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

Midnight Wine and Aubergine are a couple of other similar Fender ox-blood colors that look good to me.

The lack of a bridge pickup does it wonders aesthetically

Man I like that Tele bass too. The original P bass was one of those designs that was perfect right out of the gate.

Like nearly all of Leo's designs, it has to be said.

Thumb Rest is beneath the strings so I guess it was played by a lefty

Nope, that’s the delightfully named “tug bar” where you hook your fingers for thumb playing.

Midnight wine w/tortoiseshell is 200% my fave color scheme.

Bonus points for satin or matte finish

It’s both more than I want to spend and about $500 below market, with a nice case.

They have reissued the 52 P-bass but never that model with the humbucker. I got to say after getting into Gibson basses, humbucker pickups are a bit under-rated on a bass. I'm guessing those might have some of the odd magnets like the other 70s Seth Lover style pickups Fender did.

Trower signature Strat is available in Midnight Wine. I'd like it more with a black pick guard. I think of building another parts strat that is the color I might use and then book match the headstock.

If I ever get another bass aside from my Squier VI, the Reverend Wattplower II is top of the list.

My friend who is an amazing player has one, she raves about it. Played an SG bass for years.

well now the TvL JM is on hold ...

i want to be rich

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/wsh/msg/d/elkhorn-very-rare-gibson-custom-shop/7569667834.html

actually seems like a somewhat fair price?

i didn't say it wasn't fair i just can't be dropping $5000 on a guitar

also i'm liking gold hardware a lot lately for some reason

It is both classic and rare

is it possible to tell your kids you smoke weed via purchasing a guitar?

i didn't say it wasn't fair i just can't be dropping $5000 on a guitar

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, January 11, 2023 11:07 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

wasnt meant to be aimed at your comment:) im surprised they put that on CL vs putting it on reverb for like half of what the other one is going for. way more eyes but maybe they dont want to deal with shipping/insuring it

I always kind of hated the white with gold hardware and elaborate headstock inlay gibsons but I saw an epiphone les paul custom in a shop last week and kind of loved the coked out 70's energy it radiated.

96 were finished in Pellham Blue and only 48 were finished in Classic White ( much better looking color IMO).

lol no

xxp - the one up there is a joke, two Pelham Eastons have sold (per Reverb), one for $5500 and one for $5000.

up there = up on Reverb

fair market price then

ive had my eye on this one for a year. even messaged the guy a few times about possible trades and bringing the price down. pretty much my ideal gibson
https://reverb.com/item/46134273-gibson-sg-elite-1988

The bridge pickup on my Jazzmaster is getting more microphonic (a very effective radio with my Superfuzz too - but only one evangelical station) so I ordered a pair of Kinman noiseless Jazzmaster pickups to swap in.

Ugly or cool I can't decide

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/wsh/msg/d/saint-paul-eastwood-backlund-model-new/7577046554.html

both

Bit confused milo, a noiseless pickup cancels electrical hum but won’t solve microphonic issues, which are usually the covers or pickguard vibrating? Or is it just a good excuse to buy Kinmans which are meant to be pretty great?

My understanding was that microphony is a physical issue with the pickup coils (and can be fixed by re-wax potting the pickup) - since I'd have to mail it to someone anyway for re-potting and wait for it to get done and come back I figured it wasn't worth the effort. Any pickup swap would have worked but the Kinmans sound good.

only guitar adjacent but this would be a very stupid and fun thing to have (if they were still 1/3 this price like a few years ago)

https://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/ele/d/dallas-tascam-388-studio-track-tape/7575295735.html

xp True that can be the case, but it's basically any acoustic vibration which makes the coils move and hence generates a signal responding to the sound. Potting reduces the coil's ability to move, but sometimes it can be that the pickup and pickguard are rubbing against each other, or the pickup cover is slightly loose. On Jaguars the claws are notorious for vibrating and that makes pickups microphonic too.
Kinmans are built so differently to a JM single coil that it's very likely they'd be unaffected by whatever is goosing the existing pickup. Apparently they sound great too, and even a shielded JM is a sea of noise so it's a good choice regardless!

Love that Elliot Easton SG, looks a lot like the Rosetta Tharpe SG which I always coveted (except that one has three pickups).

Brittany Howard has a great Inverness Green SG Custom (I think I saw an interview where she said Gibson gave it to her after she appeared on SNL or the Tonight Show or something).

so the TvL Jazzmaster is an absolute peach

I have neither use for nor money for another guitar but that Lake Placid Blue looks so good

https://wildwoodguitars.com/product/V2210636/american-vintage-ii-1966-jazzmaster-6/?cat_id=21781

Kind of sucks that they went with the smaller headstock than the big CBS headstock though

i find that incredibly frustrating, big headstock is absolutely right on those blingy mid-60s offsets

I love the giant CBS headstock on everything.

They need to give the LPB '73 Stratocaster a rosewood neck
https://www.williesguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/av273.jpg

not a fan of the big headstock. looks like a weird growth and is unnecessary

no big headstock here alas:
https://i.imgur.com/AcB5872.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ZnIXZ8r.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/t8DTbkV.jpg

not a fan of the big headstock. looks like a weird growth and is unnecessary

― calstars, Friday, January 13, 2023 9:10 AM

Seconded. I've never seen a big headstock Fender that wouldn't look better with a regular headstock.

Did jazzmaster headstocks ever change size? I thought they always maintained a size somewhere between the og strat abd cbs strat sizes?

yep, went big 1966-1982

I really like the color scheme of the Van Leeuwen Jazzmaster, btw, but along with the embiggened headstock I'm also not a fan of block inlays on, well, all Fenders.

https://reverb.com/item/65090698-mjt-jaguar-2020-ocean-turquoise-60-s-clone-john-frusciante-vibes-leslee-onboard-seymour-duncan-fender-parts-musikraft-neck

Never heard of the Leslee system, like a built in stereo Univibe where it alternates between the neck and bridge pickups while you play.

Amazing! The relic is a little overcooked but man that is a pretty guitar.

“Are these authentic scrapes?”

https://reverb.com/item/64321806-gepettos-guild-metro-jaguar-new-york-guitar?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=64321806

think I saw that one sticking out of a trash can on st marks place last night

::vomits::