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Fantastic description. Only thing you need now is a sticker

Monarch wrote:Fantastic description. Only thing you need now is a sticker

Heck yes.

I'm resisting the urge to cover the whole thing with stickers. I've got an envelope full of ones I haven't got around to using, and this has much more guitar body space than I'm used to.

Catching up on this thread has restored my faith in ILF - a Gretsch and a Revstar and LPs and weirdo guitars and an Explorer style guitar and lap steel - rock on, people, and congrats!

Here are my latest, although the pics don't do either one justice. I bought the Jag in December and I love it! The Gretsch just arrived today, it's my first Gretsch, and it's a blast.



Rock on with your bad selves, ILF!

Welcome to Team Gretsch! Haven't been able to put mine down since I got it. Have a bunch of music coming out recorded with that thing. Really digging the colour on yours. What pickups does it have?

VREEEEVROOOOOW wrote:Welcome to Team Gretsch!

Thanks, VREEEEVROOOOOW! So far, Team Gretsch seems like a good team to play for. I've really been having a blast with this guitar.

VREEEEVROOOOOW wrote:Haven't been able to put mine down since I got it.

I hear you loud and clear! I pulled mine out of the box yesterday, tuned it up, plugged it in, and didn't stop until I felt like my right shoulder was about to fall off. That was the longest I've played in years.

VREEEEVROOOOOW wrote: Have a bunch of music coming out recorded with that thing. Really digging the colour on yours. What pickups does it have?

I'm looking forward to hearing the new music.

As for the colors, thanks for the complement. The glossy surf green and white does make it look striking. Aesthetics are big part of a guitar's appeal for me, and probably for most of us (although I might be projecting there).

The pickups are Blacktop Filter'Trons. They sounded pretty good yesterday, clean and dry, and with fuzz and reverb. I ran it through a Warm Audio Foxy Tone Box and a Danelectro Spring King, and it sounded great.

Speaking of Streamliners, I ran across some reviews of them while I was waiting for this to arrive. I started feeling buyer's remorse and wondering if I should have bought a Streamliner instead. But yesterday when I pulled it out of the box I was immediately hooked.

I still might pick up a Streamliner in the future. I don't have a semi-hollow, so that would give me something different, and the quality for the money on Gretsches right now makes them very alluring. I also like the shorter scale and the thinner necks on them. It also seems like semi-hollows can get amazingly fat, rich fuzz tones, which is a major + in my book.

All in all, I'm lovin' it.

So, I bought another 80's metal worship guitar, to go with the Explorer, because I'm a grown up and I don't need a reason.



I don't have a problem though, and I can stop any time I want. NO YOU SHUT UP.


Photos don't do it justice. This thing is PINK as FUCK.

I wish I kept my Charvel. It was the first "nice" guitar I bought as a teen lol. I was a ridiculous deep black/purpe with like metal flake/sparkles in it.

this is my 1968 ES-335TD. i bought it from the original owner, who'd suffered a head injury and couldn't play any more, for $200 in 1975. i slapped a Bigsby B6 on it to replace the factory trapeze tailpiece because i needed to do Neil Young shit and went from there. at first it was dead and un-resonant--it sat in a Chicago basement unplayed for at least a couple of years and was probably soggy af--but around 1978 it suddenly blossomed into an absolute monster, with the original pickups much louder than any other guitar around. i played it in every band i was ever in. in 1991 it got knocked off a guitar stand and landed on the nut, shattering the neck at the headstock join. (this is why i never, ever use guitar stands, preferring to lay the instrument down flat in its case.) i cried. i toted it around for almost 30 years on the assumption that on some golden day i'd be able to afford the repair.

in mid-2000 i went to a jam in New Jersey a fellow i knew from the Gretsch Pages threw during that little lull in the middle of the pandemic. he's a luthier who specializes in vintage guitars, and before the event i asked if he'd take a look at it. he picked it up, sighted down the neck, and said "yeah, i can do it." "How much do you want to get paid?" "$100." "ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS???" he was. i understood that since i was a charity case i was going to the back of the queue. things got more complicated when the worst of the pandemic lifted and people started touring again. he's a Gretsch specialist, so he was inundated with e.g. all of Brian Setzer's touring guitars. (when i picked the guitar up he had the original Mary Webster 1954 Gretsch White Falcon prototype on a sofa with the inlays taped in so they wouldn't fall out of the fingerboard, one of a batch of eight WFs a guy in California had bought.) i nudged him about it in 2021 and sent him the new Bigsby required and he said he'd get to it soon. in 2022 i hit him up and he said that it was finished other than being set up; at that point i was debilitated by long COVID and couldn't drive from Virginia to New Jersey to pick it up. i asked him about shipping it, but i guess it fell off his radar.

this August i went up to Brooklyn to see Sigur Rós with a 42-piece orchestra at Kings Theatre, and i knew this was my chance so i rang him up and asked if i could pick it up on my way to New York and he agreed. folks, it was an emotional experience. i can only liken it to walking into a house you used to live in...strange and foreign yet utterly familiar. i insisted on giving him $200. and off we went.

this is the guitar i literally learned to play electric music on. when i play it i never have to hunt or look to see what fret i'm on; i just know. it sounds and plays just as good as it ever did. i had him replace the B6 with the appropriate B7 Bigsby as used on contemporaneous 60's models, and got a set of domed bridge-adjustment thumbwheels off Reverb that are the secret weapon for making B7s and Vibrolas work smoothly because they let the bridge rock rather than snagging on the saddles. these were standard on Gibsons with vibratos in the 60's, but have been forgotten by history. the old nut got broken in the fall and had to be replaced, and the original bridge with the nylon saddles was replaced with a regular Tunomatic without the spring-wire screw retainer before the end of 1975. other than that everything is dead stock.

i got a large part of my life back that i thought was gone forever. i'm a happy kitty. see next post for additional photos.

neck repair. if you didn't look you'd never know it was there.
original case complete with dinosaur sticker from the Field Museum of Natural History, 1978.

holy cow DUB!!!!!! the story along with the guitar are just incredible, thanks for sharing this. It's flipping glorious!

That, is awesome.

Lurker13 wrote:Catching up on this thread has restored my faith in ILF - a Gretsch and a Revstar and LPs and weirdo guitars and an Explorer style guitar and lap steel - rock on, people, and congrats!

Rock on with your bad selves, ILF!

Sorry



I've got a peach one too

Having said that I did give back the J Mascis JM which I traded with a mate (because I finally made him tell me he regretted the trade) so now I have my Meteora back

Paul_C wrote:

Lurker13 wrote:Catching up on this thread has restored my faith in ILF . . .

Sorry

I know, right? I'LL GET EVEN WITH ALL YOU BASTARDS!

Paul_C wrote:

I've got a peach one too

Having said that I did give back the J Mascis JM which I traded with a mate (because I finally made him tell me he regretted the trade) so now I have my Meteora back

The Meteora has me drooling , and you've got a beautiful collection of Fender Planks too. But I had to copy and paste the urls into my browser to see them. On the forum I just see the word "Image" on both my PC and my phone.

hbombgraphics wrote:holy cow DUB!!!!!! the story along with the guitar are just incredible, thanks for sharing this. It's flipping glorious!

This! Looking forward to hearing some recordings of that beauty.