Guitars... what you've got / what you want

lots of discussion in the Stratocaster vs. Telecaster thread but figured we need something a little more general and all encompassing.

hoping to see lots of gear pics, wish lists, items you're eying, etc.

Have: Jaguar, Jazzmaster, Telecaster Deluxe
Want: big headstock Stratocaster in Olympic white, a Michael Karoli tribute guitar

Really want: Science Earthling (OR120-ish amp) but I don’t see having enough room for a big amp and 2x12.

current wishlist:

– 70s guild s-100 (would take one of the 90s re-issues too)
– ~70s Tele Deluxe natural
– SG standard, any year really, any color but cherry
– Jazzmaster - would love a j mascis or troy van luween sig model

"a Michael Karoli tribute guitar"

whats this?

I have a 2000s Japanese Fender Tele, a Fender Duo-Sonic, a recent custom Squier Classic Vibe 70s Tele, a Jackson Randy Rhoads, an Epi Korina Explorer with upgraded pickups and an Ibanez RG.

I don’t have room for anything else at the moment but would like a Jaguar at some point.

xp - that’s the Stratocaster I associate with him, not an official model or anything.

cool, you gonna try and build one out of parts or something? or did he play a certain year model?

shari thats a good collection which rhoads version do you have? do you play it a lot?

Have:
Gretch country club 1961
Ibanez,dunno but it's black
Hondo, it's a Gibson copy I think, but a good one.

Want:
Nothing really. Maybe a bass.

oh gonna need to see a pic of that gretsch.

i just bought three vintage gretsch's at an estate sale two weeks ago, gonna flip two of them and keep one i think. also got a hondo super strat copy at goodwill a few months back. i'll snap some pics over the weekend.

My Jazzmaster from a stupid angle

https://i.imgur.com/ZGF3Sh6.png

nice, matching headstock? what year is it?

2018, I think - '65 American Vintage Thin Skin from Wildwood. It was B-stock because the Firemist Silver is off but I like it because it's a little more blue.

my collection is disgusting

I forgot one from above because it's currently not playable - Peavey T-60, waiting on a new aluminum neck.

thanks for making this! i have:

- '72 tele thinline reissue c. 2000, natural finish, made in mexico. a few months ago i put the new wide range humbucker reissues in this.

- 2002 taylor 310 dreadnought, no electronics

- c. 2006 classic player strat, also MIM, sonic blue. i got this for a sweet deal because i contacted the craiglist seller from my work email and it turned out we worked for the same company.

- 2005 MIJ '66 jag reissue in lake placid blue. tricked out with duncan antiquties, mastery bridge, and mastery trem before i bought it.

- 2020 FGN (fujigen) neo classic - their take on the goldtop p-90 les paul

wants list changes all the time but currently at the top would be a white blonde 50s spec tele and a late 50s style jazzmaster in sunburst with the anodized gold pickguard.

- my main guitar is a late ‘60s galanti grand prix - a funky weird old Italian guitar i love: https://www.instagram.com/p/CPcDy49hhBl/
- epiphone dot that was my primary guitar for a long time
- alvarez acoustic my dad bought me when i was a teen
- my old beloved but sadly broken vantage semihollowbody lives in the basement. I’d like to get it fixed (something wrong with the wiring or pickups) but haven’t been able to justify spending money on it
- my wife’s ‘90s SG (coral pink) and danelectro bass

i don’t plan on buying any new gear anytime soon bc I’m not playing much. but the dream would be a vintage es-355. most of the other guitars that appeal to me are weird trashy 60s guitars or newer guitars that replicate that aesthetic

I've been given more guitars than I've purchased, and sold or given away more than I have. Currently:

-early 90's Tele Plus+ in natural finish, with the lace sensor pickups. That's my childhood guitar though I had a cheap 'starter' guitar before this one. Weighs a ton and really beat up. I never touch it anymore but I've had it almost 30 years, so can't give it up now. It's identical to the one Dead Meadow guy plays. Well, might have a couple more stickers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmxPWo6kBxA

-Danelectro '59 DC. It's a reissue, but an older reissue. I've had it since like 2006.

-a Korean made Saint Blues 61 South with a bigsby

-A 70's Musicmaster bass (no finish, not even clear)

-A Savona AWN-20 violao made in Brazil

-a cheap Yamaha acoutsic/electric 12 string that I also never touch.

I mostly play the Dano (because it's got a super comfortable neck and sounds good unplugged) and the Brazilian acoustic.

Always wanted a butterscotch 52 RI Tele. In 2008-ish I played a 6129T-1962 silver jet in a guitar store in Queens that I've lusted after since, mostly cause it looks amazing. It's basically a duo jet with the silver sparkle. Very much doubt I will ever purchase another guitar, though.

I'm not a gearhead or very fussy about guitars and guitar tones but I was into pedals at one time.

I was never one of those guys with 50 different overdrive pedals in search of the perfect tube screamer (at the risk of stating the obvious), more of a Gonkulators and Space Stations kind of pedal freak.

Currently have:
1. Goya classical from the 60s, it was my mother's

2. MIM Stratocaster

3. Squier Thinline Telecaster

4. Yamaha TRBX174 bass

5. Recording King Martin 000 copy

6. Fender mandolin

7. Hora bouzouki

8. Kit ukulele

There are probably a few more in storage but that's what I can put my hands on at present.

Want:

Mandola or octave mandolin

Hollowbody with p90s

Something with just a neck pickup

late 90s gibson les paul deluxe double cutaway, cherry sunburst

late 90s american standard tele, rosewood fretboard, 3 tone sunburst

early 80s ovation acoustic that belonged to my dad and is very special to me so please be nice

always really wanted a jackson randy rhodes or kelly or something.

i would like an es-335 too i guess

this thread is already great--i'm curious about what drove everyone's haves/wants. what motivates someone to get a given guitar is always interesting to me.

I’m dying for a Guild S-300 (not the one with the Dimarzio pickups, the one with the shitty Guild pickups)... in white, if possible.

I have no reason to get another guitar; I already have way more than I can use. But those things look so FUCKING cool, & with the phase-inverter switch I could get the tinny funk tones I want on occasion without any other fuss.

I bought a Guild B-301 a couple of years ago, same body type, roadworn as fuck, a beautiful beast, & I haven’t had any occasion to play it.

I haven’t actually picked up a guitar except strumming a cover or 2 once a month or so since Covid started (except for a couple weeks last fall when indoor gatherings weren’t yet banned, & my keys player & I jammed with a drum machine)

xp I collect Japanese solid bodies mostly, I love how well they’re made and I particularly like getting something a bit cheap or weird and fixing / adjusting until it’s great to play. I also can’t resist something I know to be underpriced compared to its quality. The problem is there’s no endpoint for that kind of process so I have a lot now. Better than collecting cars maybe.

Currently have:

1. 1965(?) Gretsch Corvette, the model with 2 hilotrons. Neck like a baseball bat, fake bigsby only goes down & not up so not super useful for the kind of vibrato you want a bigsby for, lo-output pickups play nicely with my hot little amp (a Tex Bernie CC)

2. Gretsch CVT, the Chinese-made modern version of the Corvette. Neck is wicked, bigsby is great, plays like a dream. Too hot for my amp; I should have just bought a volume pedal instead of the vintage Corvette

3. ESP Hybrid II. Swapped the shitty stock bridge pickup out for a TV Jones & scrapped the neck pickup altogether. Stupid purchase, and it’s a reasonably expensive guitar that nobody wants so I’ll never be able to sell it. It’s nice to play but it’s way more of a lead guitar than a rhythm guitar & I have no chops

4. Gretsch baritone guitar of some description. Was a placeholder for a Reverend Descent when I was in a 2-person band, just drums & bari... band never got off the ground so I don’t have a lot of use for it. Still jonesing for a Reverend Descent tho, for NO GOOD REASON

5. MIM Tele Cabronita. Decent player, lotta raunch. I think I swapped out the stock pickups for TV Joneses? Can’t remember. Didn’t get much stage time since the Corvette(s) came along

6, 7. A couple of shitty cheap Japanese acoustic guitars

Basses:

1. The aforementioned Guild B-301

2. The dumbest purchase I ever made, a 1968/1970 Fender Telecaster bass (one year is the neck, one year is the body but I can’t remember which). Used to belong to Billy Joel’s bassist apparently. Traded a late-70s P-bass plus a whack of cash for this glamourpuss, which looks like a million bucks but just doesn’t have any mojo whatsoever, like dating the most boring model you ever met

Pretty much after I got out of college in the mid 90s, I pretty much have been a gearwhore up til a few years ago, I realized this was nuts. It has taken quite a while to sell off the lot. I actually sold 2 basses, a guitar head, a vintage drum machine and an analog synth today.

I also finalized an order getting this parts guitar put together today, which when it is done I will have 10 instruments (4 basses, 4 electric guitars and 2 acoustics).

guitars...

I got two of other peoples 'failed' parts guitars of fleabay way cheaper than the parts itself would have cost. One is a black 'Gilmour' inspired strat that was wired up all wrong and had a thin neck. I sold the neck off, got a big fat neck made for it. I've had this one a decade now.

The other 'failed' parts guitar was a Warmoth firebird copy body (that they no longer made) that had a single TV Jones Powertron and was painted this ugly white color. I traded a Gibson Flying V (that I had found cheap)and the strat neck to get it repainted and a new neck. The F-bird was a mess as it needed a 'conversion neck'. I got it painted the same color red and the firebird logo from a '74 Transam. It's pretty wicked looking. That said, the neck is not as thick as I was really wanting...so I don't really jive with it like I would like.

The other guitar I have is a 2 Humbucker Tele build that I friend of mine who is a pro luthier put together when he was building out of his house for a few years. It has a pair of Dimarzio zebra humbuckers that I had at one point in a black mexico strat. I've had it also for over a decade now.

basses...

I sold my 78 Pbass and my first year Geddy Lee jazz bass in the past few months. I bought the Pbass for $250 bucks in '91 and a buddy of mine said I paid too much at the time. Could not believe I got $1500 bucks out of GC for the thing...it weighed a metric ton. The Ged I played in the cover band I was in when I first moved to KY.

I got one of those SG reissue basses when they first came out and kinda got hooked on it. I got it and found dirt cheap that Norlin bass I was talking about. Liked the SG one, I ran into one of the guitar of the week sunburst versions - so I got and later on a Thunderbird (Watt/Kim Gordon) that I always wanted. The Firebird is the best 'sounding' bass I got. That said the aircraft carrier case is kinda awkward, so I always dug having the two SG basses. I kinda think humbucker pickups are a bit underrated on basses now. I think they work really well in a trio setup.

acoustics...

I got a mid-70s Alvarez acoustic that I have had probably 15 years or so. It's not a particularly 'loud' acoustic but it has a very sweet sound. I got a used Martin Dx... series acoustic and that one I play ALOT. I love the laminate neck, it is so stable. It has excellent action up the neck.

amps...

I got a couple of Mesa Boogies including a 50 Caliber+ head (knicked named the DOOM BOOGIE) and a Single Rectifier head. I also have a 50 watt'68 silverface Bassmen head. Previous owner had it completely gone over. It's killer for recording Bass and with my Ampeg Scrambler reissue pedal - it sounds DEAD on for Jim McCarty's tone on the early Cactus records.

I have:

1997 Japanese John Jorgenson signature "Hellecaster" (heavy as fuck champagne sparkle/gold strat/G&L Comanche style guitar with Z pickups)

White 90s Japanese Jazzmaster

Teal post-2000-seeming Mexican tele

Want:
A tele that's brighter sounding/a bit less of a slog to play (unless they're all like that, I can't even remember)

A Rickenbacker bass (lol)

I'll probably succumb to the siren call of a Jag at some point in my life but my Jazzmaster is very nice to play so no rush

I've got every piece of music gear (minus the $100 drum set with $150 in new heads that lives in the basement) along one wall in the tiny room that has become my wife's home office over the last year; she gets lots of comments during zoom meetings and has to tell the guys (always guys) that she has no idea about or interest in what is going on behind her.

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1. 1981 Tokai Silver Star, modified with a blend pot instead of the second tone knob and a direct out switch because I hate hitting the volume knob all the time by accident. I posted about this earlier in the thread, never wanted a strat but found this one for pretty cheap and wanted white one with a rosewood fretboard and big 70s headstock (Karoli style?).

2. 1974 Gibson SG. I got this last year right before lockdown. It's in decent shape, I love the skinny neck, and I wanted something from my birth year and this was relatively cheap compared to most other options. I replaced all the pots and capacitors and jack which feels sacrilegious but they were all scratchy and loose but I kept the switch. Ian Mackaye and Carrie Brownstein, some Iommi, not really Angus Young.

3. A 2017 Telecaster Deluxe neck on the routed out body of a 1998 MIM telecaster, with P90s. I had built this with Lace Matt Pike humbuckers and the full 'Jimmy Page' wiring with four push-pull pots but learned I don't like humbuckers that much. I didn't really know these guitars existed til 10 years ago or so and I love the weird hybrid bastardized neck/body combo and 'fuck it just route everything and make a giant pickguard' Fenderness of it.

4. 2014 Epiphone 335 Pro with updated pickups and the Jimmy Page wiring (in a semi-hollow for pure masochism). This was the second electric I got and would probably be the first to go if I was to sell any - I like bright as shit guitars and this one isn't, plus the neck is very square feeling. I honestly don't remember why I wanted to get a semi-hollow - probably some sort of No Age / Bob Weir combination.

5. 1971 Yamaha FG 180 - one of the red label / 'Nippon Gakki' ones that seem to be prized. I got this for $100 a pawn shop. It's not as nice to play as some friend's Martins but it's decent enough.

6. 1998 MIM Telecaster neck and pickups on a wudtone finished GFS swamp ash body. This tele, originally with the black body above, was my first guitar, bought new at a guitar center in Phoenix because of Joe Strummer and Buck Owens and Luther Perkins and Pete Anderson. I owned it for years and didn't play much at all until I got back into it in 2013 or so.

I did the body swap and Tele deluxe spin-off a few years ago on a whim one day after staring at the cover of Born to Run for a while. The body was like $60 and is hilariously cheap with four chunks glued together somewhere in Asia with no concern for matching grains or anything - like the back side looks way better and more cohesive than the front. This has a five-way 'super switch' for phase and series/parallel stuff. If I had to only keep one guitar, this would be it.

7. 2015 Squier Jazzmaster with Fender pickups and a new pickguard. - I got this new in Portland a few years ago at a place that had it priced really cheap and gave me a deal on a case with it and I've wanted one for years due to Elvis Costello, Sonic Youth, Television, Dinosaur JR, etc. I always think I don't really like this one, then I play something like 'Divine Intervention' by Matthew Sweet on it and love it again.

8. 2013 MIM 50s Lacquer Precision with a black pickguard. I have a Jazz bass but was always trying to dull it down in the band I play in to fit around the keyboards and the neck felt too skinny so I found this on craigslist for like $200 less than the cheapest ones on Reverb. It's got a huge neck with a 7.25" radius and tiny frets and a red fuzz lined tweed case and I love it.

9. Not shown - a 2003 Squier Jazz Bass that I got for $75 at the guitar center in Seattle; it's being stripped because I hate sunburst and is going to get something like a big dumb gibson mudbucker added to the neck spot along with the existing J pickups.

Other than that it's a 1978 Fender Princeton Reverb (with the 'pull boost' and death cap removed the ground switch converted to a 0/half/normal negative feedback resistor option), a totally stock 90s GK RB400, a recent used 2x10 GK bass cab, and a bunch of cheap or built-from-kits pedals. There's also a Sunn Alpha 6 PA that a friend left at my house years ago because it didn't work but it just needed a new fuse holder. It sounds good as a bass amp but honestly just kind of looks rad.

