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[roverpig]

OK, the clearout of things that I'm no longer using continues.

This one is a little unusual though. The guitar is just a basic Squier Affinity Fat Strat (i.e. a Strat with a Humbucker at the bridge for a bit more variety). It's had a few small dings, which I've done my best to photograph, but is very nicely put together, looks good and plays really well. However, this budget guitar has really been transformed by the addition of a nice set of EMG active pickups. This is the SA/SA/89 set with a coil tap, so that the humbucker can be switched to single coil mode for those classic Strat tones. If you are interested in the guitar then you probably know all about the EMG pickups. If not a quick Google will tell you all you need to know about these pickups, including the long list of top playesrs who have used them.

You might ask what posessed me to put such an expensive set of pickups in a budget guitar? Well the guitar is basically sound and plays well and the main criticism of EMG pickups seems to be that they sound the same whatever you put them in, so I thought it made sense. I think the combination works well, but it wasn't really the tone I was after and I've now switched to a 335-style twin-humbucker semi-acoustic guitar. The EMGs give a really clear clean tone, which ironically works really well if you like lots of distortion. I guess, if you are going to pile on lots of distortion, you want to start with a nice pure signal, but I just play clean all the time, which is probably why I prefer the semi-acoustic. The EMGs also pretty much eliminate the single coil hum that you get from most Strats without relying on the potentially dangerous trick of wiring the ground to the tremelo block (and using the player as the earth), which never struck me as a good idea but seems to be standard practice with lots of guitars.

This guitar is too nice to sit around my spare room gathering dust so I thought I'd stick it on here and see if there was any interest.

I'm looking for something close to £250 for it.

Losts of pictures can be seen HERE



Cheers,

Andy