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Whats the Silvertone like?

It's lightweight, easy to play, and those old pickups from dearmond absolutely destroy. Both of the pickups are pretty hot and gritty, and the neck pickup has so much low end that i keep the neck volume rolled down a little because at full blast it feels like either my amp will explode or the walls will collapse. Pretty much whenever i want to put a fuzz or distortion to the test, that's the guitar I start with. Also the trem/whammy/vibrato/whateveryoucallit on these is like you're jacking off the fuzz god once you get used to it. It's a really great guitar for heavy shoegaze or space rock.

I know for a fact that the shoegaze band Fleeting Joys use it on some of their songs off their album Despondent Transponder, so if you want to get an idea what it sounds like through distortion and reverb, that's the best place to start (since i currently lack any recording equipment)

I see them selling a lot for 500-600 bucks online and that seems like a bit much though. I got mine for 200 only a couple of years ago... but then again I bought a boss ps-3 for $80 a couple of years ago and now they sell for insane prices. I have no idea what drove its price up but maybe since jack white and beck started using old silvertones that were made around the same time, price magic happened? But... if a small blackhole opened up in my living room and swallowed the guitar and spat it out in the rings of saturn... yeah, i probably would pay 500 to get another It's a cool guitar.

Wow that's a bad photoshop to the right, must fix that.

These are my current ladies - L to R Hagstrom Super Swede (Drop D), Am Deluxe V Neck Strat w/ SCNs (Std tuning), MIJ Jaguar (F tuning - I.E. the Placebo tuning).

I wanna get a Hagstrom Swede.

Jenesis wrote:I wanna get a Hagstrom Swede.

They are really great guitars, nothing touches them in the $500 range.

The stock pickups sound across between a single coil and a humbucker. Awesome for recording, but do tend to squeal like a Jag with high gain at loud volumes - I still need to get the pickups on both my guitars waxed, I hear it's not a big deal. At recording volumes it feeds back nicely.

By far they are the easiest playing guitars I've tried. I had a solo I was having a hard time with on the Jag become a piece of cake on the Hag. The truss rod in the neck is amazing, look it up. Makes the neck SUPER stable - that combined with the bridge makes it sustain to damn near infinity.

stock Schecter Hellcat VI

I also play a 90's Fender Mexican Jazz Bass with BadAss II bridge and Fender SCN Noiseless pickps. But my pictures were ugly I'll try again later... maybe.

Latest addition to the family.

Funny my friend just bought a jazz just like that one. and a lovely DN you have!

The one on the left isn't mine but they were calling out for a group photo while they're all in my house. From left 69 SG junior modified with two Bareknuckle P90s, 72ish Ibanez lawsuit sg with fake Bigsby, and lastly 94 SG standard. All three have new machine heads.

Brand new in the mail today (not really brand new at all).

nice one. i used to have a wine red deluxe....damn i miss it.

it's hard to tell but is that one of the blue sparkles?

elwd

masked elwood wrote::thumb:
nice one. i used to have a wine red deluxe....damn i miss it.

it's hard to tell but is that one of the blue sparkles?

elwd

Yeah its got a little sparkle, nothing like the new flake epiphones they have out now though.

When i worked in a pawn shop (not recommmended, BTW) they ahd onme of those, and it was a sex machine.

My Gibson SG Faded Special. The wood is a lot lighter in person, a real nice mahogany color. The pickguard is also closer to a cream color.


And my Gibson P-90 Melody Maker. I guess it's an older reissue, as the newer reissues have different single coils and a one-piece bridge. This is my straight-ahead-no-pedals-cranked-amp rocker