lot of red flags on that one
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 27 January 2022 21:56 (two years ago) link
"slightly off-center intentionally"It's enough to make me give up guitar.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 27 January 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
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.
― Bill Kristol Meth (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 January 2022 23:03 (two years ago) link
LOL That’s what it would look like if I made a guitar. Not pretty.
― tobo73, Thursday, 27 January 2022 23:27 (two years ago) link
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), Friday, 28 January 2022 00:03 (two years ago) link
I've been playing zelda breath of the wild a lot lately and that guitar looks a lot like a korok to me
― joygoat, Friday, 28 January 2022 00:09 (two years ago) link
xp 195 pages?? lol i can't wait to dive into this.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 28 January 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
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_4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOtjJRXbv_cBut 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=McbiwX4jSgsFriggin 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’.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 28 January 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
that last demo with the MJS pickups sounds great
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 02:42 (two years ago) link
― 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
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 02:45 (two years ago) link
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
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
also this onehttps://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
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 02:57 (two years ago) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
lol that's some sharper image shit
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
Wooden body with an inlaid metal plate and moveable pickups could be cool.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
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
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
Shell pink is almost always cool.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
I want a VI in my collection, but I know how little I'd actually use it in the end.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 19:18 (two years ago) link
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
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 19:35 (two years ago) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link
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.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 22:35 (two years ago) link
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
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 3 February 2022 13:40 (two years ago) link
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.
― mirostones, Thursday, 3 February 2022 16:28 (two years ago) link
wtf is that lol
― Spottie, Thursday, 3 February 2022 16:30 (two years ago) link
hahaha what Mitchell custom shop? Isn't Mitchell just budget shit like $100 learner guitars?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 February 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
i can custom shop my acoustics like that by letting them sit in the arizona sun for a summer afternoon
― Spottie, Thursday, 3 February 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
That’s a solid joke by the Guitar Center crew, hope it’s hanging next to the $10k Gibson relic.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 3 February 2022 18:40 (two years ago) link
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, 3 February 2022 19:35 (two years ago) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 3 February 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 3 February 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, February 3, 2022 12:35 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah well played
― Spottie, Thursday, 3 February 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:04 (two years ago) link
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
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 5 February 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
I'm trading an Akai S950 and S612 for an Eastman T64 hollowbody
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:52 (two years ago) link
Nice! Eastman semihollows are fantastic - I was just talking to a really good luthier about how they give 335s a run for their money
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:53 (two years ago) link
My Yaz record didn't pan out.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:55 (two years ago) link
at least it was real
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:59 (two years ago) link
fuuuuck… I may finally be turning into a strat guy
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 February 2022 04:25 (two years ago) link
So I just realized my 50s Martin O-18 is actually an O-15. The 5 stamp really looks like an 8 and I had to zoom in super close on a photo of it. I started to wonder when I realized I couldn't find any dark-stained 50s O-18s and then someone told me the O-18 always had a light stain.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 5 February 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
I play a sea foam green musicvox spaceranger in new standard tuning as my main electric. Can never get it playing quite the way I want but there’s history to it (musicvox guitars are ridiculous looking and often get used as prop guitars for faux-60’s kitsch media, and mine was) so I can’t just sell the thing. I do love the look of it, though, and it’s amusing that pretty much any music I play on it confuses people. Once I get a main electric I like more (probably a MIM Tele or Strat, we’ll see) I’ll string it up in Ostrich tuning or something (which I have a really beat up sub-entry-level Epiphone LP strung up in right now). Mostly I’ve been playing my Emperador acoustic tenor guitar, which is a very solid guitar in the fashion of Martin, who I believe ended up suing Emperador out of existence for hewing too close to the mold.
― EvanP, Saturday, 5 February 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
I love my O-15M so much
Today I was chatting acoustic guitars with a friend and advised her to get one of those extremely suburban Sigma guitars, they really are fantastic for the price, you kinda have to drive to the Casio dealer-style music shop to find them tho
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 5 February 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link
went to a guitar store where my friend works and played $6500 Martin dread it's new but a painstaking recreation of an old model, torrified wood blah blah blah....holy shit that thing just sang, just gorgeous it was like in a chord every string had it's own place and clarity. sustained forever. I almost wish I never even saw it. and it's not just the price tag fooling me cuz I had just played a $3500 Martin that was fine but I wouldn't trade it for my Yamaha
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 February 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
Next stop, leather fedora and bracelets.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 6 February 2022 01:03 (two years ago) link
Jealous of the mid-century O-15, ngl. I have seen some very good vintage and recent Martins out there, but have not seen the one that would tempt me to empty my children's college funds to buy. Yet.
Fwiw I don't much like playing guitar, but when I do, my current acoustic workhorse is a midrange 000 copy made under the Recording King label (old brand once associated with Montgomery Ward, but at this point it's just a decal, not a romantic storied legacy). It works fine.
― Bill Kristol Meth (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 6 February 2022 04:02 (two years ago) link
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Sunday, 6 February 2022 13:23 (two years ago) link
My first guitar was an early 90s Strat copy. Fixed it up recently and replaced the dodgy pickups with Warman Vintage single coils. Sounds great. I would say to anyone, if you have some old budget Strat copy lying around in disrepair, don't necessarily write it off, fix it up and put good pickups in and it might sound way better than you'd expect.
― mirostones, Sunday, 6 February 2022 15:14 (two years ago) link
I didn't have to plug it in but has anyone ever played an Ed O'Brien strat with the Fernandez sustainer? kind of intrigued, but I was also really taken with the neck which is apparently a 56 neck, it's almost like a middle ground between a newer slim C and an old school vintage Tele/P bass baseball bat neck, felt really comfortableSpottie - do you know anything about it?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 February 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
I've played a friend's a few times - the neck feels really good, it's a V-shape on the thicker side, satin finish. The Sustainer is more useful than the E-Bow that sits in a drawer.
The pickups, though, always sound kind of dull to me. It's hard to put my finger on it but they're kind of flat and not zingy. Because of the way it works, swapping options are limited - the bridge has to be a single-coil sized humbucker of some kind, the neck has to be the Sustainer pickup.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 6 February 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
Would something like this pedal do exactly what a sustainer pickup can plus a lot else besides?
https://www.tcelectronic.com/product.html?modelCode=P0EBA
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 6 February 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link