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

Guessing you're not a fan of the Offset Telecaster then!

Yeah that guitar looks amazing

I have been using this beautiful ES-350 clone with a single P90, I tried in on a whim in 2017 and fell in love immediately and have been using it ever since…

…but I’m resigning myself to the fact that a single P90 is just too hum-risky and I’m considering my options (replacing the pickup, or installing a second P90, idk idk idk)

Kinman and Lindy Fralin both make hum canceling P90s - I believe the Kinmans sound better but are eye-wateringly expensive

damn this hits such a very specific set of pickups/body style/etc that i've been looking for

https://reverb.com/item/78494451-vintage-revo-series-surfmaster-thinline-twin-electric-guitar-greenburst

Oh wow, same -- though that set of features at that price almost makes me worry there must be some weak spots. I always find myself looking at Reverends in vaguely similar territory, but they only ever do Bigsby or Wilkinson vibratos, and I've come to really depend on the JM/Jag one.

Sure is pretty!

I just had a dream Chrissie Hynde came to my house and I got to show her my Telecasters, she was so down to earth and friendly too.

ve come to really depend on the JM/Jag one.

― ን (nabisco), Wednesday, March 20, 2024 11:05 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'd had guitars with the classic fender style or a bigsby but not a jazzmaster trem until i got one installed in a guitar a couple years ago and it was definitely like a "oh yeah the porridge is just right" moment for me

The only bummer is thinline offsets (usually?) don't have contoured bodies. I've just come to really want that. I can tolerate a thick slab of Les Paul. But like a Tele for example? Definitely prefer something shaped.

A nice offset trem is really really sweet.

this guy does some of the best pedal videos out there, always has unique approaches to things that you've maybe not thought about before and a fun way of presenting stuff too...

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

that was fun, the sega genesis lead tone cracked me up

Had my Greco P-bass up on Reverb for a couple of months, but then I made the mistake of playing it again and realising it's better than I remembered.
So I might have to keep it now. The pickup doesn't sound especially impressive on its own, but it sits in a mix quite nicely. So it's useful as a recording tool.
I installed some lightweight tuners and that made a big difference. It was too heavy before but now it's manageable. You wouldn't think 170 grams less would make a difference, but I guess it's more about the balance than the overall weight.

Dirt cheap Dolamo overdrive from eBay, YES. Beautifully cranked on my Tele, wide range of tones, no background noise, goes from a bit burred to snarly in very good ways. $A31 delivered so probably $US 20?

Apparently it’s a Timmy clone. Nice quality for no money, and I can dial in the sounds I want to hear very easily.

following my acquisition of a shijie strat a couple of months ago, i've continued my quest to acquire high-quality knockoffs of established design classics with this mij tokai love rock, which arrived earlier in the week

https://i.ibb.co/BqzjjVS/IMG-6276.jpg

that's pretty love the classic gold top look

gorgeous!!

went to put a fresh set of strings on the love rock and the nut fell clean out of the fretboard, having apparently only been held on by the tension of the strings

ffs

That’s common enough and not a major issue. All you need is a dab of superglue / krazy glue to tack in in place, make sure it’s snug to the end of the fretboard and the edges of the neck, then hold it down firmly for a few secs while the glue sets. Only a small amount of glue, less than you may think, and doesn’t need to cover the surfaces completely.

this is one of the worst looking things I have ever seen, no matter what clever shit it can do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgWLonnch_8

I guess you could slice an egg with the headstock though?

It's weird that 'woodworker' guitars are so often bad examples of both woodworking and luthiery.

Charlie Clouser's Moog MIDI lap steel is cool

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

A little pickguard makeover for this 70s FST-70. Think I'll go black for the other plastics too.
https://i.imgur.com/AcD5fKn.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/evk6skX.jpeg

https://www.christies.com/-/jssmedia/images/features/articles/2019/05/21/the-black-strat-david-gilmours-iconic-fender-stratocaser/rl-138-eamonn-mccabe.jpg

how did you get a photo of me?

i just made my first electric guitar purchase ever - not really for me but for when my kids get older. they all take music lessons now so i won't be surprised when they get older and want to try and start a band so i figured why not have one around the house. for now it'll be for me to noodle around with.

what did you get!?

dig the gilmour look mkkkkk xps

I just have Squiers for the time being - a strat and a Bass VI which I bought in a big Cure phase a few years back

I bought a VI during my big Cure phase, which started in 1985 and is still going

My Bass VI is still waiting on me to take it to get the Staytrem installed and some La Bella strings and a full setup.

that's maybe the last guitar I really covet

the classic Gilly black strat look is timeless

The whiter knobs are harshing my buzz tho. I have a commitment to the black/black/maple aesthetic for 70s Fender styles.

what did you get!?

dig the gilmour look mkkkkk xps

― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Friday, 3 May 2024 06:57 (yesterday) link

lol, thought i mentioned it. 97 fender california series stratocaster.

Nice

now you’ve made me play Dark Side of the Moon for the first time in a decade

howd it hold up?

Did it...rule?

Alas I am just not a Floyd fan - I will rep for Us and Them any day but too many of the tracks go for giant overkill (and sax, far too much sax)

I’ll happily watch Live at Pompeii any day of the week tho

Syd's Esquire would be a fun partscaster to build, I always thought it was olympic white but I guess it was Inca Silver (or a spray paint silver?)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Syd_Barretts_Fender_Esquire.jpg/480px-Syd_Barretts_Fender_Esquire.jpg

Fender sold a signature with mirrors you stick on yourself, a few years back

Someone returned one of those Jimmy Page mirror Telecasters to my local Guitar Center after attaching the mirrors. I guess they just accepted it but were only knocking $200 off retail.

oh that must be the one I’m thinking of, duh

i didn't now tweedy had a signature martin (makes sense though), obviously entirely out of my price range but this is gorgeous, i love the finish so much, not sure how i feel about the goofy fretmarkers thing

https://www.martinguitar.com/guitars/discontinued/00-DB-Jeff-Tweedy.html

nothing on 12? really?

i think this is an issue with acoustic signature models, it's hard to make them look distinctive without a weird inlay or a reimagining of fret markers.

Tweedy’s signature SG was nice, kind of a desaturated Pelham Blue

The Martin OO is my favourite (although I own an O). Sigma’s versions of that series are so so cheap and so excellent and I recommend them to everyone, I gave an OO-15M to a friend as a Big Gift a few years back

is Sigma related to Martin as a company? I was never sure on that