Should I buy this ??

[Diamondjimi]

Interesting. I would'nt mind getting one. But I certainly wouldn't spend any more than $200 for something like this.
I could play the shit outta one of these.

[ZahZoo]

Very cools guitars... seen a guy play once before.

What are those things tuned to?

[Diamondjimi]

Very cools guitars... seen a guy play once before.

What are those things tuned to?

Most likely in 5th's...

[ELVIS]

Well, I just bought it...

[Diamondjimi]

[Matt White]

How dare you?!?

[ELVIS]

[Panamark]

So how does it play Unca E ??

Strings in pic look light guage for Bass ?
Funky looking grain on the fretboard....
But I like it....

Will it sit safely in the knowledge you wont
attack it with your phillips head screwdriver ?
Or are you filing the nut as we speak ??

[Panamark]

I could actually see Mikey playin that thing, its kinda along the same shape
etc as the old Jack Daniels bass...

[Blaze]

Well, I just bought it...

Good! Ya'got it yet? How ya like it?

[Panamark]

You can tell something serious is goin down when ELVIS hasnt commented in this
timeframe.....

Maybe it was "close, but no cigar ?"

Im laying low until this is sorted....

[ELVIS]

LMAO!

Well, for starters, I got it to open when it was initially screwed and glued shut...still has the original paper and logo inside which is cool...

I'm dressing the fret ends, but i'm leaving the nut and bridge alone until i've played it a bit. I don't want to screw something up that was done purposely. The strings are high, but it's meant to be played with a slide, which a copper one was included with the guitar, but I already madeone myself...but i'm shopping and reading about different materials. Fuzzy (the craftsman / player who made the thing) said brass sounds the best with the strings he set it up with, which are acoustic and seem to be a light guage...

The Piezo pickup under the bridge sounds bad on anything except a super clean setting. My Jimi Hendrix Diditech pedal really wakes it up...

And BTW, I really can't say enough about my JHE pedal. I use it for everything...guitar, bass, vocals, drums or whatever, when I stray from my main guitar sound using my ADA MP1 among many things...and i've never really used it to play Hendrix stuff. It's just the most versitle, realistic and clean sounding "pedal" i've ever touched, and Digitech's digital recreation of 60's type studio plate reverb is astounding and worth the price alone...



But...

I'm going to install a pickup near the neck. I spoke to Fuzzy about this and he said he has done it and would do it for me, but I want to. He told me about a small humbucker made by Artec that would be easy to install, but I haven't found it yet...

But it's mandatory...I could never use this guitar at a gig or at any real volume without a good pickup...


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[ELVIS]

I would like this mini Arctec TV Jones style pup, but it's about 2.8" long and the distance between the sound holes on the guitar is 2.5"



So...

The search is on...

I also want to find another Ashton label to ad some character to the headstock...

These things are cool though. The thought of building and selling them myself. If i could get fast at installing and doing a quality fret dressing, I could build these things in no time...