Blue power

This was yesterday's lockdown guitar of choice, my blue strat. It was a Straturday, anyway. Played in the late evening & got too tired to update anything thereafter. I basically played only the middle & bridge pickups, the neck was ignored. It was a high gain setting & hardly any cleans were played. Even awesome sounding cleans couldn't entice me to do away with drive. It's just not in my nature to like cleans. 

Happy weekend, everyone. Please stay home & stay safe.

Lipstick goodness

I finally got this (Fender American Special Strat) done a few days ago - sent it to Beez to have two things done.

Firstly, to get these replaced. Dead CTS tone pots. They were fine the last time I played this guitar. No amount of contact spray treatment could cure something as dead as this. Trashed & replaced.

Secondly, to get these Seymour Duncan SLS lipstick tube pickups fixed. You can't get any from the shops here, bought them online. The reason why I have not tried this kind of pickups after years of playing is simply because they are not available here. No big deal because these days, acquisition is simply a click away. Waited for more than a month for them to be shipped over because they were on back order; I did not see the availability status on purchase day. Anyway, I was more driven by the 25% discount. More on these on another day, suffice to say that they are beyond expectations.

A fresh set of strings to cap it all off. La Bella Super Bender set for, you guessed it, some very bendable moments & they mean what they said - very bend friendly. Will not appeal to the metal heads who thrive on peddling bass notes; the feel is just different. That's right, got this online as well.

Hot lips

In the mail. Which guitar? Still thinking. 😎