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Guitar players corner!
- Thread starter danbones
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Happy New Year!
This one just came back from a long-term-loan to my guitar-playing-son...
A fairly rare '82 Ovation Custom Legend Deep Bowl Cutaway...
Yes, I like my Ovations...
...and currently own a total of four...
This one just came back from a long-term-loan to my guitar-playing-son...
A fairly rare '82 Ovation Custom Legend Deep Bowl Cutaway...
Yes, I like my Ovations...
...and currently own a total of four...
I picked this one up a few months ago. This is being played by Tony McManus, who could do more by accident than I could do on purpose in my lifetime. Regardless, it's a very lightly built acoustic with a hand carved and hand painted rosette, nice cocobolo back/sides, very thin neck, and Somogyi-inspired bracing.
The tone falls into the "modern" category. The main purpose of something like this is a very delicate response. The downside is that they're very sensitive to weather, very fragile, and a bit pricey.
EdwardofHuncote
I Still Dream of Jeannie
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Time for some new pictures of (mostly) old gear...
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'79 Gibson The Paul with Dr. Vintage reverse zebra pickups...a fabulous instrument...
Tell me/us more of this fine instrument.
I have heard of them and seen pictures but never seen one in person or played one. Are they like the Specials? Were there alternate models? I really like that!
Very different from Specials. Walnut body and neck, although the later "Deluxe" version was Mahagony and available in "standard" finishes. Ebony fingerboard, T-Top pickups originally, very select few shipped with Dirty Fingers. Very open-sounding no matter which pickups one installs. This particular one had EMGs when I got it, I also had another one with Mojotone '59s that now belongs to my guitar-playing-son. I've always liked the entire "The" generation a lot, since I *love* walnut in guitar/bass building. All of these sport an extremely thin layer of nitro over walnut that wears out in no time.
The Firebrand 335S - a solid body 335 - was made out of maple and is also an interesting specimen, although I prefer LP/SG walnut pieces by many margins.
If there's anything in particular that you'd like to know, just ask...this was just off the top of my head, during the first coffee...
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EdwardofHuncote
I Still Dream of Jeannie
- Aug 21, 2013
- 6,645
- 2
- 16,409
- Disclosures
- I privately own and operate a local musical instument repair shop.
If there's anything in particular that you'd like to know, just ask...this was just off the top of my head, during the first coffee...
It's a fascinating guitar. Gibson did so many things, that just when you think you know a little bit, you realize it's just the tip of a very big iceberg. I will keep my eyes open for one!
I've owned an absolutely insane amount of Gibsons - mostly 6-string electric specimens - over the past 42 years and I'm still learning...
EdwardofHuncote
I Still Dream of Jeannie
- Aug 21, 2013
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- I privately own and operate a local musical instument repair shop.
Most of my experience is limited to their pre-WW2 banjos and mandolins, mostly from the early 1900's up through 1940. A few flattop and carved-top guitars thrown in there. I sold (almost) an entire collection of Kalamazoo branded instruments to buy my first Rick Turner bass.
*I still have quite a few though... just not many guitars. Here's a couple mandolins and a 1926 Mastertone banjo.
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The Yamaha MSG I posted previously is based on a reduced 335S shape. Designed by Martyn Booth, who worked repairs for Gibson before moving to Yamaha, and happens to reside just up the road from me. It is a superb guitar:
You see, that's the aspect of the story I know next to nothing about since I neither play nor collect banjos and/or mandolins.
That's a beauty, and I don't doubt that she plays and sounds as good as she looks....
Lucky turn of conversation with my Dad Christmas day had me rescuing my maternal Grandfather's 1968 Framus 6-string banjo from 25 years in its case in my folks' basement (dry and safe, my old man ran a Mech Eng consulting firm down there).
Frets were a funky shade of blue/green, neck was out of alignment, head has been punctured and sunk at the bridge since as long as I recall... all the aluminum was flat grey, etc etc etc
I played it as is for a few days and took it apart New Years Day and cleaned, polished, and oiled all the bits. I've got a Remo Fiberskyn head landing Tuesday for reassembly.
Frets were a funky shade of blue/green, neck was out of alignment, head has been punctured and sunk at the bridge since as long as I recall... all the aluminum was flat grey, etc etc etc
I played it as is for a few days and took it apart New Years Day and cleaned, polished, and oiled all the bits. I've got a Remo Fiberskyn head landing Tuesday for reassembly.
Thanks and correct... I had seen Framus ones a few years back when I thought I would get it, but not this week.
daaannnnnng that is so rad. that is an excellent score, great work getting it set up again!
Is that 6-string what some call a bantar, or a guitjo, 'cause it's tuned like a guitar? Or, elseways ... ...
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I was also thinking that you should preserve the original skin for authenticity, is there any reason that precludes it from remaining in service? Nice looking instrument, BTW, I'm thinking I can feel a dose of GAS coming on after seeing it.
EdwardofHuncote
I Still Dream of Jeannie
- Aug 21, 2013
- 6,645
- 2
- 16,409
- Disclosures
- I privately own and operate a local musical instument repair shop.
If the Fiberskyn dampens it too much, (and that may be exactly what you need) give a Renaissance head a try.https://www.musiciansfriend.com/acc...Rj72ypluj5GUJeViBMDN-fQ49t9zQeEDZ0ehPoaAlA9EA Darker tone than a regular frosted mylar, but still more snap than a Fiberskyn.
*been a banjo mechanic for years.
My Simon & Patrick cedar topped 12 string
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Thanks, I was always disinterested in it... but it is the coolest thing!!!
standard guitar that sounds like a banjo... kind of a cheat, but I'm enjoying it.
the bridge had indented the skin a good bit, and a puncture hole near the logo. I'm fixing it to play it, if it was wall art, I would have reinstalled the original one.
If the Fiberskyn dampens it too much, (and that may be exactly what you need) give a Renaissance head a try.https://www.musiciansfriend.com/acc...Rj72ypluj5GUJeViBMDN-fQ49t9zQeEDZ0ehPoaAlA9EA Darker tone than a regular frosted mylar, but still more snap than a Fiberskyn.
*been a banjo mechanic for years.
this one doesn't sound bad... I think it will work for my needs. It seems a little warmer than the original, but the strings on it were 35 years old and now it has D'Addario Nickel Bronze 12-56 on it.
