Cool Anderson Strats

[Raj]

Here's a couple sweet strat style guitars from Ton Anderson guitarworks. For those not as familiar with Tom, he's a boutique/high end custom guitar builder. I actually generally prefer Suhr guitars as far as high end Strats go but these two Andersons are pretty awesome looking.

The first one is a white/gold sort of theme, like Steve Vai's Jem 7wvh. The only thing I'd like added is gold pickup covers on the neck and middle pickups also.

www.andersonguitars.com/cfpages/displayGOW.cfm


And here's a sweet vintage white Yngwie/Blackmore style one. It would be great scalloped!

www.andersonguitars.com/cfpages/displayGOW.cfm?theDate=10/03/10&status=archive

[aburge15]

They're pretty mad guitars especally the yngwie style one

[TheLivingDead]

I dig em!

[S-H]

Tom Anderson makes some beautiful guitars!

My fave strat, however, has to be Joe Stump's main ESP Custom S guitar:



I can't really rock a strat though. I don't have the "cool" factor.

[Raj]

Jul 13, 2011 17:18:36 GMT -6 S-H said:

Tom Anderson makes some beautiful guitars!

My fave strat, however, has to be Joe Stump's main ESP Custom S guitar:



I can't really rock a strat though. I don't have the "cool" factor.

Yeah, that's my favorite Strat as well. Although my actual favorite , which doesn't exist yet, would be sort of a combination of that one and the other ESP Strat on Joe's page, the white one with gold hardware and floyd rose. I'd like a vintage white alder body, white pearloid pickguard, maple neck, gold hardware and gold floyd rose on a Strat.

Joe usually has good taste in Strat styles, I'd like to see him rock a surf green one too. That's my second favorite strat color.

[S-H]

Mine would be Alder body (vintage white of course), chrome hardware (hardtail bridge a la Jim Root sig & locking tuners), maple neck, scalloped maple board mint pickguard, creme pickups, reverse oversized Fender headstock (cos if Hendrix can pull it off, so can I... ha), Dunlop 6000 frets, an input jack near the strap lock as opposed to "on" the body and possibly even............. 7 strings!

A 7-string strat Steve, surely you're mad?!

Well, yes I am.

[Raj]

Jul 16, 2011 17:17:39 GMT -6 S-H said:

Mine would be Alder body (vintage white of course), chrome hardware (hardtail bridge a la Jim Root sig & locking tuners), maple neck, scalloped maple board mint pickguard, creme pickups, reverse oversized Fender headstock (cos if Hendrix can pull it off, so can I... ha), Dunlop 6000 frets, an input jack near the strap lock as opposed to "on" the body and possibly even............. 7 strings!

A 7-string strat Steve, surely you're mad?!



Well, yes I am.

7 string would be cool, especially a high A instead of a low B.

I agree with the scalloped neck and Big headstock of course, I forgot to add those into my description , although I probably wouldn't want it reversed . I like reversed headstocks on more of the shred style guitars with pointy headstocks, the M-II and some of the reversed Jackson ones look great.

I don't mind the input jack there b/c I'm used to it, but yes, logically it makes more sense on the side I think.

I would like the tone controls cut off and the volume moved to the bottom most knob. It's a bit harder to access from there to do the Yngwie style volume knob swell-delay thing, but the tradeoff of not accidentally touching it would be worth it.

I'd like the earvana nut instead of the brass one on the Yngwie Strat, it doesn't seem to do much other than raise the action a bit. I like the floyd because it lets you get the action quite low, I prefer the Michael Romeo/Shawn Lane approach of super low action. So along those lines I just want medium size frets , nothing too high like Rusty Cooley does.

My favorite neck profile is the compound radius you'd find on the Jackson USA and some of the other Jacksons, like the Dk2. Hopefully something close to that for the neck profile.

My ideal pickups (which also don't exist yet) would be if emg made a stacked single coil version of their 81 , I'd get that with the white covers and use that in the neck mid and bridge positions .

[S-H]

I was actually thinking high-A because of having only 21/22 frets. That'd extend the range nicely. I don't like the sound of very low tunings on strats. It sounds like muddy, loose schrott. Lol.

I would, however, tune town a half step and drop the Eb down to Db (Impellitteri has done this a few times before). Db is the limit for me on a strat.

Use a .007 gauge string for the high-A and there will be no tension problems or string snappage (providing the player can actually string a guitar of course! lol).

Pickup wise, I'd have custom Seymour Duncan stacked hum-canceling pups. The bridge would be medium output with a much tighter low-end than the typical strat pups. It'd have a fair amount of mids: full low-mids, smooth mids & crunchy high-mids, and a sweet top end. The neck would be vintage output & the low-mids would be cut a little, the low-end wouldn't be as tight & the top end would be more prominent (defined but not harsh/brittle/ice-picky).

I like a low action in relation of the strings to the frets (as opposed to the board). On my RG, the action is low according to both views. I've tried my best to develop a light touch & rarely "dig in" for blues-rock style playing. I like the feel of the YJM so I'll stick with that setup. Can't say my touch is THAT good though. lol.

Nut-wise, I like Vigier's "zero fret" technology. Can't say my ears are as sensitive as Patrice's, but there is a difference when strumming open chords compared to a standard guitar.

The only problem I can see is finding the mere £5k+ I'll need to buy the guitar. Haha.

[aburge15]

i like that ESP one. i wonder how much its worth..

[S-H]

Well ESP's are $4k+ (US) for a custom so you could get 1 made to those specs for a standard custom guitar price.

Joe Stump isn't known outside of the guitar and/or metal world(s), however, so it wouldn't fetch silly amuounts of money if it went to auction unless me and Raj both won the lottery. Lol