Same company?
I also have a fixed length brown cobra, which was to match a koa Taylor T5. I sold the T5, but kept 2 T3/Bs and use it on them.
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Same company?
I also have a fixed length brown cobra, which was to match a koa Taylor T5. I sold the T5, but kept 2 T3/Bs and use it on them.
Jen made both of mine... Belly scales set to guitar length, Back scales set to bass length. My Starfires need a longer strap, so they will get Eastern Rattler some day
You guys into Jackson? Every time I check their site I get an email for 10% off any guitar.
Just popping in to say that my current ideal electric guitar has a mid 60s SG body & Melody Maker headstock bound & diamonded like an LP Custom’s, chonky Schroeder OS bridge, string through with the string holes set far enough back that most string sets don’t need to be trimmed and string bends need to go physically far across the frets to go just a little up in pitch, 24 3/4” scale, 27 tiny mandolin frets with the fingerboard terminating at the same place on the body that a 60s SG’s 22 fret fingerboard terminates, fat Spanish cedar neck through with maple wings, wenge fingerboard (no idea about how compatible these woods are when they expand/contract), no inlays, and a telecaster bridge pickup with a P90 slammed right up against it with a switch for ser/parallel when they’re both on and also an L1K OMG switch push-push on the tone knob. I’d tune it up to A standard.
I don’t know if I’d call it a Piccolo Guitar or a Long Scale Electric Requinto.
that is all.
carry on.
I don’t know if I’d call it a Piccolo Guitar or a Long Scale Electric Requinto.
that is all.
carry on.
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Old American ones are beyond nice, IMO. I used one on an album recently, and it held its own against a bunch of fairly expensive vintage pieces. Joy to play as well.
What their stuff is like nowadays, I have zero clue.
Took the delay for a spin earlier. Pretty bloody sleek, happy to say. Satisfied customer
So much in it, a dozen engines — including a reversed delay
— limitless possibilities. Even as a knockabout delay, it's ripping it up. Then there's the editor. Got that running too. Was a little finicky. I'm no expert with these things so it's good to get some runs on the board — good for the soul soul soul soul soul ….Not fussing too much, at this stage, with the editor, steering clear of expert mode until I get a better sense of what each preset, and each engine, can do. But even in basic mode it's very tweakable and varied, and it's not hard to save presets whenever you luck out with a flavour, letting the magic happen.
It's a flighty beast — will take some taming. Didn't break the bank. Looks good for bass of course, and even synth, being, as it is, a true stereo creature. (The wavedrum's clearly set for a session just around the corner
) A trippy little time-based toy it is, to be sure.
It’s been a minute but they always felt fast and easy playing. I’d go play one. They are easy to find at the box stores.
It’s a thing. Teles keep you honest. You can bond with a Tele.
1974 clip of Bugs Henderson on a Gibson semi-hollow-body ES-345. He was hugely influential on my guitar playing, as was bassist, David Stanley. Used to go see these guys in local clubs almost weekly as a kid.
Guys, I know this may seem a bit amiss, but I have been a contributor to this thread and I really need to share this somewhere (Don't worry. There's guitar content):
What a lot of you (probably all of you) don't know is I have been very ill for a very long time. We're getting down to it, now. The funeral is planned and paid for and I've made my peace. I'm ready.
When it became apparent, a few years back, that I was coming into the home stretch, I decided to start selling off my guitars so that SWMBO wouldn't be left with that albatross around her neck.
There are some real vultures out there (offering me $900 for a '79 P-Bass all original, when they were selling on REVERB for $2,600?). May they rot. Greedy, good-for-nothing opportunists who would screw an old lady out of her grocery money, if given a chance.
ANY time I've sold an instrument, I've done so with a mind toward someone, loving it as much as I do and getting some good use and inspiration out of it.
As is often the case, the world doesn't seem to see things the same way I do. So, about a year ago, I started giving away certain instruments to people who would show them some love.
I had a student who (for some reason) loved my SR300E. It became his, as soon as he voiced that opinion.
Fast forward to this past week:
I asked SWMBO to ship out two instruments for me. She did it and Thursday, they arrived at their new home.
The only bit more of a set-up I'll give is: The bass went to my student and the guitar to his friend.
What a lot of you (probably all of you) don't know is I have been very ill for a very long time. We're getting down to it, now. The funeral is planned and paid for and I've made my peace. I'm ready.
When it became apparent, a few years back, that I was coming into the home stretch, I decided to start selling off my guitars so that SWMBO wouldn't be left with that albatross around her neck.
There are some real vultures out there (offering me $900 for a '79 P-Bass all original, when they were selling on REVERB for $2,600?). May they rot. Greedy, good-for-nothing opportunists who would screw an old lady out of her grocery money, if given a chance.
ANY time I've sold an instrument, I've done so with a mind toward someone, loving it as much as I do and getting some good use and inspiration out of it.
As is often the case, the world doesn't seem to see things the same way I do. So, about a year ago, I started giving away certain instruments to people who would show them some love.
I had a student who (for some reason) loved my SR300E. It became his, as soon as he voiced that opinion.
Fast forward to this past week:
I asked SWMBO to ship out two instruments for me. She did it and Thursday, they arrived at their new home.
The only bit more of a set-up I'll give is: The bass went to my student and the guitar to his friend.
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Bugs is cool, his band actually played an open mic set at a joint just down the street from me a couple of decades ago as a promo for show they were doing the next night. No one wanted to play before them, so my band did it. My lead up:
"You want the blues? We'll give you the blues."
He and his bandmates were very gracious and they totally got my weirdo schtick. Good times.
So sorry to hear about your health, but happy to hear you are giving away your guitars. I may end up doing the same at some point. I've been selling off some of my gear and I'm thinking about donating some guitars, basses and amps to the local School of Rock or other music organizations. We'll see.
Wishing you and your family the very best.
Wishing you the very best of luck. Proud I am to have known you in this lifetime, even if only through this forum.
Rock on, brother, here and in eternity.
All the best Michael, I maybe relatively new here, but I have come to appreciate your content. I hope that you can find good forever homes for your beloved instruments. I feel for you, and your family. It's hard watching a loved one fade from life when there is stuff all you can do anything about it. I said farewell to the love of my life 3 years ago.
I am truly sorry for your loss. I don't want to get too weepy about things, but I am glad I am leaving before she does. I could not imagine my life without her and I certainly wouldn't be able to watch her fade away.
