Need some work done on the Les Paul...

That's a lot of money for a basic set up even with a truss rod adjustment. I could maybe see it getting up that high if he was messing with the nut slots. Maybe.

May seem a strange question and you have probably done it already but you have fitted a new set of strings????

Randy - thanks, I'll check them out.

Wookie - Yup - I change strings every week or so on the LP. (The strat seems to need new strings every 2 or 3 days for some odd reason, no matter how much I use it or not). 

Actually, the LP is the one I'm most careful w/ when re-stringing - doing the one string at a time thing to make sure there's no sudden change in tension and all. But my guess is that taking a guitar from a place as humid as NY in the summer to somewhere as arid as Vegas can't be all that good for an instrument.

Beepster - thanks for the heads up - I'll keep on shopping. :)

Numerous videos on this adjustment stuff...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGsK0syDl6g

I find there is something very Zen and therapeutic performing general guitar maintenance. When I have more room I'm gonna try to set up a table specifically for working on my guits. Who knows. Maybe I could make some extra cash doing it someday. Cheers, Rain.

Yeah, man. I'd be all over that stuff if my body wasn't so mangled and I had the tools. As it is just my usual string replacement, polishing and intonation adjustments leave me pretty sore. A proper table and some blocks should help with that though. Right now I do it all on my bed or in my hands which isn't ideal. Cheers.

Just looking at the strat upgrades page on Roman's web site and it suddenly feels like I could happily spend more on upgrading this guitar than what it initially cost me... :s

But this would make for a totally killer strat.

Is there a Guitar Center close to where you are?  They should be able to fix you up for $45-60.  They did a good job on my "new" Heritage Hollow.

zungle

Oh... the one thing that could bump the price up is if they are dressing the frets but this is a brand new guitar is it not? It shouldn't need a fret dressing.

New guitars frequently  almost always..IMO....could use a lite fret dress.


Now a fret leveling...........a new axe shouldn't need that kind of work.

Basic fret work seems covered where I looked. Though it's a darn fine guitar for the price, it could be optimized a bit. The reason I didn't want to have this done in NY is that I was actually expecting that our move to Vegas would require some adjustments anyway.


Plus, I'm considering having the pick-ups replaced. 


Incidentally, this could probably end up in a different thread, but since we're here...


Instinctively, I'd probably be shopping Seymour Duncans, but a friend also suggested Di Marzio Super Distortion as a potential choice for the type of rock n roll I play.

Opinions?


 

Rain

Wookie - Yup - I change strings every week or so on the LP. (The strat seems to need new strings every 2 or 3 days for some odd reason, no matter how much I use it or not). 


:)

Rain


As to why the strings die so quickly - remember earlier this summer I mentioned my sweat corroding the pick-ups on my new Les Paul in a matter of a few weeks? Acidity.

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I do remember but you stated that it didn't seem to matter how much you played it..that's why
I thought you may think something is wrong with the Strat and that made me curious.
And two or three days...?...man that's unheard of for me.

I haven't changed the strings on my yammie for a couple months now... but that's because I'm cheap. They need replacing at this point though. Bought myself a ten pack about a year ago and I think I have seven or eight sets left. In my gigging days I'd play them until they were almost rotting off the guitar and if I broke one (which happened often) I'd "fix" them by hand. My fingers are like jewelers pliers now from years of doing it.

I do wash hands before and try to keep the strings clean, but nothing seems to work.

Similarly - a couple of days after we bought the Jeep (brand new) we noticed that there were not stains but strange white-ish traces on the inside of the door on my side - around the handle. It's like I'm shedding layers of skin or something. Easily cleaned, but still, annoying. As someone who showers twice a day and constantly keeps his hands clean, that sucks.

And that's w/ me having been in the car maybe 2 or 3 times - so having placed my hand there may 6 times to open/close the door. So you can imagine what happens to the strings when I play a guitar for a few hours. 

To be honest, when I put fresh strings on the strat, it's because I have plans for it and will most likely play it for at least 5 or 6 hours in a row. Don't know if that makes it more understandable...

Anyway, I've modified my diet a bit, and cut back on coffee, but I'm still overly acid it seems. I guess I'll have to talk w/ a physiologist eventually.

As a reminder - I've posted it before - but that's the kind of damage we're talking about. That's what my sweat did to the LP Junior bridge in a matter of few months.