Emanater

My favourite Explorer guitar. Walnut body with curly maple top and a 5 piece walnut neck. Tim Shaw Dirty Fingers pickups with Gold hardware and a TP 6 Stop bar. Sounds huge and does clean up as well. Really versatile guitar. Getting harder to get these days.

I love these stratocasters more than the standards, deluxe models etc I do have some things that I will change and that is the pickups and the tremolo. This goes for most other strats as well. They aren't noiseless pickups and that is one thing that irritates me is the 60 cycle hum and hiss. Easy change out though to a noiseless setup. The tremolo also has to go and will be changed out to a Super Vee Bladerunner setup. I just can't stand any Fender tremolo as they are just a pain to setup and also go out of tune. I prefer the feel of these over other Strats and to me it's worth doing the upgrades at the price you can get a second hand discontinued model for.

Resonance, Resonance, Resonance Nice 1 piece Mahogany back (traditional weight relief on this model) and 1 piece mahogany neck with a 2 piece bookmatched maple cap and a sweet 1 piece rosewood fretboard. Really nice acoustic sounding instrument. My thoughts originally on it amplified was it sounded pretty good with the BB3 pickup in the bridge. I'm not the biggest fan of Gibson Pickups and wiring so I had to customize once I got over it. I went for a full custom wiring make over and my choice of Pups were vintage very early '70s Dimarzio SD & PAF to really bring out the life of the guitar and it worked. The locking machine heads were great but I had to use them elswhere in an emergency sale of another guitar so out come a vintage '60s set of Grover pearl buttons and this completed the beast. You can listen to the guitar here http://youtu.be/FM-YEv2Ux-A