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

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some cities have events where the schoolkids paint an old piano for fundraising

Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 15:17 (two years ago)

does it come with vomit residue

calstars, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 15:48 (two years ago)

"what's this stain?"

calstars, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 15:48 (two years ago)

That is a lot of painstaking workmanship to make a guitar look like steaming garbage

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 15:49 (two years ago)

I can imagine ripping your fingers up on those soda cap knobs.

peace, man, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:01 (two years ago)

lol

https://reverb.com/item/36188512-the-metrocaster-new-york-stratocaster

peace, man, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:13 (two years ago)

wow that seller.. the Back To The Future Mustang…

not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:18 (two years ago)

the license plate in the middle just deeply bothers me, the rest of it is terrible but that puts me over the edge

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:36 (two years ago)

maybe because nothing says NYC like cars

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:36 (two years ago)

What I love is the juxtaposition of graffiti art and pictures of boomboxes and shit with The Late Show with David Letterman and ticket stubs from Hamilton and shit.

peace, man, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:10 (two years ago)

and shit

peace, man, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:10 (two years ago)

i hate license plates used in any kind of "art"

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:12 (two years ago)

the snl fret is just awful

Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:13 (two years ago)

lol the builder is in Dallas

Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:15 (two years ago)

The Back to the Future guitars should have had built in Plasma Drives.

https://vintageking.com/media/catalog/product/cache/c8660c81d7196df55c33284290821786/g/a/gamechanger-plasma-drive-euro_114918_1.jpg

papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:38 (two years ago)

and it’s a Jazzmaster if anything, find me a single Jag feature.

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 16 February 2023 20:53 (two years ago)

one month passes...

https://eddiesguitars.com/product/electric/electric-guitar-categories/solid-body-electric-guitars/fender-american-vintage-ii-1966-jazzmaster-3-color-sunburst/

Looks like Fender got the memo about using the wrong headstock on the new AVII Jazzmasters

papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 22:12 (two years ago)

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

What model is this?

calstars, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 23:25 (two years ago)

I think a B C Rich Mockingbird?

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 23:45 (two years ago)

Ah BC rich sounds right. I guess I’ve only seen the later models but the shape is distinctive

calstars, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 23:46 (two years ago)

definitely a Mockingbird

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 March 2023 02:36 (two years ago)

glad someone knew "looks like an Ibanez Iceman but pointier" was not returning results on Google

papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 March 2023 04:57 (two years ago)

https://i.redd.it/sfk2mjco95o01.jpg

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 23 March 2023 05:37 (two years ago)

A thing I am not going to say out loud: the pointier your guitar is, the less I want to hear your music

But I am certainly thinking it

carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 March 2023 13:40 (two years ago)

This is something I think about sometimes: there must be someone somewhere who uses a pointy shredder guitar to make decidedly non-shredder music, right? But it seems to just not ever happen.

mirostones, Thursday, 23 March 2023 15:32 (two years ago)

Sleigh Bells?

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:31 (two years ago)

I feel like a trv shredder guitar is a slightly pointier super strat with a Floyd Rose type whammy and a HSS pickup configuration

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/RG550DY--ibanez-genesis-collection-rg550-desert-sun-yellow

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:38 (two years ago)

This is something I think about sometimes: there must be someone somewhere who uses a pointy shredder guitar to make decidedly non-shredder music, right? But it seems to just not ever happen

Didn't Rosetta Tharpe play a Flying V? Or Explorer or SG. Maybe I am misremembering. I have a vague memory of someone from that era with a pointy guitar.

carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:14 (two years ago)

She played an SG which seems kinda weird but I think mostly cuz of Iommi and Angus Young

Albert King played a Flying V as did Neil Young for a particularly sleazy period

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:15 (two years ago)

i believe ilx user albert broccoli also has this jag!

― call all destroyer, Sunday, May 30, 2021 2:01 PM (one year ago)

He did but he traded it for a early 00s 1966 MIJ replica JM in sonic blue. :`(

The pickup sound on the Jaguar was a bit thin/tinny in comparison and he prefers the longer neck when it all came down to it.

It's also frustrating to have a legit 66 JM with big headstock and a 66 replica without (different neckshape too but oh well).

