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Does anyone know what that karate sticker is?? I remember seeing 70s
Elvis with the same sticker on his black gibson.
--- In , "ipongrac" <ipongrac@g...>
wrote:
>
> DD's guitar most certainly DOES have a volume control! The only
> thing that's different about it is that he took off the white knob,
> and there's just the plain metal post sticking out of the
pickguard.
> That would make it more difficult to roll of accidentally.
>
> --- In , "Jeff" <bigtikidude@y...>
wrote:
> > I've seen the pictures of the DD signiture model, and I've held
> > the beast before. Totally differnet guitars. The DD model is
more
> > like a Yngwie,model than his guitar.
>
> Jeff, please I don't mean to offend, but that's ridiculous. I have
> not compared the Beast and the DD-signature model side-by-side, so
I
> can't comment on the wood, weight, neck-shape, etc. differences,
but
> it certainly seems that they copied the electronics almost exactly,
> and visually it is very close. Obviously, one is a forty year old
> guitar beat to hell, and the other is a brand new guitar, so there
> are going to be major differences. But to compare it to Yngwie's
> guitar is just wrong: Yngwie's guitar has stacked humbuckers, tone
> controls still in the circuit, scalloped fingerboard, 22nd fret,
> large seventies headstock mounted on 'correctly', etc. I'm sure
that
> the Fender Custom Shop which makes the DD signature Strat did a
great
> job with capturing the particularities of the Beast, and we should
> acknowledge them for it. The reverse headstock and the reversed
> bridge pickup are meant to replicate the fact that DD strings his
> left-handed guitars right-handed, so he gets two things: the low-E
> string passing over the bridge pickup mounted closer to the bridge,
> and more of the string behind the nut until it reaches the machine
> head on the headstock (and the opposite for the high-E string).
Some
> people say that these two have a slight effect on the tone, and
> therefore the Custom Shop did those two things to attempt to
capture
> DDs sound, which just a normal Stratocaster strung normally would
> not. The only other way to get the sound of these idiosyncracies
> would be to string your guitar upside down like DD does, and I
don't
> think many of us are willing to do that. So, give the credit to
the
> Custom Shop for caring more about the minutae of tone than the
> looks. And BTW, in order to have it look like the Beast, take off
> the volume know, put those Karate and US flag stickers on it, and
> scratch the hell out of the finish and the neck varnish - voila.
>
> Ivan
