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    peterg.
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    Hi

    i placed my order for my Suhr Standard Custom 2 weeks ago!

    the specs
    are

    Body : Alder
    Option: Quild maple Top 3/16″
    Neck: maple neck / Pao Ferro Fingerboard
    Neck shape Even C Slim
    Nut: Tusq
    Frets : Jumbo SS
    Bridge:Gotoh 510TS-FE1 – steel block
    Hardware: Chrom
    Gears: Sperzel Trimlok
    Pickguard: no Pickguard – Rear Rout
    Electronics: Volume,Tone,5-Way,Blowerswitch
    Input: Side Jack
    Knobs: Chrome
    Pickups: 2 Fl´s/ SSV+
    Finisch: Trans-Blue-Dark Stain
    Paint Option: Matching Headstock
    Strings: 010-046

    now i have to wait 4 to 7 month i think!
    I hope it´s as good as i hope !!!

    maybe i´m lucky and get it to my birthday wich is in end of july…

    Cheers Peter

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    GASGASGASGAS!

    Sean Conklin
    Sean Conklin
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    4 to 7 months? Wow! Long wait. Definitely post some pics when you get it!

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    billmeedog
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    Hey Peter, 🙂

    Sweet axe!!! 😎

    ~Bill Meehan~ 😀

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    peterg.
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    Yeah i hope!!!

    😉

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    chrisbrooks
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    Great features! That’s going to look the business!

    Why don’t you run us through your thought process when choosing the features? Guitar nerd-talk is always welcome.

    I’m still adoring my Suhr CS, which is also blue:

    cb_suhr%20gtr_06.jpg

    Aside from making highly playable and lovely sounding guitars, they know how to make them frikkin pretty too.

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    billmeedog
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    @chrisbrooks 10791 wrote:

    Aside from making highly playable and lovely sounding guitars, they know how to make them frikkin pretty too.

    Hey Chris, 🙂

    LMAO from that one! 😀

    ~Bill Meehan~ 😉

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    peterg.
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    Ok Chris

    i´ll try to run you through my thought – choosing my specs !

    i hope you let us know yours too …

    I basically was very impressed by the neck shapes and playabillity of the shure standard
    when i played one from a friend of mine…

    so i wanted the same neckshapes and the SS jumbofrets that it will stay like it is!

    i maybe should have taken a Landau modell because i really like the strat like sound
    that´s why i choosed the alder body … because this is the “strat wood” but i really love the looks of the beautyfull quilt tops like yours chris …awesome

    so i had to take the quild maple top

    after reading the woodspecs at the suhr homepage i thought a a maple neck with the pao ferro fingerboard ( which i have on my Anderson too) would fit my style best

    first i wanted to have noiseless singelcoils and aldridge humbucker
    but suhr told me that they don´t do the noisless anymore and i should go for FL´s

    i contacted Tom Quayle to ask him about the FL´s he recommended taking the SSV+
    that´s why i choosed them!

    i decided to take trans blue dark stain after looking at all blue guitar fotos in the suhr gallery
    Trimmlocks i have on nearly all my guitars
    Tusq i even don´t know what that is 😉 but it´s used with the guthrie signature — so it can´t be bad 🙂

    no floyd thats why Gotoh 510TS-FE1 ( i hope it works well )

    Blowerswitch is not really necessary but i think it can be very usefull ,,, thinking of playing a funky riff with single coils at the crunchy channel with the volumeknob turned down and hit the switch for kicking in some EVIL stuff

    That were ( i think 😉 ) my thoughts

    i´m looking forward when you share yours; Chris

    cheers Peter

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    chrisbrooks
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    My specs went like this:

