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

You probably can in small town pawn shops/thrift stores. Bigger city shops probably have an inkling about the kitsch dollars they can add to the sale price.

When I see '60s Japanese guitars pop up on local classifieds they're still cheap (except for people who think all old stuff found in grandpa's garage = $$$$) but things on Reverb not so much since they've got to be worthwhile to ship.

What songs feature farfisas in prominent roles?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_dXp0eF8s0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOjAzI5zALo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0EDM-Yu9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z4lH8XFjGY

(pretty sure about this one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL3O10mNNbs

FWIW, the Yamaha Reface YC has excellent built-in Farfisa and Vox voicing. (I couldn't help but notice that Stereolab's current keyboard player was using one). If you happen to see one under $300, I think it's worth it.

I was gonna say you missed the grandaddy of them all, but google immediately informed me that 96 Tears was recorded with a Vox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WUAEtgrhDE

Link Wray's SG looks like it has been to war. Very idiosyncratic details on it.
https://reverb.com/item/68120288-gibson-sg-standard-ex-link-wray-rumble-1962-cherry

Woah. No headstock break.

40+ years of buckle rash in that sg. I wonder how many times it was refretted.

That's awesome. I guess moving the vibrato down makes whammy go that much deeper? I had an SG with a Vibrola, loved the look a lot more than the functionality. Definitely not the Rumble (released in 58) guitar though, the seller is being a wee bit misleading there I'd say.

My first thought was they'll never sell it for that high, but considering Kurt's "Teen Spirit" Mustang went for 4 million, seems like a bargain.

I want a small body acoustic an 8 year old can learn on. Anyone have strong opinions on semi-affordable parlor guitars? Guild p-240 looks interesting. Do Martin LX1s suck? Said 8 year old is an ed sheeran fan, but I don't know.

If you can find one used, a friend had one of these mid-'00s Gretsch parlors that played and sounded really good + an 8-year old might enjoy the aliens.

https://reverb.com/item/3620669-gretsch-gretsch-americana-way-out-west-2003-alien-green-mint-in-original-box

I’ve not tried one but the Gretsch Jim Dandy is a 24” scale parlour and always seems to get raves. Several colour options too.

Thanks, these gretsch parlors are cool.

I am not now, nor have I ever been an Offspring fan, but I find this Ibanez Noodles signature model to be charming in a simple kind of way.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0268/0972/9087/files/ba281927-5841-42e3-9f9d-06072bf5ea34_2000x2000.jpg?v=1686887204

PRS managed to make a guitar even uglier than their usual!

https://www.americanmusical.com/prs-nf53-electric-guitar/p/PRS-NF53-80

my dad just bought one of those Kirk Hammett Les Paul Greenys

not a big fan of the "barn wood" looking trend

Nice of PRS to throw in a gig bag for a $3000 guitar.

But they surely know their customers are more likely to hang it on an office wall than to actually play it.

Ugly af

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ctxd5VNO1AR/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Bet this is pretty sweet if you’re into CooderCaster style bridge pickups.

Oh dang I love it

beautiful

unghhhh

sorry for that

Reminds me a little of the Barney Kessel Kay model, which is also sweet. Rudy's had one in the window for a while but I assume it's sold.

I've sometimes thought about getting a tele with a gold foil neck pickup and a regular hot tele type bridge pickup.

That PRS tele jawn is the dumbest looking guitar I've seen in a long time that costs more than $129.

It’s just off. Yamaha Pacifica is kinda similar but to me worms where the PRS don’t. The PRS can opener headstock I never liked.

Works

Works

The PRS headstock is a deal breaker

they don't always have the best aesthetics, but Yamaha makes some quality instruments

PRSs are the sleeveless hooded sweatshirts of guitars, but the non-budget models usually sound/play better than yamaha guitars.

Someone on /r/offset got (according to Fender) the first paisley Bass VI ever made and OH MY GOD. I kinda like how the floral print Telecasters look as they get older, never connected with the paisley prints - apparently you need a statement guitar like a Bass VI to be worthy of the finish. Wow.

I was so close to getting a paisley Jazzmaster when they were in production but I never really liked that the pickguard has to be paisley (and non-matching) instead of clear with a spray of lavender paint because of the routing.

Always thought the paisley Telecasters would be cooler with a dark rosewood neck than maple so that's a plus for paisley offsets.

I don't think the PRS headstock is as much a dealbreaker as the bird inlays, lol. That headstock reminds me of a Dan Armstrong guitar, which is beautiful IMO (and very heavy, and tonally a non-starter unless you're willing to put a balls out humbucker on it). I believe the design of both headstocks is to keep as straight an angle from nut to tuner as possible, as fanning them out like Gibson does is blamed by some for their tuning woes.

EVH guitars suffer the same fate as PRS

well thanks internet, now I have one of the Squier JM XIIs on back order.

Pics

haha as if there was ever a doubt you were buying one of these xp

sadly inevitable I guess, altho this is only the third new guitar I've ever bought in 35 years of dicking around with them.
xp this jawn (not my photo)
https://i.imgur.com/6oFaCr6.jpeg

i'll be really interested in what you think of it when you get it, in the one demo video i watched the pickups seemed weird, but obviously that's something that can be modified.

What’s the first song you’re going to play on it?

xp they seem to have crazy high resistance, I actually have a more standard JM pickup I plan to drop into it - maybe shift neck to bridge and put the standard one in the neck pos. First song? something off the third Velvets album, "Beginning to See the Light"? maybe "One Day" by The Church, I have about 8 weeks to learn the riff again.

wait no ... "ELECTRIC LASH"! I've never even played an electric 12.

Speaking of electric 12 strings, can anybody id this one? I bought it from a pawn shop in high school, then a few years later I had to give it to my friend's husband to repay him for bailing me out of jail lol. It's quite gone now because that guy fell off the face of the earth, but I'm super curious about what I had.

https://i.imgur.com/dJgCf9c.jpg

Looks like an Aria / early Greco / one of the US nameplate brands for 60s Japanese guitars