The Guitar Pron Thread

[TexasEd 8069]

9 hours ago, Deej said:

Definitely an upgrade over what comes in the Standards, which I think are ceramic. Alnico 5 magnets, which to me, tend to sound punchier. I believe those are the pups used in the Jimmy Vaughan Strat.

Yeah, I found one similar to those Jimmy Vaughn's I'm thinking of buying.  Just need to check the condition.

Edited June 12, 2018 by TexasEd

[Bogeywon 2519]

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Fender/2004-SRV-Number-One-Stratocaster-Electric-Guitar-113834980.gc?cntry=us&source=4WWMWXGP&gclid=Cj0KCQjwu_jYBRD8ARIsAC3EGCKSibCXyY9GFWWb4KqsLPb2e7CJkVDie-kH4VqM02IIek3lfrsG7Z4aApyAEALw_wcB&kwid=productads-adid^221074893837-device^m-plaid^359901078935-sku^113834980@ADL4GC-adType^PLA

for all the Stevie Ray fans 

[TexasEd 8069]

nm

Edited June 12, 2018 by TexasEd

[Chad Fuck 17723]

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Fender/2004-SRV-Number-One-Stratocaster-Electric-Guitar-113834980.gc?cntry=us&source=4WWMWXGP&gclid=Cj0KCQjwu_jYBRD8ARIsAC3EGCKSibCXyY9GFWWb4KqsLPb2e7CJkVDie-kH4VqM02IIek3lfrsG7Z4aApyAEALw_wcB&kwid=productads-adid^221074893837-device^m-plaid^359901078935-sku^113834980@ADL4GC-adType^PLA
for all the Stevie Ray fans 

Only $45k? Guess I’ll head on over to Guitar Center over lunch and buy two.

No I won’t. Because that’s fucking crazy.

[tbone_ 14142]

I don't get it either.

[Bogeywon 2519]

46 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

Only $45k? Guess I’ll head on over to Guitar Center over lunch and buy two.

No I won’t. Because that’s fucking crazy.

 

30 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

I don't get it either.

its serial number is 1 I think that's why but yeah fuck that for 45k

[Bogeywon 2519]

with SRV strat I could earn $2250 in bonus money back and put it toward the gold top I want lol

[Deej 76884]

Then sell the SRV strat back to Guitar Center. They'd offer probaby 40% of what you paid, so about $18,000.

[noharleyyet 2839]

2 hours ago, Bogeywon said:

 

its serial number is 1 I think that's why but yeah fuck that for 45k

 

 

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This product is completely functional and shows some signs of use. It may have surface scratches and/or dings and dents.

 

Think they'd throw in a set up?

[Bogeywon 2519]

20 minutes ago, noharleyyet said:

 

 

Think they'd throw in a set up?

also you think they would honor the 30 day money back?

[DougO 5255]

But it's $5000 off!

Save 

$5,000.00

Was: 

$49,999.99

 

 

Still, it makes a Jimi Hendrix strat for $900 look like the deal of the century.

[DougO 5255]

What would the one-of-a-kind Vagicaster be worth if I sanded off the Squier serial and put a number 0000001 on it?

[Deej 76884]

About tree-fiddy.

[Grandioso 2592]

Tuesday pron. Happy Birthday Junior Brown! Here are some lap steels that are amazeballs. 

Junior Brown and his "guit-steel" in Houston last month. Photo by yours truly. (BTW those amps are silverface twins outfitted with JBL speakers. Needless to say, I sustained a bit of temporary hearing loss as a result of this show).

David Gilmour's red Jedson lap steel. According to gimourish, "The lap steels are straight clones of the Fender Deluxe table/lap steel with six strings, volume and tone knob and two custom single coil pickups." Used on every Floyd tour from 1974-75 through the Division Bell tour, and also some during his solo On An Island tour.

Crank up your computer's volume for this flawless brilliance.

Late 1950's or Early 1960's Fender T8 (I know, not a lap steel technically). This motherfucker is in MINT condition. 

1920's Weissenborn Kona Style Hawaiian lap steel

1960 Gibson Century in salmon pink. The mid century modern aesthetic looks great IMO. Gibson should make a line of Les Pauls inspired by 1960's .

