Guess what I did last night? (Page 4/5)
williegoat JAN 09, 03:06 PM

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Originally posted by sourmash:

Wow, good stuff. The Parker Fly is one you never see around here anymore. The Gibson I really want is the 58 Vee reissue, not the 67.

Haven't been able to find a deal on a Les Paul, but I keep looking. They go fast. If it's not a deal I don't buy it.
The SG has a serious finish check that looks like a neck crack and that scared the shop when they bought it. So the price reflected that.
Bought it and took it straight to a luthier to evaluate. He blessed it. Said it doesn't follow the grain and doesn't open like a crack when he twisted it.
He suggested blending it with nitrocellulose lacquer if it remains stable. So far no change.

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That would have scared me off.

I can't afford Gibsons so I have Epiphones and Squiers. The only expensive guitars I have are a Zum steel and a Ric.
Jonesy JAN 09, 03:31 PM
yeah looks like someone dropped it, and it cracked the finish on it.. As long as the wood is good, your fine..

My fat strat has a bunch of cracks like that where the neck meets the body, its all just the clear coat cracking, not a big deal.

Yeah the Parker is a really fun guitar, its tone is really amazing and crisp, especially with those d'addario pickups, it also has a phase shift built in so you can switch the pickup from single coil to humbucker.. and of course the sensors on the tremolo that make it sound like a hollow body acoustic (sorta, its not perfect, but sounds good) Plus being made of carbon fiber, the guitar basically weighs nothing.
Jonesy JAN 09, 03:37 PM

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Originally posted by Jake_Dragon:

Funny I have owned several guitars for the last 30 years, and while I know my share of chords and have pretty good hand coordination, it just never clicked.
I love playing the guitar but I play for my own enjoyment.

This was a close out when I got it, I like it but it still has that new guitar feel.
I need to put some wear on it and break it in.


The amp is a Fender Mustang and also is not for sale any more. The app that came with it was great until 3 months later they discontinued it.
Lucky I found a zip with a **** load of presets so I don't have to spend time ****ing with it, just search for the band name and load the effects.
Its ok for around the house and just loud enough to piss off the woman next door.



That Ibanez is tasty.. I really want to get a 7 string Ibanez.

MidEngineManiac JAN 09, 04:20 PM

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Originally posted by blackrams:


Scout Pilot first in the Army, a short time in Medivac, to UH1s, back to Scouts and then (in the Army's infinite wisdom) they sent me to RW Maintenance Test Pilot School.
As is often said, it takes a "Special" person to take a broken aircraft up to verify that it's actually broke. Didn't say that person had to be real bright.

Rams



Ya mean like diving at hydro wires to get a picture, drop the controls, grab the camera, fly with your feet, pull up and hope to god you can do it all fast enough before the airspeed bleeds off ? I brought back 4 different Cessnas with wrinkled wings <oooppppsssss>

"Not that bright" Just kinda comes natural around fligating machines.

Hold ma beer and watch this.

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Raydar JAN 09, 04:40 PM
Late to the party, but that's purdy!
I wouldn't mind owning an SG - even a copy, and I can barely play a note.

Care to share a link?

I've got a few. None really worth picturing.

A black Epiphone Les Paul Special that I bought for $60, because the electronics were "bad, someplace". (I do electronic stuff for a living, so it will be fixed.)
A Peavey Strat copy. Meh.
An ancient Univox bass. A sort-of copy of a Fender Precision.
A Kingston copy of a Hofner "violin" bass. Really a piece of crap. Got it 50 years ago. Might even be a counterfeit.

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Hudini JAN 09, 05:38 PM

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Originally posted by blackrams:


Similar to the renowned bumble bee, it shouldn't be able to fly and yet is one of Mother Nature's beautiful innovations.


Edited: Sorry Sourmash, didn't mean to hijack your thread. Back to gittars.

Rams




Nap of the earth? Ha. Try 200 feet at night at 510 knots with every Iraqi gunner trying to kill you. They called the F111 the whispering death because by the time you heard me fly over the bombs were already in flight. And you can’t run that fast.

TBH I respect helicopters and their crew. Many a downed pilot praised them for being rescued.
Jake_Dragon JAN 09, 06:54 PM
Mechanically I can finger a guitar and produce a note, I can afford to play that guitar but for the life of me I struggle to get music out of it.

The music I am chasing doesn't come from a guitar, but its the medium that I can afford.
The closest I can come to music I enjoy is when I start my car and listen to the symphony of the moving parts. That exhaust note.
For the life of me I wish I could play in that band. I just can't afford those instruments so I play with those I can.

If close is all I can get then that is what I will continue, but chasing something is where the real music is at.
sourmash JAN 09, 07:12 PM
You flew F111, Hudini?

Raydar, I look for cheap set-neck guitars for the $60 to 150 range that look like Gibsons. The goal is to make wall hangers that fool the eye.

I can't play more than a few songs, poorly. Can't justify expensive real ones. I think $600 is the most I've paid for a real one but it's worth more. Ibanez bases from the 90s made in Fujigen plant in Japan were what I looked for but they're all gone now. The SR800 was a favorite I had.

That SG, man, just feel lucky to have seen it first or I wouldn't have one. It's the one I was looking at when some guy walked in saying a worker called him to come look at it, since it just came out of pawn. The crack looks gnarled, but doesn't appear to be wood cracked.

My favorite pawn shop for Guitar finds just had an Epiphone Explorer I wanted, set neck, but was 330. Sold today I guess. Gone. Might get lucky if someone did a lay away and loses it. Price will be cheaper.

I've got a Saber style Ibanez project going.

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williegoat JAN 09, 07:33 PM
Back around 1968, I bought a Japanese 335 copy, a Mayfair DeLuxe at a shop in Daytona for about $125. My parents loaned me the money and it took a few years to pay it off. I traded it away about 10 years later. That was a mistake, it was a good guitar.

Here is a picture from 1971 with my grandfather holding the guitar. That is a 16 year old Willie tuning the 12-string.
maryjane JAN 09, 07:41 PM
did your grandfather play?