The family that 'bursts together is cursed together

[Dandolin]

[Chankgeez]

Well, you know I have a fondness for greenbursts:



https://reverb.com/item/54514498-guitare-egmond-vintage

[Dandolin]

yass - and that's a fine one - looks a little like the house i grew up in

[Chankgeez]

The house you grew up in was greenburst?

Also:



https://reverb.com/item/54561597-1937-g ... 150t-tenor

[Dandolin]

kinda - it was painted a similar shade of green over textured asphalt shingle and the paint had faded in some areas - maybe not in as regular a pattern, but actually fairly reminiscent of that burst job

dat tenor is drool: which reminds me i have to post this mando you shewed unto me earlier:

https://reverb.com/item/54523908-gibson ... -pre-owned

[Chankgeez]

textured asphalt shingle and the paint

band name?

…oh, and, also:



https://reverb.com/item/54579975-fender ... arkle-rare

[Dandolin]

hmmm...the reverse burstage

i wasn't sure about the sparkle burst @ first, but i've grown to like it more....

[Blood_mountain]

textured asphalt shingle and the paint

band name?

…oh, and, also:



https://reverb.com/item/54579975-fender ... arkle-rare

Fudge, that's another beauty. I'm digging the worn bronze sparkle bursts.

[Chankgeez]

Yep, that's a real nice one. Thank goodness someone already grabbed it and saved me the $14K.

[Chankgeez]

https://reverb.com/item/54703363-wandre ... -1957-1959

[Dandolin]

yowzah!

[qersty]

https://reverb.com/item/54087353-1611-balladeer
Do people have some kind of aversion to ovation guitar? I watched a video on NST and the guy seemed to diss the fact that Fripp taught guitar craft on ovation guitars or i missed the point

[Dandolin]

yeah, ugly guitar conservatism plays a big role in that
to me tho they do tend to sound a bit middy, at least the ones i've played, and i was never a huge fan of that back shape - tends to creep forward on me. don't really care what the back is made of tbh - while there are guitars where back construction effects the tone a fair bit, i don't feel like that is one of them. i think Fripp picked them more for reliability/stability/uniformity than for outstanding tone tho
another prejudice i think comes from them being a popular choice among early piezo users and those early piezos were a quacking mess (still don't like piezos myself, tho they can sound better than most of the early guitar-installed ones did without too much investment of time or resources)

regardless, that's a pretty burst!
this one's interesting too:

https://reverb.com/item/54762528-perlgo ... uitar-1960

[Chankgeez]

^^^^ Nice, but not this nice:



https://reverb.com/item/54778309-pre-or ... ntage-paul

[Blackened Soul]

yeah, ugly guitar conservatism plays a big role in that
to me tho they do tend to sound a bit middy, at least the ones i've played, and i was never a huge fan of that back shape - tends to creep forward on me. don't really care what the back is made of tbh - while there are guitars where back construction effects the tone a fair bit, i don't feel like that is one of them. i think picked them more for reliability/stability/uniformity than for outstanding tone tho
another prejudice i think comes from them being a popular choice among early piezo users and thos early pieazos were a quacking mess (still don't like piezos myself, tho they can sound better than most of the early guitar-installed ones did without too much investment of time or resources)

And because the material for the back has something to do with military tech… I don’t remember… I do though remember one time at subway guitars fatdog going off on the thingstalking about people smashing them at anti land mine concerts in South America or something… made about as much sense as anything fatdog talked about so

I also have a luthier friend that will rant about then on the subject of the tops sinking and how nightmarish fixing then is…

i think I already posted my red burst doubleneck ovation earlier in the thread.. I also have a short scale bass applause that is better than most acoustic basses..
Not that the low e worked but I’ve never played an abg that did so I tune it adgc with contrabasse classical guitar strings…