Guitars... what you've got / what you want

lot of red flags on that one

"slightly off-center intentionally"
It's enough to make me give up guitar.

There is no other guitar quite like this in existence.

True, but the same could be said of a large number of completely hideous guitars.

LOL That’s what it would look like if I made a guitar.
Not pretty.

re:off-center intentionality, there’s a long thread about Echopark Guitars and their dogshit quality for $5k and the guy’s excuse is basically that it makes his guitars more unique and hand built to have the pickups not lined up with the bridge or strings.

I've been playing zelda breath of the wild a lot lately and that guitar looks a lot like a korok to me

xp 195 pages?? lol i can't wait to dive into this.

When I bought the Guild S-300 I fully expected to hate the pickups (late-70s Seymour Duncan humbuckers), and I was right. They’re not objectively terrible, but they’re not anything like what I need.

I got such a good deal on the guitar I don’t mind spending kinda stupid money on the pickups. My amp is very full-voiced & midrangey & I think something that has a scooped-midrange sound would be a good compliment. I’m really leaning toward the Lollar gold foils.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttNvGtxqe_4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOtjJRXbv_c

But I wonder if they’ll be just too idiosyncratic & limiting.

I’m also talking with a Canadian maker (& I really like the idea of supporting Canadian craft) & he suggested this combo, which sounds more traditional but also incredibly sweet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McbiwX4jSgs

Friggin demos, maaan. These guys make everything sound good. (Andy from pro guitar shop has sold me so many terrible pedals because he has a particular genius for bringing out the absolute best in them.) My playing is … er … not on that level, obv, & my results will be … different from these monsters’.

that last demo with the MJS pickups sounds great

re:off-center intentionality, there’s a long thread about Echopark Guitars and their dogshit quality for $5k and the guy’s excuse is basically that it makes his guitars more unique and hand built to have the pickups not lined up with the bridge or strings.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, January 27, 2022 7:03 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

i am slowly chipping away at the 195 page thread and discovered the guitar that listed new for $7K with what is the funniest pickguard i have ever seen

https://reverb.com/item/16021489-echopark-el-cabillo-2017-aged-pelham-blue

If they're full sized humbuckers I'd look at something like a big Firebird pickup - gold foils are pretty midrangey to me, if you want more scooped Firebirds sound like big single coils.

https://magnetodesignlab.com/fbh63

https://www.creamery-pickups.co.uk/creamery-humbucker-sized-firebird-style-pickup.html

also this one
https://www.oilcitypickups.co.uk/product-page/winterizer-ii

what I'm really saying is that I want a guitar with Firebird pickups. Or one with the Novak Jazzmaster-sized Thunderbird bass pickups.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMTwxQ0O6ds

https://www.instagram.com/p/CZRwNgfsBjh/?utm_medium=copy_link

From what I understand you can move the pickups wherever you want, they’re magnetically attached to the body.

lol that's some sharper image shit

I can’t believe the body is comfortable to play sitting but maybe there’s enough edge on the contour to not feel like a cookie sheet is digging into your thigh.

Wooden body with an inlaid metal plate and moveable pickups could be cool.

oops i just put in an order for this pink thing. excited, but it's okay if u hate it

https://andertons-productimages.imgix.net/443559-0374581556-Full.jpeg

Shell pink is almost always cool.

I want a VI in my collection, but I know how little I'd actually use it in the end.

yeah, there is that. part of my thinking was to get the ltd edition colour just in case i don't keep it forever. but always wanted a pink offset anyhow

Staytrem has their wider bridges (for easier intonation) on backorder - I ordered and they sent an invoice two weeks later so the backup isn't too bad. I still need to get mine to a tech for the bridge swap and different strings.

that pink VI is AWESOME and I want one, but since I have a Fender VI and a half-built Mustang VI I'm designing myself, I can't justify it.