Honestly I like to build and fix and modify guitars/amps/pedals about as much as I like to play them, if not slightly more. I have zero need and not much room for anything else but things I would be ecstatic to find at a yard sale for cheap:

- fiesta red Jaguar
- rickenbacker bass (lol)
- goldtop les paul
- one of those short scale PJ mustang basses that showed up a few years ago

Have -

Mid Eighties G&L Lynx Bass
Mid Eighties G&L El Toro Bass
1991 Warwick Thumb Bolt On Bass
Aria Electric Upright Bass

EastCoast cheapy Gibson 350 copy
Cheapy Acoustic, from the antique shop around the corner

Want -

Another Warwick (needs researching)
60s Tele Bass
G&L Interceptor bass (w/whammy bar)
Fernandes Tele bass (for project)
Shergold Marathon 6 String Bass (had two at one point, sold them both, instant regret)

Ampwise I have had various Fenders and Voxes but am happy now with just a Blues Junior.

A lot of the time I end up going direct, because of how many instruments I may end up playing on a given evening. Way easier to use a Para Driver or Blonde Sansamp when I may be switching between guitar, bass, mandolin, bouzouki, and electronic drums.

have: lefties

want: more lefties

(want gibson acoustics more than anything)

i'd like to play a bass vi someday

I have:
(an old picture when everything was out)

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1. 1965 Jazzmaster. I've been posting about this one in the Jazzmaster thread.

2. 1975 Telecaster. I've had this since 1984. Unforgiving but sounds fantastic with the AC30.

3. 2005 CIJ Stratocaster XII. Purchased it mostly new from a gray marketer in Costa Mesa and took it everywhere when I was regularly playing gigs at this time. Really nice guitar & stays in tune. Overdue for a pickup and wiring swap.

4. 1999 Am Standard Strat. In 2004 I was shopping for amplifiers and ended up coming home with no amp but the guitar I was trying them out with. I gutted all the electronics, put in a set of 1968 Strat pickups I found on eBay, replaced the pots with push/pull ones for in/out phase switching, and replaced the bridge & tremolo block with a heavy Callaham one. Extremely forgiving and somehow I just naturally play better with it - which is why it's sitting in a closet on the other side of the country rn.

5. 1967 Vox Cheetah. Rescued from a heavy metal supply store in Huntington Beach in 1993. Idiosyncratic and dark sounding. Only sounds its best when it's right on the edge of feedbacking so powerfully that you can feel the glued joints loosen up. At some point I expect it to turn to wood powder in my hands.

6. [not shown] Unknown early 60s electric bouzouki.

7. [not shown] early-00s CIJ JM-66 Jazzmaster. Currently disassembled but will eventually become a "72 Jazzmaster Deluxe" with the CuNiFe WRHB pickup reissues.

I want:

Nothing. Ms. Telecom has two terrific basses (a Musicmaster bass from the 70s and a '62 J-bass reissue from the 90s) so there isn't really anything I want except more time to write and maybe a Bass VI or baritone. Sure, if I had stupid amounts of money I'd love to have an all-original Fender something in Lake Placid Blue or a hollowbody Gretsch.

BTW, we’ll want another of these threads for synths/keys

I have:

1997 Japanese John Jorgenson signature "Hellecaster" (heavy as fuck champagne sparkle/gold strat/G&L Comanche style guitar with Z pickups)

― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, May 29, 2021 8:09 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

holy shit, i remember seeing this guitar in catalogs. can you tell me how you ended up with it? i was looking and apparently there are only like 500 of them. also, this incredible fact from jorgenson's website:

Due to a factory error, the total run of guitars ended up with an extra resistor on the bottom tone control which made the guitar sound as is if the treble was completely rolled off. After getting many enquiries about the tone of the pickups (my personal guitars were prototypes and didn’t have the problem) I finally had the chance to compare a factory model side by side to my own, and was dismayed to hear the difference in tone! Luckily the remedy is very easy, just unscrew the pickguard and clip out the resistor closest to the bottom of the guitar and voila, it sounds as intended! Most players and owners by now have already done this, but I do believe that this error initially hurt the sales and image of the model.

Elvis, there is a synth zone thread

- '72 tele thinline reissue c. 2000, natural finish, made in mexico. a few months ago i put the new wide range humbucker reissues in this.

- 2005 MIJ '66 jag reissue in lake placid blue. tricked out with duncan antiquties, mastery bridge, and mastery trem before i bought it.

― call all destroyer, Friday, May 28, 2021 6:13 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

would love to see pics of these.

My main guitar is one of those thinline reissues. I plan on installing those creamery humbucker reissues once the guy starts taking new orders again. A couple years ago I got a Trem-King installed on it, which is a lot of fun.

About halfway through a rebuild of a shitty Davison warlock knockoff I got new for 100 bucks a decade ago. Installed a floyd rose bridge and new neck on it. Still have to finish routing a pool, designing a pickguard (gonna install lace sensors), and revamping the electrics.

I've got one of those short-scale Airline Map basses that Eastwood makes. Love her dearly.

I also have an old beater bass that's a hollowbody with no brand name and scratchy electronics but it was supposedly Jenny from Erase Errata's first instrument so I rock out on it occasionally for the good juju. I want plenty more but just don't have the space in our shoebox in SF.

As for wants, I've never played a baritone guitar but have been lusting after that Ronquillo edition of the Rivolta Mondata and regret not pulling the trigger on it before it sold out even though it would've been a foolish financial decision at the time.

here's my gretsch's l-r:
- 2015 Panther Prototype MIJ (center block, hardtail)
- 1995 Brian Setzer 6120-SSU
- 1979 Chet Atkins Country Gentlemen 7670
- 1963 Streamliner 6103
https://i.imgur.com/M2Ccs3d.jpg
got the three on the right at an estate sale a couple weeks back, all are in ridiculously good shape. the binding is usually breaking/coming apart on a lot of 60s gretsch's but this one has no issues. planning on keeping the chet and selling the other two i think. the panther was my parting gift when i left fmic.

Here's that 80s hondo i was talking about. i cant find much info on it but its supposed to be like a kramer baretta. pulled the pickup in hopes it was one of the dimarzio humuckers that were in some early hondos... it was not. it sounds pretty cool tho. $10 at goodwill.
https://i.imgur.com/gIwMqvW.jpg

Here's my list of shame. I could make excuses for any one of them individually, but collectively? no chance.
1950? Unknown parlour guitar
1965 Sadao Yairi classical
1965 Teisco TG-64 guitar
1966 Fender USA Mustang
1966 Mory Jazzmaster
1966 Teisco TB-4 bass
1966 Yamaha SG-3
1967 Morales ZES-300
1968 Höfner Galaxie 175
1969? Canora MIJ classical
1971 Yamaha S-50A classical
1972 Greco TL-350 (shortscale Tele)
1973 Greco TE-500 (Tele Thinline)
1975 Greco TD500 (Tele Deluxe)
1976 Eston (Suzuki) acoustic 12 string
1977 Greco Super Sounds (Strat)
1978 Fender USA Musicmaster
1978 Ibanez Concord acoustic
1981 K Yairi DY-51 acoustic
1982 Squier JV Tele Custom
1983 Squier JV Strat
1983 Squier SQ Tele Custom
1985 Fender Japan Jazzmaster
1985 Fender Japan TL33 Tele
1985 Ibanez Roadstar II bass
1987 Fender Japan TL52 Tele
1988 Fender Japan ST-456
2000? Epiphone Casino MIK
2012 Fender Japan Bass VI

call all destroyer, there was exactly one of those Jorgenson Hellecasters in a music shop in Birmingham (UK) leading up to Christmas 1999, and I basically went all in on getting it via every family Christmas present I was getting and a 12 month payment plan on top. It was actually reduced to £580 just before I bought it but I guess is worth a bit more now. I remember the other music shop across town also had the blue sparkle Jerry Donahue model which I was also kind of tempted by. It's a little more uh elegant looking than mine

People aren't kidding about the muddy tone, didn't get that fixed until a few years later. Once I had it fixed up it plays beautifully though, so easy to get around.

I believe there may have been 500 in the west and 500 more in Japan; mine is 234

that’s so cool. the thing i read said that there were 500 total with 250 staying in japan but either way, very very limited.

Yah I’d never heard of that looks super cool

here is everything except the FGN which is in the other free corner of the room (also observant viewers may see part of my cat as he jumped up while i was taking this

https://i.imgur.com/lPeyCty.jpg

That’s like the exact jag I’d want

i believe ilx user albert broccoli also has this jag!

Definitely feelin the Jag envy

i think the jag is the one fender model where things like the block inlays, neck binding, and matching headstock actually look better than standard fender austerity.

i was just thinking the other day about looking for like a black/white/black 3-ply guard for the tele thinline....it's a rock machine with the new wide-ranges and i'm not sure if the white pearloid is the right spirit. anyone like or hate that idea?

Just go all out with one of these and install some LEDs in the f-hole

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5MIAAOSw8Ipcsv75/s-l1600.jpg

lol oh no. i'll be required to join a 5th tier jam band that plays amorphous "festivals"

Black would look cool. Kinda like a tele deluxe from that era

yeah i was thinking of those, and i also feel like i've seen some natural with black hardware 70s strats that are kind of nice

+1 for I would buy that exact Jag

The Jazzmaster I have has a matching white headstock and block binding and I think it looks p great

i'd love to see it if you can post a pic!

i just find the chrome explosion on the jag body invites excess everywhere else.

i do feel very lucky that i snagged that jag. i didn't plan on buying when i did and it was a little more than i intended to spend, but between the aesthetics and the upgrades that had been done it was tough to imagine finding a better jag for me.

Have:

1950s Martin D-18 (inherited from grandmother)
1950s Martin O-18 (inherited from grandmother)
1976 Guild D-25
2015 Gibson ES-335 Studio
1993 Fender American Standard Stratocaster
Johnson Solara (cheap electric I have for weird reasons but am sort of fond of)

Want:
Some kind of telecaster-style guitar, possibly with a gold-foil neck pickup and a regular tele type bridge pickup

Considering selling the strat - I just recently got it back from someone who had borrowed it for years (long story) and I never loved it or strats generally.
I already feel like

*I already feel like I have too many guitars. No way I would have three acoustics but for the fact that I inherited two, and then bought a third because I felt nervous taking heirloom guitars out to some playing situations.

Actually would also love a Gibson ES-175 or L5 type full hollow, and maybe a baritone guitar.

https://i.imgur.com/NHsP3gn.jpg

Yamaha FG 380 acoustic
Yamaha Revstar RS502T
Gretsch Electromatic G5120
Ibanez AS73G
Ibanez TMB100 (bass)
Postitive Grid "Spark" amp

Not pictured:
1989 Squier Strat, Late 90s Epiphone double cutaway Les Paul Special (tv yellow), neither of which is currently in working order.
Vox VT100X amplifier, which is more amp than I need, and I've been meaning to sell since I bought the Spark amp.

Also, a cat.

*FG 830

xp holy shit those martins - I'd love to play one but would be terrified to handle it.

xp nice arrangement and that is a lovely and large-looking cat

If I had it to do over, I'd have gotten the Yamaha RS502 without the tailpiece. Would've been more versatile re: modification. But it's a fuckin tank and I'm sure I'll own it forever.

xp I love the D-18 a lot. Definitely has taken some wear - there's a small crack right by the pickguard, and I had to have another crack in the side repaired. I haven't really figured out the O-18, have not found the right strings for it possibly and don't love the sound right now.

As noted I bought the Guild recently at a cheap price (it had some damage but is very playable) because I wanted a beater acoustic that still had a vintage dreadnought sound - something I wouldn't be scared to travel with/use at a local singalong or a small gig if I ever play one again.

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This is the Jazzmaster I have. It's not my actual one, I don't own a barn

I don't think that person does either. That's a set if I've ever seen one.

https://i.imgur.com/8cJAm1E.jpg
- 2013 Jackson Soloist
- 2015 Charvel San Dimas
- 2013 Fender Pawn Shop Super-Sonic
- 1983 Hamer Phantom A5 (with the 'triple humbucker')
- 1984 Hamer Phantom 12 (same thing but 12 string)
- 2008 Fender Jim Adkins JA-90 Telecaster (prototype with block in-lays, MIK)
- 2008 Jackson Warrior

i play the super-sonic and JA-90 a ton, and the charvel quite cos its so comfortable.

That soloist reminds me - I'd also love to get a ridiculous 80s shredder superstrat. It's absolutely got to have the pointy headstock and shark fin inlays and would preferably be neon pink crackle or something equally over-the-top

Monkey grip handle or gtfo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Performer

^^ my ‘80s shredder of choice if I ever found one

I was trying to recall where I'd spotted a Performer recently, and it was in this deeply regrettable image:

https://gayebykersonacid.wixsite.com/gayebykersonacid/gallery?lightbox=image15ci

No embedding, damnit. Gaye Bikers on Acid gallery, towards the bottom of the page.

https://i.imgur.com/Lij63UE.jpg

Jazzmaster w/ my JMJ signature Mustang bass (corny mass produced relic but the only traditional Mustang bass in the lineup these days?)

Nothing corny about the JMJ Mustang! It's a thing of beauty and I treated myself to one when it turned Shell Energy owed me a grand

I got a bit obsessed with wanting a Fender Performer recently. It's the guitar used by Bill Callahan up to and including Dongs Of Sevotion (he's playing it on the cover)

It sounds so good. I've got a set of the appropriate La Bella strings but haven't had a chance to drop it off for a setup with the new gauge.

Was intrigued by how many guitar dudes vouch for their quality. They look proper odd but Bill always wore it well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqT2djn-m2Q

I apologise for my obnoxious post upthread, I asked a mod to delete it but no response as yet so I guess it'll stand as a monument to tone deafness. It actually made me think a bit, I am wondering if collecting mania is a mental health issue for me. Most of those I bought cheap but I sure don't need them all. Anyway the rest of this thread is cool and I love this site so I will find a way to work on my own shit elsewhere.

Can someone advise me on my 1995 fender strat plus? It’s been packed away since I got a gretsch electromatic and I think I want to put some money into revamping it. I never loved the locking tuning pegs and the bridge is a weird thing with ball bearings. I kind of want to replace them with basic but good components. Anyway I own like 6 guitars and have been playing for nearly 30 years yet still know very little about guitars

xp hi matt, i don't think that's the type of thing that would typically get deleted and speaking for myself i found the post not obnoxious but maybe more overwhelming? like that's a lot of guitars but it's really not my business why someone has the number of guitars they do!

Xxp don't think anyone is offended matttkkkk. Thread is moving fast. Post some stories/details about items in that list though. Curious about the "1950? Unknown parlour guitar", naturally.

People online can get weird about instruments, like it's wrong to own any of them beyond your immediate need to write a hit record. No weirder or worse than collecting anything else IMO.

1976 Guild D-25

my early '80s lefty d-25 is my single favorite object in my life. the first real guitar i bought (used, from some dude in new jersey). i've walked into walls with it, dented the body against a door knob, generally mistreated it, and every single mistake i've made has somehow made it sound better. it records incredibly well. i have a martin d-28 that sounds technically superior in most ways and stays in tune and that i protect like a child, but i'll never love it the same way and i'll probably never play it as much. the guild probably knows me better than i know it, and i treasure it for that.

