Guitar players corner!

[Jeff Scott]

Nice! And thanks to this pic, I'm now (once again) GASing for a 12-string acoustic.

Stop GASing and get one!

 

[zontar]

I'd love to hear the story on the Marshall big box 1987, whether it's early 70's or early reissue. I'm guessing '72ish Canadian export.

he didn't say much about the amps--other than a mention of the Garnets & the Silverstone

 

[zontar]

Blurry Les Paul Signature

and a couple of others from the Randy Bachman collection
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[tangentmusic]

Les Paul Standard in Ice Tea ‘Burst residing comfortably alongside a Ric in Mapleglo

 

[Jeff Scott]

Blurry Les Paul Signature

Special custom model for those blurry times in one's life?

 

[Jeff Scott]

Here's the rest of that 12-string I posted above.

 

[mapleglo]

Beaut! What year?

Thanks! I believe it's a 2000. The white 12 string is from 1986.

 

[mapleglo]

I'm always amazed at @mapleglo 's collection of Ovations which is nothing short of stunning

Thanks, though I may be selling a couple soon as I've run out of room. We'll see.

 

[MonetBass]

Here's the rest of that 12-string I posted above.

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It would be interesting to try a fanned fret guitar. But to me, shaping chords would be tough. Has anyone tried one?

 

[Tom Bomb]

In my number one, which came into being in the mid eighties, there's a JB Jazz set onboard, from Seymour Duncan. Not my doing. They're the originals.

If you're into this sort of thing, there's a good yarn, in recent times, coming out of Guitarist online for you, warms the cockles of my heart — How Jeff Beck and Seymour Duncan created humbucker magic with the classic JB pickup

… Jeff’s favourite Les Paul was sent to be repaired “with a volume control problem”, Seymour told us. “[But] when he got the guitar back the pickups had covers on them, and when they were removed the original ‘Patent Applied For’ pickups had been replaced with new Gibson humbuckers. I felt real bad and wanted to get Jeff a guitar with the tone of a Les Paul.

“I couldn’t afford a Les Paul so I came up with the ‘Tele-Gib’, a Tele with two humbuckers, the bridge plate cut to take the humbucker but retain the three-piece early ’50s saddles. The pickups were ’59 Patent Applied For humbuckers that came out of a broken Gibson Flying V that once belonged to Lonnie Mack. Someone had messed with the coils so I rewound them as prototypes for Jeff. He liked [the ‘Tele-Gib’], too, and started recording with it in ’74 for the Blow By Blow album.”
…

Cut the mustard, they do, these early sets. But they'll set you back a bit, today. Worth every penny, if you ask me. Vale Jeff Beck. Thank you, Seymour Duncan.
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[WillyW]

 

[Killing Floor]

Thanks! I believe it's a 2000. The white 12 string is from 1986.

At 1986 +/- a couple years there’s better than 50% chance I ran the final QC before the dealer got it. So if the bridge tugged off, kidding(!). We had really good build quality and QC was easy as a result. I would have tuned, played every possible note, checked the top for level, checked electronics maybe shim or file a saddle if needed, any neck turn or fret file. Pretty fun job for a kid.

 

[mapleglo]

At 1986 +/- a couple years there’s better than 50% chance I ran the final QC before the dealer got it. So if the bridge tugged off, kidding(!). We had really good build quality and QC was easy as a result. I would have tuned, played every possible note, checked the top for level, checked electronics maybe shim or file a saddle if needed, any neck turn or fret file. Pretty fun job for a kid.

An interesting tidbit about that white '86 twelve string. I bought it used from Reverb. It appeared that the original owner bought it, tried to play it, and then gave it up, and stored it under his bed for 40 years. There was not a scratch on it, and absolutely no wear at all. When I played it at first, I could see why. The action was horrible, which made it extremely difficult to play. So I can understand why the original owner didn't want to play it. Probably was unaware that the guitar could actually be set up. So anyway, when I got it, I took out the two shims under the bridge, tweaked the truss rod, and actually filed down the bridge seat to allow the saddle to go down a little more. It plays much better now.

 

[Pocket Dave]

2017 clip - '02 Les Paul custom shop '58 reissue (R8) straight into a mildly cranked '68 plexi clone. RBG Tres Hombres era tone inspired:

 

[Atshen]

I'm OK with having a guitarist corner here, so long as it's kept in the proper perspective. When a bass player walks into a GC, we're faced walls and walls of guitars - there are so many of them, even the support posts in the pace will have guitars hung on them, just to get a few more in. Then you ask where the basses are, and someone points you down a hallway, past the bathrooms, past the employee break room and the bulletin board with all the legal notices one it about minimum wages and such, there's a spot in the hallway, right next to where the trash goes out to the dumpster, that has a few basses in poor repair hung on the wall.

We should probably be nice and treat guitarists a little better than that, but maybe keep their expectations about where that analogy would put it, lest they get too comfortable and start edging us out of our own clubhouse.

In short, I'd like to wish all the guitarists joining us a lukewarm welcome.

I guess most people posting in this section are mainly bassists who happen to play some guitar (like myself), or guitarists who like to sub on bass or record their own basslines.

Some of us are just happy to be playing music, no matter which instrument we choose.

 

[Pocket Dave]

I guess most people posting in this section are mainly bassists who happen to play some guitar (like myself), or guitarists who like to sub on bass or record their own basslines.

Some of us are just happy to be playing music, no matter which instrument we choose.

Or #3, bass was first love decades ago before guitar became primary instrument. Now bass is primary.

 

[Jeff Scott]

It would be interesting to try a fanned fret guitar. But to me, shaping chords would be tough. Has anyone tried one?

Besides the pictured Yamamoto MS-12 (mine), I have played a couple others. Playing chords on a multiscale guitar is pretty much like that of any parallel fretted guitar. Virtually anyone who has played the MS-12 found it perfectly natural, beyond their first visual impression. A couple of folks didn't even notice that it was MS at first.

Another nice feature of the MS-12 is the arm bevel and the Manzer Wedge™. For a large jumbo bodied guitar it is very comfortable to play.

 

[lowplaces]

Nothing special, but I love this thing.

 

[Leigh Semmens]

Went to a Tommy Emmanuel Concert last night which was amazing. His support act Anthony Snape was good, too. He was playing a Cole Clark True Hybrid guitar which was amazing to play. I met him at half time and he let me have a tinkle. It played beautifully. I'd be using lighter stings, myself, but, given the energy he played with, I can understand the heavier strings.
I'm stunned that neither he, nor Tommy managed to break a string during their performances because, from long experience, I would often break a string as part of a church service and I did not use the same effort as these two!

 

[Tom Bomb]

Gratuitous gawk — thirteen Gs for one of these. Pretty as a picture!

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