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

xpost - SG basses are some of the most badass looking instruments

It's an Epiphone, but yes it does look of.

Buttload of new Yamaha Revstars just dropped.

https://www.sweetwater.com/yamaha-revstar/series

some wild colors

Mark G, my 15yo son bought exactly the same bass as that on saturday - he loves it!

new revstar colours look super btw

vg++

nice, those sunset bursts are interesting looking.

I like the ones with the little racing stripe down the middle

same

one thing about them - all the single coil models have the funky tailpiece thing that i'm not such a huge fan of, but none of the ones with humbuckers have that. anyone know what's up there?

yeah that tailpiece is weird, it's not necessarily a bad idea but something about how it's shaped doesn't quite sit right

it's irritating when one design decision is tied to another like that for no clear reason--like i'm not sure i could be convinced that the tailpiece is somehow complementary to the p-90s.

an SG tremolo might work, i wonder if that's what they were going for?

The RS502 from the first gen had the P90s without the tailpiece, but I haven't seen a new RS502 for sale anywhere online in a couple years (and only a few used ones). I guess the RS502T was more popular (it's what I bought, and what most videos you see about them on youtube are featuring), so I guess they didn't bother making a P90s/no tailpiece variant for gen 2.

I've thought about redoing mine and taking off the tailpiece and putting in a stop bar, but I'd need to do pay someone to fill the holes and refinish it and I'm not sure it's worth it right now.

A couple years in the making. The 4420 lives. A complete custom double neck made for Al Cisneros of SLEEP & OM. Be sure to experience this one in person. And just when you thought you were seeing double. There’s sister 4420 black hardware as well.
Photo by: @tinnitus_photo pic.twitter.com/SBQ4HOLzmM

— Sleep (@sleep_official) April 19, 2022

Over/under - 22 pounds?

Currently squaring up to buy one of the Squier Classic Vibe 50s basses - the ones like the original Precision. Not really trying to stop myself I guess ...

Do it!

I have a Classic Vibe Thinline Tele that is totally fine. I reach for it as often as I reach for the Fender equivalent.

I’ve never tried an Indonesian Squier before but the reviews for these seem to be wall-to-wall raves, and it’s not like I am going to be buying a Sting signature model any time.

they should do a sting relic model; his main bass is beat to hell

Well the one I was looking at was used on local classifieds, and I just picked it up, and oh my goddddddddd it is wonderful. Fretwork, neck profile, feel, finish, all just perfect for me. LOVE IT. Feels as good as most of the Fenders I have.
https://i.imgur.com/fVL8GoZ.jpg

nice!!

that SG bass up there is sick. i've been begging my dad to give me his ~'67 gibson SG bass for about 20 years now

I've got a classic vibe jazzmaster and it doesn't feel different at all quality-wise from the mexican fenders tokai strat copy I have.

I just changed the wiring around to the rothstein STB SUPER MOD layout - the rhythm circuit switch is now a series parallel one, it has two volume knobs and the rhythm circuit 'dials' are now bass and treble cut pots. It feels much more useful.

just saw this reversed guitar on reddit and lol`d

Amazing

like this classic https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aXxmK3z_460s.jpg

https://www.instagram.com/p/CdYisL2KNlt/

$8000 for this or just set your own Telecaster on fire, choices choices

yeah . . . ash body is right.

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

― joygoat, Monday, May 31, 2021 10:03 AM (eleven months ago)

Now that all the people who were exposed to hair metal are approaching their 50s and have nostalgic or ironic interest in them there seems to be a number of reissues of guitars that capture this vibe. Jackson has a reverse headstock, shark-fin inlay, floyd rose-equipped dinky model in garish neon pink available now. I put a used one on my reverb watchlist and the place actually made an offer at ME which I've never had happen before. I think I might go for it.

Spent half my Saturday installing a 1954-correct bridge on my Squier Classic Vibe 50s Precision. No doubt it will make zero difference to sound or function, but man I am pleased with it.
https://i.imgur.com/xaYHA53.jpg

(well 1954-correct would have fibre-resin saddles, but that wasn't an option I could source)

Anybody ever had a guitar partially refinished? Thinking about getting just the top of my Revstar painted (and maybe switch out the trapeze tailpiece for a regular stop tail). I've painted guitars myself before, but I don't want this one to look janky. What does something like this usually cost?