I've never played an old Guild, but I think I read about some artist loving his old Guild, maybe a 12-string?, and that makes me automatically swoon about an old Guild. Guitar mags + impressionable youth, but maybe something is there.

old guilds seem to be universally beloved

Oh also, Bryter Layter. That is also part of it.

i don't really need another dreadnought so maybe not a d-25 but it would be cool to have an instrument that was built in new england back in the day

Thanks folks upthread. I woke at 3am and looked at that list and thought "what the fuck is wrong with you?" But I do love them all, I've sold more than I have, and given away quite a few. Morbidly there are a few there so I can leave e.g. 1 Strat 1 Tele and an acoustic to both of my daughters when I die.
The unknown parlor guitar I bought for $14 at the local recycle / tip shop. It had the back splitting off, the bridge misplaced and it was strung with nylons. I repaired it enough to get it playing well but left it alone beyond that. It has a cute hand-painted/stippled sunburst, sounds bone-dry and so alive, and a gem to play; my older daughter keeps stealing it off me. Best guess is it's a 1950 "Michigan" brand.
https://i.imgur.com/4PwDDwI.jpg

and here's a Michigan for sale https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/clarkesauctions/catalogue-id-clarke2-10046/lot-6c5b077f-d162-4639-8f16-a9b300d1a788#lotDetails

very nice--so cool that you were able to bring it back to life

Can someone advise me on my 1995 fender strat plus? It’s been packed away since I got a gretsch electromatic and I think I want to put some money into revamping it. I never loved the locking tuning pegs and the bridge is a weird thing with ball bearings. I kind of want to replace them with basic but good components. Anyway I own like 6 guitars and have been playing for nearly 30 years yet still know very little about guitars

― Heez, Monday, May 31, 2021 9:45 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

seems reasonable to replace these components imo. with bridges i know that there are two different string spacings that are used on fender bridges so you may need to watch for "vintage" vs. "modern."

i think with replacing tuners the biggest thing is location of the mounting screws possibly being different? as in you may need to drill some new holes and fill the existing ones.

with fenders i wouldn't feel much fear in at least attempting to work on them....i have always told myself worst case i get in over my head and need to contact a repair person to finish the job.

Xxp very cool. "Vintage michigan guitar" search of course takes me right to Elderly's website, a place I went to often in the early 00's.

Ya

I apologise for my obnoxious post upthread, I asked a mod to delete it but no response as yet so I guess it'll stand as a monument to tone deafness. It actually made me think a bit, I am wondering if collecting mania is a mental health issue for me. Most of those I bought cheap but I sure don't need them all. Anyway the rest of this thread is cool and I love this site so I will find a way to work on my own shit elsewhere.

spottie your collection is fascinating as well, like those 80s hamers are totally unfamiliar to me

I go to a lot of estate sales/auctions so I’m always looking for stuff hoping to flip it or shuffle the collection a bit. The guy who owned these had original receipts for them too, also had some sweet vintage pedals that I bought (vintage boss and worley). I’d never heard of those Hamers either, apparently the A5 was popularized by Andy summers. I had to put a couple hundred into the 6 string for a fret level/polish and solidify a crack in the neck joint. Might sell both to try and get one off the wishlist. They are fun to play tho, lots of tonal options.

Can someone advise me on my 1995 fender strat plus? It’s been packed away since I got a gretsch electromatic and I think I want to put some money into revamping it. I never loved the locking tuning pegs and the bridge is a weird thing with ball bearings. I kind of want to replace them with basic but good components. Anyway I own like 6 guitars and have been playing for nearly 30 years yet still know very little about guitars

― Heez, Monday, May 31, 2021 9:45 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

seems reasonable to replace these components imo. with bridges i know that there are two different string spacings that are used on fender bridges so you may need to watch for "vintage" vs. "modern."

i think with replacing tuners the biggest thing is location of the mounting screws possibly being different? as in you may need to drill some new holes and fill the existing ones.

with fenders i wouldn't feel much fear in at least attempting to work on them....i have always told myself worst case i get in over my head and need to contact a repair person to finish the job.

xp those Hamers are awesome, I had a friend who was a professional musician and flat out told me they were the best made production guitars of their era.
I have pictures of pretty much everything in the list, I think. These are some nice ones - the Squier in the centre is a 1983 SQ serial from Fender Japan, my favourite of all. I sold the Greco thinline on the left after I picked up a similar but older one for $150 on a visit to Japan.
https://i.imgur.com/FHifgdi.jpg

I also bought the Greco Strat in Japan, had visited Ochanomizu to buy a decent Fender Japan Strat for a friend, and thought well I don't need anything for myself unless there's a 70s Fender copy somewhere - the last store on the street was full of metal guitars and this one lonely 78 Greco for about $250, when I tried it I knew it was coming home. I had to get on the Yamanote line in rush hour and go to Shinjuku with one guitar on my back and one held to my front, it was a lot of fun.

Ha, sounds awesome. I know people swear by those early Japan squiers but I don’t know much about about them, honestly. Pickups sound good?

To be honest I switched out the bridge for an inexpensive but awesome ToneRider Hot Classic. The neck "WRHB" is a bar magnet approximation from the Greco production lines, but I put 1M pots on the neck circuit and used the trick of backing off the hidden screws a way - it ends up being a bit like a P bass pickup. Anyway the end result sounds divine, not like a WRHB but more like a Strat neck pickup.

Also anyone who needs a P style bass should get onto the Ibanez Roadstar copies from the 80s. Same production line as Fender Japan, absolutely wonderful instruments, STILL underpriced although inflating like everything else at the moment.

"Vintage michigan guitar" search of course takes me right to Elderly's website, a place I went to often in the early 00's.

You went to the website often, or to the actual store?

I live a few miles from the place and it's a great place to wander around for a couple hours. One of those shops where $200 acoustics are next to $4000 ones out on the floor.

most of my guitars are complete garbage, my main one is a MIK 198x Squier Strat which isn't even mine (someone leant it to me in 1991 but never asked for it back). i do have a nice Aria acoustic and the exact same Ibanez bass as Johnny Fever (except my one is pale green). been playing guitar a lot recently though and currently yearning for something half decent with a thicker sound and a chunkier neck than the strat

1996 or 97 American Standard Tele. It's indestructible and was my only electric guitar for about 20 years, and has major sentimental value but I really don't like the bridge pickup. Then I got:
2018 Epiphone ES-335 Pro. Love it but can tell that the hardware (tuners) is of lesser quality. But it sounds great and the price was right.
2017 D-28. This like a 5th child for me. A very generous gift from a family member. Love it.
??? year Deering Goodtimes banjo. Fun but it feels flimsy, is way louder than I need it to be and I don't know shit about banjos.

I don't feel a need for more guitars. Fave pedals include a Carbon Copy delay, JHS Clover pre-amp, mini tube screamer and a Roland space echo.

xxp the actual store. I had a friend that lived in Cassopolis, and we'd drive up and over from there. Friend had a few old guitars and would occasionally be trading or buying something. I agree, it's a great place. They put it all out there and let you play.

I think those strat plus’s had Schaller tuners. Might have to do a little digging to figure out which replacement tuners would work in those without have to drill new holes (unless you don’t care about that). In general, Fenders are fun to work on if you enjoy that kinda thing. Wonder if a modern fender bridge would swap one to one with the one in yours.

― Spottie, Tuesday, June 1, 2021 1:22 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ok yeah they are Schaller's. It also has an LSR nut, which it looks like I would have to replace with another LSR nut. Any opinions on the gold Lace Sensor pickups? I think I might just take this somewhere for a set up and clean it really well. For someone who doesn't really care about the technical aspects of guitars, it always seemed too foreign to me.

I’d like to try Lace Sensors sometime. There’s the Clapton association but also Kim Deal and Andy Gill…

I go back and forth a lot on my 2015 ES-335 Studio. Tuning stability isn't always great, and also sometimes I don't like the feeling of the fretboard (torrified maple). I wonder whether upgrading to a higher-end ES-335 or maybe a vintage ES-335 would make a big difference, or if maybe I should try a Guild Starfire or an Eastman T386 (which cost the same or less than I could sell my ES-335 Studio for). I could also make some upgrades to the one I have. I like the sound of both pickups a lot.

yah ive never played the lace sensors either, but they have a really loyal following. you're pretty much stuck with the LSR nut since it has to be routed differently, yeah.

another option is if you arent really in love with the specs on that strat plus model you could sell it as-is and buy a used american standard strat which will have more... standard parts. they have roughly the same monetary value at this point in time.

Eastman makes a higher end 335 with Lollar pickups from the factory. You could probably come close to getting one selling the Gibson given their price increases.

i just took it apart and am cleaning it. also bought a new lsr nut. i think i'll get it all freshened up and decide if i want to keep it or sell it. kind of like that hgtv show.

re: the Guild discussion upthread. Some years ago I used a Guild 12-string but never warmed to it. Wasn't Clapton a Guild user for a while?

I had an acoustic show over the weekend. All my friends seem to getting fancy new Taylors. I borrowed one and didn't like it - obviously a well-made luxury instrument, but the neck is so slippery that I couldn't really feel where I was. Hoping I am not just doing a sour grapes thing where I claim to not like an instrument that I have no hope of affording any time soon.

2. 1974 Gibson SG. I got this last year right before lockdown. It's in decent shape, I love the skinny neck, and I wanted something from my birth year and this was relatively cheap compared to most other options. I replaced all the pots and capacitors and jack which feels sacrilegious but they were all scratchy and loose but I kept the switch. Ian Mackaye and Carrie Brownstein, some Iommi, not really Angus Young.

3. A 2017 Telecaster Deluxe neck on the routed out body of a 1998 MIM telecaster, with P90s. I had built this with Lace Matt Pike humbuckers and the full 'Jimmy Page' wiring with four push-pull pots but learned I don't like humbuckers that much. I didn't really know these guitars existed til 10 years ago or so and I love the weird hybrid bastardized neck/body combo and 'fuck it just route everything and make a giant pickguard' Fenderness of it.

― joygoat, Saturday, May 29, 2021 7:55 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

do 70s SGs have skinnier necks? i might need to look for one of those if so.

Also love the bastardized tele deluxe

I have never purchased a guitar, but I have three: Electra Telecaster copy (1974, gift from my parents when I was 16); Yamaha SE612 (1989, gift from my ex-wife) and a crappy Series 10 short scale that belonged to my late brother, on which I am attempting to learn slide.

I'm primarily a bass player, of which I also own three: Dano Longhorn (newish); MIM P-Bass (2006), and Fender "cowpoke" P-Bass (1995.) This is my favorite and most played. Kinda rare, active pickups, jazz-like 22 fret neck.

xxp Notable Taylor players according to wikipedia: William Ackerman, Axel Bauer, Jade Bird, Zac Brown, Dave Carroll, Steven Curtis Chapman, Tom Fletcher, Jon Foreman, Russ Freeman, Andy Gullahorn, Michael Hedges, Sam Hui, Alan Jackson, Jewel, Emily King, Leo Kottke, Dave Matthews, Travis Meeks, Jason Mraz, Dolores O'Riordan, John Petrucci, Prince, Gabriella Quevedo, Steve Stevens, Call All Destroyer

That list is missing Taylor Swift. Probably the most prominent Taylor player who is named Taylor.

I learned to play on an epiphone jeff "skunk" baxter acoustic guitar, which had a very small neck and body. Sounded very thin overall. That is now at my brother's house for his kids to learn. I have 1 electric guitar -- an early 00s PRS Standard 22 (I think?). I got it maybe 20 years ago in high school. At the time, I mostly wanted something that played like that little epiphone, i.e. a small neck and low action. It was also the cheapest PRS I had ever seen, on sale for something like $1100. The maroon and gold probably had something to do with it. I remember being overwhelmed by all of the "made in" variations for Fender guitars, and I was leaning toward a G&L. Single coils probably sounded less forgiving, and I believe a Creed-loving friend was with me and convinced me that PRS guitars are good. I do not love this guitar, but I'm grateful to have a decent enough instrument to play. I'd like to get an old tele instead.

My acoustic is an early OOs Larrivee L-05. I played with a friend that had maybe 5 to 7 amazing guitars at any given time. He sold this to me for $500 as a favor but also because he hated the epiphone so much. He'd replaced the tuners with some fancy matte black ones but switched them back before giving it to me. I don't think the B string has ever been in tune when I pick it up, and I wonder if that is why he'd replaced those tuners. I still love this one. It felt like a big upgrade over the epiphone, anyway.

I wish I'd bought the oldest guitars I could afford at the time. They'd even be 20 years older now. The oldest wood in this photo is definitely on the floor.

https://i.imgur.com/MtTz0pg.jpg

I almost exclusively play acoustic at home these days, mostly alone, sometimes with a mate. I've a Lakewood (German brand) auditorium and a Collings small body. Electric I play a Japanese Squier Jagmaster I bought in the early 90s, and an Epiphone Dot because Galaxie 500.

Eastman makes a higher end 335 with Lollar pickups from the factory. You could probably come close to getting one selling the Gibson given their price increases.

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 16:25 (yesterday) link

Do you know what the model is called? Def interested in this.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/t2vtp4u8kgejwek/20210601_204428.jpg

1962 Martin D-18
Stratocaster Ultra
Modulus M92/5
Lane Poor fretless Minima Electric

Want:
Gibson SG
Fender Jazzmaster
Rickenbacker bass
Fender Jazz bass

if we had a guitar sword fight, I feel that Lane Poor bass would win

probably would be the best use for it, can't say that it plays great

Do you know what the model is called? Def interested in this.

The T59 - there’s also a T58 (Gretschy) and T64 (ES-330)

Nice mix moodles. What’s the story with the Martin?

it's my dad's, I learned to play on it during my tween years, then ran off with it later on.

Ah cool

There's something subtly a little cheesy looking about the Eastmans, but it's very subtle and I might get past it. Actually the T58 is beautiful, I just don't want those pickups.

Maybe it's just the script Eastman logo. I think I might want a T59 now.

my daughter has one of their hollow-bodies, whose model number I don't have handy, and it's a thing of beauty. I love getting my jazzy noodling out on that guitar.

People are asking insane prices for the Gibson I have on Reverb, like double what I paid a few years ago. I can't imagine they're actually fetching that much.

do 70s SGs have skinnier necks?

xp looks like it's selling consistently for 1300-1450 on reverb. it does seem like prices for everything have ticked up tho.

yeah when I look at the actual sale prices it's more in line with what I paid, guess there are just a couple ridiculous listings. Prices are ticking up though.

prices for everything are up, plus reverb increased fees to net 10% and people are trying to recover

i thought it was 5%

have a Dean Dave Mustaine Zero guitar.

want one with a fuckin whammy bar or one that can play itself cos I suck.

Spottie - Reverb fee is 5%, then add reverb or PayPal processing fee. then deduct shipping since you listed with free shipping ;-)

I’m going to actually try selling stuff local instead of via Reverb next time I have something to sell. I hate Craigslist but shipping keyboards and guitars is such a PITA.

the first time I sold a guitar and shipped it I failed to appreciate how costly and difficult it was if you don't know what you're doing and basically lost a lot of money on the sale

Dimensional weight is a motherfucker.

I had a guitar shop in Washington ship me an Ampeg VT40 combo once - it probably weighed 100 pounds on its own and had free shipping. They must have been desperate to make it go away.

i think the last time I sold a guitar and amp I literally hand-delivered it to a friend cos fuck shipping that stuff.

Spottie - Reverb fee is 5%, then add reverb or PayPal processing fee. then deduct shipping since you listed with free shipping ;-)

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, June 2, 2021 9:05 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

ah, got it. i think offerup is a good option, at least for gibsons and fenders since you'll get enough eyes on those. also offerup for amps for sure. reverb prob better for higher end stuff or more rare.

*casts the shape of a PRS headstock and bird fretboard inlays into the pits of hell and eternal damnation*

I really like the birds! Did not know until a few years ago that they're all different species!

I've never actually played a PRS. Their S2 series has always intrigued me.