This might be the new low in “relic” guitars

https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarcirclejerk/comments/sjf17b/should_i_buy_it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Damn, I have a guitar that got a huge split just like that.
But like a fool I got my dad to glue it back up again in his workshop.
Imagine what it'd be worth if I kept it the same way.

wtf is that lol

hahaha what Mitchell custom shop? Isn't Mitchell just budget shit like $100 learner guitars?

i can custom shop my acoustics like that by letting them sit in the arizona sun for a summer afternoon

That’s a solid joke by the Guitar Center crew, hope it’s hanging next to the $10k Gibson relic.

ha, didn't realize that Mitchell was some budget brand, clearly a joke, a good one though

Speaking of relics, GC near me is already blowing out a Chrissie Hynde signature Telecaster but the neck is a weird shape, it’s very thin at the nut and then chunky by the 12th fret.

huh. I really like the way those look but I've never played one. I did notice that one sat for a really long time at a guitar shop near me.

ha, didn't realize that Mitchell was some budget brand, clearly a joke, a good one though

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, February 3, 2022 12:35 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah well played

When the weather clears up I'm trading an Akai S950 and S612 for an Eastman T64 hollowbody that looks almost exactly like this

https://bestguitarsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/936853_ebay.jpg

One step closer to forming a Slowdive cover band.

https://reverb.com/item/38441116-jg-1092p-1960s-grandma-s-couch?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=38441116

I'm trading an Akai S950 and S612 for an Eastman T64 hollowbody

Nice! Eastman semihollows are fantastic - I was just talking to a really good luthier about how they give 335s a run for their money

My Yaz record didn't pan out.

at least it was real

fuuuuck… I may finally be turning into a strat guy

So I just realized my 50s Martin O-18 is actually an O-15. The 5 stamp really looks like an 8 and I had to zoom in super close on a photo of it. I started to wonder when I realized I couldn't find any dark-stained 50s O-18s and then someone told me the O-18 always had a light stain.

I play a sea foam green musicvox spaceranger in new standard tuning as my main electric. Can never get it playing quite the way I want but there’s history to it (musicvox guitars are ridiculous looking and often get used as prop guitars for faux-60’s kitsch media, and mine was) so I can’t just sell the thing. I do love the look of it, though, and it’s amusing that pretty much any music I play on it confuses people. Once I get a main electric I like more (probably a MIM Tele or Strat, we’ll see) I’ll string it up in Ostrich tuning or something (which I have a really beat up sub-entry-level Epiphone LP strung up in right now). Mostly I’ve been playing my Emperador acoustic tenor guitar, which is a very solid guitar in the fashion of Martin, who I believe ended up suing Emperador out of existence for hewing too close to the mold.

I love my O-15M so much

Today I was chatting acoustic guitars with a friend and advised her to get one of those extremely suburban Sigma guitars, they really are fantastic for the price, you kinda have to drive to the Casio dealer-style music shop to find them tho

went to a guitar store where my friend works and played $6500 Martin dread it's new but a painstaking recreation of an old model, torrified wood blah blah blah....holy shit that thing just sang, just gorgeous it was like in a chord every string had it's own place and clarity. sustained forever. I almost wish I never even saw it.

and it's not just the price tag fooling me cuz I had just played a $3500 Martin that was fine but I wouldn't trade it for my Yamaha

fuuuuck… I may finally be turning into a strat guy

Next stop, leather fedora and bracelets.

Jealous of the mid-century O-15, ngl. I have seen some very good vintage and recent Martins out there, but have not seen the one that would tempt me to empty my children's college funds to buy. Yet.

Fwiw I don't much like playing guitar, but when I do, my current acoustic workhorse is a midrange 000 copy made under the Recording King label (old brand once associated with Montgomery Ward, but at this point it's just a decal, not a romantic storied legacy). It works fine.

Next stop, leather fedora and bracelets.

My first guitar was an early 90s Strat copy. Fixed it up recently and replaced the dodgy pickups with Warman Vintage single coils. Sounds great. I would say to anyone, if you have some old budget Strat copy lying around in disrepair, don't necessarily write it off, fix it up and put good pickups in and it might sound way better than you'd expect.

I didn't have to plug it in but has anyone ever played an Ed O'Brien strat with the Fernandez sustainer?

kind of intrigued, but I was also really taken with the neck which is apparently a 56 neck, it's almost like a middle ground between a newer slim C and an old school vintage Tele/P bass baseball bat neck, felt really comfortable

Spottie - do you know anything about it?

I've played a friend's a few times - the neck feels really good, it's a V-shape on the thicker side, satin finish. The Sustainer is more useful than the E-Bow that sits in a drawer.

The pickups, though, always sound kind of dull to me. It's hard to put my finger on it but they're kind of flat and not zingy. Because of the way it works, swapping options are limited - the bridge has to be a single-coil sized humbucker of some kind, the neck has to be the Sustainer pickup.

Would something like this pedal do exactly what a sustainer pickup can plus a lot else besides?

https://www.tcelectronic.com/product.html?modelCode=P0EBA