I have the same guitar, but year 2000. I moved away from Strats for 20 years in favor of Les Pauls. What did it for me with the SRV strat is the neck - WOW!
A Y2K SRV sounds cool. The SRV neck carve is definitely loved by many and seen as the best part of the guitar. Myself I’ve have to work at it to get acclimated. I’m hoping once I get it refretted and am hopefully able to set it up closer to the way I need it, it will be a better fit for me. 🤞
Hey thanks! It ain’t much, but it’s honest work :) It should only get better from here, I’m going to make some changes to the guitar and keep the posts coming. Hope to see you again for part 3
It did, Texas specials were OE. Kenny hated the Texas specials and sold them off. When I acquired the guitar it had no pickups, pots or strings and had been sitting a long time. The underwound pickups were installed in another guitar I bought from his parents (a 1982 JVRI), and the original SRV pots were cannibalized into the jvri also. I’d tried David Allen Texas floods in the SRV, but “something wasn’t right” at that time (it wasn’t the pickups fault, the guitar was still somewhat dead sounding). I removed them, put them in the jvri and the jvri suddenly became really great. So this is the second set of pickups, they’re decent overall. I’m going to try a mixture next time based on an Eric Johnson set but after it’s refretted I want to try another set of Allen Texas floods, or maybe the mojotone Rene Martinez set, or possibly lollar specials. Something that leans hotter but still sounds pretty traditional. Thanks for watching
I have owned and sold so many Fender Strats. I love the look and feel of them but hate the sound of SSS pickups. The last one have Ive replaced the entire pickguard and electrics with a pair of Epiphone USA Pro and its incredible. The guitar those pickups came out of didnt sound even close. Go figure ?
It’s all about the whole combination (especially the player, moreso than anything else). That’s the great thing about it. There is Still so much to do to this guitar but I’m trying to enjoy the whole journey on this one. I also got along poorly with sss pickups for a long time, then something suddenly changed at one point and then I wanted it. I have no idea exactly what happened 🤷♂️, I think something in my playing style or my ear probably changed but don’t know exactly what it was. I have noticed some smaller details with playing lately that seem to lend themselves to sss and might attempt to do a video about it, but it’s not a super easy topic to get into.
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I have the same guitar, but year 2000. I moved away from Strats for 20 years in favor of Les Pauls. What did it for me with the SRV strat is the neck - WOW!
A Y2K SRV sounds cool.
The SRV neck carve is definitely loved by many and seen as the best part of the guitar. Myself I’ve have to work at it to get acclimated. I’m hoping once I get it refretted and am hopefully able to set it up closer to the way I need it, it will be a better fit for me. 🤞
Awesome sounding rig!
Hey thanks! It ain’t much, but it’s honest work :)
It should only get better from here, I’m going to make some changes to the guitar and keep the posts coming.
Hope to see you again for part 3
Sounds good, nice work on it, especially the underwound pickups over the, I'm guessing it had Texas specials or something equivalent originally
It did, Texas specials were OE. Kenny hated the Texas specials and sold them off. When I acquired the guitar it had no pickups, pots or strings and had been sitting a long time.
The underwound pickups were installed in another guitar I bought from his parents (a 1982 JVRI), and the original SRV pots were cannibalized into the jvri also.
I’d tried David Allen Texas floods in the SRV, but “something wasn’t right” at that time (it wasn’t the pickups fault, the guitar was still somewhat dead sounding). I removed them, put them in the jvri and the jvri suddenly became really great.
So this is the second set of pickups, they’re decent overall. I’m going to try a mixture next time based on an Eric Johnson set but after it’s refretted I want to try another set of Allen Texas floods, or maybe the mojotone Rene Martinez set, or possibly lollar specials. Something that leans hotter but still sounds pretty traditional. Thanks for watching
I have owned and sold so many Fender Strats. I love the look and feel of them but hate the sound of SSS pickups. The last one have Ive replaced the entire pickguard and electrics with a pair of Epiphone USA Pro and its incredible. The guitar those pickups came out of didnt sound even close. Go figure ?
It’s all about the whole combination (especially the player, moreso than anything else). That’s the great thing about it.
There is Still so much to do to this guitar but I’m trying to enjoy the whole journey on this one.
I also got along poorly with sss pickups for a long time, then something suddenly changed at one point and then I wanted it. I have no idea exactly what happened 🤷♂️, I think something in my playing style or my ear probably changed but don’t know exactly what it was.
I have noticed some smaller details with playing lately that seem to lend themselves to sss and might attempt to do a video about it, but it’s not a super easy topic to get into.