The best-looking S2s also lack birds :/

https://prsguitars.com/products/s2_electrics

ha I was actually just looking at an S2 standard sunburst on Craigslist and thinking how much I'd like that guitar with a different headstock, which inspired the post

i wonder if you could put a gibson headstock on it?

the thing that is most exhausting to me about the PRS aesthetic is the transparent tops with all the figured maple woodgrain stuff, like would it kill them to make a guitar that's painted a solid color

You guys should def trade me an oldish tele for my washington hatcats themed prs. It's a solid color!

Even flame top Les Pauls are ugly IMO. Plain tops look so cool in a darker edged burst, I see no reason to gild the lily.

yah not a fan of PRS's and it's all based on aesthetics.

hard to tell from sufjans pic but that prs looks like just normal paint no transparent?

It is very normal. A 1999 ford explorer eddie bauer guitar.

lol

pretty wild you're the only one with a PRS thus far.

*tips fedora and plays lick from 'evil ways'*

My understanding is that if you own both a PRS and a Mesa Boogie, you can get instantly licensed as a Blues Dentist.

My sources may be wrong, however.

always a boogie short

Blues Dentists vs Tone Attorneys

i made fun of the quilted burst top / bird inlay prs aesthetic on one of the guitar threads here; after christmas this year the guitar player in my band bought himself a blue burst prs with the bird inlays

Did you then mercilessly mock and humiliate him, such that he quit the band in disgrace?

(Just kidding, of course. I would only mock someone who brought a Rich Bich to a folk session.)

P sure my ES-335 Studio is an official junior tone associate guitar. It plays blues in every key.

Despite owning multiple Fender offsets I've never put my hair up into a (man)bun.

watched this today, remembered how much I'd like a Firebird VII w/ Lyre vibrola.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A29BMj3v86w

those are so cool looking but the body size and the banjo tuners is just....a lot.

i've ordered some stuff to continue modding the tele thinline--b/w/b guard, deluxe-style knobs, and 1-meg pots for tone and volume to match the original spec for all the wide-range equipped fenders.

If you need the repro WRHBs to sound cleaner, you can screw out (or even remove) the hidden polepieces from underneath the pickup, effectively you get around 1.5 polepieces per string instead of 2, gets a little more single coil although it's still a bar magnet pickup.

I played a PRS a few years ago & was blown away, but the aesthetics of the thing were so awful that I couldn’t possibly.

The aesthetics of a PRS are borderline upsetting to me, like the fact that someone with the money to buy a very nice guitar would think THAT looks nice

https://images.app.goo.gl/TFttsGCf2dfh35KLA

it was a picture of mark tremonti

and you know what he was doing

Just to show you where my mind is at lately, I got an email from our office manager about a "Shredding Pickup" and was very confused

“EMGs are always popular, boss. No noise, well balanced across the EQ spectrum.”

"sorry, corporate policy dictates employees use Seymour Duncan Dimebag Darrells...going to have to notify HR about this incident"

man alive, have you seen the new Harmony guitars? Made in the old Gibson/Heritage factory in Kalamazoo

https://www.harmony.co/pages/comet

$1499 for a USA made semi-hollow is not a bad deal in guitars right now

the birds are already enough, but i'd forgotten about all of the dragon inlay stuff associated with PRS. oh my.

mine even has bridge and neck humbuckers called "Dragon IIs"

‘70s conversion van chic

I wonder how many of their ubiquitous and over-the-top design choices were necessary for brand recognition after they chose a 3-named dude's full autograph as their logo

my favourite is trawling the ads on The Gear Page for all the PRIVATE STOCK FLAME TOP WATER AAAAA+++++ PRSes for sale, they're like a gallery of Thomas Kinkade originals

custom headstock with thomas kinkade's autograph would be cool

snowman guitar

christmas village

my favourite is trawling the ads on The Gear Page for all the PRIVATE STOCK FLAME TOP WATER AAAAA+++++ PRSes for sale, they're like a gallery of Thomas Kinkade originals

― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, June 3, 2021 9:57 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

thank you for turning me on to the gear page classifieds, there is some truly insane shit out here: https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/super-rare-msi-maloney-stringed-instruments-ncc-1701d-electric-guitar-perny-neck.2252182/

How are you going to call it the 1701D and not even have a saucer section

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a4/7e/35/a47e354bff5653a4d51623744c49b5a4.jpg

$1499 for a USA made semi-hollow is not a bad deal in guitars right now

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, June 3, 2021 3:02 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ooh, these look nice. Aesthetically maybe a little cooler than the Eastmans as well.

that american flag on the pickguard though, hope it's a sticker

xxxp yeah TGP's ads are a whole subculture of fetish objects masquerading as guitars, where "blue jean" is as commonly understood as "sunburst" in the norm world

most of the time when somebody says one thing is 'cooler' than another, and they aren't standing over two mounds of freshly made french fries, or two freshly baked pizza pies, etc., I assume they mean aesthetically.

and now i'm out for everybody who made fun of my beautiful baby

get em

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a hellecaster just got posted to reverb for $2500
https://reverb.com/item/41180106-fender-hellecaster-stratocaster-john-jorgenson-electric-guitar

does anyone know anything about fanned frets? one of those weird things from the guitar mag world that i've always wondered about and cannot quite understand what the advantage is supposed to be

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/msg/d/minneapolis-legator-ninja-fanned/7328070472.html

Near as I can tell, it gives you different scale lengths for each string. So I guess you might get a thicker / boomier sound&feel on low strings and a tighter/snappier sound&feel on high strings.

I cannot imagine doing that on a six-string because I play very chordally (and my sense of muscle memory is entirely set in stone), but I can kinda understand how it might work on a bass. You get a deeper tone on the low string and the higher ones have more tension for soloing. Like Lee Sklar's basses:

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/F7szuru5EebB2RqD6qAgTS-1200-80.jpg

i always wondered if it offered improved intonation for instruments with extended range like those 8 string basses or whatever they have now

yeah i thought it was related to intonation

but apparently that is incorrect

well shoot

I think I may have slightly garbled the advantage of the longer scale lengths. It is more that you can get the right tension at a particular string gauge. Not that you want the tension to be higher on treble strings. Sorry, I hope that's clearer. If you take the E on a normal bass with a normal scale length and tune it to, say, C, it will be floppy AF.

I gather that fanned frets give you a better shot at workable string tension for low B strings, without making the higher strings sound plinky? Maybe?

Yeah, by varying the scale length from longer for the low strings to shorter for the high strings.

https://reverb.com/item/41269675-fender-performer-1985-gun-metal-blue-metallic-just-serviced-w-case

Awesome looking Fender Performer but good luck to them getting $3500 for it.

Fanned frets are for when your headless guitar is not quite dorky enough.

I stopped at Guitar Center after lunch and they had a Squier Classic Vibe Mustang that I used to try out a Roland JC40 and that was a great guitar for $429 (given today's prices). Almost tried to figure out how to buy it.

waiting on that weird Godin I bought in the other thread to come back from my friend's shop, it's having an Extreme Guitar Makeover

I've been spending like an hour a day looking at fb marketplace guitar listings, this is bad. My bluesdad midlife crisis beginneth.

it’s quite a ride

Guitars I got:

-MIM "Arctic White" Tele with a Fralin bridge pickup, Gibson humbucker in the neck, and upgraded switches/electronics

-MIM "Lake Placid Blue" Strat '60s Classic Series reissue (forget what design year) with *I think* Lollar pickups.

-Epiphone Les Paul Gold Top '56 reissue, with noise-cancelling Fralin P90s and upgraded electronics and whatnot. This one is a real joy to play, and was a bargain, something like $400 all-in (including shipping)

-Gibson SG '61 reissue, which wins for both most expensive and least played.

-Modest starter Seagull acoustic (S6?).

I used to have a butterscotch '52 reissue Tele with Fralins in it that was awesome, but it was stolen some years back.

Dream amp acquired (assuming it survives shipping) - based on the Orange/Matamps of the early ‘70s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZGK2fzAxVM

really really cool although on that initial setting it may be impossible to play anything other than electric wizard riffs

argh i want this https://reverb.com/item/41371998-squier-vista-venus

woah never heard of that

xxxxpost Seagull S6 is an incredible value

it's essentially a courtney love signature model

I have been a longtime fan of the seagull S6. I almost regret not getting one instead of my beater 70s guild.

JIC you have a pretty ideal affordable guitar collection imo

lol, that was the plan, actually!

it is a cool collection of guitars! but if I may offer my contrarian view on the seagull s6, since it gets plenty of love anyway. the headstock is too narrow and then tapers down at the end, much like a toothbrush. a beater 70s Guild is much nicer looking and probably better sounding. The beater 70s guild will also hold value. seagull guitars flood the used markets of every college town the week of graduation. it is the quintessential "affordable guitar that you, a small guitar shop owner, can feel good about pushing on parents buying a first guitar for their kid, who will give up trying to play after a year." I am skeptical of the seagull vibe, pushed by small guitar shop owners everywhere, and repeated by more experienced players in their basement studios. And nobody really wants to own or play one. Your friend will play it and repeat the line from product literature, "that's a damn fine guitar for the price." But if you offer the same friend your Seagull guitar for free -- "please, you like it so much, take it. and play it at your next gig." -- they would politely decline and run away.

I am super jelly of the other guitars JiC listed, and I am not trying to make him feel bad about this one guitar I don't like. It makes sense in a collection that is clearly electric focused.

xpost

the whole brand is dorky, but I have found them to be great to play, esp the s6 folk because I like fingerstyle and they are one of the few mass market acoustics that have an extra wide nut and string spacing

record well too, esp with new strings, the cedar tops they use are darker sounding and don't sound so shrill with semi pro mics that someone like me uses

headstock is ugly but honestly I'm never going to play acoustic onstage

would love a 70s Guild, though if you have way to get one for even close to a used Seagull price please let me know!

fwiw I bought a really messed up Seagull on CL - had been damaged and really poorly repaired - and my luthier at the time remarked that when you take one apart to fix he's impressed the overall workmanship esp for a low priced guitar

this guy doesn't sell guitars, only makes expensive custom built acoustics and repairs vintage, so he has no horse in the race so to speak

I think that's kind of the selling point, isn't it? That as far as budget guitars go, Seagull has a reputation for going above and beyond what others do.

would love a 70s Guild, though if you have way to get one for even close to a used Seagull price please let me know!

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, June 21, 2021 1:24 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I got my 70s guild d25m for about $500 off Reverb - it had a lot of body damage that had been visibly (and kind of sloppily) repaired but it was mostly on the side of the body where it wouldn't be visible to anyone but the player, and the neck/soundboard/etc. were fine. Obviously this was an unusual situation - some kind of repair shop liquidation or something.

xxp Thanks for the thoughtful breakdown and anecdote. That all makes good sense, and I believe you that it's well made for the price. I'm sure you do fine buying one used. I guess the unfavorable 70s Guild comparison is indeed what set me off. Everyone on earth takes the 70s Guild. There's just a thick cloud of positivity surrounding some guitars' craftsmanship, which makes me suspicious. I spent some time hanging around a guitar shop in high school, and the shop was a dealer for a few boutique brands they'd always push. The guitars were very nice! A friend with wealthy parents worked there, and he bought several of them new. The same friend eventually learned that these guitars, unlike the models they copy, quickly depreciate because no famous guitarists played them on stage, no dentists had one when they were younger, nobody recognizes them, etc.

IDK, in college my housemate had a Seagull and I didn't know anything about them at the time and I loved it. That's all, never got any pitch from a guitar salesman. IDK if they "hold their value" or not but they're also not that expensive to begin with? My American strat sells for roughly inflation adjusted what I paid for it, but there were many years when it had dipped below that and only now because it's almost 20 years old has the value come back, is my guess.

And my Guild would be very hard to sell for the reasons I mentioned (same reason I got it so cheap)

OTOH I feel somewhat the way you describe about the Ibanez Artcore series. Constantly hearing "wow, what a great semihollow/hollow for the money!" But they're lame and a bit ugly and there's not that much special about their sound. Ok you can get a "decent" semihollow for $400-500, but why not just wait until you can afford a good semihollow since they're special instruments?

I was eying a beat up early '70s Takamine F-360, one of the (I think) "lawsuit" models. It's being sold pretty cheap because it needs some repairs to its bridge, but I dunno if I want to gamble. What would *you* do, ILX?

Craigslist Seagull you could get in the $250-$350 zone and they are not even comparable to low level new Fender, Ibanez whatever brand that you'd get new at that price, so much better

also in that price range being concerned about resale seems kind of beside point

but really if you stray from big legacy brand names on the high end or low end you're going to be in trouble on resale. on my local Craigslist there are super high end boutique ones that they are trying to sell for $4000 and I'm sure they paid more than that, but no one knows what it is

one of the few mass market acoustics that have an extra wide nut and string spacing

Recording King has some good wide-nut acoustics btw

I think some Breedloves too

oooh lord why do i look at craigslist, no way i can get this but what a beauty

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/msg/d/litchfield-fender-american-special/7348747899.html

thats awesome.

Tune-o-Matic Fenders are a crime against nature IMO.

Fender should do a run of Duo-Sonics with the three saddle Telecastery bridge though.

Mary Kay Stratocaster kinda dig it

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/msg/d/minneapolis-fender-american-57-strat/7352266107.html

It's hardly a collectable but I'm feeling quite pleased with myself, I just picked up a barely used 2012 Squier Affinity at an antique fair for £40, I may make a project out of it and replace the nut/pups/pots etc

love a mary kay

the trem is different, is that an older style?

xpost maresnest - I was thinking this thread is going to lead me to do that haha

ums that’s just the trem cover, all Strats had them originally like the Tele ashtrays

XP UMS - I reckon I could sink about another £150 into it and have a pretty nice little tele :)

xpost oh interesting never seen on before

Welp, I just bought this: https://reverb.com/item/41426543-guild-s-300-d-pearl-white

It plays pretty well and the phase switch does what it’s supposed to.

Gawd, I need to sell some of my other guitars. Storage is becoming an issue and I’ve been spending So Much Money this year… but I hadn’t seen a white S-300 for that reasonable a price in a long while.

The band (https://salthorse.bandcamp.com) is taking the summer to decide whether they want to resume operations (two members are at the “holy shit it’s busy with kids” stage). Not sure what’s next if they don’t; I’d love to play bass in a band again, but I don’t want that pretty guitar to just languish on the wall.

Someone said they hate gold hardware but I love it. Maybe not in all cases but the likes of that Mary Kaye and such it looks perfect.

That guild is really cool and weird.

love gold hardware on a white Les Paul custom

Did y'all see that Mike Campbell is selling some shit off?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0rAojXiTOk

I've got one of the Danelectro Stock '59s coming - I had a vintage Silvertone that had been refretted and was so nice but I had to sell it to pay vet bills. The lipsticks were maybe my favorite pickups ever, hoping the current Danos are close to as good.

I have 4 guitars, not counting the cheap classical guitar I still have because it was my first real guitar (it actually sounds very good for what is).

