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

when you're trying to justify your bandsaw purchase to your spouse

i just need to register a big fat no to the placement of that strap button.

Hahah. I love that it has 5 offers. I’m sure just dudes throwing out $1 offers to mess with this dude

there had been some interest in revstars upthread, found this one if anyone is interested, these look to have replacement pups (seymour duncan? can't quite see) but something about this finish, the black pickguard, and the zebra pups really looks nice to me (i've seen the same model with traditional chrome pickup covers and i like this better)

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Yamaha/Rs-620-Solid-Body-Electric-Guitar-117679188.gc

Owned:

60s Martin OO mahogany
Lowden dreadnought from the 90s
New standard issue Telecaster

Own:

30s Martin O mahogany, best guitar I've ever played
Sigma duplicate of the same for live performance and insurance
A Fender Bass VI, not the original but the late 90s "Baritone Jaguar" reissue
A replica of an E-350 made by a Japanese company called Archtop Tribute

Want list:

A Wee Lowden although the stigma of it being "the Ed Sheeran guitar" is strong

"archtop tribute" is an amazing display of japanese brand naming

30s Martin O mahogany, best guitar I've ever played

dogg...this is a serious guitar, bet it's beautiful

Yeah. My first guitar was my stepfather's OO, I sold it when I was 21 or so for the Lowden (the Martin wasn't so playable), but then in 2015 I came upon a 1936 O at a guitar shop in Santa Monica and it was thousands of dollars but it sounded so good and my partner agreed and he had a rare moment of "encouraging me to buy gear" and since then it's been my staple studio guitar

I played it on a session at Magic Shop before it shut down and the engineer Kabir Herndon said from the control room "uh that is the most beautiful sounding acoustic I've ever heard"

A friend is a professional oboist and I said something once about a guitar being expensive - like 'thousands of dollars' expensive - and she laughed at my concept of expensive.

the economics of professional orchestra instruments are such a mindfuck

My aunt, a cellist, was once robbed at knifepoint at an ATM in Boston. As she handed over the $250 contents of her checking account, she said she had a tough time not laughing with joy and relief, because the thief had no apparent interest in the $25,000 cello sitting next to her on the sidewalk.

yeah my good friend who majored in classical double bass performance and now teaches jr. high orchestra has one his parents got him way back in the day, they had bought his sister a decent car and he opted for the double bass which cost as much as his sister's car

i honestly had no idea! just checked out some oboe prices O__o

all its doing is making me feel justified in buying more guitars lol

Over the past twenty years, the "box made in China, instrument finished domestically" assembly-line model has become more accepted for orchestral string instruments. Generally, new instruments are of much higher quality and are cheaper than they used to be. Also, modern violas in general are typically better quality than historical violas due to small-but-significant improvements in their construction. I don't know if the same is true for double basses but I'd assume it is also true

I want to say that in 2000 my friend who got a full ride music scholarship paid... $12k for a trombone? It was a number that blew my mind but it was pretty much the requirement if he was going to study the instrument.

I think my friend's double bass is Czech (? maybe, def Eastern European) late 1800s, he had to have it disassembled and reglued a while back, insured for 25k iirc

60th Anniversary Jaguar announced by Fender - binding & blocks, matching headstock

https://www.creamcitymusic.com/fender-60th-anniversary-jaguar-rosewood-mystic-lake-placid-blue/

ohhhh that looks nice

This new silver sparkle Squier Jag is better looking

https://i.imgur.com/cr5MaVS.jpg

i'm a little confused as to why the 60th anniversary is basically a '66 jag, not a '62 jag.

My cynical guess is that they're repurposed Troy Van Leeuwen signature necks.

agree the Squier kills it in the looks dept

Don't love matching headstocks on Fenders for whatever reason, but man sparkly silver is tempting.

Is that an Andertons-only model? Not seeing it anywhere else.

the shape of this guitar is so hilarious

https://reverb.com/item/32823228-wood-grain-semi-hollow-guitar-deb-luthier-build

oak top!

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.