Many variables -
- strip or overpaint?
- metallic? burst?
- flat or arch top?
- masking needed?
- kind of paint?
Could range from $150 to $500 I would guess. You could buy a body in the colour you like and sell yours (then you know what you’re getting …)

JagVI

https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--2Y6pR5t3--/t_card-square/v1656001448/rks2sorqktdzcxy5pk6m.jpg

Only $25k!

yeek
this was the living room floor the other day -
https://i.imgur.com/peqZgxs.jpg

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

My project from 14 months ago got interrupted by minor things like "my wife got cancer" and "I broke two ribs in a bike accident" and "my mother in law also got cancer". But after getting over covid last week I finally put all the pieces together.

Refinishing wood is the least fun thing in the world to me and I suck at it so over the winter I found a deal on a squire bass body in burgundy mist which is one of those colors I never even considered before. I routed everything out (with forstner bits and a dremel), drilled a hole for the side mount jack, sanded the neck pocket so my neck would fit, shielded everything, and then wired it all up. Cutting a clean hole in the pickguard was the worst part by far.

It's got a three-way switch with the stock jazz bass circuit (with a push-pull pot for series/parallel like I had before) as one option and a dimarzio model one as the other option so I can have both or each in isolation. I haven't played it a ton yet but it sounds pretty good and isn't doing anything too weird when all pickups are on together - based some things I read impedance and other electrical voodoo beyond my understanding could cause some weird effects with radically mismatched pickups but it just sounds like a jazz bass with extra loud thud under it all.

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

Just rather foolishly ordered a mandola

Do I need a mandola? No I do not. Do I want one? Apparently.

Theoretically the idea is to fill a gap in scale length between mandolin (which is VERY high and plinky) and bouzouki (which is very big and jangly) while still not being a guitar (which is ubiquitous and therefore unnecessary for me to play, as my town already has like ten thousand white suburban dads who play guitar).

good luck w/the mandola. sometimes those weird non-guitar stringed instruments seem stressful to me, like they were meant to hang on walls and not be played by anyone.

joygoat, i love the bass, well done. i never understood why basses don't have pickup switches so i appreciate your work there.

Call all destroyer: that is true of balalaikas in my experience. I know at least two people with decorative wall balalaikas. Neither one had a solid idea about how to tune them.

Me, I play 8-stringed instruments with utmost seriousness, gigging about twice a week. And I'm only the second most beloved mandolin player in my town!

joygoat that's a thing of great beauty and (looks like) killer function! The Burgundy Mist is perfect. Looks like flats too? I've become addicted to them now.

Man, google maps took me on a detour today and just happened to put me right in front of a high end guitar shop I've been to a couple times, which just happened to have opened an entire new acoustic room, which just happened to have this incredible Guild D-55 from 2010 in perfect condition, sounds like no guitar I've played, just pure butter and feels like it too. I want the thing really bad now, thinking about selling other stuff for it. It's like $3300 though. I have some midrange v-drums I don't play, a yamaha keyboard and a 90s american strat that would probably get me a lot of the way there if I sold them all.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0468/6148/4199/products/hj3-10022_2400x2400.jpg?v=1656432299

Looks so tempting. There’s a 90s one on Reverb in Portland, OR, which is only 2 grand. A few small finish dings which a luthier could fix cheaply.

I'm a huge huge fan of guild acoustics. I have a 1976 D25-m that I got for about $500 off Reverb because of its condition. It needed work but for about $200 at a luthier it sounds and plays very nice now, and the aesthetic defects are mostly not visible because they're on the side and back. Not comparable to this one in sound and feel though.

you gotta get that d-55. they are the best. ive got an '02 corona built one that ill never get rid of.

yeah sell that shit and grab it

That price does seem a little steep tho. I bet you could get them to 3k if not lower

I can't stop thinking about the Guild and it's still there, and I had the same thought as Spottie on trying to get them down around 3k. They said I could put a deposit on it to hold it. I think I'm gonna go play it again tomorrow and then do that and work on selling the less wanted gear.

There's some guy near here who posted on a local for sale site saying he has around 150 guitars he needs to "move." Based on the picture they seem to be mostly beginner/budget guitar brands, but it's hard to tell, because it's just a basement full of (mostly acoustic) guitars. We asked him if he had a master list, and he said he'd prefer if people just came out to check out what he has. Precise wording:

"I prefer that you come ... I can send a list but it will not reflect what I have very accurately as conditions vary. They are all set up and play perfectly, but some have scratches or dings and others are mint condition."

Dunno what to think.