i guess most of you who are in a band and come from a small town know how hard it is to find a bass player when you start out... same with me, so i decided to take up bass myself and solve our problems, after all it's easier to find a second guitarist then a bass player (and we did, kickass guy!). so i bought the cheapest bass i could find- a harley benton jazz bass , cost me 80 pounds, but i was stunned at the quality and sound of this instrument! superb value for money! i highly recommend this bass to anyone who wants a bass, but can't afford a Fender!
Thanks to our friend The Economical Crisis, it doesn't seem to possible for me to get a job this summer, so besides getting a drivers license i am gonna spend this summer building a stratocaster! So it's gonna have a Maple body, the neck will be also maple, but with a rosewood fretbord (22 frets). It wil be a creamy yellow color (like a aged olimpic white), chrome hardware and pickguard and knobs (well all the plastic parts will be black), Groover tuners, classic tremolo (maybee a floy rose, if i have the money) and presumingly Seymore duncan or Dimarzio singlecoils with a single coil sized humbucker in the bridge. But as i don't and won't have the money, the cool pickups and expensive parts will have to wait... shame...
do you know the agony of having 800$ on hand and needing a new guitar... well went through hell trying to decide between a les paul, a SG special faded, a Explorer a BMS and anything else that came to mind...HELL! but this one day i come home from school and me and my friends have just had like 3 beers, so i really want to play guitar, but i sold my guitars to get the money... so out comes the computer, pop-up comes thomann.de and 1. thing i see is a black limited edition, custom shop epiphone les paul custom... the rest is history. and i couldn't have found a more perfect guitar! cheers!
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