Oooohh... J Custom

Doctor J

Doctor J Custom, that is



Ingredients:
Trans black ash body off ebay
Quartersawn maple neck, blank ebony board, reverse headstock from Warmoth
20 year old Kahler trem swiped off my old Aria
GFS High output PAF (surprisingly nice pickup)
Gotoh lefty tuners

Set up single humbucker, volume and tone, no messing, it's all about the riffs baby



Basically just needed a reliable, durable chug machine cos I'm not bringing the Eggle to gigs and I needed a trem



And with it's Evil Twin... sort of

Karl Hungus

Wow, that's nice right there Doc!

You had me expecting some sexy peice of Ibanez ass that would make me rob a bank in order to buy, but now it's you I'm going to have to rob.

Doctor J

Thankee, still needs a fair bit of breaking in but it feels very nice and sounds as it should down in B

feylya

Excellent stuff. About time you got that finished! Very nice.

Doctor J

Yes, just in time for the imminent studio shenanigans

Karl Hungus

Doctor J wrote:

Thankee, still needs a fair bit of breaking in but it feels very nice and sounds as it should down in B

Nah, tune it to A, that's where it's at nowadays.

Love the fretboard too, a man after my own heart.

Doctor J

We've a couple of tunes in dropped A, don't worry

feylya

That bloody Dropped A tune :mad:

Now you can play solos Doc

-=al=-

cool stuff :cool:

Karl Hungus

Doctor J wrote:

We've a couple of tunes in dropped A, don't worry

Good man!

Send me the tabs for that, why don't you?

Doctor J

feylya wrote:

Now you can play solos Doc

Yeah, I'm back on the streets

Doctor J

Karl Hungus wrote:

Good man!

Send me the tabs for that, why don't you?

Tabs? Trust me, man, it's the sort of stuff a deaf man can work out by ear

feylya

If he is Beethoven :mad:

Johnny Storm

Very cool, Dr J!

Is the white one yours too and if so why two guits so similar (not that I'm suggesting you'd actually need a reason or anything ) ?

Also the trem bar on the black one looks strong enough to be used to jack up your car.;)

Doctor J

We're getting close to gigging and although I haven't broken a string since I can't remember when, a stage is not the place to be without a backup. The Gibbo V is sweet but the low string was like spaghetti when I drop tune it, so I needed something with a trem and Fender scale and I wasn't going to route the AmSe for the Kahler

Quattroste

Like Karl I love the Ebony Fretboard but I can't get used to the upside down headstock. It looks upside down FFS

Doctor J

Yeah, it takes a bit of getting used to from a playing side too

**** it, it's like that and that's the way it is... as the song says

feylya

I like it upside down

Doctor J

After 18 years, it's my first ever reverse headstock. I feel so unheavy metal, I should hang my head in shame

feylya

Hang it in a rocking fashion

Doctor J

The compound radius will take a bit of getting used to. It's grand down the low end but a bit flatter, 16", than I'm used to up north

fish-head

Lovely axes Doc. Dropped A. Holy Moses. Why not just buy a baritone?

Karl Hungus

fish-head wrote:

Dropped A. Holy Moses. Why not just buy a baritone?

No need for a baritone really. I play in A most of the time these days, and 25.5" is perfectly fine. Mind you, and lower and it doesn't seem to work too well there.

fish-head

Yowzers. When I tuned my Gretsch down to D, it went all floppy on me.. I guess that's cuz of the shorter scale. I suppose if I go up to 12s it wouldn't be so bad.

Doctor J

fish-head wrote:

Lovely axes Doc. Dropped A. Holy Moses. Why not just buy a baritone?

Cheers

I'm a bass player. When a guitar is tuned to E, it's all twang to my low frequency lovin ears, so down it goes, I just really dig low sounding stuff. I've got baritone strings on it 62-12 and I thought about longer scale but it's just right at the moment. Quite a few guitars have been bought and sold to arrive at this point. Now I know what I likes

Frank Bullitt

thats really nice man, fair play, how much did it cost to make that bad boy, looks very "Andreas Kisser" like

Doctor J

About €450. The neck was over half of the total cost. With a bit of shopping around, the rest of it was surprisingly cheap to acquire, but still quality parts.

Frank Bullitt

pretty good deal for a one off, fair play,looks real nice

Doctor J

The blue one ain't mine, I'm just curing some electronic issues for a mate, but still, how'd ya like them apples Ancient1, eh?

feylya

Ya need my one there too

Doctor J

Too much of a good thing. He'll go nuts over this as it is

Karl Hungus

Hmm, this makes me want to throw up a piccyture of my 3 Ibanezes.

feylya

Doctor J wrote:

Too much of a good thing. He'll go nuts over this as it is

But you need to have one with a maple board!

Johnny Storm

Hmmmmm..... maple board!

Dr J, how were the frets on the Warmoth neck?

It wasn't me!

Looks fantastic Doc, definitely going to have a go at something similar myself methinks over the summer.

Doctor J

Johnny Storm wrote:

Hmmmmm..... maple board!

Dr J, how were the frets on the Warmoth neck?

Pretty good, after a level and dress. I don't think they'd be ready to rock as supplied. I got the 6105 frets, narrow and tall. The ends weren't angled off that much so you could really feel em as you move your hand up and down the neck. I filed a bigger angle in and did a level, crown and dress, then a fair bit of steel wool work along the ends to make it feel a bit broken in. It has a very new feel to it when you take it out of the box. It is a very comfy neck though. I've been playing it for a couple of days now and I'm getting used to it. I like it a lot.

fish-head

Were any of those guitars used to record the track on the Acrid Nebula homepage? Cuz that's a pretty cool sound.

Doctor J

Thank you kindly. I used the Gibson V at that rehearsal. I'll be in the studio next week recording a couple of tunes and I'll be using the new strat on them.

Ancient1

FFS!.............

I always just happen to log on to boards when there's a massive Strat pics thread going on.

The blue one ain't mine, I'm just curing some electronic issues for a mate,

Uh-huh. You better not be telling lies, boy, you know better than to lie to me about Strats.

Man, I can't imagine having 3 Strats just sitting there on my bed. I can actually. Either way I'd go nuts.

Ancient1

Doctor J wrote:

I'll be in the studio next week recording a couple of tunes and I'll be using the new strat on them.

Kebab?

It's on me!

Doctor J

Heh heh heh may I die a painful death the day I turn down kebabaration

Ancient1

Had a good look at that pic again - that's just total Strat porn.

*sigh*

Cold showers, cold showers....

And who's your "friend"? I didn't know you had any "friends" with nice blue Strats? Huh? You better come clean!

Edit: does that sound like the missus nagging?

Doctor J

Don't start getting jealous

feylya

Told ya you should have included my strat. Would have made his head explode!

Doctor J

Then I'd never get that kebab! :mad:

Today's the day el stratto gets it's road test

fish-head

Looking forward to hearing the results.

That ebony fretboard gets me every time. Reminds me of my Gretsh.

feylya

Doctor J wrote:

Then I'd never get that kebab! :mad:

Today's the day el stratto gets it's road test

Show him the pic after the kebab!