    Standard
    Basswood Body
    Quilt Maple Top
    1pc Maple neck Quartersawn No BFTS
    Even C slim neck profile, .800 – .880 10″ – 14″ radius
    Tusq nut
    Jumbo SS frets
    Gotoh 510TS FE1 trem
    1.65″ width nut
    Chrome hardware
    Sperzel locking machine heads
    No pickguard, rear routed
    Electronics: Volume, Tone, 5 way, Push-Pull coil tap for both HBs, blower switch
    Side input jack
    Chrome knobs
    Neck p/up: SSV Zebra
    Mid p/up: FL Standard Black
    Bridge p/up: SSH+ Zebra
    Finish: Trans Sky Blue Burst Quilt
    Scraped Binding
    MOP logo with gloss headstock (black face and side inlay dots though so I can see them on
    stage)
    Light/Medium hand-scalloping on last four frets
    10-46 Elixir

    When I got the pdf back to approve I think they’d put the trem with vintage saddles and I went “ok, go with that”.

    Ed at Suhr was very knowledgeable and available to answer any questions or make suggestions, and he was very keen to help and get this thing rolling.

    The guitar I’d been playing the most before I went with Suhr was a 1997 Lone Star strat which I hotted up with DiMarzios. It felt great but the alder wasn’t quite cutting it for me with the amp I use (Mesa Dual Rectifier 2ch head). My main guitar before that was a PRS with Mahogany body which was nice but I didn’t see the point in replicating tones I already had. So I went with the basswood/maple combo for the body as it’s John’s favorite and something I wanted to try. It was a good punt because it cuts beautifully through a mix, especially with the quartersawn maple neck which has loads of clarity, and the bent vintage saddles which sound very open. I chose the Even C slim neck profile because it seems like a good “not to small, not too big” balance, though I’m pretty flexible about neck shapes if they feel nice.

    I went with the SSV and SSH+ humbuckers because they coil tap superbly, and the Fletcher/Landau single I was keen to try also. They both coil tap from my tone pot, The blower switch I chose for obvious reasons, and the scalloped frets were an idea I wanted to do myself on the Strat (but won’t bother with now as I will sell it soon I think).

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    peterg.
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    Thanks Chris!

    i am still thinking about
    if i should have taken the Aldridge Humbucker!

    i just hope that i will be happy with that (not at all cheap)
    guitar!

    Peter

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    chrisbrooks
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    I think the Aldrich will be too hot for the FL singles. With the SSV+ you should be able to cover most tones and still sound sweet.

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    PinkyFailure
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    @peterg. 10847 wrote:

    Thanks Chris!

    i am still thinking about
    if i should have taken the Aldridge Humbucker!

    i just hope that i will be happy with that (not at all cheap)
    guitar!

    Peter

    You’ll be plenty happy and satisfied besides you made a very wise choice in going with an alder body, enough said. 😀

    Please put up pics after it arrives.. and enjoy!

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    PinkyFailure
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    @chrisbrooks 10791 wrote:

    Great features! That’s going to look the business!

    Why don’t you run us through your thought process when choosing the features? Guitar nerd-talk is always welcome.

    I’m still adoring my Suhr CS, which is also blue:

    cb_suhr%20gtr_06.jpg

    Aside from making highly playable and lovely sounding guitars, they know how to make them frikkin pretty too.

    Nice guitar, I’ve watched your excellent videos on youtube too.

    I must say, I have A/B’d some Suhr modern custom with some Warmoth build axes (to similar specs), and was actually more impressed with the Warmoth, especially I wasn’t too hot on the overly “modern” tone of the Suhr in comparison with the warmer and broader tone of the Warmoth.
    Sure, the pickups makes a helluva difference, since the Warmoth had Veijo Rautia custom pickups,
    which have a completely different tone than Suhr’s. However, I also though that even acoustically the Warmoth was warmer and more “open” (same SS-frets on both I might add).
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    peterg.
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    He Guys !!!
    Finally my Suhr is on it´s way to me
    it has been shipped and now i think in max.3 weeks i got it
    i´ll post pics and maybe a vid

    Yeah that makes me smile!

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    peterg.
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    He
    Tomorrow i´ll go and get my suhr….finally!

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