Let's see your GUITAR!

[Zork]

Haha, yes, kind of... thank you, have never seen it that way but it's a nice way to look at it.

[dubkitty]

y’all aren’t going to believe this. my girlfriend has been hyping me for weeks about the great present she and her sister went in on for me. well, she wasn’t wrong. apparently when i brought her sister home from the hospital a couple of months ago she saw me looking at one of these on my phone.

it’s a reissue Guild S-200 Thunderbird, the truly wacky 60s solidbody best known from its use by Muddy Waters and Zal Yanovsky out of the Lovin’ Spoonful. crudely put, it’s Guild’s take on the Fender Jaguar, but the circuit is significantly different. yes, there’s two pickup switches and a tone cut/“strangle” switch, but if i’m understanding correctly there are two separate volume and tone knob sets, Mode A and Mode B, which are selectable. this seems much more useful at a glance than the Fender rhythm circuit. it’s in good shape, and apparently spent most of its life hanging on the wall. after Christmas i’ll get new strings, clean it up, and get to know it better.

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

That's a cool-lookin' guit box Dubs.

[Zork]

Oh yes!
I somehow associate it with Dan Auerbach even though I'm not sure he ever really played one. It has the Black Keys vibe, though.

[BitchPudding]

Walked into Oakland guitar a few weeks back and walked out with a Meteora!



It was a project the shop did for a customer, who then promptly sold it back to them for an SG JR. Its got an American neck from the Telecaster Meteoras, the body of the american pro II (IIRC) with Fender CuniFe Wide Range pickups in place of the fireballs. I picked it up on a whim just trying out shit and ended up playing it for an hour. It just felt perfect in my hands. The pickups fucking rip. They take gain super well and still stay clear. They're noiseless when tapped to, so they do the fender single coil thing with no noise! The whole thing sounds very hifi ,its definitely the fanciest guitar I own. I'm sure it'll get thrashed in time, but for now its still shiny.

One thing I learned from this is that I like wide radius necks. I've been trying to used more hybrid picking in my playing, and the string spacing on this is perfect for doing all that hammer claw bs.

[dubkitty]

nice you got to actually play something cool. to see anything interesting in shops i’d have to drive to DC or Maryland. one of the only styles of pickup i still want but don’t have are WRHBs.

[dubkitty]

one of the small pleasures of having Too Many Guitars is accessorizing…it makes me happy when i find straps that coordinate with the guitars. sometimes i look for one for a specific guitar, sometimes i just see ones i like and see what they go with. these three are fairly new—like last fall/winter—so they needed straps. the one on the Bird was originally bought for the Dyna Pro Jet, but was a but much but it’s PERFECT here. the other two were “nice strap” purchases that happened to go perfectly with their axes. i have spent a lot of time looking at straps on eBay, Reverb, Etsy, Temu, and manufacturer sites, and every time i go to a physical music shop i always go through their rack. most straps don’t work with my aesthetic.

[dubkitty]

part of a guitar being adopted into my little work group is getting a strap and a hardshell case. one of each per customer…once i had multiple guitars i quickly grew tired of re-adjusting the strap when i switched guitars.

sometimes it’s frightening to contemplate how much money i have tied up in music-related peripherals. i forget now, but totaled up the patch cables on all my boards and was mildly horrified by how much they cost. i buy the cheapest acceptable cases i can find except in special circumstances, and for the current stock of 24 cases (not counting cases that came with the guitars) it’s still got to be pushing $2000. at least the pricey power supplies will get amortized because i don’t need batteries any more.

[dubkitty]

accessorizing also applies to things like knobs and switch tips. if you hunt around there are so many different variations and styles it's kind of mind-boggling. i was particularly happy to find tortoiseshell plastic Tele barrel knobs for the Gemini Telecaster. i'm also very fond of the big Fender amp knobs like i have on the CVJM above which i can read with my glasses off and which i also put on my Jazz Bass, and the Big Muff knobs like on the Esquire which IIRC come from Small Bear or Love My Switches. i also put those on the Eastwood Wandré...the stock knobs were actually fairly accurate, but bland. i've mentioned some of my favorite sources in the Project Guitars thread.

yesterday i made a list of all the guitars which lack cases and/or straps. to my surprise almost everybody has straps other than the 6-string acoustics which i haven't stood to play for years and the basses. i bought two similar straps off Temu i've been using for the Dyna Pro Jet and bouzouki, but i think i'm going to repurpose the bouzouki strap for the Double Jet. so total needed assuming i got them for the acoustics is only like 6 straps total, and there's a couple i could use that i'm not enthusiastic about but will do. 7 cases counting the Jazz Bass.