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

I bought a SA-15D a while back and it’s a MESS

― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, August 26, 2021 6:53 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have been coveting one of these, but I haven't pulled the trigger precisely because I suspect it would be a lot of trouble. Especially since I'd rather put higher output pickups in but then I'd have to probably plug the holes for feedback. If I ever get "fuck you money" I'll buy one just for the look and have it customized to the hilt.

The affordable nu-Gretsches I played felt awkward to me, but that's probably just personal preference, nothing against them.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, August 26, 2021

There are a couple of models in the Electromatic and Streamline lines (including the one Kim linked - congrats!) with thinner bodies. ime even though it's only a quarter or half-inch depending it makes a noticeable difference.

*Streamliner - ty autocorrect

xxp the SA-15D isn't *intrinsically* a mess, Yamaha make wonderful quality instruments and guitars are no exception, even in the late 60s. However this one was not treated well. It should look like this:
https://i.imgur.com/QrFuoW0.jpg
but when I got it, it looked like this:
https://i.imgur.com/0fMORcL.jpg
so I've ordered a bunch of parts and set to work:
https://i.imgur.com/F0A4MAX.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/oT795fa.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/P4MgIPC.jpg
but we've got a long long way to go. Managed to source tuners, pickups, pickup rings, a bridge ... the refinishing will be the worst though.

Is it a set neck? Hope it's not warped if it is (not that finding a replacement for a bolt-on would actually be "easy"). But assuming it's not, a resurrection of a guitar this cool should be a fun project.

Well, it’s a bolt neck … but someone has glued it in with some unremovable epoxy kinda thing. Didn’t even occur to me that anyone would be that stupid, but here we are.
But I am looking forward to the end product if I can get it right.

So today I bought a new Gibson Flying V (to be delivered later). This is the guitar I’ve always coveted. Once a sales guy at Guitar Center told me it’s a bad choice for a first guitar, but that made me want one even more. Can’t wait to get it. It’s the model with a natural finish.

I’ve heard people claim that the classical-style seated position of a Flying V is actually easier on beginners’ hands and wrists?

great fretboard access too

Yes to both! I’m sort of counting on that. I may not try to play heavy rock right away, and playing certain other styles that way won’t look as funny so I’m not worried.

I have a Gretsch Electromatic. I love playing it but the components are pretty weak. My volume knob needs to be tightened occasionally and I replaced the bridge with a Tru-Arc. Probably should just get the thing set up professionally

new squier paranormal series looks pretty fun
https://www.fender.com/en-US/squier-series/paranormal/
loving that thinline tele with the jazzmaster pickups. first one in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLLPZUa04Mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czj-hp0v5kI

I think an offset telecaster with the aesthetics of a PRS would be the ugliest guitar that I can imagine that wasn't specifically designed with ugliness in mind.

O__o

https://reverb.com/item/44583264-wayne-charvel-hydra-tax-cab-yellow

This is what I am working on now.

http://www.ysw-tct.com/temp/img/20210922003720_2495138204_8698_1.png

(xp) Uhhh... I occasionally GIS 'weird guitar' just to see what comes up and that's a regular.

ah, that was my first time seeing it. whacky as hell.

current wishlist:

– 70s guild s-100 (would take one of the 90s re-issues too)
– ~70s Tele Deluxe natural
– SG standard, any year really, any color but cherry
– Jazzmaster - would love a j mascis or troy van luween sig model

― Spottie, Friday, May 28, 2021 3:18 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

i made a purchase and knocked one off my wish list (kinda):
https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--lsLcB6Yq--/f_auto,t_supersize/v1631256350/fvnk2fdsulqvjpnccvw8.jpg
https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--PMRyhsM3--/f_auto,t_supersize/v1631256350/yh4wjshf7oebg6sjqpdv.jpg

the 70s tele deluxes are going for 4k+ at the moment but i found this 1990 MIJ '75 vintage reissue for much less.

DAAAAAMMMMMMMMNNNNNN
what a PEACH

Beautiful

v. nice!!

These Julian Lage Collings guitars are awesome looking. Good lord they cost nearly 7 grand...but they are cool.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net%2FfCnsRvQXGGPzBJT8QoGRDN-1200-80.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

Thought it was cool that Bill Collings was giving Kristin Hersh her acoustics until he died. All that dentist money was being put to good use.

check this out, very interesting les paul

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/msg/d/minneapolis-gibson-les-paul-recording/7383648190.html

I used to be in a band with someone who used a Les Paul Recording bass. It sounded insane, like combining the best aspects of a Thunderbird and a Rickenbacker.