A late 90's tele that looks just like this but with humbuckers I put on because it has a buzzing problem. This is by far my favorite guitar and the easiest to play for long periods:

https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--G0c7JajB--/a_exif,c_limit,e_unsharp_mask:80,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_south,h_1600,q_80,w_1600/v1401560400/yvcup6dpgammjmhfhtl5.jpg

A Silvertone Jupiter 1431, which was the first electric I ever got, for $50. However, this is not the same guitar, mine went missing so I replaced it last year.

https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--ggiJ0fbU--/f_auto,t_supersize/v1625837705/umkifxultxiymrjz1555.jpg

A Fernandes Ravelle with a sustainer built into it. This is a touchy guitar, I still haven't gotten the hang of the sustainer and I think it needs some adjustments. I mostly like how groovy the pick guard looks (this is the only online picture I could find of one with the pickguard). Also it's heavy as shit.

https://a0.amlimg.com/ZDlmNzNkNTg0NzgzNDU3YjUzZjI0ZDE3ZGE3YjA0YTi9a-6GP9Wq5VluJWvEdGvdaHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmFkc2ltZy5jb20vOTNlNDk1MmU5NjRlMjdhYmY4YjRjMzE4MmE0NWU5OTg1MzA3ZDdkNmFjNzExZTNmMmU0YTNkYWY1NTQ4NDVlMS5qcGd8fHx8fHw3MDB4NTI1fGh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYWR2ZXJ0cy5pZS9zdGF0aWMvaS93YXRlcm1hcmsucG5nfHx8.jpg

And my one steel string accoustic, this Blueridge which sounds amazing (I purchased it on the recommendation that it was a viable Martin substitute and it def is)

https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--CjAYsiK6--/a_90/f_auto,t_supersize/v1570284840/h2pa8sr1edev6udganw5.jpg

this mad lad has been stuck in international shipping for almost four months now
https://i.imgur.com/cRTpr8x.jpg
(1983 Squier JV serial Strat)

Good stuff akm I like all of those.

man, that Silvertone looks like a blast!

I've got one of the Danelectro Stock '59s coming - I had a vintage Silvertone that had been refretted and was so nice but I had to sell it to pay vet bills. The lipsticks were maybe my favorite pickups ever, hoping the current Danos are close to as good.

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, July 17, 2021 6:10 PM

I have an older Dano 59 reish, the pickups are very good but the neck is really special. I've hardly played anything else since i got it.

The tuners are crap and one of the worst experiences I've ever had performing music was when one of the bushing grommets flew off a tuning peg at the beginning of a set, which left me hopelessly out of tune the entire show.

I really missed the silvertone. It's hollow and thin and it feedback like a motherfucker. I need to get my replacement setup (to the extent you can set something like this up) and start playing it again.

a while back on the tele/strat thread, some a-hole on reverb backed out on me on the sale of a cool Squier Cabronita w/a Bigsby, ended up finding this Godin that was kinda dorky/weird looking but seriously played SO well.

Anyway, a friend of mine who is a guitar tech/live sound mixer for a lot of bands, his main ones have been Helmet and Jerry Cantrell, also Passion Pit and a bunch of stuff (he told me today he's actually going out for a long tour with 100 gecs which is funny)...anyway obvious his main job died for a year and a half so he converted his garage into a guitar shop and has been supporting himself that way.

we were talking and got some wacky idea for mods to the Godin, and just got it back today. He put a Jazzmaster trem in it, new adjustable/intonatable bridge (before it had some of those non adjustable wraparound ones) and then cut a custom pickguard that I had drawn on a piece of paper for him...anyway, was an oddball now it's even more odd but I'm loving it. Am planning on getting new pickups (maybe humbucker mount TV jones filter'trons with a better single coil in the middle?) but my clothes dryer died so that's off for a minute.

Before:

https://i.postimg.cc/P5gmpCjc/PXL-20210423-222649704-MP-2.jpg

After:

https://i.postimg.cc/s255p3f2/PXL-20210728-212627804-MP.jpg

Dig it bigly.

Bigsbly. Me too, original look, not dorky imo.

I'm still lusting after teles. I tried a couple out at a Sam Ash, not satisfied with either - the "Player" tele had nice sounding pickups but played like shit, probably in large part from sitting on a Sam Ash rack and not being cared for. They had a Mexican Nashville Custom Tele that played much better but I'm not crazy about the noiseless pickups. Sorry for repeating myself from the tele/strat thread. Search continues.

Lately I've been doing a lot of bluegrassy flatpicking on the Martin D-18. I had this realization that it makes virtually any notes sound good as long as you play them cleanly, so I've been trying to come up with random chord fingerings to see if any sound bad, and I can't.

looks great, ums. i love the pickguard shape.

Yah that’s a sweet mutt

now it's heeeeeeere
1983 Squier Japan JV serial SST30 (with the killer SQ5 pickups):
https://i.imgur.com/7ipdaLt.jpg

aged Olympic White is such a great color

https://i.imgur.com/ttmAMmI.jpg?m

Guitar Center had this Squier Bass VI on clearance for some reason (they're out of stock everywhere), it needs some upgrades (the vibrato is crap, needs an entirely new nut) but it sounds so good playing like it a big low guitar.

That is a huge win, I remember the first time I tried out a VI and all my crappy riffs sounded like vibrating thunder. A good looking one too! Sometimes the grain on the Squier bursts look a bit off but that one is NICE.

PS black pickguard!

I have that bass and was lucky to get it second-hand with Seymour Duncan pickups installed. Added LeBella flats to it but needed to hand it over to a proper technician to get it setup properly, they're known for being a bit fiddly. He told me that there's not much that can be done about the tremolo arm, it's just not that amazing

J's new sig tele looks tasty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUIuDkyTsl0

interesting in that clip he mentions colorful sparkle drumkit finishes as the inspiration for that color

I got my first ever dreadnought acoustic a few weeks back. I've been playing for 30 years but have only ever played OM size and sometimes even smaller. Was convinced dreadnoughts were too big for me. I ended up trading a guitar for this dread and i am in love. It's got a terrified top, something I've never coveted, but goodness does it sound amazing.

I ordered a Descendant Vibrato (from the guy who makes Swope Guitars) for my Jaguar so whenever that arrives I'll transfer the Jaguar's vibrato over to the Bass VI. Staytrem bridge probably won't arrive for months, sounds like they're backed up forever.

I have to start saving up for better monitor speakers and build some acoustic panels, my room can't handle the Bass VI thunder.

I learned to play guitar on my dad's dreadnought and have always loved it's deep tone

Ha. I learned to play on my dad's 1970s Yamaha F-15, which is an OM size. Maybe that's were I got to like that size. It was playing a friend's dread that convinced me that actually I'm physically able to play a guitar of this size, and wow does that have an amazing bass sound.

Anyone have a travel size acoustic that they like that can reliably be carried on a plane?

I carry my mandolin on planes all the time. (Not helpful, I know, sorry)

I'm a sucker for old Yamaha electrics, and I'm not gonna buy this but I swear I look at the listing every day.

https://i.imgur.com/iWeOvCH.jpg

https://reverb.com/item/18089714-yamaha-sg-20-70s-black

I bought a SA-15D a while back and it’s a MESS

Looks sick, tho

in seriousness I have messed around with a friend's Martin Backpacker and it is nice.

Years ago (like maybe 20 years ago) I had a roommate who had one and I thought it was pretty good. Don't know if they've gotten better/worse/same

... It's got a terrified top, something I've never coveted, but goodness does it sound amazing.

― Duke, Saturday, 21 August 2021 20:48 (five days ago)

I've just noticed autocorrect did not like my attempt to write *torrified* a few days ago.

I am still in the painful beginner stages of being able to play, but just bought a Gretsch Streamliner on a bit of a whim after initially trying out a couple of rental Epiphones. It’s pretty big, but hopefully not a mistake.

Same as this one. https://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/gretsch-guitars-g2410tg-streamliner-hollow-body-single-cut-with-bigsby

Gretsch are such a cool look. I had a Gretsch Electromatic Jet for a while and liked it, traded it for an acoustic i fell in love with. based on my experience, taking it to a shop for a setup would really do wonders

lol Duke - in my household, all the guitars are terrified (and rightly so, given the drunk adults and Sharpie-wielding toddlers)

love that gretsch

The affordable nu-Gretsches I played felt awkward to me, but that's probably just personal preference, nothing against them.

I bought a SA-15D a while back and it’s a MESS

― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, August 26, 2021 6:53 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have been coveting one of these, but I haven't pulled the trigger precisely because I suspect it would be a lot of trouble. Especially since I'd rather put higher output pickups in but then I'd have to probably plug the holes for feedback. If I ever get "fuck you money" I'll buy one just for the look and have it customized to the hilt.

The affordable nu-Gretsches I played felt awkward to me, but that's probably just personal preference, nothing against them.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, August 26, 2021

There are a couple of models in the Electromatic and Streamline lines (including the one Kim linked - congrats!) with thinner bodies. ime even though it's only a quarter or half-inch depending it makes a noticeable difference.

*Streamliner - ty autocorrect

xxp the SA-15D isn't *intrinsically* a mess, Yamaha make wonderful quality instruments and guitars are no exception, even in the late 60s. However this one was not treated well. It should look like this:
https://i.imgur.com/QrFuoW0.jpg
but when I got it, it looked like this:
https://i.imgur.com/0fMORcL.jpg
so I've ordered a bunch of parts and set to work:
https://i.imgur.com/F0A4MAX.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/oT795fa.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/P4MgIPC.jpg
but we've got a long long way to go. Managed to source tuners, pickups, pickup rings, a bridge ... the refinishing will be the worst though.

Is it a set neck? Hope it's not warped if it is (not that finding a replacement for a bolt-on would actually be "easy"). But assuming it's not, a resurrection of a guitar this cool should be a fun project.

Well, it’s a bolt neck … but someone has glued it in with some unremovable epoxy kinda thing. Didn’t even occur to me that anyone would be that stupid, but here we are.
But I am looking forward to the end product if I can get it right.

So today I bought a new Gibson Flying V (to be delivered later). This is the guitar I’ve always coveted. Once a sales guy at Guitar Center told me it’s a bad choice for a first guitar, but that made me want one even more. Can’t wait to get it. It’s the model with a natural finish.

I’ve heard people claim that the classical-style seated position of a Flying V is actually easier on beginners’ hands and wrists?

great fretboard access too

Yes to both! I’m sort of counting on that. I may not try to play heavy rock right away, and playing certain other styles that way won’t look as funny so I’m not worried.

I have a Gretsch Electromatic. I love playing it but the components are pretty weak. My volume knob needs to be tightened occasionally and I replaced the bridge with a Tru-Arc. Probably should just get the thing set up professionally

new squier paranormal series looks pretty fun
https://www.fender.com/en-US/squier-series/paranormal/
loving that thinline tele with the jazzmaster pickups. first one in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLLPZUa04Mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czj-hp0v5kI

I think an offset telecaster with the aesthetics of a PRS would be the ugliest guitar that I can imagine that wasn't specifically designed with ugliness in mind.

O__o

https://reverb.com/item/44583264-wayne-charvel-hydra-tax-cab-yellow

This is what I am working on now.

http://www.ysw-tct.com/temp/img/20210922003720_2495138204_8698_1.png

(xp) Uhhh... I occasionally GIS 'weird guitar' just to see what comes up and that's a regular.

ah, that was my first time seeing it. whacky as hell.

current wishlist:

– 70s guild s-100 (would take one of the 90s re-issues too)
– ~70s Tele Deluxe natural
– SG standard, any year really, any color but cherry
– Jazzmaster - would love a j mascis or troy van luween sig model

― Spottie, Friday, May 28, 2021 3:18 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

i made a purchase and knocked one off my wish list (kinda):
https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--lsLcB6Yq--/f_auto,t_supersize/v1631256350/fvnk2fdsulqvjpnccvw8.jpg
https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--PMRyhsM3--/f_auto,t_supersize/v1631256350/yh4wjshf7oebg6sjqpdv.jpg

the 70s tele deluxes are going for 4k+ at the moment but i found this 1990 MIJ '75 vintage reissue for much less.

DAAAAAMMMMMMMMNNNNNN
what a PEACH

Beautiful

v. nice!!

These Julian Lage Collings guitars are awesome looking. Good lord they cost nearly 7 grand...but they are cool.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net%2FfCnsRvQXGGPzBJT8QoGRDN-1200-80.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

Thought it was cool that Bill Collings was giving Kristin Hersh her acoustics until he died. All that dentist money was being put to good use.

check this out, very interesting les paul

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/msg/d/minneapolis-gibson-les-paul-recording/7383648190.html

I used to be in a band with someone who used a Les Paul Recording bass. It sounded insane, like combining the best aspects of a Thunderbird and a Rickenbacker.

You see clips of Les Paul playing his old weekly gig, those particular models are generally what he used.

thats a sweet looking guitar

I watched a video on the history of the LP Recording, and the original models had an XLR jack on the upper edge so he could plug in a microphone on a flexible microphone into it

7. [not shown] early-00s CIJ JM-66 Jazzmaster. Currently disassembled but will eventually become a "72 Jazzmaster Deluxe" with the CuNiFe WRHB pickup reissues.

I finished this! Tell Me about the Fender Jazzmaster (MOD: Also Jaguar, etc.)

Sick. Weird seeing a jazz w chrome buckers but it looms really slick!

*looks

It’s the classic Sonic Youth “Jazzblaster” config

Ah cool, not a fan of SY so that would explain my ignorance on it.

here's a real boomer fever dream, custom guitar "inspired" by classic muscle cars

https://www.schellingercustomguitars.com/custom-guitars/car-themed/

well, I guess Fender stole all their finishes from auto makers so ...

My latest (and oldest) project - I rebuilt a short scale bass neck for 6 strings and I've just bought a used Squier Mustang Bass body, so I can make a Mustang VI. I did the neck in 2009 and the body arrived this week ...
https://i.imgur.com/EcQiHjA.jpg

The Bilt Relevator with built in delay/fuzz/etc. seems cool as hell... if only it wasn't $4k.

what exactly is good about built-in effects?

Nothing special that you can't do with pedals but having them built into the guitar is fun, like the old Vox guitars that had a distortion/treble boost built in.

Intriguing - I like short-scale basses a lot. One of my longtime / frequent collaborators* has a weird frankenhybrid bass with a Telecaster body and a snakeskin finish.

* with whomst I have been playing with for thirty-mumble years, like, since high school

I started out building it at a time when there were no current Bass VI models in the Fender lineup, but since that they've had 3 Fender models and a Squier. And I bought one of the Fenders in Tokyo for, like, $600, so the point of making my own one faded. But I always wanted to finish it. The neck is really narrow (Jazz width) like the original VIs, and that makes playing it a whole different experience (I had it strung up on a different body one time).

I just picked up an old black on black Hondo Deluxe 830 P bass ripoff for $150. It's interest, there's a chip on the side and you can see it's a plywood body, but the neck is really solid for being obviously beat to shit and not set up for like 20 years. it's a string through bridge that's surprisingly heavy and well made (some people on talkbass.com say it's a Kramer bridge) and the pickups are supposedly early DiMarzios, tuners are also really good and some say are unbranded Gotoh (who knows if it's true). The pickguard is warped by the jack, but overall I think this could be a fun bass if I take it to my friend's shop and get it worked on a bit

it's this model except black

https://reverb.com/item/41520314-hondo-deluxe-series-830-bass-1980s-metallic-blue

I don't know if this was "lawsuit" bass but it really couldn't be more of a clone

Laura Lee from Khruangbin plays a $150 SX bass (although contrary to myth it's not all stock, it has upgraded pickups).

Those most likely are Dimarzios. They sold a bunch to Japan back in the 80s for import guitars, you would even see them on Ibanez. I had a late 70s 'fretless' pre-lawsuit P-bass that had old Dimarzios. Would not doubt on the Gotoh hardware either, there just wasn't as many people making this stuff back then.

Usually the headstock was the thing that Fender would sue upon as that is what the trademark is tied as I understand. I had an 80s Fernandes stock that had a 'pre-lawsuit' Fender style headstock. Same as that P-Bass, it was shaped just like a Fender. That Fernandes was nice but the neck was really crazy thin and I gave it to the guitarist in my old band. Sold the bass back in the summer.

Fernandes strat...

