Chad Scott

/Chris drools.... :)

I'm curious to hear how that red strat sounds lol ;)

I have 4 "toys" myself. Here is a link to my Jackson and Les Paul and here is a G&L ASAT I also have a Takamine acoustic.

May have to get some more sometime (if I can persuade the wife that I need a gretsch and/or a g&l strat clone...) Although that Rich' you have looks pretty tempting too. The guy who used to lead our worship band at church actually has like 33 guitars.

Is that an AC-30 you have there? I just have a small practice amp and generally just play live through a PodXT Live direct into the house system.

@Chris -

The red strat has a very open, airy tone. It sits quite low in the mix. ;) I'm thinking of putting some Tri-Sonics in it to make it a poor's man's Red Special.

Your collection is pretty sweet. Not having a P90-equipped guitar is the big weakness in my stash right now, so I'm looking to add either a Les Paul Junior or an Epiphone Casino.

If you look closely, you can see that I ripped the humbuckers out of the black Les Paul and replaced them with TV Jones Classics. It's a wild change from the ceramic 'buckers that were in it initially. Think Pete Townshend circa the early '70s. The burst is a 2000 R9 with Timbuckers. It's probably my favorite, but that changes often.

The amp is a Hayseed 30, a clone of an early '60s AC-30. More info here: http://www.valvetechamps.com/theamp.htm

Very slick! Yeah, I don't have a P90 equipped guitar either - although if you back off the tone on the pups on my ASAT it has a decent resemblance to P90s. But leaving them on full tone gives you plenty of tele twang. Kind of the best of both worlds. I honestly think that the ASAT weighs MORE than my LP - that thing is stout and full of tone! The LP is an 04 and I have weighed it at over 10 lbs, so it's not chambered as much as some of the newer ones.

Your idea on the red strat sounds great and I'll definitely have to check out the Hayseed amp some more. I almost got an Epi Casino years ago but got a white Epi LP Custom instead. It was nice (and I put Gibson '57 Classic pup in!), but it's no comparison to the Gibson Standard I have. ;) The Casino is still a good guitar - it may fill out your collection more than an LP junior by giving you a semi-hollow. :)