Current Duesenberg Fairytale in goldburst. This here's your Cadillac. Solid mahogany. Multibender setup where you can mount up to six levers - one for each string. Integrated capo that you can adjust up and down the neck. 

Current Gretsch Electromatic Lap Steel. VERY affordable at $350.00 brand new.

Got a few hours, some spare electronic parts, and a tool shed? You got a lap steel, bro.

Still too hi-tech for you? Try what Jack White did in "It Might Get Loud."

 

[DougO 5255]

Making a lap steel from scratch (or close, minus hardware) is on my bucket list.

[Chad Fuck 17723]

Just now, DougO said:

Making a lap steel from scratch (or close, minus hardware) is on my bucket list.

I don't think it'd be that difficult.  

[Deej 76884]

I don't think it'd be that difficult.  

Famous last words.

[Celery Man 20991]

I need to plug mine back in.  C'MON SHAGGY LAP STEEL MAFIA

[TexasEd 8069]

I had my first/introductory guitar lesson today.  Oh Boy.When he asked me about a first song I'd like to learn I said this:

I'll be focusing on technique and scales for a while though.

 

Edited June 13, 2018 by TexasEd

[tbone_ 14142]

You'll definitely do better if you learn on songs you dig.

[Buzzrock 14936]

You'll definitely do better if you learn on songs you dig.

This. And practice slow to play fast.

[Celery Man 20991]

and later on when you can't play fast, it's because you're playing too fast.

[Grandioso 2592]

3 hours ago, TexasEd said:

I had my first/introductory guitar lesson today.  Oh Boy.When he asked me about a first song I'd like to learn I said this:

I'll be focusing on technique and scales for a while though.

 

0:00 to 0:20

 

[noharleyyet 2839]

13 hours ago, TexasEd said:

I had my first/introductory guitar lesson today.  Oh Boy.When he asked me about a first song I'd like to learn I said this:

I'll be focusing on technique and scales for a while though.

 

"But that's alright.
I said that that's alright."

[hullabelew 3724]

Well, HVAC dude came back today to inspect the new systems.  I told him, "When you started telling me the guitars you owned, I knew you were holding out, so I looked you up".  He just started laughing.  That is his wife on the bass, but his daughter also plays bass.  She usually plays that little Mustang short scale but also owns a P bass.  

He said the real musician in his family is his son-in-law.   He owns a 1938 D-28 and a Paul Shippey Mandolin among other goodies.  

Dude also told me he really likes Waterloo guitars, though it really isn't a bluegrass instrument.  I may put in another cooling system soon, just so he will come back and talk some more.  

 

 

 

Edited June 14, 2018 by hullabelew

[hullabelew 3724]

Damn...that Grandioso, that Dusenberg lap is a thing of beauty.  

[Superhero 8833]

What do you guys think of this color?

https://reverb.com/item/12993623-g-l-tribute-s500-electric-guitar-vintage-white-maple-fretboard

[Mojo Hand 4580]

I'm a fan.  Makes me think Hendrix. 

[Buzzrock 14936]

Maybe with a dark fretboard. But I don’t like it with the maple.

[DougO 5255]

1 hour ago, Superhero said:

What do you guys think of this color?

https://reverb.com/item/12993623-g-l-tribute-s500-electric-guitar-vintage-white-maple-fretboard

I like it a lot. Pretty close to my 40th anniversary Strat, banana-fudge. I threw some rails on it and a pearly white pickguard and it's megasweet.

[DougO 5255]

Mine has a rosewood fretboard. It does contrast nicely.

[DougO 5255]

I'm thinking MF had a white Tribute on the stupid deal a couple of weeks ago. Wasn't that creamy, maybe a little off-white if I remember correctly.

[BoomMF 1399]

18 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

I'm a fan.  Makes me think Hendrix. 

Same.

[DougO 5255]

FWIW, I checked...it was a white ASAT they had on the SDOTD last month. They had this Tribute for $350 in late March.

 

[Buzzrock 14936]

FWIW, I checked...it was a white ASAT they had on the SDOTD last month. They had this Tribute for $350 in late March.
 

