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

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

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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

e. g. here’s an Orpheus
https://tonegems.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/orpheus-12-string-electric-guitar-DSCF1660-horz-768x391.jpg

I figured it would be a crap shoot. Those guitars are very plentiful, but poorly documented. The photo isn't hi res enough for me to read the emblem on the headstock (even in the physical photo).

I thought it was constitutionally established that when you have 12-string you're supposed to play "Turn, Turn, Turn."

I have a soft spot for "You Bowed Down," which is the same riff

Or the “September girls” solo

https://www.txirula.com/fender-vintera-ii-60s-bass-vi-rw-frd.html#

Apparently during the Fender-owned Guild era they made a guitar called a DV-52, which is supposedly like a stripped down version of the D-55. It looks like they go for $1000-1400 on Reverb. I know the Fender era isn't the most loved Guild era, but the guy who mentioned this to me said he really likes his. So if you want a D-55 and don't want to lay out that much cash, seems like a good option.

I recently bought a very shitty and beat-up affinity strat at a carboot for £5. I don't really need another basic strat, let alone a crap one, so could anyone suggest any cool/weird mods could I do to make it into something a bit different? Preferably for cheap, don't think I want to spend more than say £100 on this thing

I would try some Sonic Youth string gauges/tunings (where they have like two Ds, two Gs, two high Es) or straight up ostrich tuning

Yeah that could be fun for a while and something i could keep changing over time. Was just looking at fretless necks, would that be a terrible mistake?

Hmm, just been watching some fretless videos and I'm hearing some sitar-like sounds. Think it would really lend itself to playing up and down single strings and that would actually be pretty cool with some alternative stringing to provide sympathetic drones

Personally if I wanted fretlessness I would just go get an instrument designed to be fretless, like a cello or whatever.

When I interact with a guitar (which is not often), I am okay with it feeling and behaving like a guitar.

How about a pair of low Ds and another of Gs and then break out a slide and do a funky morphine impression

A cello's about two hundred quid! I did find a viola in a dustbin the street but it has been a struggle to get pleasing tones out of it. I'd have been better off taking the dustbin and banging in that instead tbh

I owned this Sandman bass for a while but the scale length was insanely long, way longer than any bass I'd ever played couldn't really get comfortable with it but it looked cool

https://reverb.com/item/7784288-waterstone-mark-sandman-bass-black

it says 34 the same as my jazz but there is no way

What's the deal with B-Benders - do they go out of tune like crazy? Are they hard to maintain?

https://danelectro.com/product/sitar-resonator/

I didn't realize Danelectro brought back the Sitar reissue. Gotta start saving, I almost got a Jerry Jones version locally before the guy realized he could get way more for it via Reverb.

https://reverb.com/item/69062653-nepco-guitars-usa-made-v-style-electric-guitar-2023-galactic-sparkle

Danelectro-y Flying V!

for being such a mutant that works really well! it's so delightful how lightweight Flying Vs and Danelectros are.

cool, love it. good origin story here:

https://www.guitarworld.com/features/nepco-danelectro-v-style-guitar

what I’ve got? too many guitars
what I want? all of the other ones

prices seem to be coming down on used gear, pieces staying up a little longer than normal, etc.

it did feel bubble-like

hey all

need some advice. so it looks like i may be joining a pretty cool local band that my friend plays. going to be playing guitar (their guitarist is moving to another city)

i went to see them with the current guy, i think i can handle it playing-wise.

however, i only have a real small fender champion tube amp (just a volume knob, nothing else)

guy has like a mega pedal board full of cool (and expensive) effects pedals

so, my dilemma is i already need to buy a bigger amp but cannot affort drop all this dough on boutique pedals and shit....

i'm wondering if anyone has experience with modelling amps like the boss katana or vox etc? are they bad? sound okay? just trying to come up with a solution

(have a simple jhs reverb and and DOD 70s reissue overdrive pedal but that's it)

Amps: what you've got an what you want.

I've had this Fender Princeton '68 Custom for a while (basically a modified "reissue" that I bought of fb marketplace a few years ago). I like it but I always feel like it's a little too loud for home use, and it's not the best pairing with my tele somehow (although switching out the stock speaker for a creamback improved it).

I keep thinking about a vintage vibrochamp, or maybe a tweed champ. Those would cost a little more than I could get for the princeton. I'd also be losing an amp that I can technically gig with (although I've played exactly one electric gig in the last 12 months, on which I played three songs).

Vintage blackface princetons are v expensive and probably not worth it to me. I've tried a couple of princeton-style Tylers that I thought were cool and not a ton more than I could probably get for my 68 custom.

The 68 Custom is not a bad amp it just has some limitations to it. I like it better with humbuckers or with my strat vs with my tele.

i'd like to get a trad amp, but this band has a record coming out that's already recorded and he has a lot of sounds on the record that you need effects for

or maybe i could probably get some of those cheap ass mooer type pedals and fake it?

congrats ums! katana seems like a huge amount of bang for the buck if you're going to be using the onboard effects and you could get plenty weird with some of that stuff (synth! ring mod! slicer!!). probably wanna get the foot pedal for it though if you're using it live. guess it boils down to whether or not you can get a decent basic tone out of it that you're happy with? have seen people complain that they can be a little cold or lack soul, but you could always pick up a decent preamp pedal to run it through first. was looking at them myself for kind of the opposite reason - got lots of pedals already but just want an amp that sounds good at low volumes and you can run them at 0.5W