Oh GAS you devious mistress .... NGD

Lewy

So on another thread I asked about Squier  Bullet Mustangs for my kids...which got me thinking about Mustangs...which got me looking at Mustang videos...combined with feeling deprived about having to sell some kit recently to cover a tax bill...which got me thinking about how if I cancelled a subscription or two that could cover the repayments on some credit and ... well....

.... with the added benefit that when the kids get their Bullet Mustangs we can all be our very own [Saxondale
accent] ‘Stang Gang [/Saxondale accent]

It’s a Vintera by the way...

tony99

that looks great, don't think I've ever played one but I guess they pack a punch

dandl

I really like the look of these and have been fancying adding one to the collection. How do you find it and how is the trem, does it keep it's tuning well?

Lewy

dandl said:

I really like the look of these and have been fancying adding one to the collection. How do you find it and how is the trem, does it keep it's tuning well?

Too early to say but I’ll report back. One thing I wish I’d spent 30 seconds researching was the bridge before taking all the strings off to oil the board and put my preferred set on...ended up having to take the whole thing off to reattach the springs which fell off when all the string tension came off

dandl

Gutted, sounds like the sort of thing that would happen to me. Enjoy it and let me know how you get along  

Gerz6558

Mustangs are great, very versatile and comfortable to play. Yours looks very nice indeed.

downbytheriver

Now that’s a surprise! 

JerkMoans

GAS is indeed a cruel and fickle mistress.  

But some of us LIKE to end up feeling dirty, and used.

Lovely looking guitar.  Happy NGD

gusman2x

Love a stang. Congrats

Jalapeno

Enjoy !

Lewy

dandl said:

I really like the look of these and have been fancying adding one to the collection. How do you find it and how is the trem, does it keep it's tuning well?

So, thoughts after a couple of days....

A very pleasing guitar. I have pretty small hands and whilst I don't have an aversion to big necks, the short scale and slim neck make some things feel very easy. The trem stays in tune pretty well although it's a bit of a faff to set it up right. And the actual trem arm itself is  poper pain in the hole. It's not threaded...you stick it in the hole in the tailpiece and tighten it with a grub screw which means it either needs to stay in the same position, or if you set it so you can move it a bit, it loosens within seconds and flaps around (and there's a lot of play.

Sound-wise, clean it's very open sounding with a fast attack. Picking up a strat after playing the mustang for an hour or so, the strat sounded quite compressed by comparison. With some nice overdrive, the bridge pickup on it's own is quite a revelation. You can get very chunky blues sounds - almost bucker tones which I wasn't expecting. I suspect the scale and tension contribute. I haven't found a crunchy sound I'm crazy about with the neck pickup yet but still early days. The two pickups in teh out of phase setting do sound classically out of phase, but to be usable this setting would need its own dedicated boost/drive on a board as it needs EQing and its considerately quieter than the individual pickups.

So, for a leap of faith/experiment it's proving fun. It's got me on the hunt for a Jaguar now too!

hotpickups

You guys have really gotta get a grip on this GAS thang. I’m worried it’s becoming a real problem for some of you  

munckee

Lewy said:

dandl said:

I really like the look of these and have been fancying adding one to the collection. How do you find it and how is the trem, does it keep it's tuning well?

So, thoughts after a couple of days....

A very pleasing guitar. I have pretty small hands and whilst I don't have an aversion to big necks, the short scale and slim neck make some things feel very easy. The trem stays in tune pretty well although it's a bit of a faff to set it up right. And the actual trem arm itself is  poper pain in the hole. It's not threaded...you stick it in the hole in the tailpiece and tighten it with a grub screw which means it either needs to stay in the same position, or if you set it so you can move it a bit, it loosens within seconds and flaps around (and there's a lot of play.

Sound-wise, clean it's very open sounding with a fast attack. Picking up a strat after playing the mustang for an hour or so, the strat sounded quite compressed by comparison. With some nice overdrive, the bridge pickup on it's own is quite a revelation. You can get very chunky blues sounds - almost bucker tones which I wasn't expecting. I suspect the scale and tension contribute. I haven't found a crunchy sound I'm crazy about with the neck pickup yet but still early days. The two pickups in teh out of phase setting do sound classically out of phase, but to be usable this setting would need its own dedicated boost/drive on a board as it needs EQing and its considerately quieter than the individual pickups.

So, for a leap of faith/experiment it's proving fun. It's got me on the hunt for a Jaguar now too!

As a committed stratist I bought a j mascis jazzmaster recently which is great but is very similar to a strat to play.  Have just picked up a squier jaguar, just great fun to play and far less strattish even though the pickups are in theory more like strats.

Loobs

Cool guitar!