I kind of like the Oldsmobile Cutlass guitar fwiw
https://www.schellingercustomguitars.com/oldsmobile-cutlass-custom-car-themed-guitar/

Seeing this "Guitars ..." thread right under the "Cardiacs" thread briefly made me think someone had bumped a Dwight Yoakam thread.

Guitars, Cardiacs and l0u1s jagg3r music

lol

The plywood body of the bass I just bought made me think:

What is everyone's opinion on "tonewoods"

To me (for electric guitars) it just doesn't make sense that after it goes through a magnetic pickup, through the guitar circuit, through a few pedals, then through the amp circuit that you could tell any difference between plywood and alder or whatever

Acoustics I definitely think woods like mahogany vs spruce do have different characteristics

well for one thing the "classic tonewood combos" all have different electronics and construction choices associated with them, so yeah if you're talking a swamp ash telecaster with single coils, a bolt-on neck, and a longer scale length vs. a mahogany/maple set neck guitar with humbuckers and a shorter scale lengths there are so many differences that are all adding up to create distinctive tones. if you're talking a bunch of identical strats but one is ash, one is alder, one is poplar, etc. etc. maaaaybe you could hear something but functionality i don't think it matters a ton. the relative weight of the woods probably matters some. and yes the more you are shaping sound with amps and effects a lot of this is minimized.

plywood vs. solid wood i think is going to be noticeable on a guitar in terms of body resonance and sustain.

I'd say it depends on that particular guitar and the wood involved. I got a very light swamp ash two humbucker tele that has the pickups I once had in an Alder Mexican strat. Same type of wiring, but that telecaster has some serious zing in the sound it did not have in the strat. Is some of this having a cut ashtray bridge, probably a bit but I think the lightweight body is just more resonant too.

I do think there are some differences but it's part of a whole and just that each instrument is a bit unique. I think scale length probably makes a bigger difference like say going from a 32" or 34" bass to a short scale 30". I think that scale length is part of the difference in sound between Gibson and Fenders.

I'd say all mahogany guitars have a bit more bite to them than say a Les Paul with the maple cap on top, sometimes even with the same model pickups.

The ones to compare is guitars with a Duncan JB. You try one of those in those 80s style superstrats, which also usually puts a Floyd and Fender scale length into the equasion, it might sound like it was going to bite your head off. You hear a JB in a Les Paul, its often really smooth and even sounding. Same pickup some differences in wood most likely too.

Acrylic and metal bodied guitars sound pretty awesome. Whatever timbre differences there might be with different woods are going to be swamped by the slop in actual tone pot values.

The funniest subspecies of tonewood is "old wood" as explanation for the obvious superiority of $15k vintage guitars (when the albums that made them classics were made with... new wood).

ums omg that was my first bass! Except mine wasn’t string through. But otherwise a black Hondo P with that headstock, sadly stolen about 5 years after I got it.

I definitely think the wood on the fretboard makes a bit of a difference, body probably much less so.
To me, Indian laurel, rosewood etc. each have a different sort of sound, subtle maybe but still a difference.

I would be sceptical of any claims of magic tonewood though. Good build quality is obviously a far bigger factor.

ums omg that was my first bass! Except mine wasn’t string through. But otherwise a black Hondo P with that headstock, sadly stolen about 5 years after I got it.

― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, October 15, 2021 2:27 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

aww cool...seems like it should be a solid player with a little TLC.

it is weird i was digging around on them and that era of Japanese stuff there can be weird variance on things like bridges, etc from year to year, assuming it was based on supply/cost and they just went with whatever made the most economic sense

interesting comments on tonewoods all, thanks!

i've always wanted to have a tone attorney blues coverband band called the Exotic Tonewoods

yeah the thread consensus is right - wood can make a difference at the absolute margins but most people will not be able to hear the difference if everything else is held constant. Which, in real-world terms, it almost never is, so it's rarely worth getting fussed over unless you

I will admit to being VERY partial to maple fretboards on Strat- and Tele-style guitars but it is way more about the philosophy of it than anything related to tone or playability. By which I mean: the conceptual beauty of having the fretboard just be the topmost bit of the wood that already constitutes the neck. As opposed to a separate cap of rosewood or mahogany or whatever being imposed on the neck.

With a maple neck and maple fretboard, I can contemplate the notion that my fingers are pressing down on the same piece of tree that my thumb is pressing upward on ("down" and "up," here, are relative to the string tension, not to the physical position of my body or that of the guitar). I can imagine Leo in his workshop, thinking how to make a frugal and brutally simple machine. An engineer's practical, unfussy solution that somehow transmutes into a work of art. If I choose, I can think about that a lot. Or I can choose not to, and just play the frkn thing. My experience of interacting with an instrument is a layered one.

...unless you really want to get fussed over it, is what I think I was starting to say

Dark rosewood >>>> maple

Fender switching to Pau Ferro for non-US because of rosewood laws a couple of years ago made all the vintage-style guitars look dumb as hell. The new Squier fretboard wood (Indian Laurel?) looks much better, almost rosewood.

Yeah I hear pau ferro is fantastic in terms of hardness and durability etc, but it looks like the generic $79 East Asian copies of the 70s and 80s.

for me the maple vs rosewood look depends on the finish/color of the guitar. that bass i just bought is black on black and has a maple next which i have always liked contrasted with black, on the other hand on my sunburst jazz i like the rosewood fretboard better lookswise

jazzmasters, jaguars, mustangs, and most jazz basses just look wrong with maple fretboards

How do I tell what kind of wood my tele is made of? It’s an American standard, bought brand new in 97 or 98. The fretboard is light, not dark. I know next to nothing about guitars.

jazzmasters, jaguars, mustangs, and most jazz basses just look wrong with maple fretboards

― joygoat, Friday, October 15, 2021 5:27 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflagli

This is otm. Strats, Teles, and P basses look good w maple

xp i’m guessing alder

For me, the tradeoff between maple vs. rosewood is far more practical. I'm nervous as fuck when I'm playing a gig and even with the better visible contrast of strings on a light-colored maple neck, sweat pools up on a maple neck but on rosewood it dissipates. I love my maple neck blonde Telecaster, but everything else is rosewood.

What's potentially more important than wood choice is the quality of the hardware. On my strat I swapped out the saddles and block with the heavy Callaham cold steel ones - tremendous improvement in sound and responsiveness. Loud af even when not plugged in.

Figured I would show this one off...I've had this geetar for right at about 10 years now. It is a pretty heavy beast.

https://i.ibb.co/QjmZ6xg/bigsby-T.jpg

ooh that's cool, did you put that together?

No, it's a parts guitar though. There is a local guy here and some guys close by that are pros at this stuff(RS Guitarworks). Bob Davenport used to work for Willcutts (kinda well known guitar store in Lexington been around since late 60s) and was building guitars out of his house at the time. He works @ RS now. I got a couple parts guitars he worked on. I got another buddy that also hotrods pawnshop guitars etc. So I got a couple ringers on this stuff.

just went to their website - how sad, jeez

Last Thursday, October 7th, RS Guitarworks suffered catastrophic flash flooding which has interrupted our operations and ability to serve our customers.

Nearly 6" of rain fell in an hour, which led to 36" of sewage, oil, and water flooding our building. The scale of the devastation is beyond comprehension, and we've only just begun the process of assessing the scale and scope of the damage.

At this time, we will not be accepting new orders. Existing orders placed prior to Thursday will be assessed for feasibility of delivery, or refunded as soon as possible.

While we work through the flood recovery process, we ask for your patience and understanding, and if you are at all able, to give what you can to our GoFundMe effort, which we've linked below.

Yeah, I donated on that a few days ago. Cool and wild to see how much love they are getting from Japan, as they sell quite a few guitars over there. They have done a work for pros over the last couple decades. They restored quite a few vintage guitars that got damaged in the bad Nashville floods a few years ago.

does anyone know what those "ashtray" things (those metal covers over the middle pickup and/or the bridge) on older models of P and J basses affect the sound? or just what the purpose of those was to begin with

I always assumed they were palm rests but that only seems like it would work if you were playing with a pick which most people don’t.

fwiw I always loved the way the old tele ashtray covers looked and wondered why more people don't have them, but otoh I've never tried playing with one on.

i think they were strictly for aesthetic purposes and most people remove them because they get in the damn way.

I recently bought this (used) and there’s no way I’m taking the covers off, it’s been interesting learning to work around them.

https://i.imgur.com/51F7GBD.jpg

that's great looking

how is it? see SX around but don't know much about them

It’s great. Well built, well finished, plays well. Neck tint is hideous orange but otherwise about 80% as good as the AVRI version I once had. Fretwork and neck shape are faultless.

cool! good to know, definitely see those on craigslist from time to time

Chinese made for Rondo in the States I think. I’d say on a par with newer Squires (i.e. better than the stuff they were putting out 5 years ago) or maybe some of the China-made Fenders.

Enjoying my new Gibson Flying V, my first electric guitar. People who said it would be awkward to practice with were wrong. You put one part of the V between your legs and angle the neck upward on a diagonal and it’s fine. In fact it’s how classical guitarists play.

I kinda like the vintage tint look myself, I like it better with a satin matte than a gloss and it looks better if the maple wood has some nice figuring. It is pretty much to get the look of what old Fender clear lacquer would do as it aged. I had a 78 P-bass that they would still use it on the front face of the head stock and it was that tone of orange. Buddy had a G&L ASAT that was black that had that type of paint on the maple neck and I thought it looked pretty cool.

Totally agree on the tint look, but what you can't see in the pic is that this one is orange, not amber. It doesn't photograph well but the one on the left in this pic gives an idea of the difference:
https://www.tdpri.com/attachments/img_20181207_164546-jpg.567473/
(and yeah the oddness of orange nitro on the face of a yellowed poly finished 70s neck is yet another thing!)

Congrats on the Flying V, Josefa.

That is a noble instrument and I hope it brings you joy.

Thank you, Puffin. Maybe being stuck indoors for many hours this coming winter will give me enough practice time to get good on it. I see myself ultimately as a capable guitarist, but I'm just a beginner now.

I keep trying to escape from playing the guitar but it keeps pulling me back.

Like, I spent most of the last 10 years on mandolin, bouzouki, percussion, drums, bass.

Anything but guitar. My town has a glut of guitar players. Like 62.5% of middle-aged white guys can play guitar. In two phone calls I can find four guitarists who play better than me. So why bother?

Then I recently had a gig where what made sense was guitar (in terms of keys and logistics). So I was like, oh yeah, I guess I can do that... And now I find myself sneaking up into the attic to get amps and pedals I'd forgotten about.

_Mars Volta dude did have a pretty sweet Ibanez signature model about ten years ago IIRC

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, November 9, 2021 10:24 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink_


If I had $3K, I'd buy Omar's EBMM model: https://www.music-man.com/instruments/guitars/mariposa🕸

_Mars Volta dude did have a pretty sweet Ibanez signature model about ten years ago IIRC

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, November 9, 2021 10:24 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink_


If I had $3K, I'd buy Omar's EBMM model: https://www.music-man.com/instruments/guitars/mariposa🕸

Yeah that sunburst natural finish is really pretty

Not a big fan of the Ernie Ball headstock but appreciate stuff like this and the St. Vincent where they just aren't recycling old designs like Fender etc

Reminds me a little of this sexy beast

https://destroyallguitars.com/collections/197-versoul/products/2419-versoul-raya-6

LOL

https://www.instagram.com/p/CWJHOEbJWJ3/

the ultimate boomer guitar and amp

Awfully close to

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdVjkvzVMAAfdFI.jpg

Haha

one of the weirdest things to me is dudes who list the same guitar on craigslist for months and months, maybe even years and never once drop the price. one that i always see actually re-posted it as MORE expensive recently. so odd.

it is weird. and then they often get mad when you throw a lower (but still fair) offer out there lol.

there was this guy who had a squier strat painted like the cover of "in the court of the crimson king" in glow-in-the-dark paint (fucking horrifying), i think that thing was on there for 3 years

oh man i've lived where i've lived for almost 4.5 years now the same person has had two shitty partscasters listed on CL the entire time.

wangcaster is perfection omg

like it seems like a prop from a david lynch movie or something.

Joe Bonamassa's BonerCaster

Ideal for Bonamasturbating

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/static/article/news/7/75787_0_wide_ver1528919807.jpg@642

Rudy Giuliani shreds

Vic Reeves farts

Rescued a 1986 Fender Japan P Bass from a hacky 5 string conversion (which made it very cheap at the local pawn shop):
https://i.imgur.com/TpIFzbq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Z0hZVQh.jpg

nice work!
every time a 5 string bass turns into a 4 string bass an angel gets its wings

yes thank you for saving that poor instrument

Does anyone have any experience with KLOS travel guitars? I have had enough times lately that I wanted to bring a guitar on a trip that I thought it might be worth getting a decent travel guitar, and most seem like shit.

Good luck with that.

I don't mind the Martin backpacker but I remain skeptical of removing a neck and unstretching/stretching strings as a strategy.

Would (personally) rather bring a mandolin or ukulele, as I'm pretty sure I've said before

I'm not a P bass appreciator but gee it plays well. A bit red and shiny for me tho. Glad to sort it out!

Looks great how much did you get it for if you don’t mind me asking? Do you plan on flipping it or keeping as a player ?

I'm undecided because I have that nice SX Jazz upthread. Between the purchase and the parts I had to buy, I'm in it for a bit over $300 AUD, or about $220 USD - you can see why I jumped at it.

Wow that’s a good deal

How did the person who did the conversion to 5 string even think it was going to work? The outer strings wouldn't even have been playable past the 5th fret and the sound from the pickups would have been garbage.

Well, it worked fine in mechanical terms - five slot nut, five saddle bridge, thick string tuned to low B. Spacing between the strings would have been 3/4 the P bass spacing, so just a little tighter than a J bass, altho the strings were sitting pretty close to the edge. I bet the pickup wouldn't have been great but it would have been OK - I mean Musicmaster basses used a 6-pole pickup for 4 strings, and this was 8 poles for 5 strings. It had been played a lot so I'm sure it was perfectly functional.

I am 100% supportive of the standard for 4-string bass being BEAD

If you’re playing the G string, why aren’t you just playing guitar? (Actual heroes like Mike Watt exempt from this)

i don't understand that at all tbh

For me a low B is unplayably floppy unless it's on a very well-thought-out instrument - scale length, string gauge, bridge, saddles, string spacing, etc. It is not something to trifle with. Only the gods of bass should be messing about with those frequencies. It is not an area for dabblers and DIYers.

The lowest note on your instrument is the strongest possible statement. If it's not a really focused and intentional statement, you will struggle to be coherent in that register. imo.

But because I don't really have anything below the low E in my musical vocabulary, I'm probably the wrong person to opine on this.

i think it would be intriguing to try it out, but i have 35 years of accumulated muscle memory and reflexes i'm not going to take the time to unlearn them now. like there are 12 notes in a scale and I know where to find them on regular tuning.

also my current band is a lot of improv and it's helpful to be able to look at the guitarists' hands if they are sudden switching to a new root and just know that that same note is in the same place on my bass, i think using an alt tuning would make that really hard.

drop D i find useful in some cases but i've never really gotten a handle on low B when i've tried five strings, have thought about getting one of those hipshot drop d lever tuners on the E.

ums, hah, I had this exact experience (trying to read hands, failing because of an unexpected tuning) just last week.

It was something that we hadn't rehearsed and I was all like, "nah, you'll be fine, it's just a blues," bla y bla. When the tune started I could tell that something was wrong, couldn't tell what. So I just got out of the situation as quickly as possible and went on to something that we both knew.

Later, it turned out to be shared fuckuppery: I had been too confident that he'd pick it up. He had forgotten to retune after the previous song. Hence, trainwreck.

