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

I keep trying to escape from playing the guitar but it keeps pulling me back.

Like, I spent most of the last 10 years on mandolin, bouzouki, percussion, drums, bass.

Anything but guitar. My town has a glut of guitar players. Like 62.5% of middle-aged white guys can play guitar. In two phone calls I can find four guitarists who play better than me. So why bother?

Then I recently had a gig where what made sense was guitar (in terms of keys and logistics). So I was like, oh yeah, I guess I can do that... And now I find myself sneaking up into the attic to get amps and pedals I'd forgotten about.

_Mars Volta dude did have a pretty sweet Ibanez signature model about ten years ago IIRC

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, November 9, 2021 10:24 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink_


If I had $3K, I'd buy Omar's EBMM model: https://www.music-man.com/instruments/guitars/mariposa🕸

_Mars Volta dude did have a pretty sweet Ibanez signature model about ten years ago IIRC

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, November 9, 2021 10:24 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink_


If I had $3K, I'd buy Omar's EBMM model: https://www.music-man.com/instruments/guitars/mariposa🕸

Yeah that sunburst natural finish is really pretty

Not a big fan of the Ernie Ball headstock but appreciate stuff like this and the St. Vincent where they just aren't recycling old designs like Fender etc

Reminds me a little of this sexy beast

https://destroyallguitars.com/collections/197-versoul/products/2419-versoul-raya-6

LOL

https://www.instagram.com/p/CWJHOEbJWJ3/

the ultimate boomer guitar and amp

Awfully close to

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdVjkvzVMAAfdFI.jpg

Haha

one of the weirdest things to me is dudes who list the same guitar on craigslist for months and months, maybe even years and never once drop the price. one that i always see actually re-posted it as MORE expensive recently. so odd.

it is weird. and then they often get mad when you throw a lower (but still fair) offer out there lol.

there was this guy who had a squier strat painted like the cover of "in the court of the crimson king" in glow-in-the-dark paint (fucking horrifying), i think that thing was on there for 3 years

oh man i've lived where i've lived for almost 4.5 years now the same person has had two shitty partscasters listed on CL the entire time.

wangcaster is perfection omg

like it seems like a prop from a david lynch movie or something.

Joe Bonamassa's BonerCaster

Ideal for Bonamasturbating

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/static/article/news/7/75787_0_wide_ver1528919807.jpg@642

Rudy Giuliani shreds

Vic Reeves farts

Rescued a 1986 Fender Japan P Bass from a hacky 5 string conversion (which made it very cheap at the local pawn shop):
https://i.imgur.com/TpIFzbq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Z0hZVQh.jpg

nice work!
every time a 5 string bass turns into a 4 string bass an angel gets its wings

yes thank you for saving that poor instrument

Does anyone have any experience with KLOS travel guitars? I have had enough times lately that I wanted to bring a guitar on a trip that I thought it might be worth getting a decent travel guitar, and most seem like shit.

Good luck with that.

I don't mind the Martin backpacker but I remain skeptical of removing a neck and unstretching/stretching strings as a strategy.

Would (personally) rather bring a mandolin or ukulele, as I'm pretty sure I've said before

I'm not a P bass appreciator but gee it plays well. A bit red and shiny for me tho. Glad to sort it out!

Looks great how much did you get it for if you don’t mind me asking? Do you plan on flipping it or keeping as a player ?

I'm undecided because I have that nice SX Jazz upthread. Between the purchase and the parts I had to buy, I'm in it for a bit over $300 AUD, or about $220 USD - you can see why I jumped at it.

Wow that’s a good deal

How did the person who did the conversion to 5 string even think it was going to work? The outer strings wouldn't even have been playable past the 5th fret and the sound from the pickups would have been garbage.

Well, it worked fine in mechanical terms - five slot nut, five saddle bridge, thick string tuned to low B. Spacing between the strings would have been 3/4 the P bass spacing, so just a little tighter than a J bass, altho the strings were sitting pretty close to the edge. I bet the pickup wouldn't have been great but it would have been OK - I mean Musicmaster basses used a 6-pole pickup for 4 strings, and this was 8 poles for 5 strings. It had been played a lot so I'm sure it was perfectly functional.

