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Guitar players corner!
- Thread starter danbones
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The latest addition to my stable...
You are unlikely to ever see another guitar like this. It was made in a small German shop where a friend of mine was their head luthier. It was completed in '94, just one year before he tragically passed away.
Exceptionally well-built from Honduran Mahagony with a flame maple top and an ebony board. Plays like a charm, and brought back many memories from the past along with quite some vooodoo of its own...
You are unlikely to ever see another guitar like this. It was made in a small German shop where a friend of mine was their head luthier. It was completed in '94, just one year before he tragically passed away.
Exceptionally well-built from Honduran Mahagony with a flame maple top and an ebony board. Plays like a charm, and brought back many memories from the past along with quite some vooodoo of its own...
This rig works well, Gibson guitar thru Genzler pedals into TT800's Subway channel powering Subway 112+115+210:
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Les Paul in Ocean Blue Satin with mini-humbuckers and SG in Alpine White with gold hardware
Mhmmm...I'm reasonably certain that Ian C. Bishop had photographs of one in his first book about Gibson.
My understanding - which may be incorrect - is that several prototypes were built and subsequently destroyed, but apparently not all of them...
This one and the last one I posted are real Fender headstocks
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A store I used to manage back in '94 had one of those in some strange shade of pink, consigment sales. Not a bad instrument, but it never sold...
Of course. While he's not all that well-known in the States, Mr. Bishop was #1 authority on anything and everything Gibson in the UK and Europe for several decades. Owned an interesting store in Denmark Street as well. A really nice and and helpful gentleman. I last saw him in '96, hope that he's enjoying retirement since I haven't heard much about him in this millennium.
His word I'd take over anyone else's apart from George Gruhn. But that's me.
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Hmmm.... Is that one of the Esprit guitars that Fender introduced to compete with Gibson Les Pauls and ES-335s?
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If yes, how do you like it?
What prompted the addition of a locking tremolo/vibrato assembly?
I'm curious because I have an Esprit Ultra "tribute*" model that was made by Eastwood. I had some modifications made to it and it is now the guitar that I usually reach for first.
*Eastwood seems to prefer using the word tribute rather than replica or recreation, given that they are not using the exact same materials and parts, partly to keep the purchase price lower.
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Saw BOC live about 45 years ago at an Oakland Day on the Green, Ozzy was there with Randy Rhoads, great show!
I found an old chorus in a trash bin, looks like it is actually broken, so now I want a chorus. Does anybody have any experience with the TC Electronic SCF Gold Chorus/Flanger? Or any alternative in the 50-100 euros price range?
