ThurberMingus wrote:I feel so stupid when I'm in a guitar shop shooting the shit and someone says "Well if it's good enough for Joe Bonamossa!" just instantly ruins it for me.
Fortunately my main tech guy is cool as hell. He plays blues and jazz and country shit, but he plays insanely well and he loves Bjork and Radiohead so I can actually talk to him about my tonal desires. I'm gonna have him restring my Tele VI with bari strings and tune it to A-A so I too can rip bongs.
i know it seems like a no brainer but when i picked up my jazzmaster from being setup (free setup where I bought it) the dude was like, "yeah so I shimmed the neck and made these adjustments to the saddles and trimmed the screws so that they wouldn't touch the string..." i was just like, "yeah, you fucking get it, pete."
nice to have a good tech. should learn to do it myself but whatever.
ThurberMingus wrote:I feel so stupid when I'm in a guitar shop shooting the shit and someone says "Well if it's good enough for Joe Bonamossa!" just instantly ruins it for me.
Fortunately my main tech guy is cool as hell. He plays blues and jazz and country shit, but he plays insanely well and he loves Bjork and Radiohead so I can actually talk to him about my tonal desires. I'm gonna have him restring my Tele VI with bari strings and tune it to A-A so I too can rip bongs.
Yea, we have this chain in my town, like... Swedish guitar center. And They are mostly old fashion people that just want to sell you stuff. Other than that we have a guy who used to have his own shop, and he went all the way to LA to become a luthier. I let him do an overall check on my hagstrom and specifically told him that I had a loose fret. When he was all done he said he hadn't done anything about it since it was "a lot of work" but that I should come back if it bugged me again????
I think I'll have to learn myself.