I am 100% supportive of the standard for 4-string bass being BEAD

If you’re playing the G string, why aren’t you just playing guitar? (Actual heroes like Mike Watt exempt from this)

i don't understand that at all tbh

For me a low B is unplayably floppy unless it's on a very well-thought-out instrument - scale length, string gauge, bridge, saddles, string spacing, etc. It is not something to trifle with. Only the gods of bass should be messing about with those frequencies. It is not an area for dabblers and DIYers.

The lowest note on your instrument is the strongest possible statement. If it's not a really focused and intentional statement, you will struggle to be coherent in that register. imo.

But because I don't really have anything below the low E in my musical vocabulary, I'm probably the wrong person to opine on this.

i think it would be intriguing to try it out, but i have 35 years of accumulated muscle memory and reflexes i'm not going to take the time to unlearn them now. like there are 12 notes in a scale and I know where to find them on regular tuning.

also my current band is a lot of improv and it's helpful to be able to look at the guitarists' hands if they are sudden switching to a new root and just know that that same note is in the same place on my bass, i think using an alt tuning would make that really hard.

drop D i find useful in some cases but i've never really gotten a handle on low B when i've tried five strings, have thought about getting one of those hipshot drop d lever tuners on the E.

ums, hah, I had this exact experience (trying to read hands, failing because of an unexpected tuning) just last week.

It was something that we hadn't rehearsed and I was all like, "nah, you'll be fine, it's just a blues," bla y bla. When the tune started I could tell that something was wrong, couldn't tell what. So I just got out of the situation as quickly as possible and went on to something that we both knew.

Later, it turned out to be shared fuckuppery: I had been too confident that he'd pick it up. He had forgotten to retune after the previous song. Hence, trainwreck.

Fortunately it was just our normal bar where we play all the time and it was forgiven.

“you are witnesses to the birth … of a new Spinal Tap”

some cool guitars in this thread, pity they are all obsolete now

https://www.instagram.com/p/CXEfClYMXtO/?utm_medium=share_sheet

I've always admired his Ibanez JEMs (the ones with the splatter-paint or flower designs and "monkey grip"). This is depressing. I do like the weird fretwork though.

xp Steve Vai looking like a cross between Tiger King and John McAfee.

my daughter (11) has expressed some interest in playing guitar so i ordered her a stratocaster mini, gets pretty good reviews, i'll have my buddy's shop set it up, hope she gets into it :)

https://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/squier-mini-stratocaster-maple-fingerboard-limited-edition-electric-guitar/l70498000001000?cntry=US&cur=USD&utm_content=L70498000001000--Squier+Mini+Stratocaster+Maple+Fingerboard+Limited+Edition+Electric+Guitar+Olympic+White&source=3WWRWXGS&gclid=CjwKCAiA78aNBhAlEiwA7B76p6rOIKpzOa4DkoP49e0XIYOqV_PHSAletP3w8rj_S07nF-uciImTEhoCCK0QAvD_BwE

(there was local one on craigslist but she doesn't like pink)

not guitars but I just bought my 7 year old a set of electronic drums for christmas which honestly I'm pretty excited about playing with at some point

those are such a godsend for parents

those squier minis are super fun. hopefully she digs it and sticks with it.

she's been taking violin for a couple years so that should help in terms of picking it up, she's been messing around with my guitars more lately, kids love tremolo bars

so fun! i really hope she likes it.

Heck yes! Rivolta just announced a line without those stupid edge-to-edge fingerboard inlays. Now I can start saving up for one.

https://eastwoodguitars.com/products/rivolta-mondo-combinata

May be trading my strat toward a really nice 84 MIJ tele tomorrow. Friend's shop is selling it.

https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--tUcJyKd7--/f_auto,t_supersize/v1639339458/dh32gsez7z83bzv8n7xh.jpg