Mary Ford played an SG, she was one of the earlier champions of the model iirc.
https://i.imgur.com/W6LLAIn.jpg

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:27 (two years ago)

oh yeah albert king, that's who i was trying to think of.

i think the flying v is kind of grandfathered in as being more than a pointy guitar

call all destroyer, Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:29 (two years ago)

I saw Jeff Tweedy with a Flying V at a Wilco/Sonic Youth show in maybe 2003, not sure whether that counts

carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 March 2023 20:12 (two years ago)

Also i don't think of early U2 as being "shreddy," but very few guitarists are more associated with the Explorer than the Edgester

carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 March 2023 20:14 (two years ago)

feel like the V and Explorer are proto pointy

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 March 2023 20:32 (two years ago)

oooh pretty

https://i.imgur.com/pq0rDDf.jpg

papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 March 2023 20:57 (two years ago)

oh my

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 23 March 2023 21:54 (two years ago)

There's a guy in Texas building Marauders - they are relics but they're real pretty

https://www.instagram.com/p/CmM4zSju9ah/

I'm not sure if those big switches on the lower horn would end up getting in the way of strumming through - not accurate to the '60s Marauder prototypes but I think I'd rather just have Jag switches there.

papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:06 (two years ago)

Lonnie Mack was an early adopter of the original Flying V.

Firebird came a few years later but it is one with an auto design, similar variation to Explorer (and later RG) shape.

The weird and totally rare one is the Futura.

The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:24 (two years ago)

Jay Reatard was a Flying V guy. I would LOVE a pointy guitar but couldn't shred my way out of a paper bag. Someday I'll buy a Dean Razorback. Preferably this one:

https://www.njuskalo.hr/image-w920x690/elektricne-gitare/dean-razorback-slimebolt-slika-26667996.jpg

peace, man, Friday, 24 March 2023 00:22 (two years ago)

Futura...I think it is pretty cool. The Moderne or the Corvus not so much.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2696/4455874542_4e2c0e7829_o.jpg

earlnash, Friday, 24 March 2023 01:01 (two years ago)

He did but he traded it for a early 00s 1966 MIJ replica JM in sonic blue. :`(

The pickup sound on the Jaguar was a bit thin/tinny in comparison and he prefers the longer neck when it all came down to it.

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, March 23, 2023 3:27 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

hey, nothing wrong with that trade! did the jag have stock pickups or aftermarket? mine has duncan antiquities and they *seem* right as far as thin vs.full but i haven't compared to a similar JM.

call all destroyer, Friday, 24 March 2023 01:02 (two years ago)

Yeah they were just the stock pickups, no mods at all (not even the bridge!)

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 24 March 2023 04:36 (two years ago)

The ideal combo would be Jazzmaster scale/pickups with the Jaguar switching and strangle switch IMO (blooz lawyers with Strats are missing out on combining their $800 Fuzz Face clones with the strangle switch and neck pickup)

papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 March 2023 05:16 (two years ago)

this modded old Kawai/Decca guitar is pretty sweet, but the scale looks sub-24"

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0573/7260/6632/products/DSC07759.jpg?v=1664142932

papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 March 2023 05:19 (two years ago)

https://www.thunderroadguitars.com/store/use-decca-ronin-mod-shop

papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 March 2023 05:19 (two years ago)

Looking at a Squire jazz bass. Anyone have opinions on squire vs fender basses at a low price point?

calstars, Friday, 24 March 2023 12:14 (two years ago)

can't see a link but Squier has gotten really good, esp the Classic Vibe stuff - Spottie has some good insight I believe in this thread or another

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 24 March 2023 12:20 (two years ago)

Squire has a reputation of being pretty reliable. I have a Classic Vibe p-bass. It's been solid. I've heard that even their Affinity (low budget) line is pretty good these days, although I haven't played one. Definitely worth checking out if you're on a budget.

peace, man, Friday, 24 March 2023 12:28 (two years ago)

I got an Affinity PJ bass. The build quality is good but the pickups weren't great, you'll probably want to swap them out if you get an Affinity. I'm personally not mad about the feel of the thick finishes on the necks but a lot of modern Fenders have this same feel as well.
I have a Squier strat that was like this but I sanded the back of the neck and put some danish oil on, I prefer it this way. Of course, some people probably like these thick finishes so it's highly subjective.

mirostones, Friday, 24 March 2023 12:50 (two years ago)

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/JBassCV70Nat--squier-classic-vibe-70s-jazz-bass-natural

This is the one I came across

calstars, Friday, 24 March 2023 12:55 (two years ago)


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