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

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xp True that can be the case, but it's basically any acoustic vibration which makes the coils move and hence generates a signal responding to the sound. Potting reduces the coil's ability to move, but sometimes it can be that the pickup and pickguard are rubbing against each other, or the pickup cover is slightly loose. On Jaguars the claws are notorious for vibrating and that makes pickups microphonic too.
Kinmans are built so differently to a JM single coil that it's very likely they'd be unaffected by whatever is goosing the existing pickup. Apparently they sound great too, and even a shielded JM is a sea of noise so it's a good choice regardless!

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 12 January 2023 06:01 (one year ago) link

Love that Elliot Easton SG, looks a lot like the Rosetta Tharpe SG which I always coveted (except that one has three pickups).

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:18 (one year ago) link

Brittany Howard has a great Inverness Green SG Custom (I think I saw an interview where she said Gibson gave it to her after she appeared on SNL or the Tonight Show or something).

papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link

so the TvL Jazzmaster is an absolute peach

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link

I have neither use for nor money for another guitar but that Lake Placid Blue looks so good

https://wildwoodguitars.com/product/V2210636/american-vintage-ii-1966-jazzmaster-6/?cat_id=21781

papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 13 January 2023 02:19 (one year ago) link

Kind of sucks that they went with the smaller headstock than the big CBS headstock though

papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 13 January 2023 02:20 (one year ago) link

i find that incredibly frustrating, big headstock is absolutely right on those blingy mid-60s offsets

call all destroyer, Friday, 13 January 2023 02:31 (one year ago) link

I love the giant CBS headstock on everything.

They need to give the LPB '73 Stratocaster a rosewood neck
https://www.williesguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/av273.jpg

papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 13 January 2023 06:06 (one year ago) link

not a fan of the big headstock. looks like a weird growth and is unnecessary

calstars, Friday, 13 January 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link

no big headstock here alas:
https://i.imgur.com/AcB5872.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ZnIXZ8r.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/t8DTbkV.jpg

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 14 January 2023 05:56 (one year ago) link

not a fan of the big headstock. looks like a weird growth and is unnecessary

― calstars, Friday, January 13, 2023 9:10 AM

Seconded. I've never seen a big headstock Fender that wouldn't look better with a regular headstock.

ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 14 January 2023 06:07 (one year ago) link

Did jazzmaster headstocks ever change size? I thought they always maintained a size somewhere between the og strat abd cbs strat sizes?

four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Saturday, 14 January 2023 06:31 (one year ago) link

yep, went big 1966-1982

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 14 January 2023 06:38 (one year ago) link

I really like the color scheme of the Van Leeuwen Jazzmaster, btw, but along with the embiggened headstock I'm also not a fan of block inlays on, well, all Fenders.

ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 14 January 2023 06:54 (one year ago) link

https://reverb.com/item/65090698-mjt-jaguar-2020-ocean-turquoise-60-s-clone-john-frusciante-vibes-leslee-onboard-seymour-duncan-fender-parts-musikraft-neck

Never heard of the Leslee system, like a built in stereo Univibe where it alternates between the neck and bridge pickups while you play.

papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 21 January 2023 23:12 (one year ago) link

Amazing! The relic is a little overcooked but man that is a pretty guitar.

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 21 January 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link

“Are these authentic scrapes?”

calstars, Sunday, 22 January 2023 01:45 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

think I saw that one sticking out of a trash can on st marks place last night

calstars, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 13:57 (one year ago) link

::vomits::

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link

some cities have events where the schoolkids paint an old piano for fundraising

Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link

does it come with vomit residue

calstars, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link

"what's this stain?"

calstars, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link

That is a lot of painstaking workmanship to make a guitar look like steaming garbage

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link

I can imagine ripping your fingers up on those soda cap knobs.

peace, man, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link

lol

https://reverb.com/item/36188512-the-metrocaster-new-york-stratocaster

peace, man, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link

wow that seller.. the Back To The Future Mustang…

not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link

the license plate in the middle just deeply bothers me, the rest of it is terrible but that puts me over the edge

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link

maybe because nothing says NYC like cars

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link

What I love is the juxtaposition of graffiti art and pictures of boomboxes and shit with The Late Show with David Letterman and ticket stubs from Hamilton and shit.

peace, man, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link

and shit

peace, man, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link

i hate license plates used in any kind of "art"

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link

the snl fret is just awful

Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:13 (one year ago) link

lol the builder is in Dallas

Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link

The Back to the Future guitars should have had built in Plasma Drives.

https://vintageking.com/media/catalog/product/cache/c8660c81d7196df55c33284290821786/g/a/gamechanger-plasma-drive-euro_114918_1.jpg

papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link

and it’s a Jazzmaster if anything, find me a single Jag feature.

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 16 February 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

https://eddiesguitars.com/product/electric/electric-guitar-categories/solid-body-electric-guitars/fender-american-vintage-ii-1966-jazzmaster-3-color-sunburst/

Looks like Fender got the memo about using the wrong headstock on the new AVII Jazzmasters

papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link

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

What model is this?

calstars, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 23:25 (one year ago) link

I think a B C Rich Mockingbird?

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 23:45 (one year ago) link

Ah BC rich sounds right. I guess I’ve only seen the later models but the shape is distinctive

calstars, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 23:46 (one year ago) link

definitely a Mockingbird

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 March 2023 02:36 (one year ago) link

glad someone knew "looks like an Ibanez Iceman but pointier" was not returning results on Google

papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 March 2023 04:57 (one year ago) link

https://i.redd.it/sfk2mjco95o01.jpg

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 23 March 2023 05:37 (one year ago) link

A thing I am not going to say out loud: the pointier your guitar is, the less I want to hear your music

But I am certainly thinking it

carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 March 2023 13:40 (one year ago) link

This is something I think about sometimes: there must be someone somewhere who uses a pointy shredder guitar to make decidedly non-shredder music, right? But it seems to just not ever happen.

mirostones, Thursday, 23 March 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link

Sleigh Bells?

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link

I feel like a trv shredder guitar is a slightly pointier super strat with a Floyd Rose type whammy and a HSS pickup configuration

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/RG550DY--ibanez-genesis-collection-rg550-desert-sun-yellow

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link

This is something I think about sometimes: there must be someone somewhere who uses a pointy shredder guitar to make decidedly non-shredder music, right? But it seems to just not ever happen

Didn't Rosetta Tharpe play a Flying V? Or Explorer or SG. Maybe I am misremembering. I have a vague memory of someone from that era with a pointy guitar.

carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link

She played an SG which seems kinda weird but I think mostly cuz of Iommi and Angus Young

Albert King played a Flying V as did Neil Young for a particularly sleazy period

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link

i believe ilx user albert broccoli also has this jag!

― call all destroyer, Sunday, May 30, 2021 2:01 PM (one year ago)

He did but he traded it for a early 00s 1966 MIJ replica JM in sonic blue. :`(

The pickup sound on the Jaguar was a bit thin/tinny in comparison and he prefers the longer neck when it all came down to it.

It's also frustrating to have a legit 66 JM with big headstock and a 66 replica without (different neckshape too but oh well).

Mary Ford played an SG, she was one of the earlier champions of the model iirc.
https://i.imgur.com/W6LLAIn.jpg

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link


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