Selling: ARIA STG mini

My ARIA STG mini (22.1") is for sale- bag included :-)

• 4mths old
• Condition: 9/10
• Self-collect @ CCK MRT stn
• No reservations/ No trades
• Queries/ confirmations: dark1349@hotmail.com
• Price: $110 (final)

Thanks for reading.

Tall tale, short story

These were yesterday's indulgences; Ibanez RGD321 & Aria STG mini. It's 26.5" vs 22.2" respectively in terms of scale length, both aren't the standard guitars scale lengths but I find owning them to be beneficial. 

Longer-scaled instruments forces me to stretch my digits so if I slack, make no efforts to reach my destination & not persevere (because lethargy sets in rather quickly), there will be lots of mistakes. Due to the nature of my playing- a fair share of riffing & soloing- I find playing extended scale instruments do give the fingers a good workout. However, there are a good number of players out there who restrict themselves to the lower frets of the guitar because they are more attuned to the lower notes more than anything else. To them, this type of guitars are more useful as riffing tools.

The shorter-scaled guitars do not win too many fans with guitar players namely because they see it as a kiddy supplement; small stuff for the small people. If you hand one of these to a guitar dweeb, chances are, it's going to be a mistake extravaganza. The main protest: Frets are too near one another so they hamper 'natural' movements. But even with shorter-scaled guitars like the STG Mini, the distance between the initial two frets (the farthest) require some stretching but that stretch is less for this one as opposed to the standard scale model. So what's the lesson learnt here? Control- you reduce your stretch in trying to adapt to a shorter scale length. Once you get round this struggle, it's second nature.

STG mini- inevitable meddling

Yes, they had to go those vintage-type string trees. The replacements, as seen above, are the rounded version which made tuning more effective, an immediate benefit.

A dragon sticker I bought a few days ago, an in-between residence there as a reminder that there are only 2 pickups here. Along the way, the fretboard was re-moisturized as well.

Last but not least, a fresh set of strings; K-Garage's .010 - .046. This isn't my preferred string gauge but putting anything thinner in there was out of the question for a much shorter-scaled instrument. The action was set lower much to my preference, of course, & re-intonation was done as well.

Aria: STG Mini

I just reached home, was at Davis GMC to pick this up: Aria's STG Mini. It's junior-sized, sporting a 22.1" scale length but it's the wrong weight for any juniors to be slinging one.

I'm definitely into the pickup combo here; a humbucker & single coil are all I need, it's been my preferred configuration of late. Due to its rather hefty nature, this guitar doesn't sound wimpy, the alder body is solid all round.

That headstock looks very Pacifica-ish. No issues with the default tuners but those strings trees are better off replaced.