Yes, I’m at Australia. Believe it or not, it’s expensive here. In US, it’s different then..you can ask Kelvyn about how his friend tested all the DiMarzio pickups in the store before finalising his decisions.. Very cheap there, of course. But it’s not cheap over here, that’s for sure.

But they’ve got more funkier designs compared toMalaysia.. Just thatit’s not worth the buy over here for the moment..

Got RM150 basic kapok guitar also u know.. walaueh…

Glacius,
thanks for your words… You are in Australia now?? I thought AngMor country the guitars and gadget will be selling cheaping if compare to our country…I think I was wrong then…

The other day juz pluged in the guitars and the toys…I am not really go into them…juz had a soft touch of each of em…..

the 3 ESPs got active pickUPs which is more sensitive and powerful, where as the PRS is in passive pickups, the tone is warm and less power…

Ebony finger board from the two Ouija really made for speed player, first time I play on it..I got this feel..can play fast…I think it is becoz’ of the ebony finger board that came with this guitar… compare with Iron Cross(same pickups, neck EMG 60 and Brigde EMG81)…got different FEEL…

I step on the wah, feel like Kirk’s wah wah…I like it very much…try to play sandman’s solo…can get that kind of kirk wah wah tone…I need to practice becoz’ couldn’t play some part….buy me some more times friend..willl play this song entirely…

I do not have time to go thru it…sorry friends..later, after I play with them for awhile then back with full reviews….

rockON!

beh

Sorry for the late reply, guys. I just settled into my Tasmanian home here in Australia. I must say that this is a very quiet place. And there’re quite a bit of nice looking guitars as well, but some costs more than it’s supposed to be compared to Malaysia. Effect pedals of all sort here would be very expensive from my point of view.

Plannign tog et a dreadnaught acoustic just to warm my ffingers up before winter really freezes my bones. Hehehe..

Great guys.. keep on posting up. I would want to learn more as well!

I do agree with you mikey….we do not know what kind or type of combination in wood and pickups can generate the tone; Because we all are not expertise in this, so, for me opinion, want to play safe, we could go to Artune and consult Din. Suan lot of times also get Din to advise him regarding things in guitar.

Building guitar is not hard, juz put the parts together and make it sounds..that’s it..but Building a guitar what can generate the tone you want, it is always not easy….

I hope Din can finished up my white fender soon… I put KinMan pickUPs on this baby, and wonder how it sounds!!! I changed everything except the neck and body and machine head… And now waiting the fret wires to be changed…Its settle at Artune now…

I later update a photo of this baby here…

rockON!

beh

i used to love building own guitars and researching what is best for my playing (but sometimes ending up buying fancy stuff on the outlook but not really what i needed.. hehe)

however, down these years, i mean since 2006, where i started using my M1 (custom made, but not built by me, Din did the building with all the parts imported), i din really read up or analyze anything else after M1. maybe its bcos i love playing it and tot it is best suited me, in addition, if i wanna know any unknown stuff to me, i just sms suan, and he will tell me about it, though his analytical skills has deteriorated a bit after singing the money song for the passed months.

another reason is i havent been seriously practicing guitar for years (playing keyboard now), so, i guess its like a little off the radar now.

nonetheless, i love guitar most and its really eye bobbling smashing to see beh’s collection.

beh u want buy my “so-in-tune” custom double neck ah? hehehe? going cheap only.

For those who want to see it, I’ve tagged Tai Suan and Michael on Facebook.. So you can check out that there’s a sparkling red strat.. If you all are interested, you all can check their photos and hunt down that Strat and see how is it like through the albums there!!

And yes, that’s right! It inspires me to build my own guitar very soon after ordering all the parts, but my confidence level is very very low when it comes to that. I’m not sure, but I think I might start planning soon!

I think I can feintly remember how KH’s wah sounds like. It’s been a while since I last listened to Metallica. But I’m remembering from the S&M DVD in San Francisco .. Truly amazing performance, and I thought he was using a JH-2 or something. Guess I was wrong. But hell, I love Jim Dunlop pedals! Heee.

Very gien..

Feel like stealing it from you! Hahahahahaha..

God, I really need to adjust back to Malaysian timing..

Glacius
As I replied last message in the rush…and got a lot of typo error..I means spelling..Sorry bro…

What am I trying to say is, Kelvyn is brave to try building the guitar out by himself…and built the 1st guitar always not easy..I means doing things for the 1st time we will always face some problems and maybe failure…this is the learning process…Never try never know right? Its like baby learn to craw before know how to walk and then run….this is part of growing process that we all must go thru…Good for kelvyn!! at least the 2nd guitar if he is going to build in the near future it won’t that hard compore to the 1st one!!

As for the toys, I haven’t got the time to try out..when I tried out at the shop, it sound like Kirk’s wah wah sounding..that was why I bought this wah up… you could read up some reviews about this KH wah in the web…lot of ppl like it…let me try it out then come back here and share with you…

that’s for tonite…rockON bro!!

regards,
beh

But yes, we did go through pretty frustration things when it came to this. But one thing’s for sure, because we already experienced and encountered the problem, everything should be just fine when he attempts to do so again in the near future. At least he knows how is it like.

And hell, it’s going to kill me when I build my first guitar. Research’s up first. Hehehe.

They do such things over at ESP, huh? That’s kind of sad, but yup, hopefully your Ouija and Iron Cross will stay limited. Sounds pretty limited when there’s only 50 of them produced.

But halfway through making the guitar, I thought back about how Leo Fender sat down with his friend, and imagined how he designed the Stratocaster in the 1950′s .. Everything was done by hand, and that must’ve taken a bunch of geniuses to get everything done. Pretty psychotic, really. Makes me wish that I could’ve met geniuses like them back in the old days.. Even if I wasn’t born yet. hahahaha..

Yup, beh. will send your regards to him. I told him about the guitars you bought. Enjoyed discussing about it anyhuus.

I missed out on the KH pedal, btw..Nice design.. I wonder how it sounds like? I’ve been listening to the Jimi Hendrix-2 wah pedal all out of my life. Not that I own one. Heh.

Glacius,
This is why I ask you go to Artune ask for allaDin to tylor made a guitar for ya.

No Offence, and no doubt kelvyn is a great guitar player but come to tylor made a guitar, it will takes a lot of experience and years of time in experiencement things…Artune’s allaDin, he went thru all this kind of problems that you had mention above from long long long time ago…

If you want to get a tone you want, it is not easy because you have to know what kind of wood work with which type of pickUPs in order to get that kind of tone….its great that if you could come out with you very own guitar…again this is need alot of time and efforts in finding the right spec to fit into the guitar and create the tone you want…

You know why I only use “the ready” fender model guitar to tylor built my own guitar? because I want to reduce the risk that kelvyn had faced…now with allaDin’s service you could even go further, beyond and it will be your very own guitar with the choices of necks and body and wood type you want to built..and allaDin knows it all, you juz tell him what kind of sound/tone you want to get, he will be assist you to get what you want to get…

As for signature series of guitars, they are way over price…because got the artist’s name printed on that guitar….I love to collect limited signature series of guitars, or limited edition guitars..I hope the Ouija and Iron Cross will be limited edition, this is what had happened to my KH2 Vintage…now it becaming mess production not limited edition as it came out in the first place..I hate ESP in doing such kind of shitty things…making the guitar has less collecting value….Pray the Ouija and Iron Cross won’t fall into this kind of situation…

wow…wish I can see kelvyn play in hardrock…but today I have to go outstation for my business trip…send my regards to him if you see him..ask him to keep on rocking!!!!

you too..rockON!!!

regards,
beh