I just wanna share my experience over the last couple of weeks and how the Micsis team helped.
Over a month ago, I was at the shop to have my tele ("Betty") and strat ("Magi") checked up and have their necks reset since they both bowed.
Upon seeing and checking the tele, Mike said that if the neck were to bow one more time, it won't be "reversible" via truss rod adjustment.
Of course this got me worried, and as it turned out the sudden change from summer season to "baha" season really affected both necks.
So Mike proceeded to set the tele's neck properly one last time (the strat didn't have this issue thankfully),
and reminded me to hang my guitars on wall hangers and avoid putting them on a stand or rack over long intervals as much as possible.
I regularly tinker and noodle with the tele and strat, while I have wall hangers for both, I would put them put them on a rack instead.
In retrospect, I did notice that all the guitars that were hanging on the walls (2 bass guitars and 1 electric) didn't bow over the seasonal transition.
So now, with actual first hand observation, I could say that it is best to hang guitars than to put them on racks/stands, unfortunately I had to learn the hard way.
A week ago, I decided that I still wanted to gig using the tele without worrying about the neck, though I currently have 2 other gigging guitars (both strats).
Bearing in mind, that I have 1 custom build in the works with the Micsis team, I would eventually have 4 electric guitars counting the tele. Which in my mind
would be the ideal number (options wise). BUT unfortunately, I have to think of practicality (among other things) about the idea of having 4 guitars
(excluding acoustic/classical and a bass guitar) and concluded that "3" is my magic number.
1. main guitar
2. a backup guitar
3. a backup to the backup guitar (the one you lend)
In my case, that would be the most logical approach. So I thought hard and long (pun intended) about the tele's neck and
decided to make my #1 ( "Frankie" a partscaster, my main axe since 2009) a donor guitar and take out its neck and put it on my beloved tele.
"Frankie"
and since #1 would be left without a neck, I also decided to take out a lot of the innards to soup up the other strat.
I mixed and matched parts to maximize the "fusion" from #1 to the tele and the other strat.
Frankie + Betty = "Fretty"
Frankie + Magi = "Maki"
With the help of the Micsis team, I was able to pull it off.
What was once a trio..
is now a duo.
I had a great run with Frankie, but like all things in this world, nothing lasts forever.