Fortunately it was just our normal bar where we play all the time and it was forgiven.

“you are witnesses to the birth … of a new Spinal Tap”

some cool guitars in this thread, pity they are all obsolete now

https://www.instagram.com/p/CXEfClYMXtO/?utm_medium=share_sheet

I've always admired his Ibanez JEMs (the ones with the splatter-paint or flower designs and "monkey grip"). This is depressing. I do like the weird fretwork though.

xp Steve Vai looking like a cross between Tiger King and John McAfee.

my daughter (11) has expressed some interest in playing guitar so i ordered her a stratocaster mini, gets pretty good reviews, i'll have my buddy's shop set it up, hope she gets into it :)

https://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/squier-mini-stratocaster-maple-fingerboard-limited-edition-electric-guitar/l70498000001000?cntry=US&cur=USD&utm_content=L70498000001000--Squier+Mini+Stratocaster+Maple+Fingerboard+Limited+Edition+Electric+Guitar+Olympic+White&source=3WWRWXGS&gclid=CjwKCAiA78aNBhAlEiwA7B76p6rOIKpzOa4DkoP49e0XIYOqV_PHSAletP3w8rj_S07nF-uciImTEhoCCK0QAvD_BwE

(there was local one on craigslist but she doesn't like pink)

not guitars but I just bought my 7 year old a set of electronic drums for christmas which honestly I'm pretty excited about playing with at some point

those are such a godsend for parents

those squier minis are super fun. hopefully she digs it and sticks with it.

she's been taking violin for a couple years so that should help in terms of picking it up, she's been messing around with my guitars more lately, kids love tremolo bars

so fun! i really hope she likes it.

Heck yes! Rivolta just announced a line without those stupid edge-to-edge fingerboard inlays. Now I can start saving up for one.

https://eastwoodguitars.com/products/rivolta-mondo-combinata

May be trading my strat toward a really nice 84 MIJ tele tomorrow. Friend's shop is selling it.

https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--tUcJyKd7--/f_auto,t_supersize/v1639339458/dh32gsez7z83bzv8n7xh.jpg

xp wow the rivolta with dots looks a million times better

btw anyone want to talk me into or out of buying an early 80s ibanez artist?

Ooh but it's weird to see the controls flipped xps

I just picked up a 1978 Greco Mercury Bass (PB600, P bass clone) with a maple neck. It's lived a life! Feels and sounds amazing, and the thing is almost as old as I am.

Oops — 1979, not '78.

Ooh but it's weird to see the controls flipped xps

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, December 20, 2021 12:00 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I really don't play guitar anymore, but I was always smashing that pickup collector while strumming. If I ever start back up again, I plan to do this mod.

pickup selector

xps wait *I* just bought a 70s Greco bass! Mine’s a jazz and rosewood but I don’t have it in hand yet. You literally can’t go wrong with 70s Greco unless time has exposed e.g. a warp in the neck.

also man alive that is a rare bird, I have been collecting MIJ Fender for 10 years and I’ve never seen an 84 Custom Tele in person or online. I actually thought they started about 1986. Stores and trustworthy folks alike make errors with 80s MIJ dating, so I hope you get to see a neck date - Tele bridges with an A serial number (often claimed to be 84 / 85) were used from 84 to 2010 at least. I’m happy to help if you need!

xps wait *I* just bought a 70s Greco bass! Mine’s a jazz and rosewood but I don’t have it in hand yet. You literally can’t go wrong with 70s Greco unless time has exposed e.g. a warp in the neck.

― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, December 20, 2021 1:36 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I didn't mean to buy it — I wanted a P bass and thought I wanted Fender on the headstock. I tried about a dozen different basses (MIJ, MIM, MIA, some Squiers, a Yamaha) and the Greco just felt and sounded better, more soulful or something. It's only when I got home and read up on it that I discovered that Grecos from the late '70s have a stellar reputation. So good, in fact, that Fender bought them out to build MIJ Fenders in their factory.

bound Telecasters are generally pretty attractive, that one is pretty striking

but

I would not trade my favorite Stratocaster for even the nicest Tele

like

If I allow myself two electrics (and I generally do), a Strat will be primary and a Tele will be the backup

boo, Teles rule

btw anyone want to talk me into or out of buying an early 80s ibanez artist?

― call all destroyer, Monday, December 20, 2021 12:00 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

to be more specific, this guy has really struck my fancy: https://reverb.com/item/48138361-1982-ibanez-artist-ar-300-antique-violin-sunburst-100-original-w-case-paperwork

I’ve only heard good thing/ about those late 70s-early80s Ibanez but never had a chance to play one. They look incredible tho.

yeah, they really strike the balance between classic les paul design and those weird 70s garcia-style guitars that have become trendy again. i'm trying to decide what to add to the collection and this seems more appealing than just a solid MIJ les paul copy

xp wow the rivolta with dots looks a million times better

Yeah, I'm hoping they continue the range with further releases, but right now they're all humbuckers :(

I picked up my stratocaster the other day for the first time in ages (every string was flat EXCEPT the G which is the total opposite of every other guitar). I appreciated it's unique sound and all but the ergonomics just feel really uncomfortable and awkward to me. Telecaster is big and blunt and square and dumb and I love it.

As someone who always plays while seated, I really appreciate the way the upper-body contour on the Stratocaster's back allows me to lean in towards the strings.

The Jazzmaster ruined me for all other guitars (Jag aside) on that front.

You might like to check out the Mustang/Musicmaster too - I have a 78 MM which is a perfect couch guitar, small contour body and great neck.

Otm re mustang. Could prob add the bullet to the list too

SGs are also very good on the not-making-my-shoulder-and-elbow-mad front but I'm clumsy and the possibility of snapping a headstock would worry me.

Even though it's a relic this is a gorgeous looking guitar
https://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/products/gibson-custom-shop-murphy-lab-1964-sg-standard-reissue-1109924

i had kind of gotten off the squier venus train as prices went up but one went on sale right before christmas for a price resembling reasonable and i grabbed it. not enough guitar stands so it lives on my chair for now:

https://i.imgur.com/Mk6MKNS.jpg

all in all, fun guitar! comfortable, nice neck, easy to play. weighs absolutely nothing. i'm trying to figure out what to do about the pickups. the stock pickups seem ok though i need to mess around more, but they do get splattery with higher gain. neck single coil/bridge humbucker is such a weird combo which is admittedly part of the appeal, but courtney love's fender custom shop version had only a neck pickup which apparently was a strat-sized humbucker. my inclination is to eventually just do upgrades to a good strat neck pickup and a good low-output humbucker in place but there's so much interesting potential in this setup.

some very interesting posts about the Venus and its origins here:
https://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=50431&start=30

yeah i've read through that thread before. it's funny that those guys just admitted they were trying to make a more functional rickenbacker (i wonder how successful ric would have been suing them if it went that far)

also man alive that is a rare bird, I have been collecting MIJ Fender for 10 years and I’ve never seen an 84 Custom Tele in person or online. I actually thought they started about 1986. Stores and trustworthy folks alike make errors with 80s MIJ dating, so I hope you get to see a neck date - Tele bridges with an A serial number (often claimed to be 84 / 85) were used from 84 to 2010 at least. I’m happy to help if you need!

― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, December 20, 2021 1:43 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I bought the tele fwiw. It's beautiful and nice to play, and yes it's an '84, the guy who sold it to me is a good and trusted friend and very knowledgeable and dated it based on the neck stamp.

Unfortunately I'm not 100% happy with the combo of the pickups and my amp. I just replaced the speaker in my amp (something I'd been meaning to do anyway) -- I had a stock celestion 10 30 and changed it to a creamback, and that was definitely an improvement. But I still feel like there's something about the bridge pickup especially that isn't all the way there for me. Also thinking about doing a four-way switch mod.

As someone who usually plays with the tone controls wide open, I can say that the Tele bridge is one pickup that benefits from a slight roll off!

Glad you're happy, the necks on those 80s MIJs are heavenly.

Currently having my own infatuation with this (from the same factory 10 years before!):
https://i.imgur.com/LIDHLYd.jpg

As someone who usually plays with the tone controls wide open, I can say that the Tele bridge is one pickup that benefits from a slight roll off!

Glad you're happy, the necks on those 80s MIJs are heavenly.

― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, January 4, 2022 10:01 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, have noticed this. I also tend to like my guitar volume on the low side but I think this tele benefits from having it higher (though not to 10). The creamback is mellowing some of the harshness without dulling the bright too much.

Neck pickup is closer to a strat pickup than I was expecting, which isn't really good or bad. I tried the guitar in store but the only fenderish combo amp they had was a tweed style amp so it just sounded nothing like my princeton amp (I have one of those 68 custom "reissues" that aren't really reissues).

Also that's a pretty bass and would look nice next to the tele

Awesome, cad!

That Squier is a weird kind of fun. I can totally understand why someone would love it for its idiosyncratic look and light weight. I don't quite understand why the strings splay out from the bridge that way, seems like an unnecessary break angle but stranger guitars exist.

Unusually for me, I only have one Telecaster right now and it is a Squier Thinline. "Classic Vibe" like this one (not mine, but it is the same model)

https://img.audiofanzine.com/images/u/product/normal/squier-classic-vibe-telecaster-thinline-98683.png

yeah the string break angle is odd and something they carried over from the mercury guitars it's based on. doesn't seem to impact much although i think it is tuned to a chord of some kind which is interesting.

Whyyyyyyy would you put this corny ass 90s ankle tattoo gecko sticker on this beautiful guitar??

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ram/msg/d/saint-paul-2015-fender-mustang-60s/7427251783.html

I'm usually pretty supportive of stickers adorning guitars, but that's baffling.

why not just take it off for the selling of it haha

god I just looked up vintage Mustang prices. I sold a '65 that had been refretted for $900 at the beginning of the pandemic when I was worried about money.

Guitar Mill has some painted bodies available, might have to buy a neck and learn to solder.

Do it! Building a parts-something is a perfect thing to do for the pandemic and there's at least a half-dozen YouTube channels that will show you how to do it for free.

Any of y'all ever used a wiring kit with quick connects instead of soldering? I've tried soldering before and now I have two old guitars I can't use lol.

i hate to be like buy the expensive thing but a good soldering iron made all the difference for me. i'm not very good at teeny tiny SMD stuff but a hakko with a decent tip makes through hole soldering an absolute breeze.

Swapping a speaker out myself was the most DIY guitar-related thing I've done to date. Surprisingly easy, but I'm not about to start soldering shit.

I replaced the 9V battery jack on an old Fender Blender fuzz pedal and it was pretty nerve racking.

Did not manage to burn out any connections with the borrowed soldering iron, at least.

this is very very tempting

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/msg/d/minneapolis-jazzmaster-telecaster/7419602359.html

that is pretty cool

I truly have no idea what to. make of that. legit bits tho.

Sorry to divert but I just had to share this, the worst relic job I have seen in recent memory. Imagine having a 1986 Fender 52 reissue and doing this to it. https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/1986-fender-avri-telecaster.2308689/

Was this the belt they were assuming would've caused the buckle rash?

https://i.imgur.com/kiWgEzA.jpg

has anyone played a Sterling St. Vincent guitar? (the midprice line not the super expensive ones)

there's one for super cheap on craigslist now, I have always admired it from afar, appreciate that someone tried to do something that wasn't just another variation on strat/tele/les paul etc etc designs

I see your terrible relic and raise you

https://reverb.com/item/48451987-partscaster-relic-distressed-strat-w-bare-knuckle-pickups

https://reverb.com/item/49059455-fender-custom-scalloped-from-ripchord-guitars-reliced-sunburst

or this one, where the theme is, I guess, 'survived a fire'?

https://reverb.com/item/49338423-1960s-ventura-hollow-body-natural-amber-heavy-relic-made-in-japan-by-east-gloves-customs-rare

not a relic because someone tortured it to death in the past and this guy refurbished it but I'm curious what those pickups sound like so close together
https://reverb.com/item/42944216-kent-sg-rock-history-professional-rebuild-road-warrior-rat-rod-ready-for-another-tour

from the same guy... this one is just cool IMO
https://reverb.com/item/48493320-kay-harmony-regal-archtop-1950s-refurbished-with-silverfoils-rockabilly-rat-rod

or this one, where the theme is, I guess, 'survived a fire'?

https://reverb.com/item/49338423-1960s-ventura-hollow-body-natural-amber-heavy-relic-made-in-japan-by-east-gloves-customs-rare

This one is particularly shameful because it's clear from the description that they take huge pride in having spoiled the appearance of a beautiful old guitar.

It's something that we've never done before and thought it would be awesome to share to the rest of the world. You are not going to find one like this anywhere else!

has anyone played a Sterling St. Vincent guitar? (the midprice line not the super expensive ones)

there's one for super cheap on craigslist now, I have always admired it from afar, appreciate that someone tried to do something that wasn't just another variation on strat/tele/les paul etc etc designs

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, January 14, 2022 11:40 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i have not but if the price were truly super cheap i'd take a long hard look at it, especially the blue finish.

I would not hesitate to buy the st Vincent rig if it’s a good price. Reviews are uniformly excellent & I don’t think you’d have much trouble getting rid of it if you don’t fall in love w/it.

I want to see a relic where someone just blows a hole through the body with a shotgun and talks up the “murdered on stage at a bar” authenticity

hopefully not too huge but if not for the gold hardware I'd love to have this

https://✧✧✧.shop✧✧✧.com/s/files/1/0574/1241/9782/products/DC54AA61-F6F6-45AC-8472-2371B0AB48F7_1024x1✧✧✧@2✧.j✧✧?v=1638679041

https://i.imgur.com/fGompsB.png?1

Dunable Yeti

The gold looks great on that

It's way better than gold hardware looks but too blingy for me. Matte/satin metal parts would look best with that badass lilac IMO.

than gold hardware usually looks*

It’s a pretty one. You might also like the Paul Rhoney Oceana if you can find one.

https://reverb.com/item/43139926-guild-starfire-iv-1966-grey-pinstripe

why god why

WOW the red painted fretboard might be the worst part lmao

that poor guild!

Tell me you use three different brands of pomade without telling me you use three different brands of pomade.

anyone had any experience with yamaha revstars? i really like the look of them and the prices seem pretty cheap

I've got a RS502T. Love love looooooove it. In retrospect, I would've gotten a regular RS502 because the tailpiece adds absolutely nothing, but they all seem to be in stocking/manufacturing limbo in N. America right now (although I think they're still making new ones for the Japanese market). I hope they didn't come and go that fast, because I'd really like to swap mine out for a regular RS502.

Anyway, dope guitar. Feels very high end (or at least the most high end feeling guitar I've ever owned).

(to be clear, I've only ever owned budget guitars, so $700 is high end for me.)

i like how revstars look they recall these type of 70s yamahas that i love but they've gotten expensive now

https://reverb.com/item/49345912-yamaha-1978-sg700-guitar-in-walnut-pre-owned

they do but i dig the sg-like symmetry of the old ones. the slight strat-style horn imbalance of the revstar isn't as pleasing to me.

Yes, I've seen some very fine older Yams

I have had a bunch of Yamaha instruments of middling quality (fine for my purposes as an enthusiastic amateur) but none quite so desirable as the older or newest ones

yeah i think the old yamaha sgs are better looking than most of the gibson ones.

thanks johnny. i think im going to try and get my hands on one this year. their website is super confusing and its hard to figure out what the difference is between all the model numbers

i have a 78-81 (can't figure it out precisely, but they had a factory in taiwan they opened in that time to compete with taylor and martin) yamaha acoustic (basically a martin dreadnought) and i would not trade or sell ever. brought it over to do some tracking on a friend's project and the engineer was like "wow this guitar sounds great", thing just sings and feels great

they do but i dig the sg-like symmetry of the old ones. the slight strat-style horn imbalance of the revstar isn't as pleasing to me.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 19, 2022 9:59 AM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

didn't notice this before but i agree

"their website is super confusing and its hard to figure out what the difference is between all the model numbers"

I think it comes down to finishes, pickups, and Bigsbys/tailpieces. The 502's have P90s.

