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Which factories are those? There's probably hundreds, if not thousands of guitar factories in China. You can go to any number of them and get essentially the same guitar. It's just a matter of who/where you want it made. Go look on www.made-in-china.com and www.Alibaba.com and places like those...

The lower range is understandable at the $195 entry price. At $699, the Plus line has no excuse. It uses Mahog and other better materials so I'd expect a set neck also.

I hope the Ascent+ gets a set neck. At $699, it better.

Nice guitars! Since Tech 21 stopped making amps, maybe that thing will be worth a few grand in a couple of years? 🤷 YA never know. It reminds me of the Monoprice Stage Right amps. The 15w tube combo/Laney Cub clone was $249-279 for the last 5-10 years and then in 1 single day, it went from...

Both 90s. Still playing the Sonic Blue Strat. Probably will be for a while. This thing is killer. I got the right cable out for it, too, @BGood 😆😉😁. I'm a firm believer in using these "quiet" cables that go quiet when you unplug. They also don't pop when you plug in. The 90* is a D'addario...

Because I didn't feel like getting another cable out.

*Warning! Novel ahead!* 😆 New pic. Got the jack plate replaced. That was a fiasco. The cable wouldn't go all the way in with it installed. So I took a Dremel with a sanding drum on it and sanded out an area inside the hole to make more room for the jack. Still waiting on the new mint green...

Nope, String Swing is wider. I reused one hole and just drilled another. Since the String Swing is wider than Hercules, the old Hercules hole is hidden behind the String Swing hanger. So I just used one old Hercules hole and drilled 1 new hole . After 3 months, I'm still not used to the String...

Brand new Sonic Blue S I finished painting and putting together today. It currently has Fender Custom Shop Texas Specials, 250k volume, a 500k No load tone pot and a normal 500k tone pot. Gotoh vintage-style 6 in line tuners. CRL 5 way switch. Flamed, 'roasted maple' neck with dark brown...

Wired the pickguard temporarily. It has a 250k volume, 1 500k No load and 1 500k standard tone pot. That's all I had in stock until the 250k's I ordered get here. Tone pots wired to middle and bridge. I need to install tuners, wire the jack and claw ground, and install the claw, bridge and...

Oh yeah. I had ordered a bridge and some different pickups for it previously. It was a Wilkinson 6 point trem with pop-in arm. WOV09 was the model. Turns out it's a 'Wilkinson M-Series' part, which isn't what I wanted. M-Series are from their Chinese plant. I was looking for Japan or wherever...

Did some pre-fitting. I still have to shoot clear coat. It was a little too cool today. Supposed to be in the 70s tomorrow so I'll get started tomorrow. This thing is going to be SICK! I ordered Aged White pickup covers and knobs to go with the aged white pickguard. Same company makes both so I...

3 coats of Sonic Blue done. This is before the 3rd coat. Done with color. Moving on to clear tomorrow.

That's done. Shaved those drips down until they were gone. Then hit the area with some 400 and 320 grit to blend it all in. I also had a place I had to use some grain filler after sealing yesterday. A chunk of wood came out when I was drilling one of the neck mounting holes. So I filled that...

Well it turns out I have a couple of drips to fix. Round high spots were it dripped straight down. No runs. Maybe 1 slight sag around the top of the neck pocket. So I'm going to wait a week or more and let it harden or whatever it does. Then I'll shave those down and possibly do a final coat to...

Well I've got 3 coats of nitro sanding sealer on the body so far. Still might do a 4th depending on how it looks after this coat flashes off. I bought some aftermarket spray tips for the cans and they're stellar. The fan pattern from these fan tips are around twice as tall as the Stewmac fan...

Id love for mine to look like that first guitar. Looks a lot like Kenny Wayne Shepherds recent signature guitar, which I'd LOVE to own. His has a custom Sonic Blue, called "faded transparent Sonic Blue". Only ever used on his signature guitars. Edit: that's a Mary Kaye? Whoa. NICE. 😍 Honestly...

Is it difficult to convert a 6 point trem to a 2 point? Is it as simple as filling the 6 screw holes and drilling 2 larger holes for the 2 posts? I figure as long as I line up the saddles so they're in the right place, I can just mount the posts wherever it is they land after positioning the...

The next one might actually have a Floyd lol. I thought about that only after I had already bought this body.

Been working on this for a few weeks here and there. I picked up a paulownia Strat body a few weeks ago because I've been wanting to finish a guitar ever since I repaired my Epiphone. So I ordered that body. Next up was a neck. I attempted to use the neck from my blue Silvertone because I...