Gilmour Strat

[stephen]

Fantastic video! Cheered up my Sunday no end. Thanks for sourcing it Jim.
Guitar abilities aside, David Gilmour's a decent bloke in other ways. I remember reading that he gave the several million pounds proceeds from the sale of his London house to a homeless (I think) charity some time back. His son Charlie's not afraid to demonstrate against inequality either and was imprisoned for doing so. Off topic I know, but I can't help be a little influenced in my choice of guitar 'heroes' by their off-stage attitudes, allegiances & activities. It's just a personal foible of mine.
I'm no real big fan of those fairly normal spec. tribute guitars in general and often the price seems disproportionate to what's on offer. I did once fancy getting a Clapton strat mainly because of the active, mid. boost circuitry. One of my sons fancied a £7K Gibson Jimi Hendrix Psychedelic Flying V some years back, so I put a replica one of my own together, painted accordingly for him at a fraction of the Gibson price. With Seymour Duncan humbuckers and mainly Gibson hardware, he still prizes it. His less knowledgeable mates thought he'd won the lottery! That's the closest I've come to artist specials!

Stephen.

[roger bayliss]

Nice Stephen I agree with your sentiments and thoughts about heroes being more than just guitarists ... your son must be proud

[dave34346]

Funny video that ! LOL

With regard to Dave Gilmore Strat sound I do believe it is nothing more in PUs that two standard sounding PUs and an over wound bridge PU with a Bridge / Neck switch and he has played several strats over the years including The Black Strat, his serial No 1 and that modern Red one from the 90s he had and he sounds very much like well Dave Gilmore. He plays GHS Bloomers I believe. The solo on Brick in the Wall is a stunner for my money as was the solo live version of comfortably numb. He is not a fast player at all but a great Phrase is often found in his playing built on mainly blues style playing I would say. I have the book called the Black Strat and it is nothing exceptional at all .... like we keep saying great players sound like themselves ! Pass me Tin hat

1st let me correct your post ,, its Gilmour, not Gilmore
2nd, the red start is 1980's,
3rd , his strings are GHS Boomers.

info:, the solo in Another Brick In The Wall was played on a 1955 Gibson Les Paul.

Just thought I'd point you in the right direction ,,tin hat and all.

Regards
Dave

[stephen]

Thanks Roger and he is.....I think!

When he first approached me with a magazine picture and the words, "Hey Dad, you're quite good around guitars and you used to be a graphic artist, so I bet you could put one of these together for me", I wasn't that sure that I could repay his confidence.
Anyway, I bought a fairly decent, no-name black V with a decent neck and the ball-park spec of the Hendrix model. My son bought a handful of those car touch-up pens in the closest colours to the nail varnish that Jimi used and I set to work...............
About 20 hours & several coats of paint later, that was the result. We sent details & photos of the project off to Guitar & Bass magazine, they awarded it Star Letter status and we were gifted a pair of Seymour Duncan pickups. Bit by bit, as finances allowed, we sourced the other bits, including Gibson tuners and a replica short vibrola from Allparts. The final touch was finding the Gibson truss rod cover. Maybe a bit naughty, but he's never going to try and sell it on as the real thing.
That was 9 years ago when he was just 11. Going to try and attach the photo that the magazine printed.

Stephen.

[roger bayliss]

Funny video that ! LOL

With regard to Dave Gilmore Strat sound I do believe it is nothing more in PUs that two standard sounding PUs and an over wound bridge PU with a Bridge / Neck switch and he has played several strats over the years including The Black Strat, his serial No 1 and that modern Red one from the 90s he had and he sounds very much like well Dave Gilmore. He plays GHS Bloomers I believe. The solo on Brick in the Wall is a stunner for my money as was the solo live version of comfortably numb. He is not a fast player at all but a great Phrase is often found in his playing built on mainly blues style playing I would say. I have the book called the Black Strat and it is nothing exceptional at all .... like we keep saying great players sound like themselves ! Pass me Tin hat

1st let me correct your post ,, its Gilmour, not Gilmore
2nd, the red start is 1980's,
3rd , his strings are GHS Boomers.

info:, the solo in Another Brick In The Wall was played on a 1955 Gibson Les Paul.

Just thought I'd point you in the right direction ,,tin hat and all.

Regards
Dave

I accept those corrections Dave a little bit of a spelling error eh !

[dave34346]

Can admins tell me why a post has been deleted from my thread.

There seems to be one missing here

[dave robinson]

Yes I deleted an inappropriate post. I have sent you a PM.

[Uncle Fiesta]

I built my own Gilmour Strat by taking a MIM Classic 50's Stratocaster in black and adding a black scratchplate, a set of Kinman Woodstocks, the 'Gilmour' switch and a Callaham shortened tremolo arm. Sounded lovely and cost less than £575 (once I'd included what I got when I sold the parts I'd taken off).

What's a Gilmour switch Steve ? Don't remember any strange switch on the one I tried.

It's a mini toggle that adds the neck pickup to any of the combinations, thus allowing you to select neck + bridge or all three. As it's semi-recessed (using a little bracket) the switch is not that visible.

I do a similar mod on all my Strats, but instead replace the middle tone control with a pull/push switch (thus removing the need to drill the scratchplate), and also have it turning on both neck and bridge. Thus if you pull it up in either of the end positions, you get neck + bridge, in any of the other positions you get all three.

[dave robinson]

Thanks Steve, I have just this minute got in from our local music store where I tried one again and this time I did see it and tried it. I missed it before when I played it, I put it down to not been too well, however I can't change my opinion of it, my new G&L S-500 does the same job and to me sounds better a seventh of the price.