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

loved those stories - and I am a sucker for people gifting instruments, a beautiful and selfless act. Giving an artist a voice? Gets me everytime. I gave both my daughters nice electrics for their 18th birthdays and I get such a rush hearing them play and enjoy them.

Gave my friend's son my Boss Katana when he started playing before COVID, he's still using it onstage with his psych band. Which is good because at the clubs they're playing it's only a matter of time before someone breaks into their hand me down van.

I love my Kinman Jazzmaster pickups, completely noiseless but still 100% JM pickups.

Ah! There you go. Yay for Kinman

Yeah I briefly had a MIJ JM with a Kinman prototype in the bridge, it was a wonderful pickup, all that top end glass and husk.

do triple p-90 guitars do the out of phase thing strats do? I had a firebird with that config like 10 years ago and don't remember it. on the other hand, I didn't really play clean tones at the time so I'm not even sure I checked.

my guitar is the same but i got a yamaha desktop amp that is keeping my still new-seeming casino very amusing. i know it's ot, but it is guitar adjacent at least. my bad chords now have new fiddly dimensions.

I tried a triple P90, sounded great to me. I was told that the disadvantage to “more pickups” is that it’s more magnets dampening the string resonance. I did notice this! Still sounded great.

Jazzmaster pickups look like P90s, and apparently “are very different”, but they sound v similar to my ears, the couple times I’ve had the joy of playing one

milo, syd's esquire was an opaque blonde finish originally, and he covered it in mylar sheets to make it silver and added the mirrored discs.
he probably chose the blonde enquire because of the similarity to Steve cropper's telecaster.
I think a more fitting tribute would be to take a guitar you already have that is associated with another player you admire and decorate it with found materials to divorce it from that association, y'know?

Has anyone bought guitar's at estate sales? Not sure if I should get overhyped but there's an estate sale from a lower-budget instrument collector and one of the items is a Telecaster Nashville Power Deluxe electric guitar w/ Fishman PUP. I don't know what a Fishman PUP is, but I've wanted a tele for a while now. Hoping I can get it for a couple hundred. it's hard for me to justify buying another guitar on-site if I'm not getting a sweet deal

Piezo bridge so you can sound like the worst acoustic guitar on Earth.

okay guitar cru

this guy has listed this on craigslist recently and dropped the price. i want to clarify that i have zero business buying a new bass

however, can i really pass this up at this price??

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ram/msg/d/saint-paul-1973-fender-precision-bass/7741693231.html

that seems like an absurdly good deal if it’s legit

as far as I can tell I think it is, he says 73, I found a serial number site that would placed it as produced in 72 but maybe he's off by a year or it was produced in late 72 and went out the door.

also from what I can find the placement of the thumb rest is the old fashioned way, below the strings, which it looks like they moved in the 74.

there is definitely a crack in the body but I'm assuming that is fine if repaired...my friend who knows a lot about that stuff says the only bad thing is he stripped the finish off the neck which apparently feels great at first but gets tacky as it gets dirty, but honestly I could have that refinished and still be way less than anything comparable

You could rub some tru-oil on the neck to re-seal it probably without even paying someone

Def worth getting your hands on and giving it a try.

def worth checking out in person imo

hard to imagine you wouldn’t at least get your money back if you sold it on further own the line

got me a saadiq tele
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oh lord that's a beauty - did you actually get it??

yessir, that's mine!

gorgeous

yep

lol so i was not necessarily in the market for a Mark Hoppus from Blink 182 signature bass but I didn't know this thing existed but a jazz bass body with a precision pickup is a pretty cool hybrid

https://reverb.com/item/81956694-fender-mark-hoppus-artist-series-signature-jazz-bass-2015-surf-green-transparent

https://reverendguitars.com/guitars/reeves-gabrels-dirtbike-royale/

Got the urge for a doom guitar to tune down to C# or a low open tuning, this seems like it might be awesome for that - noiseless P90s, Gibson scale, the Reverend bass contour knob

Either that or buy some 12s and tune my Danelectro down for lipstick doom...

i know people like them but i've never personally been a fan of how the reverend guitars look. but this is their one model that i think looks pretty slick:
https://reverendguitars.com/guitars/bob-balch-signature-2/

IDK, it's not bad but it looks kind of like an AI-generated SG. The pickups look interesting though.

it’s not that different from the Guild Polara but for some reason that one looks cool to me: https://guildguitars.com/g/polara-deluxe-canyon-dusk/

I wouldn't mind trying one of those Guild Surfliners someday.

