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

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

When the weather clears up I'm trading an Akai S950 and S612 for an Eastman T64 hollowbody that looks almost exactly like this

https://bestguitarsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/936853_ebay.jpg

One step closer to forming a Slowdive cover band.

https://reverb.com/item/38441116-jg-1092p-1960s-grandma-s-couch?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=38441116

I'm trading an Akai S950 and S612 for an Eastman T64 hollowbody

Nice! Eastman semihollows are fantastic - I was just talking to a really good luthier about how they give 335s a run for their money

My Yaz record didn't pan out.