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[Sneedhearn]

Can anyone recommend a straty sounding guitar with a neck that stubby fingers like myself can do the thumb over grip on?

I have a MIM Roadhouse that sounds the the mutts nutts and plays lovely but I can't do Hendrix/frusciante thumb over stuff on it :-(

Those are really nice guitars Rory. They have a "C" neck profile which suits most players. However the "V" neck is more suited to the style you are looking for, which is mostly available on the '50's reissue models.

 

[Twostage]

Fender 12 string semi acoustic, squier strat, ibanez spanish guitar which I got for my 16th birthday. Either thats how they made them in those days or it was a friday afternoon job (see next picture). Yamaha acoustic which came with a line 6 recording pod thing and was cheaper as a package than just the guitar.

Not exactly perfect finishing on the head of the ibanez, sawn off and varnished

Hohner acoustic, Les Paul studio (plays amazing) and Uke. (Fermentation pot far left )

 

[Birdsnestbrewery]

Great thread to resurrect.
I built a couple from scratch. First was a learning exercise, not based on anything specific but some things in common with fender style.

Second was inspired by PRS. A step up and with Seymour Duncan P-rails pickups it sounds great if I say so myself.

I am working on #3 which will be a Les Paul-like effort.
I also have a 30-year old Squier Strat, and a rather nice Peerless Songbird, which is a hollow-bodied guitar similar to Epiphone Casino, made in the same factory in fact.

Finally I have an Art and Lutherie acoustic which I tend to play more than the others.

 

[Clint]

I remember my old woodwork teacher building a violin!

 

[The Cat]

I sold this 1977 Music Man Stingray Bass in 1983 not long after my then wife-to-be had paid a local jeweller to engrave my name onto the battery plate on the back. She has never quite forgiven me for selling it so we’ve been looking for this guitar ever since!

Well today she found it on Reverb, name still on the plate, being sold by a shop in Dublin! So now I've just bought it back after 40 years and will drive to Dublin in the morning to collect it.

The legend that is John Fogerty gave away his famous Rickenbacker 325 Fireglo in the early 1970's and he bought it back after 44 years so I reckon I'm ahead of the game.

I think I'll open a wee IPA to celebrate.

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That is pretty effing awesome congrats.

 

[Sneedhearn]

That is pretty effing awesome congrats.

Thank you, I'm still shell shocked.
I picked the guitar up as planned yesterday and here it is beside the 2014 Ernie Ball Music Man Classic Stingray I bought simply because I thought it looked pretty close to my original. I wasn't too far away!

 

[Sneedhearn]

New guitar arrived today. A lovely Gibson CS-336 (on the right) which asthetically looks very much like my Gibson ES-339 (on the left).
They are cousins for sure but in terms of construction completely different beasts...