way of thinking about strats

I had a Standard tricolor I sold...didnt feel as good as My USA Deluxe. I have a Tele maple neck C-shape vintage honey that I luv, makes me try harder to play but feels great.

I have a "Blackie" Fender start soft V neck on the Fed Ex truck today out for delivery.

I need a super strat H/S/H like my '80's RG550 was set up, with out the floyd rose

Are you going to leave the blackie stock?

 

[jlbaxe]

Very nice collection

I am a C-shape fan....or was.....Played a soft v clapton guitar years ago in GC and couldn't believe how nice it felt and easy to play. Asked the guy what neck it had and didn't want to believe him....could change my whole way of thinking about strats

I had a Standard tricolor I sold...didnt feel as good as My USA Deluxe. I have a Tele maple neck C-shape vintage honey that I luv, makes me try harder to play but feels great.

I have a "Blackie" Fender start soft V neck on the Fed Ex truck today out for delivery.

I need a super strat H/S/H like my '80's RG550 was set up, with out the floyd rose

Are you going to leave the blackie stock?

yes

 

[Moshaholic]

Very nice collection

I am a C-shape fan....or was.....Played a soft v clapton guitar years ago in GC and couldn't believe how nice it felt and easy to play. Asked the guy what neck it had and didn't want to believe him....could change my whole way of thinking about strats

I had a Standard tricolor I sold...didnt feel as good as My USA Deluxe. I have a Tele maple neck C-shape vintage honey that I luv, makes me try harder to play but feels great.

I have a "Blackie" Fender start soft V neck on the Fed Ex truck today out for delivery.

I need a super strat H/S/H like my '80's RG550 was set up, with out the floyd rose

Are you going to leave the blackie stock?

yes

A JB Jr. in the bridge of a strat is like Viagra and will result in an erection lasting for more than four hours...

 

[jlbaxe]

Very nice collection

I am a C-shape fan....or was.....Played a soft v clapton guitar years ago in GC and couldn't believe how nice it felt and easy to play. Asked the guy what neck it had and didn't want to believe him....could change my whole way of thinking about strats

I had a Standard tricolor I sold...didnt feel as good as My USA Deluxe. I have a Tele maple neck C-shape vintage honey that I luv, makes me try harder to play but feels great.

I have a "Blackie" Fender start soft V neck on the Fed Ex truck today out for delivery.

I need a super strat H/S/H like my '80's RG550 was set up, with out the floyd rose

Are you going to leave the blackie stock?

yes

A JB Jr. in the bridge of a strat is like Viagra and will result in an erection lasting for more than four hours...

Hmmm will have to check. Maybe in my Deluxe Strat. I am looking for a S/S/S config for that guitar. I don't like the S-1 Switching system

 

[Moshaholic]

Very nice collection

I am a C-shape fan....or was.....Played a soft v clapton guitar years ago in GC and couldn't believe how nice it felt and easy to play. Asked the guy what neck it had and didn't want to believe him....could change my whole way of thinking about strats

I had a Standard tricolor I sold...didnt feel as good as My USA Deluxe. I have a Tele maple neck C-shape vintage honey that I luv, makes me try harder to play but feels great.

I have a "Blackie" Fender start soft V neck on the Fed Ex truck today out for delivery.

I need a super strat H/S/H like my '80's RG550 was set up, with out the floyd rose

Are you going to leave the blackie stock?

yes

A JB Jr. in the bridge of a strat is like Viagra and will result in an erection lasting for more than four hours...

Hmmm will have to check. Maybe in my Deluxe Strat. I am looking for a S/S/S config for that guitar. I don't like the S-1 Switching system

First thing I do on any American/Deluxe strat with that noiseless pups and switching system is CHUCK IT...

I just buy a new pickgard with two holes in it from WD music and away I go. Take a close look at the pickgard of my black strat. That is one bad mammy jammy with the WD pick guard. If I use the stock gard I just dump the middle tone and move the volume down and they sell these really cool little plugs at this hardware store near me that plug up the hole...

There are a lot of great sounding single coils out there you can get.

I like em a litte hot. I tried texas specails from the fender custom shop and was disappointed. Very mellow not enough mojo...

You should have bought my other American deluxe... lol !

 

[jlbaxe]

Very nice collection

I am a C-shape fan....or was.....Played a soft v clapton guitar years ago in GC and couldn't believe how nice it felt and easy to play. Asked the guy what neck it had and didn't want to believe him....could change my whole way of thinking about strats

I had a Standard tricolor I sold...didnt feel as good as My USA Deluxe. I have a Tele maple neck C-shape vintage honey that I luv, makes me try harder to play but feels great.

I have a "Blackie" Fender start soft V neck on the Fed Ex truck today out for delivery.

I need a super strat H/S/H like my '80's RG550 was set up, with out the floyd rose

Are you going to leave the blackie stock?

yes

A JB Jr. in the bridge of a strat is like Viagra and will result in an erection lasting for more than four hours...