Wanted a Yamaha sg for ages due to John McGeoch and also Stuart Adamson when he was in the Skids. Eastwood do a replica, but I have a hunch that a revstar would be a better guitar for the money they're asking:
https://eastwoodguitars.com/products/eastwood-mcgeoch-1000

the eastwood looks kinda cheap, yeah

many are more expensive but you can definitely find an old Yamaha model for around that price

The 1958 Les Paul™ Standard Reissue features all the painstaking historic construction methods of the famous '59 Reissues with a few historically-accurate spec differences that allow it to stand on its own. Like the 1958 originals, it has narrow frets which help more of the fingerboard wood to be heard in the tone profile.

available in 4 different sunburst variations!

thanks johnny. i think im going to try and get my hands on one this year. their website is super confusing and its hard to figure out what the difference is between all the model numbers

― Spottie, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 16:04 (yesterday) link

I was able to get ahold of a new RS502TFM (same as the RS502T but with the "Japanese denim" finish) about six months ago, after a month or two of online shopping and Out of Stock messages. I signed up to get notified when they were back in stock at Sweetwater and a few other stores and I eventually did get notified that they were in stock, maybe 4-5 months later, but in the meantime one had popped up on Reverb and I grabbed it. Really happy with it! Like Johnny said, the tailpiece doesn't really add anything, but I like the look of it.

i love this finish/pickguard combo

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MustP90AN--fender-player-mustang-90-aged-natural

https://reverb.com/item/46180071-new-fender-custom-shop-limited-edition-joe-strummer-esquire-masterbuilt-by-jason-smith

I have a hard time imagining the nexus of "loves Joe Strummer" "has $15k to spend on a guitar" "loves Joe Strummer enough to spend $15k on a guitar." That's like three guys in the world, right, all from '90s Epitaph bands?

Fender should source brighter tortoiseshell pickguards IMO

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/503/18214994720_4e37a3fe0c.jpg

I put a Spitfire tort guard on my Jaguar last week

https://i.imgur.com/xHUcMaI.jpg?1

that looks great

that Joe Strummer guitar is ugly

It's not even the 'ignore alien orders' Telecaster that I would think most people would think of him using with the Clash. Like a Slash signature guitar that's a goldtop or something.

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/db/84/75/db8475b51da4c071c5796c073eddeafa.jpg

https://reverb.com/item/46180071-new-fender-custom-shop-limited-edition-joe-strummer-esquire-masterbuilt-by-jason-smith🕸

I have a hard time imagining the nexus of "loves Joe Strummer" "has $15k to spend on a guitar" "loves Joe Strummer enough to spend $15k on a guitar." That's like three guys in the world, right, all from '90s Epitaph bands?

love a tort guard but i'm not sure if i'll ever have the right guitar for one

White, black, sunburst and sometimes charcoal frost are the only colors where tort really works for me.

And never on Telecasters regardless of color for some reason.

that's funny--i've never thought of that but you're 100% right

rong

My favorite Fender color scheme is Midnight Wine with tortoise. I've had several guitars with this look.

I sold my wine-dark Tele for reasons I don't remember, and its replacement is a Squier "classic vibe" Thinline. I ordered a tortoise pickguard for it, but for some perverse reason the one I ordered arrived without holes, and I haven't gotten round to getting that taken care of.

the thinline guards would look ok in tortoise, it's the classic tele guard i'm stuck on

I have a hard time imagining the nexus of "loves Joe Strummer" "has $15k to spend on a guitar" "loves Joe Strummer enough to spend $15k on a guitar." That's like three guys in the world, right, all from '90s Epitaph bands?

Nothing screams 'authentic punk' quite like spending $15,000 on a guitar.

xps there is already a Strummer signature with those decals etc, came out around 2005?
I know it's been done to death but the relic'ing is so cringe - particularly because it has to be done in such a way that it can be identified as "factory" to retain its supposed value. The drawn-in Kluson outlines behind the Schaller tuners are just embarrassing.
And Milo that Spitfire is gorgeous, is the Jag an o.g. '65 or an AV65? I can't remember if they came in sunburst.

White, black, sunburst and sometimes charcoal frost are the only colors where tort really works for me.

I've got one of these with a tort guard and it looks great on purple

https://media.sweetwater.com/api/i/q-82__ha-40c30de95fc510fc__hmac-d5104f63fe86dc1fdd3dcffaed7831273b76a498/images/items/750/AS73GMPF-large.jpg

The 1958 Les Paul™ Standard Reissue features all the painstaking historic construction methods of the famous '59 Reissues with a few historically-accurate spec differences that allow it to stand on its own. Like the 1958 originals, it has narrow frets which help more of the fingerboard wood to be heard in the tone profile.

And Milo that Spitfire is gorgeous, is the Jag an o.g. '65 or an AV65? I can't remember if they came in sunburst.

American Original

Milo, that Jag looks awesome!

Don't mind vintage-color tortoise on most Jazzmasters, maybe just not on the lighter colored bodies?

this is a weird one, Jackson doing some galaxy brain parallel universe thing by combining an 80s hair metal bass and a Rick

https://www.musiciansfriend.com/bass/jackson-x-series-concert-bass-cbxnt-dx-iv/l81759000002000

I don't really like the brownish tortise on anything but the reddish is my favorite on the Fender 50s bright colors - sonic blue, fiesta red, shell pink, etc.

xp really surprised rickenbacker is letting that slide given their famously litigious approach

I'm smitten with the simplicity of this guitar. Ruby Guitars, he's a custom builder in the UK. https://www.rubyguitars.co.uk

https://scontent.ffcm1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/195879527_1223314851424427_7620091994342945614_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=a26aad&_nc_ohc=E51jzkklUk0AX9I4Ulo&_nc_ht=scontent.ffcm1-2.fna&oh=00_AT8Fu5JlMhiBWob4wvF1Hq3f-F1u8g8NDudIRvkQ7DFv4A&oe=620EADEE

ooh

yeah I really like their models, they have a classic feel, doesn't feel like they are trying too hard to be wacky but at the same time they aren't just slight variations on strats and teles with premium hardware and woods.

that is nice but i feel like one would be obligated to play spacey alt-country/weird americana on it

It would go well with a Swart amp

https://✧✧✧.shop✧✧✧.com/s/files/1/0916/0836/products/43235_1_3✧✧✧@3✧.progress✧✧✧.j✧✧?v=1571460588

https://i.imgur.com/4Q3kovi.png

Welp

Stratocaster Style Douglas USA Electric Guitar, Fender USA Pickup, Kiesel USA Pickup, Fender Bridge https://reverb.com/item/34514692-stratocaster-style-douglas-usa-electric-guitar-fender-usa-pickup-kiesel-usa-pickup-fender-bridge?utm_source=android-app&utm_medium=android-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=34514692

when you're trying to justify your bandsaw purchase to your spouse

i just need to register a big fat no to the placement of that strap button.

Hahah. I love that it has 5 offers. I’m sure just dudes throwing out $1 offers to mess with this dude

there had been some interest in revstars upthread, found this one if anyone is interested, these look to have replacement pups (seymour duncan? can't quite see) but something about this finish, the black pickguard, and the zebra pups really looks nice to me (i've seen the same model with traditional chrome pickup covers and i like this better)

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Yamaha/Rs-620-Solid-Body-Electric-Guitar-117679188.gc

Owned:

60s Martin OO mahogany
Lowden dreadnought from the 90s
New standard issue Telecaster

Own:

30s Martin O mahogany, best guitar I've ever played
Sigma duplicate of the same for live performance and insurance
A Fender Bass VI, not the original but the late 90s "Baritone Jaguar" reissue
A replica of an E-350 made by a Japanese company called Archtop Tribute

Want list:

A Wee Lowden although the stigma of it being "the Ed Sheeran guitar" is strong

"archtop tribute" is an amazing display of japanese brand naming

30s Martin O mahogany, best guitar I've ever played

dogg...this is a serious guitar, bet it's beautiful

Yeah. My first guitar was my stepfather's OO, I sold it when I was 21 or so for the Lowden (the Martin wasn't so playable), but then in 2015 I came upon a 1936 O at a guitar shop in Santa Monica and it was thousands of dollars but it sounded so good and my partner agreed and he had a rare moment of "encouraging me to buy gear" and since then it's been my staple studio guitar

I played it on a session at Magic Shop before it shut down and the engineer Kabir Herndon said from the control room "uh that is the most beautiful sounding acoustic I've ever heard"

A friend is a professional oboist and I said something once about a guitar being expensive - like 'thousands of dollars' expensive - and she laughed at my concept of expensive.

the economics of professional orchestra instruments are such a mindfuck

My aunt, a cellist, was once robbed at knifepoint at an ATM in Boston. As she handed over the $250 contents of her checking account, she said she had a tough time not laughing with joy and relief, because the thief had no apparent interest in the $25,000 cello sitting next to her on the sidewalk.

yeah my good friend who majored in classical double bass performance and now teaches jr. high orchestra has one his parents got him way back in the day, they had bought his sister a decent car and he opted for the double bass which cost as much as his sister's car

i honestly had no idea! just checked out some oboe prices O__o

all its doing is making me feel justified in buying more guitars lol

Over the past twenty years, the "box made in China, instrument finished domestically" assembly-line model has become more accepted for orchestral string instruments. Generally, new instruments are of much higher quality and are cheaper than they used to be. Also, modern violas in general are typically better quality than historical violas due to small-but-significant improvements in their construction. I don't know if the same is true for double basses but I'd assume it is also true

I want to say that in 2000 my friend who got a full ride music scholarship paid... $12k for a trombone? It was a number that blew my mind but it was pretty much the requirement if he was going to study the instrument.

I think my friend's double bass is Czech (? maybe, def Eastern European) late 1800s, he had to have it disassembled and reglued a while back, insured for 25k iirc

60th Anniversary Jaguar announced by Fender - binding & blocks, matching headstock

https://www.creamcitymusic.com/fender-60th-anniversary-jaguar-rosewood-mystic-lake-placid-blue/

ohhhh that looks nice

This new silver sparkle Squier Jag is better looking

https://i.imgur.com/cr5MaVS.jpg

i'm a little confused as to why the 60th anniversary is basically a '66 jag, not a '62 jag.

My cynical guess is that they're repurposed Troy Van Leeuwen signature necks.

agree the Squier kills it in the looks dept

Don't love matching headstocks on Fenders for whatever reason, but man sparkly silver is tempting.

Is that an Andertons-only model? Not seeing it anywhere else.

the shape of this guitar is so hilarious

https://reverb.com/item/32823228-wood-grain-semi-hollow-guitar-deb-luthier-build

oak top!

lot of red flags on that one

"slightly off-center intentionally"
It's enough to make me give up guitar.

There is no other guitar quite like this in existence.

True, but the same could be said of a large number of completely hideous guitars.

LOL That’s what it would look like if I made a guitar.
Not pretty.

re:off-center intentionality, there’s a long thread about Echopark Guitars and their dogshit quality for $5k and the guy’s excuse is basically that it makes his guitars more unique and hand built to have the pickups not lined up with the bridge or strings.

I've been playing zelda breath of the wild a lot lately and that guitar looks a lot like a korok to me

xp 195 pages?? lol i can't wait to dive into this.

When I bought the Guild S-300 I fully expected to hate the pickups (late-70s Seymour Duncan humbuckers), and I was right. They’re not objectively terrible, but they’re not anything like what I need.

I got such a good deal on the guitar I don’t mind spending kinda stupid money on the pickups. My amp is very full-voiced & midrangey & I think something that has a scooped-midrange sound would be a good compliment. I’m really leaning toward the Lollar gold foils.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttNvGtxqe_4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOtjJRXbv_c

But I wonder if they’ll be just too idiosyncratic & limiting.

I’m also talking with a Canadian maker (& I really like the idea of supporting Canadian craft) & he suggested this combo, which sounds more traditional but also incredibly sweet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McbiwX4jSgs

Friggin demos, maaan. These guys make everything sound good. (Andy from pro guitar shop has sold me so many terrible pedals because he has a particular genius for bringing out the absolute best in them.) My playing is … er … not on that level, obv, & my results will be … different from these monsters’.

that last demo with the MJS pickups sounds great

re:off-center intentionality, there’s a long thread about Echopark Guitars and their dogshit quality for $5k and the guy’s excuse is basically that it makes his guitars more unique and hand built to have the pickups not lined up with the bridge or strings.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, January 27, 2022 7:03 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

i am slowly chipping away at the 195 page thread and discovered the guitar that listed new for $7K with what is the funniest pickguard i have ever seen

https://reverb.com/item/16021489-echopark-el-cabillo-2017-aged-pelham-blue

If they're full sized humbuckers I'd look at something like a big Firebird pickup - gold foils are pretty midrangey to me, if you want more scooped Firebirds sound like big single coils.

https://magnetodesignlab.com/fbh63

https://www.creamery-pickups.co.uk/creamery-humbucker-sized-firebird-style-pickup.html

also this one
https://www.oilcitypickups.co.uk/product-page/winterizer-ii

what I'm really saying is that I want a guitar with Firebird pickups. Or one with the Novak Jazzmaster-sized Thunderbird bass pickups.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMTwxQ0O6ds

https://www.instagram.com/p/CZRwNgfsBjh/?utm_medium=copy_link

From what I understand you can move the pickups wherever you want, they’re magnetically attached to the body.

lol that's some sharper image shit

I can’t believe the body is comfortable to play sitting but maybe there’s enough edge on the contour to not feel like a cookie sheet is digging into your thigh.

Wooden body with an inlaid metal plate and moveable pickups could be cool.

oops i just put in an order for this pink thing. excited, but it's okay if u hate it

https://andertons-productimages.imgix.net/443559-0374581556-Full.jpeg

Shell pink is almost always cool.

I want a VI in my collection, but I know how little I'd actually use it in the end.

yeah, there is that. part of my thinking was to get the ltd edition colour just in case i don't keep it forever. but always wanted a pink offset anyhow

Staytrem has their wider bridges (for easier intonation) on backorder - I ordered and they sent an invoice two weeks later so the backup isn't too bad. I still need to get mine to a tech for the bridge swap and different strings.

that pink VI is AWESOME and I want one, but since I have a Fender VI and a half-built Mustang VI I'm designing myself, I can't justify it.

This might be the new low in “relic” guitars

https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarcirclejerk/comments/sjf17b/should_i_buy_it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Damn, I have a guitar that got a huge split just like that.
But like a fool I got my dad to glue it back up again in his workshop.
Imagine what it'd be worth if I kept it the same way.

wtf is that lol

hahaha what Mitchell custom shop? Isn't Mitchell just budget shit like $100 learner guitars?

i can custom shop my acoustics like that by letting them sit in the arizona sun for a summer afternoon

That’s a solid joke by the Guitar Center crew, hope it’s hanging next to the $10k Gibson relic.

ha, didn't realize that Mitchell was some budget brand, clearly a joke, a good one though

Speaking of relics, GC near me is already blowing out a Chrissie Hynde signature Telecaster but the neck is a weird shape, it’s very thin at the nut and then chunky by the 12th fret.

huh. I really like the way those look but I've never played one. I did notice that one sat for a really long time at a guitar shop near me.

ha, didn't realize that Mitchell was some budget brand, clearly a joke, a good one though

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, February 3, 2022 12:35 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah well played