Let's see your GUITAR!
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Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
i just conditioned the fretboard and changed the strings yesterday...the luthier put D'Addarios on which i hate. it sounds even better with the proper Regular Slinkies on.
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what's the beef with dadds? not arguing just curious, i've been a dadd person for ages now coz they've been doing 11-52 longer than EB,, and EB i had a few sets with tarnished strings
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they're too clean, too hi-fi. EBs have, for lack of a better term, a "funkier" sound.
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I'm not picky and don't overwhelmingly care about strings, but dadd xl jazz chromes are absolutely gorgeous sounding for verbing and gazing (especially down-tuned)
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they sound fine, they just don't sound like me. i'd probably try them on an electric 12-string, though, where clean would be more important. in general, i prefer to get a dirty edge to my sound with raspy nickel-alloy strings and fuzzy pickups into a fairly dirty amp rather than a boost pedal.
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So here are my two that I currently own - I really want to add a third guitar at some point but these two are just so good.
The SG on the right named Edna T-Rex Fricker is a 1970's era Gibson. The pick ups and vibrola were ripped off at some point and there is what appears to be white paint on the guitar from a refinish at some point - Vintage Seymore Duncan's are loaded in which gives it a great raw rock sound ( it even chugs like a SOB). The neck it pencil thin and has no neck joint like most SG's I have played - so its a neck through. The nut is original AFAIK and the tuning heads were replaced with a mishmashed set of era correct tuning keys. A punk rocker craved T-Rex in the back of the body with a bic pen, adding to massive amounts of playware.
When I first picked up an SG when I dove into guitar playing - I hated it initially, the thin body and over all feel of the instrument almost felt cheep and like I was going to snap it in half. Fast forward to 8 months later, I was at my favorite guitar store (Parrotdice Guitars) and Jay ( the owner) hands this too me. I have never had the feeling of absolute excitement and joy when I picked this thing up, it was a fucking magical moment if I have ever had one with a stringed instrument. The Dunnable USA custom I had at the time immediately when in trade towards this one and it was one of the best gear decisions I have ever made. I can understand why so many Gibson owners can be over zellous - there are plenty out there that are dogshit but once you find the one its truly special. I hope to rock this SOB until I die and maybe my kids will keep it in the family.
The Jackson on the left named Winneford ( Winne) is a 1990's era MIJ soloist - thick fucking guitar at 9.8 lbs but it has that Japanese craftsmanship that is on par or surpasses USA made guitars ( seriously if you find a MIJ guitar they are worth) This one has some modifications as Jay ( bough it from the same shop) ripped out the active pick ups for a Seymore Duncan JB/Jazz set ( I actually don't know the neck pick up and it could be a 59). It has a fun kill switch a gohoth floyd rose trem and decent parts.
I am going to modify both of these even more Winneford may get new PUs down the road ( I am not sure yet) and a satin conversion to the neck and also upgrade the machine heads to locking ( because why not) and the SG is getting locking tuning heads next month.
The SG on the right named Edna T-Rex Fricker is a 1970's era Gibson. The pick ups and vibrola were ripped off at some point and there is what appears to be white paint on the guitar from a refinish at some point - Vintage Seymore Duncan's are loaded in which gives it a great raw rock sound ( it even chugs like a SOB). The neck it pencil thin and has no neck joint like most SG's I have played - so its a neck through. The nut is original AFAIK and the tuning heads were replaced with a mishmashed set of era correct tuning keys. A punk rocker craved T-Rex in the back of the body with a bic pen, adding to massive amounts of playware.
When I first picked up an SG when I dove into guitar playing - I hated it initially, the thin body and over all feel of the instrument almost felt cheep and like I was going to snap it in half. Fast forward to 8 months later, I was at my favorite guitar store (Parrotdice Guitars) and Jay ( the owner) hands this too me. I have never had the feeling of absolute excitement and joy when I picked this thing up, it was a fucking magical moment if I have ever had one with a stringed instrument. The Dunnable USA custom I had at the time immediately when in trade towards this one and it was one of the best gear decisions I have ever made. I can understand why so many Gibson owners can be over zellous - there are plenty out there that are dogshit but once you find the one its truly special. I hope to rock this SOB until I die and maybe my kids will keep it in the family.
The Jackson on the left named Winneford ( Winne) is a 1990's era MIJ soloist - thick fucking guitar at 9.8 lbs but it has that Japanese craftsmanship that is on par or surpasses USA made guitars ( seriously if you find a MIJ guitar they are worth) This one has some modifications as Jay ( bough it from the same shop) ripped out the active pick ups for a Seymore Duncan JB/Jazz set ( I actually don't know the neck pick up and it could be a 59). It has a fun kill switch a gohoth floyd rose trem and decent parts.
I am going to modify both of these even more Winneford may get new PUs down the road ( I am not sure yet) and a satin conversion to the neck and also upgrade the machine heads to locking ( because why not) and the SG is getting locking tuning heads next month.