Hmmm will have to check. Maybe in my Deluxe Strat. I am looking for a S/S/S config for that guitar. I don't like the S-1 Switching system

First thing I do on any American/Deluxe strat with that noiseless pups and switching system is CHUCK IT...

I just buy a new pickgard with two holes in it from WD music and away I go. Take a close look at the pickgard of my black strat. That is one bad mammy jammy with the WD pick guard. If I use the stock gard I just dump the middle tone and move the volume down and they sell these really cool little plugs at this hardware store near me that plug up the hole...

There are a lot of great sounding single coils out there you can get.

I like em a litte hot. I tried texas specails from the fender custom shop and was disappointed. Very mellow not enough mojo...

You should have bought my other American deluxe... lol !

Sweet Yeah I hate the 2 tone knobs I have the pick guard

I think my classic gibson is coming with 2 volume 1 tone and 15 db boost switch.

 

[thiswaythatway]

This is a truly amazing guitar...

The feel of the neck on this guitar is unmatched by anything I own or have played....

But after playing it last night and switching back to my usa charvel and hot rodded usa strats, I dont think I'm going to keep this guitar.

I think I will order a Suhr with an alder traditional strat body and a 22 fret neck and I will be listing this guitar for sale today.

Damn dude. I find my Les pauls, Strats and Tele all feel different but not enough to off any one of them. How drastic of a feel is it? This is why I prefer to play them first.

Over the past four years or so I have totally gravitated to USA Charvels and American Strats.

I have 4 Fender American strats all hot rodded, three of them are just tits and bacon for me these days. I have different pickup configs too. The Charvel I have is just a sweet singing tone monster.

Eric Johnson Strat - Rosewood, 12 inch radius, the thick 60's style maple neck is to die for, 300k pots, nitro finish, JB Jr. in the bridge, neck and middle pups are stock EJ pickups. I have had this axe for two years and this guitar can do it all period... It's is a 80 shredder with the JB jr. in the bridge and plays smooth as butter. Can everything you can think of rock and blues wise too. I really just need to do a vid of this guitar in action as it impresses me every time I play it.

Black American Deluxe V-Neck - These Deluxe V-neck guitars are just amazing, soft "V" (very comfy) compound radius, locking tuners, sweet bridge, etc. I installed a custom WD music products pick gard with two zebra duncan humbuckers - JB & Alnico Pro APH-1 pickups w/3 way switching. The APH-1 in a maple neck strat will blow your mind, it is my "secret sauce" weapon of choice for insane tone. Has a fat strat like sound in the neck kind of P90-ish but humbucker too. The way this pickup sounds in a maple neck strat will make you do a double take. This one kind of looks like a classic Dave Murray style strat with the black bosy, maple neck and two humbuckers . Changing the springs and block is a nice upgrade too on these guitars.

1999 Hard Tail Strat - Hot rails bridge and classic stacks for the rest. Classic stack in the neck wails. I orderdd this strat brand new from Fender back in 1999. Avid strat haters have played this guitar and said "I think I'm going to buy a Strat now" this thing plays and sounds so good. This one came out really nice from the factory for a 899.00 guitar. I would never sell it in a million years.

I have another American deluxe Strat for it is two tone sunburst and is for sale at present. JB jr. in the brisge and stock passive mid 2000's fender single coils. This was my main player for a while until I go the black V-neck.

USA Charvel San Dimas Pro Mod - JB and Duncan APH-1 combo - man this axe just delivers. I bought up like 4-5 usa pro mods all at once and this one was the keeper for me and I liked its tone more than the usa custom shop san dimas Charvels I had. go figure...

Anyway these are what I have been playing and I really like the strat body style, the tight punchy sound of ALDER, and 22 fret feel... and especially the sound of a neck pick up in a 22 fret guitar. There is just no comparison when it comes to the singling lead tone of a neck pickup in a 22 fret guitar for my tastes...

I have a 2011 Gibson R8 that is beyond a keeper too.

That said this shur is very amazing in its own right and that's why I want to change course before I change my mind.

After seeing and playing the neck on this Modern guitar I keep thinking how a roasted birdseye maple neck will sound and feel on a Suhr vintage guitar body with a JB in the bridge and just a classic stack in the neck position with no middle pickup... Schwing !!!

Here are some cheesy pics I had on my phone of the guitars I have been playing for a while now.

I commented in your other thread about this guitar that the 24 fretters just don't do it for me. The one Suhr Modern I had sounded pretty thin in the neck position, sounded decent in the bridge. As great as a Suhr is for quality, fret work, fit & finish and everything else, don't be surprised if your basic Charvel sounds better than it. However, I have an Anderson Drop Top H/S/H Alder, 22 frets, and it sounds great. It still doesn't have that thick LPish ooooeeewwww tone in the neck but it's still decent.

 

[Moshaholic]

This is a truly amazing guitar...

The feel of the neck on this guitar is unmatched by anything I own or have played....

