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Guitars Anyone?

#62
i feel bad making this my first post on a bass website, but i just registered last night so i can ask questions about the bass i'll be assembling soon :D

anyway here are my main 3. warmoth strat with a super distortion and virtual p90, purpleheart neck with ebony fingerboard. warmoth telecaster deluxe in lake placid blue with seymour duncan JB and Jazz pickups. seagull artist portrait acoustic. and soon a jazz or p-bass. can't decide!

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#63
JaySwear said:
i feel bad making this my first post on a bass website, but i just registered last night so i can ask questions about the bass i'll be assembling soon :D

anyway here are my main 3. warmoth strat with a super distortion and virtual p90, purpleheart neck with ebony fingerboard. warmoth telecaster deluxe in lake placid blue with seymour duncan JB and Jazz pickups. seagull artist portrait acoustic. and soon a jazz or p-bass. can't decide!
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Gotta love that super distortion! What kind of amp do you use? Also, whats a virtual p90!?
 
#64
Just because a guy owns a guitar among basses does not make him a guitard.

I am refinishing one for my son, and going to make a SRV Tribute for me with the intent of having playable art. But I am pondering getting this honey for farting around...

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(once upon) a time Kurt had it in CAR....and the pointy headstock seems to fit the guitar...

And maybe even take lessons to learn how to play the silly thing.
 
#66
santucci218 said:
Gotta love that super distortion! What kind of amp do you use? Also, whats a virtual p90!?
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i definitely do love the super distortion! unfortunately i'm using a crappy 15 watt crate practice amp right now. i'm kind of debating which i want more badly; a bass or a new amp. i'm kind of thinking build the bass now because the GAS is bad, then maybe get a decent bass amp later and use it for guitar as well. i've heard people say using a bass amp for guitar won't get you the best tone possible. but at the same time, its a whole lot safer than possibly blowing my guitar amp out with a bass. kind of a bad situation haha but money is tight and my gut says black p-bass with a tortoise pickguard!

EDIT: and the virtual p90 is dimarzio's humbucking p90. p90 size, but two coils. i wouldn't know that it wasn't a true p90 if i just heard it, and it takes distortion really well. great pickup!
 
#68
M0ses said:
Markus Bass: I really like your guitars. Unusual and classy.
knigel: Before I saw the second pic, I thought YOU were responsible for that camo. Close call.

Anyway, here's my other axe. My friend had this old piece of junk Crate, and he's somewhat of an artist so he Sharpied-up the pickguard. Then he decided he didn't like playing guitar, so he pulled off all of the electronics and the bridge, threw it all away, and gave the hunk of wood to me. Why the heck he did that, I don't know, I would have loved to be able to plug this thing in. But I am worthless on guitar, so I bought a new bridge and restrung it to more closely resemble an instrument I'm more familiar with. Now I fool around on it time to time, switching between my crazay bass fingerstyle playing and strumming two-finger power chords.
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Maybe two years later, he decided he DID like playing guitar, and bought himself an Epiphone LP.
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Wow!! That's cool collection of antique books!!
 
#70
OK, here are a tiny few of the thirty or more I have, selected by a photographer as "interesting" enough to go into a national guitar calendar. These aren't my most expensive or rare instruments, but those the publisher thought were the most visually exciting to laymen (hundreds of high quality photos!):
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#72
My most prized material possessions:

- mia strat double fat strat hard tail
- mia modded hard tail strat
- mia hot rodded P
- mia jazz V (since modded w/ duncan 1/4 lb's and a tort pg)

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my guild nylon (being played by Julio Fernandez from Spyro Gyra)

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my martin hd-28 (being played by Michael Nappi)

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I have others, but they are on myspace which I can't get onto right now :mad:
 
#74
I've had a number of the nonbass instruments and do enjoy playing them (especially now that I purchased the bridge that covers the gap, a bassVI!
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) but I think I've found the ones that really speak to me.
My trusted old Epi Lester Silverburst Custom...
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And my main gigging/recording axes, a Fender VG synth strat, PRS CE Custom 24, and a weird "non-traditional" custom shop 2009 Gibby Les Paul Traditional Plus which actually has covered-pearly gates and the asymmetrical neck stock out of the factory!
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And now that I've had "pasta4lunch" ( :) ) I am gassing hard for one of those MB guitar rigs. Too bad they didn't keep the color scheme for the guitars, though.
 
#75
From the top row: Wards Airline Accoustic, '94 Guild J55 12, '92 Martin D-28,
2007 Ibanez JS1200, 2002 MIA Precision, '91 Ibanez RG70 (now sold), & a '99 MIM Stratocaster.
The JS1200 has to be the nicest playing-sounding electric I have ever owned. I love that guitar!
Except for the Airline, all of these were bought new by me.

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#77
pasta4lnch said:
that b bender is sick!
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One of those B-Bender photos took second place in the California Exposition photography competition. I don't remember which one.

What's funny is that after Mark's meticulous detailing (please look at just the spotless cleanup on them!), I never take them out of the cases again for fear of getting them dirty. I haven't touched those instruments since the shoots...years ago! :hmm:
 
#78
MarkusBass said:
Great photos and killer guitars!
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A lot of people consider Mark the best guitar photographer in the country.

I don't know if that's true or not, because I don't spend a lot of time looking at guitar pictures, but I know they're plenty good and a bunch of bigtime industry people are impressed. Some former guitar god met him on the plane to NAMM a year or two back. He saw Mark's portfolio and immediately wanted him to do a comprehensive shoot of his huge guitar collection, but it was too big a job for him at the time, or Mark was too sick to work then, I dunno.

I do know this: If you are going to eBay a reasonably valuable instrument, having him do a shoot will pay for itself several times over in improved bid price over straight snaps. I've seen this happen absolutely consistently.

If you're in NorCal, it's worth the effort to get an instrument to him for a shoot.
 
#79
I bought her yesterday of a kid on craigslist. I took the old strings off, oiled the fingerboard and neck, cleaned all the dust and schmaltz off of the PG, slapped a new set of strings on and now it's a blast to play. Fender Standard Telecaster (MIM).

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