Recent content by Seamus OReally

Very cool info, especially learning how tight the inventory requirements are in a guitar factory.

You got me. Here in the US they list for $1.8K, which ridiculous. I have about $1.3K in my Warmoth/EMG/Callaham Strat, and it’ll jump all over a new Fender. Why the hell are they so expensive?

Unfilled mahogany, finished in Danish oil, cured with beeswax. The body is Warmoth’s “hollow” Strat: heavily chambered for resonance (it sustains like a Les Paul). It kinda of looks and feels like an old cello.

A Squier Vintage Modified, sitting lonely and discontinued at Bananas At Large.

No, I’m new here. Haven’t noticed that it’s quiet… yet.

This one is my pride and joy. I don’t use the amp any more since my little jam band broke up and I started recording with a UAFX pedal.

I don’t collect guitars. I own a Strat, a Tele, a bass and an acoustic. I never play the Tele, because my Warmoth/EMG/Callaham Strat is so good. I’m reworking an old song of mine, so I’m playing both of these today.

I bought this guitar because even with dead strings it still rang like a brass bell… resonant as all get out. Then I swapped out the pickups, the bridge and the knobs. It sustains like crazy… wired like a Strat with a five position switch and a microswitch that turns on the bridge pickup. My...

Hi, I’m Jim… Seamus to friends. I have been playing the guitar for 60 years, recorded and composed music professionally for about 30 of those years. Old and great, but still plugging away. Thanks for having me!