Recent content by Tom Smeets

after 3 weeks of owning the very same guitar (see my other post) I am baffled: I never played a guitar that is so... productive: every time I pick her up, I'm producing new sounds, riffs and songs, as if they're all in there, in that magic alder/maple/bolt-on combo, all i have to do is plug her...

Wow thanks, will try this weekend!

Here are a few better pics shot today. it should answer a few questions about the trem. Now as to setting that baby up... might go to see a guitartech? Oh and by the way, I fitted 11-54 DR Droptunes in those winged tuners and it's in D drop C sounds massive now

Thank you for the compliments and the advice. I'll try to get some better shots soon and post them here. I'm going to see what i can do with that trem. Right now i don't touch it, intonation being perfect right now. It is indeed in a near mint state, that plus the lack of info on the interweb...

Yes it has a brass block and 3 screws under the 6 saddles 2 piece then? It does not work really well, very tight, i have to push it quite a bit to get it vibrato-ing

From a different angle, the cheap flash on my cheap phone accentuates the different body parts

Well when I saw yours on this forum my heart came to rest - with all the oddities here I thought I had been fooled

Flamed alder. Jeez. Did not even know that exists. I thought body joinery would be done in the centre, like bookmatched caps.

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Hello forum, I just became part of the family! I already had a SE baritone, but now I have just gotten my hands on a beautiful CE24. The guy who sold it to me said his research led him to believe it is a very early run of CE24, a full alder 1987 model (which I found strange to hear). He was...

i'll open a new thread about my CE24 Black Sunburst

Noob question here: Is that bookmatch line, or joinery line on the top, off centre? Or are my eyes off? I just bought an alder CE24 with a maple fretboard and when back home, I saw what seems to be a joinery line, that is off centre and skewed.. Is that possible? Another question: is this a...