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NBD short scale on the east coast.

BlacknWhite

BlacknWhite

Jun 22, 2012
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Just finished up our yearly trip out east to Nova Scotia (25 hour drive!). Anyways while we were out there I popped into a Long & McQuade music store and they had a couple Gretsch G2220 Electromatic Junior Jet II's on display. I picked one up and fell in love with it. Nice warm bass and when you boost the tone you can get a nice grindy mid tone as well. After I played it for about an hour I was sold. The $399 CAD price tag helped as well. Very good set up. Build quality is excellent and it's also my first short scale which I am also digging.
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BlacknWhite said:
Just finished up our yearly trip out east to Nova Scotia (25 hour drive!). Anyways while we were out there I popped into a Long & McQuade music store and they had a couple Gretsch G2220 Electromatic Junior Jet II's on display. I picked one up and fell in love with it. Nice warm bass and when you boost the tone you can get a nice grindy mid tone as well. After I played it for about an hour I was sold. The $399 CAD price tag helped as well. Very good set up. Build quality is excellent and it's also my first short scale which I am also digging.
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The original singlecut design.:)
 
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I was in Nova Scotia last week, and dropped into a Long and McQuade (it was right next to our hotel, I had to walk about 50 feet to their door) - they had one of the new Gibson Les Paul Junior whatevers, which was nice, but at 1200, it stayed there - not that nice.
 
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4-fingers said:
Nice to pickup something unexpected, while on holiday to boot. What part of Nova Scotia? I grew up there and visit often. Sometimes scour the classifieds because I still have family there........never made a purchase though! Almost brought home a Gretsch hollowbody from Burlington Vermont a few years back. Enjoy!
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We were all over this year. Pretty much every where in between Halifax to Yarmouth! Our main stay was at Dollar lake provincial park though. Very beautiful part of the country.
 
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Love love love the NS! For 7-8 straight summers in the 'aughts missus and I with our then-little boys in tow would stay a week in a cottage on a peninsula between Lunenburg & Mahone Bay, venturing hither and yon. SO many happy memories!

Nice bass, BTW. Sweet score.

 
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BlacknWhite said:
I was originally going to go for the green but my daughter talked me into the red. I still love the green though. Maybe I will pick up a green one to go with my red one lol.
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Although I do have to say (and this may be a product of the TI flats I put on it), the A string was difficult to intonate. I practically have the screw all the way out of the saddle to get it in the range.
 
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lermgalieu said:
Although I do have to say (and this may be a product of the TI flats I put on it), the A string was difficult to intonate. I practically have the screw all the way out of the saddle to get it in the range.
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The intonation was already perfect when I got it so I didn't have to worry about it. The A string is pretty close to being at the end of the bridge screw though. I'm not complaining though. The more I play it the more I like it.
 
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