You see clips of Les Paul playing his old weekly gig, those particular models are generally what he used.

thats a sweet looking guitar

I watched a video on the history of the LP Recording, and the original models had an XLR jack on the upper edge so he could plug in a microphone on a flexible microphone into it

7. [not shown] early-00s CIJ JM-66 Jazzmaster. Currently disassembled but will eventually become a "72 Jazzmaster Deluxe" with the CuNiFe WRHB pickup reissues.

I finished this! Tell Me about the Fender Jazzmaster (MOD: Also Jaguar, etc.)

Sick. Weird seeing a jazz w chrome buckers but it looms really slick!

*looks

It’s the classic Sonic Youth “Jazzblaster” config

Ah cool, not a fan of SY so that would explain my ignorance on it.

here's a real boomer fever dream, custom guitar "inspired" by classic muscle cars

https://www.schellingercustomguitars.com/custom-guitars/car-themed/

well, I guess Fender stole all their finishes from auto makers so ...

My latest (and oldest) project - I rebuilt a short scale bass neck for 6 strings and I've just bought a used Squier Mustang Bass body, so I can make a Mustang VI. I did the neck in 2009 and the body arrived this week ...
https://i.imgur.com/EcQiHjA.jpg

The Bilt Relevator with built in delay/fuzz/etc. seems cool as hell... if only it wasn't $4k.

what exactly is good about built-in effects?

Nothing special that you can't do with pedals but having them built into the guitar is fun, like the old Vox guitars that had a distortion/treble boost built in.

Intriguing - I like short-scale basses a lot. One of my longtime / frequent collaborators* has a weird frankenhybrid bass with a Telecaster body and a snakeskin finish.

* with whomst I have been playing with for thirty-mumble years, like, since high school

I started out building it at a time when there were no current Bass VI models in the Fender lineup, but since that they've had 3 Fender models and a Squier. And I bought one of the Fenders in Tokyo for, like, $600, so the point of making my own one faded. But I always wanted to finish it. The neck is really narrow (Jazz width) like the original VIs, and that makes playing it a whole different experience (I had it strung up on a different body one time).

I just picked up an old black on black Hondo Deluxe 830 P bass ripoff for $150. It's interest, there's a chip on the side and you can see it's a plywood body, but the neck is really solid for being obviously beat to shit and not set up for like 20 years. it's a string through bridge that's surprisingly heavy and well made (some people on talkbass.com say it's a Kramer bridge) and the pickups are supposedly early DiMarzios, tuners are also really good and some say are unbranded Gotoh (who knows if it's true). The pickguard is warped by the jack, but overall I think this could be a fun bass if I take it to my friend's shop and get it worked on a bit

it's this model except black

https://reverb.com/item/41520314-hondo-deluxe-series-830-bass-1980s-metallic-blue

I don't know if this was "lawsuit" bass but it really couldn't be more of a clone

Laura Lee from Khruangbin plays a $150 SX bass (although contrary to myth it's not all stock, it has upgraded pickups).

Those most likely are Dimarzios. They sold a bunch to Japan back in the 80s for import guitars, you would even see them on Ibanez. I had a late 70s 'fretless' pre-lawsuit P-bass that had old Dimarzios. Would not doubt on the Gotoh hardware either, there just wasn't as many people making this stuff back then.

Usually the headstock was the thing that Fender would sue upon as that is what the trademark is tied as I understand. I had an 80s Fernandes stock that had a 'pre-lawsuit' Fender style headstock. Same as that P-Bass, it was shaped just like a Fender. That Fernandes was nice but the neck was really crazy thin and I gave it to the guitarist in my old band. Sold the bass back in the summer.

Fernandes strat...

I kind of like the Oldsmobile Cutlass guitar fwiw
https://www.schellingercustomguitars.com/oldsmobile-cutlass-custom-car-themed-guitar/

Seeing this "Guitars ..." thread right under the "Cardiacs" thread briefly made me think someone had bumped a Dwight Yoakam thread.

Guitars, Cardiacs and l0u1s jagg3r music

lol