But after playing it last night and switching back to my usa charvel and hot rodded usa strats, I dont think I'm going to keep this guitar.

I think I will order a Suhr with an alder traditional strat body and a 22 fret neck and I will be listing this guitar for sale today.

Damn dude. I find my Les pauls, Strats and Tele all feel different but not enough to off any one of them. How drastic of a feel is it? This is why I prefer to play them first.

Over the past four years or so I have totally gravitated to USA Charvels and American Strats.

I have 4 Fender American strats all hot rodded, three of them are just tits and bacon for me these days. I have different pickup configs too. The Charvel I have is just a sweet singing tone monster.

Eric Johnson Strat - Rosewood, 12 inch radius, the thick 60's style maple neck is to die for, 300k pots, nitro finish, JB Jr. in the bridge, neck and middle pups are stock EJ pickups. I have had this axe for two years and this guitar can do it all period... It's is a 80 shredder with the JB jr. in the bridge and plays smooth as butter. Can everything you can think of rock and blues wise too. I really just need to do a vid of this guitar in action as it impresses me every time I play it.

Black American Deluxe V-Neck - These Deluxe V-neck guitars are just amazing, soft "V" (very comfy) compound radius, locking tuners, sweet bridge, etc. I installed a custom WD music products pick gard with two zebra duncan humbuckers - JB & Alnico Pro APH-1 pickups w/3 way switching. The APH-1 in a maple neck strat will blow your mind, it is my "secret sauce" weapon of choice for insane tone. Has a fat strat like sound in the neck kind of P90-ish but humbucker too. The way this pickup sounds in a maple neck strat will make you do a double take. This one kind of looks like a classic Dave Murray style strat with the black bosy, maple neck and two humbuckers . Changing the springs and block is a nice upgrade too on these guitars.

1999 Hard Tail Strat - Hot rails bridge and classic stacks for the rest. Classic stack in the neck wails. I orderdd this strat brand new from Fender back in 1999. Avid strat haters have played this guitar and said "I think I'm going to buy a Strat now" this thing plays and sounds so good. This one came out really nice from the factory for a 899.00 guitar. I would never sell it in a million years.

I have another American deluxe Strat for it is two tone sunburst and is for sale at present. JB jr. in the brisge and stock passive mid 2000's fender single coils. This was my main player for a while until I go the black V-neck.

USA Charvel San Dimas Pro Mod - JB and Duncan APH-1 combo - man this axe just delivers. I bought up like 4-5 usa pro mods all at once and this one was the keeper for me and I liked its tone more than the usa custom shop san dimas Charvels I had. go figure...

Anyway these are what I have been playing and I really like the strat body style, the tight punchy sound of ALDER, and 22 fret feel... and especially the sound of a neck pick up in a 22 fret guitar. There is just no comparison when it comes to the singling lead tone of a neck pickup in a 22 fret guitar for my tastes...

I have a 2011 Gibson R8 that is beyond a keeper too.

That said this shur is very amazing in its own right and that's why I want to change course before I change my mind.

After seeing and playing the neck on this Modern guitar I keep thinking how a roasted birdseye maple neck will sound and feel on a Suhr vintage guitar body with a JB in the bridge and just a classic stack in the neck position with no middle pickup... Schwing !!!

Here are some cheesy pics I had on my phone of the guitars I have been playing for a while now.

I commented in your other thread about this guitar that the 24 fretters just don't do it for me. The one Suhr Modern I had sounded pretty thin in the neck position, sounded decent in the bridge. As great as a Suhr is for quality, fret work, fit & finish and everything else, don't be surprised if your basic Charvel sounds better than it. However, I have an Anderson Drop Top H/S/H Alder, 22 frets, and it sounds great. It still doesn't have that thick LPish ooooeeewwww tone in the neck but it's still decent.

It really boils down to the placement of the neck pick up in a 22 fret vs. a 24 fret IMO.

The pickups are closer together in a 24 fretter that's why just about any 22 fret guitar will have a better sound to my ears. The bridge pick up in this suhr modern I just got sound mad stupid though... Just want to move it now... lol

 

[snowdog]

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[Moshaholic]

I REPENT !!!

I'm keeping this puppy... Plays so nice, great guitar, freaking master piece of a neck on it!

Not to mention because I punted on the EVH Stealth I just got 2k back to play with so keeping the suhr is easy now...

Anyway, I knew if had I for more than a day or two I would cave in...

Just gotta get over the 24 fret thingy since I have been embracing the 22 fret world for a long time now.

 

[se7en]

Ha, cool. I somehow had a feeling you'd come back around... I love that roasted maple / 16" radius neck...it's f'in comfy. I like the 24 frets, not just for having 24, but for the easy access to the higher frets.

 

[InFlames235]

I'm really glad you didn't sell it man. I kinda figured you just needed more time with it since you were so used to 22 fret guitars. When I played a roasted maple Suhr at a local (kinda) music shop, I just couldn't put it down. Just ridiculously awesome.

 

[Bob Savage]

That's beautiful Giles.