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These are the basic body layouts. The neck is going to be the same either way. But everything I choose later is going to spring from one of these two:

1. Traditional strat with some style. Alder body, SSS, Wilkinson or Fender style trem. Top routed.

2. Hot Rod strat. Basswood body, HH, Floyd rose or wilkinson. Top routed or possibly rear routed for this type of guitar.

I should add I own one HH guitar, an ESP EC-1000 and I have a Carvin CT3M on order which is another HH guitar. The Gamp;L Legacy was going to fill the SSS gap but I ended up not being able to tolerate the neck on it.

I'm having trouble deciding.

why basswood?

#1, basswood dents too easily for my liking, and since u already have an HH why not go sss?

might as well go the 3 single coil route seeing as you have none of those in your current lineup! (As I recall in my strat thread, all of them are 3 single, but those might not be paramount examples for most

Or how about HSH... my personal favorite, but no one else seems to like it...

slade


Originally Posted by Xeromus1. Traditional strat with some style. Alder body, SSS, Wilkinson or Fender style trem. Top routed.

How bout this one except rear routed?


Originally Posted by JOLLYHow bout this one except rear routed?

looks funny to me, never liked that look


Originally Posted by JOLLYHow bout this one except rear routed?

there's an idea.
Or something totally different, like p-90s or strange options like that. or a tele bridge or tune-o-matic w/ string through......too many ideas.

if you're going warmoth, why not take advantage of it?


Originally Posted by RushOfBloodwhy basswood?

I LOVE the tone of basswood with high output humbuckers. It's really sweet and warm. For a bolt on neck I prefer it to mahogany. All of the basswood guitars I've owned were killer. Plus, EBMM Axis, Petrucci model, Ibanez Satch model, JEM, PGM, etc. etc. Guitars are basswood. Not all of the JEMs though, there are so many. It's the quot;hard rock woodquot; (pun not intended).


Originally Posted by RushOfBloodthere's an idea.
Or something totally different, like p-90s or strange options like that. or a tele bridge or tune-o-matic w/ string through......too many ideas.

if you're going warmoth, why not take advantage of it?

Nah I don't want something weird, just a solid cool working man's axe. Those two above options are both guitars I'd like to build. Eventually I'll get to both but I have to start with one.

I would also have to vote SSS, since you already have a couple of HH's. Its cool to have at least one traditional Strat in the stable. Besides, there's plenty of opportunity to quot;hotrodquot; it with single-sized 'buckers and rails and such.

How about you combine the first one with the second one. H/S/S,5 way switch, floyd, top routed, alder or bassword body, and what ever wood for neck/fretboard you perfer.

just my $0.02

I say Traditional all the way...I love mine, and I alrady want 2 or 3 more!


Originally Posted by XeromusI should add I own one HH guitar, an ESP EC-1000 and I have a Carvin CT3M on order which is another HH guitar.

I think you've answered your own question.
(In case anyone doesn't get it, I mean you already have 2 HH guitars, get something different!)

how about hardtail H/H top routed with coil splits!!! or go wild and do H/H/H all with splits. but if you have to have a trem i'd go with a hipshot! whatever you do...think it through for a bit and don't rush in!

-Mike


Originally Posted by XSSIVEhow about hardtail H/H top routed with coil splits!!! or go wild and do H/H/H all with splits. but if you have to have a trem i'd go with a hipshot! whatever you do...think it through for a bit and don't rush in!

-Mike

Oh you know I've been gathering ideas for months now. That Gamp;L ended up not working out for me so I've got the cash to start this now. I've got it narrowed down to these two.

as i think about it, why not do something wild like a 3 hum strat all with splits...that would get any sound you could ever want for the most part...i think i'd go crazy flipping switches hahaha

-Mike

Traditional. All my guitars, regardless of routing and wood/construction, have been stripped down to 1-bucker/1-volume setups... EXCEPT the MIM Strat. It's setup as any typical Strat would be, and I spend a lot of time switching pickups, and adjusting knobs.


Originally Posted by XSSIVEas i think about it, why not do something wild like a 3 hum strat all with splits...that would get any sound you could ever want for the most part...i think i'd go crazy flipping switches hahaha

-Mike

Waay too busy for me. I like things simple, straightforward and solid. Everything I need, nothing I don't.


Originally Posted by JB_From_HellTraditional. All my guitars, regardless of routing and wood/construction, have been stripped down to 1-bucker/1-volume setups... EXCEPT the MIM Strat. It's setup as any typical Strat would be, and I spend a lot of time switching pickups, and adjusting knobs.

Noob
bah...if you can play with three singles you can play with 3 hums hahaha...i actually hate middle pickups for the most part so a regular strat drives me nuts and a hum in the middle would make me insane...they just tend to get in the way for me...that's whay on my strat i have a hotrails in the mid which is flush with the pickguard so it is powerful enough to be heard but still out of the way. i guess if you have two HH guitars and my HHH idea scares you...sissy (lol j/k) then go SSS since you have two HH guitars as is.

-Mike