Damn. I don’t particularly like that color but a SSS G&L for $350 would have been hard to resist.

[Deej 76884]

Guitar Center had that same price advertised last week. 

[Mojo Hand 4580]

3 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

Maybe with a dark fretboard. But I don’t like it with the maple.

 

[DougO 5255]

Tortoise on vintage white looks real nice.

[tbone_ 14142]

wth does that guy know. He's playing it backwards.

[jimmyjazz 46051]

32 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

wth does that guy know. He's playing it backwards.

Photo is flipped, moran.

[Superhero 8833]

7 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

Maybe with a dark fretboard. But I don’t like it with the maple.

No man. Maple fretboard all the way. Rosewood has that open pore feel that I can't get around. I would get a maple neck on a LP if it didn't look so awkward.

4 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

Damn. I don’t particularly like that color but a SSS G&L for $350 would have been hard to resist.

 

That's a good deal, but the color doesn't work on a Strat type guitar. OTOH, it looks great on a Tele body. They have an ASAT Deluxe II in that color which checks on my boxes, except I don't want another Tele.

https://gbmedia.azureedge.net/usercontent/gear/3330389/p2_ulrpnfil1_so.jpg

Edited June 15, 2018 by Superhero
Why won't the pic show up?

[Celery Man 20991]

That's a good deal, but the color doesn't work on a Strat type guitar. OTOH, it looks great on a Tele body. They have an ASAT Deluxe II in that color which checks on my boxes, except I don't want another Tele.
https://gbmedia.azureedge.net/usercontent/gear/3330389/p2_ulrpnfil1_so.jpg

You need ebony.

[Anton Chigurh 3319]

MF has STOTH today.

Have a Gibson LP Custom Pro for $3k for a few more minutes.

[DougO 5255]

They usually do that on holidays. I wonder what the occasion is.

[DougO 5255]

Guitar Center online has their version called "Daily Pick." But it seems like it's usually lame stuff.

[Chad Fuck 17723]

14 minutes ago, DougO said:

They usually do that on holidays. I wonder what the occasion is.

Father's Day.

[noharleyyet 2839]

..stock pic, but would if halfway reasonable.

[Grandioso 2592]

Those tags made me think about uncirculated/one-owner/rarely-played/found-in-Uncle-Mel's-closet guitars. So have some pron.

1953 Gretsch 6128 Duo Jet w/ Matching Tweed Amplifier - two owners, purchased brand new in Nashville in 1953 as evidenced by original bill of sale. You know you are getting the goods when a dude comes in with the amp that the manufacter & retailer would match together and sell as part of an "everything you need to play guitar!" package.

1965 Gibson SG standard with factory-installed Bigsby - this thing looks so mint it's either a fraud or the owner didn't play it, never even opened the case, and kept it in a humidor.

Uncirculated 1959 Les Paul Standard 'Burst' with all original hang tags - wish I knew the story here. According to one thread this was listed for $238,000.00 and sold in 4 days. Probably because of those famous original SONOMATIC STRINGS!

1972 Fender Telecaster in Lake Placid Blue - Purchased new in 1973 at Wallace Reed Music in Atlanta for $286.00. I'm as curious to flip through that retail price list as I'd be to play that thing.

1963 Stratocaster in Olympic White with gold hardware - According to the dealer, it is 100% original except for one screw on the back plate. Sorry, that's a dealbreaker for me.

Have a nice weekend, y'all.

[Celery Man 20991]

i need to clean off my duosonic.  It's in rough shape.

 

Rust on hardware - what do y'all use?  Diluted dish soap and a clean rag?

[DougO 5255]

4 hours ago, Celery Man said:

i need to clean off my duosonic.  It's in rough shape.

 

Rust on hardware - what do y'all use?  Diluted dish soap and a clean rag?

 

I have read vinegar, but do some research before messing up something nice. It may depend on the finish.

I once took a really rusty set of Pearl Drums I found in a garage sale and used Coke and aluminum foil to get most of the rust off of the legs and rims. More than doubled my money after cleaning them up.

Edited June 16, 2018 by DougO