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i had no idea they ever made neck-through SGs. if you ever get the hots to restore it or at least have it refinished, i know a guy in Hopewell, NJ who's one of the foremost restoration guys in the US. it'll cost you, but it'll be perfect. he fixed the busted neck on my 1968 ES-335, and if you didn't look at the back of the neck to see the place the damage was filled with a darker material before refinishing the neck you'd never even know it had been damaged.
one seldom has the opportunity to fall in love with a guitar on the spot these days. that happened for me before lockdown with a FMIC-era Guild Aristocrat. i was browsing idly round Atomic Music in Maryland north of DC, which is a used-guitar monolith of a store bigger than Amoeba Records in SF. the first time i walked in there i got overwhelmed after 15 minutes and had to go outside and collect myself, and i've still never been in the acoustic guitar, keyboards, or drums rooms. i pulled it off the rack and it climbed into my lap and said "take me home, daddy." i drove back to Charlottesville and because i was pretty broke then i was like "what can i sell them that will be enough to cover this $750 guitar...OF COURSE, THE RICKENBACKER 360." i'd bought it online and never really bonded with it...i could hear the things i'd need to do to make it sound good, but they were totally antithetical to my playing style. i only bought it because Peter Buck and Neil Halstead used them. never was able to make it sound anything like either of them. i went home and spent an hour giving it one more chance, drove back to Maryland the next day, and traded it in for $1250 (cost $1600, not an unreasonable offer given that they're running a business; i didn't expect to get more than 70-75% of retail value) and brought home the Aristocrat and a Squier CV Jazzmaster that needed some love but i could tell would be good once i fixed it up. still have $75 store credit from what was that, 2018? and the CVJM turned out to be a great guitar once i de-taped the bridge posts, put a Squier tort pickguard on to replace the Fender one the previous owner had put on trying to make it look like the JM on the cover of Loveless which didn't match the screw holes and had warped, replaced the anclllary plastics so they matched, and put in a Fender American Professional JM trem which is superb and gives more pitch drop than any other as tested by reviewers. its handle also sits higher in the collet than other JM trems, which means it's perfectly suited for the Kevin Shields bend 'n' strum technique. i was well obsessed with those 2 guitars for several months.
one seldom has the opportunity to fall in love with a guitar on the spot these days. that happened for me before lockdown with a FMIC-era Guild Aristocrat. i was browsing idly round Atomic Music in Maryland north of DC, which is a used-guitar monolith of a store bigger than Amoeba Records in SF. the first time i walked in there i got overwhelmed after 15 minutes and had to go outside and collect myself, and i've still never been in the acoustic guitar, keyboards, or drums rooms. i pulled it off the rack and it climbed into my lap and said "take me home, daddy." i drove back to Charlottesville and because i was pretty broke then i was like "what can i sell them that will be enough to cover this $750 guitar...OF COURSE, THE RICKENBACKER 360." i'd bought it online and never really bonded with it...i could hear the things i'd need to do to make it sound good, but they were totally antithetical to my playing style. i only bought it because Peter Buck and Neil Halstead used them. never was able to make it sound anything like either of them. i went home and spent an hour giving it one more chance, drove back to Maryland the next day, and traded it in for $1250 (cost $1600, not an unreasonable offer given that they're running a business; i didn't expect to get more than 70-75% of retail value) and brought home the Aristocrat and a Squier CV Jazzmaster that needed some love but i could tell would be good once i fixed it up. still have $75 store credit from what was that, 2018? and the CVJM turned out to be a great guitar once i de-taped the bridge posts, put a Squier tort pickguard on to replace the Fender one the previous owner had put on trying to make it look like the JM on the cover of Loveless which didn't match the screw holes and had warped, replaced the anclllary plastics so they matched, and put in a Fender American Professional JM trem which is superb and gives more pitch drop than any other as tested by reviewers. its handle also sits higher in the collet than other JM trems, which means it's perfectly suited for the Kevin Shields bend 'n' strum technique. i was well obsessed with those 2 guitars for several months.
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Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
the object of desire. according to the photo date this was actually in October 2020, just before the second wave hit with a vengeance. so new to my home that the price tag's still on.
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i also changed the rhythm circuit cap to half the stock value so the rhythm circuit didn't act as a low pass filter set to ~1200 Hz. that's the cap value used in Jaguars, and though it's still not immensely useful it at least has a usable function now. i swear that Jazzmaster wiring is almost as much ass-pain as Gretsch wiring which is just plum awful to deal with. i'd prefer setting up Strat trems to float all day long rather that deal with that kind of mess, and i really don't enjoy setting Strat trems much at all.
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Re: Let's see your GUITAR!
gots me a burfday present otw:
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Happy BRFDY, DNDLN!
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Fanx!
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are you Our Father?
seriously, though, that's badass. looks like humbuckers with slotted shells like the "Gretschbuckers"?
seriously, though, that's badass. looks like humbuckers with slotted shells like the "Gretschbuckers"?
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Popped out this morning and picked this up - a Squier Esquire in Daphne Blue with a Gotoh bridge and tuners and a Bareknuckle Piledriver.
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DUDE. does that not have any controls on the plate at all?
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