I had a longtime Jones for a Reverend descent baritone.

GASP!
https://www.fender.com/en-US/squier-electric-guitars/jazzmaster/limited-edition-paranormal-jazzmaster-xii/0377052546.html

the guitarist in my band has one he uses on a couple songs, sounds fantastic and he says it stays in tune or pretty well. really cool guitar

I have a blue one - the neck is frankly amazing, the tuners are a little hinky and the pickups are too hot - but it’s a great guitar. Beautiful build and finish.

The green Squier paranormal HH bass in that color looks pretty sweet if you want to color coordinate.

https://www.fender.com/en-US/squier-electric-basses/other/paranormal-rascal-bass-hh/0377105546.html

looks so nice in that color!

Yeah I went down a wormhole of researching that after clicking the first link yesterday. Not sure it's reaaaally what I need in a bass, but...hmm

if i wanted to buy a telecaster in 2024 that was not insanely expensive, which one should i buy?

Player Series Teles are on sale direct right now:
https://www.fender.com/en-US/electric-guitars/telecaster/player-telecaster/0145212550.html
only a couple colors left they seem to be selling out quick

I joined the club

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Strat-tacular! Love those flower patterns

interesting switch location, is there anything unusual in the electronics?

I've always wanted a paisley guitar, I bought a custom paisley Telecaster body off EBay to turn into a partscaster with a rosewood neck but it arrived as a complete disaster, the guy shipped it with no padding except for a little rough wadded kraft paper so it arrived scratched everywhere and with flakes of the clearcoat peeling off.

I believe the pickups are Jaguar pickups. The neck is very, very heavy maple— roasted and apparently cut in the “other” way, with the grain (or against the grain?) its a fat neck but that’s what I’m used to. It played immediately like what I’m used to (acoustics, my ES-350)

It has no noise. Andy (my tech friend who built it) put an aluminum plate under the pickups. The tone knob is wired up so it’s out of the chain when at 10, and only engages when you move down to 9. It’s a very beautiful sounding and easy to play guitar.

I just had some store credit and I said to the clerk Simone “what strat should I try today?” and she immediately handed me this one and I bought it on the spot

Thinking of picking up a 7-string baritone (mainly to play more doom/osdm), but it seems only ESP makes these things, and they all come in all-black-on-black only. Any other options I’m missing?

A friend of mine has the ESP LTD M7-HT and seems to love it tho, it’s just so boring looking.

fgti maybe it’s flatsawn rather than quartersawn? The latter has the grain perpendicular to the fretboard but flatsawn is parallel - and so flexes, reacting more responsively to turning the truss rod. People hype quartersawn because it’s more rigid but the neck was designed for flatsawn to be smoothly adjusted.

I think it’s the other way around, that flat sawn is more common, and this neck is quarter sawn. I’ll ask my guy today

Looking for a cheap-ass bass guitar to learn on and practice in private so I don’t have to worry about being embarrassed. Should I bite the bullet and get a Glarry or go hunting on Craigslist?

I'm pretty impressed by the Sterling Music Man Stingray basses, I think something by them or a Yamaha would be what I would advise for someone to check out starting out.

Ibanez make really decent basses for under $250 brand new, the Soundgear/SR series including the Gios and Mikros. I'll never have a memory for their model numbers, but the Mikros are short scale and the Gios are the most entry-level model. They also have Talman basses which are funky. I bet you could find a handful of these on craigslist at any time. They're nice!

Squier Classic Vibe series are great and plentiful on Craigslist, the Ibanez stuff is good but I hate how they look

Visiting my partner's family, her mom broke out "grandma's mandolin" for me to mess around with - giving it some light rehab and enjoying the learning curve.
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