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OK, regarding my buddy's Martin 0-15.  What luthier would be best to evaluate and possibly work on this thing?  Austin is NOT a restriction.  Gruhn in Nashville?  Other?  I don't think he considers this an investment, he plays and it has a lot of sentimental value, so he'll want it to be the best it can be.

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On 1/30/2025 at 9:18 PM, jimmyjazz said:

OK, regarding my buddy's Martin 0-15.  What luthier would be best to evaluate and possibly work on this thing?  Austin is NOT a restriction.  Gruhn in Nashville?  Other?  I don't think he considers this an investment, he plays and it has a lot of sentimental value, so he'll want it to be the best it can be.

Call Gruhn's.   That one dude who found a prewar ended up contacting them .   I think his name was Retsevlys from around Auburn, AL.  I actually called George Gruhn and talked to him.  We then sent a bunch of pictures of the guitar and George called him back.  The wait was a LONG time to get it in to Gruhn's shop,  but one of his luthiers ended up taking the guitar and working on it in his spare time.  The poster paid the guy directly.  Only issue is it doesn't get the Gruhn name/warranty with it, but it was the same guy who would have worked on it anyway.   

I don't know George but I know someone who knows him very well.  I would trust anything he says.   

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7 hours ago, hullabelew said:

Call Gruhn's.   That one dude who found a prewar ended up contacting them .   I think his name was Retsevlys from around Auburn, AL.  I actually called George Gruhn and talked to him.  We then sent a bunch of pictures of the guitar and George called him back.  The wait was a LONG time to get it in to Gruhn's shop,  but one of his luthiers ended up taking the guitar and working on it in his spare time.  The poster paid the guy directly.  Only issue is it doesn't get the Gruhn name/warranty with it, but it was the same guy who would have worked on it anyway.   

I don't know George but I know someone who knows him very well.  I would trust anything he says.   

I wanted him to appraise my Charlie Christian, but he wouldn't do it remotely without a photo of the serial number, which has disappeared if it ever existed. 

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43 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

Anything is a pick if you’re brave enough 

I like it because it's 0.5mm thick, easily grabbed, and the texture on it kinda scrapes the strings in a very pleasant way when the gain is up

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4 hours ago, Rimbo said:

I like it because it's 0.5mm thick, easily grabbed, and the texture on it kinda scrapes the strings in a very pleasant way when the gain is up

Nice even 28K rep status!

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That clip shows what an articulate player he was. So much more than just a mindless shredder. Favorite comment: “How can someone be that groovy and that savage at the same time?”

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On 2/3/2025 at 8:52 AM, Buzzrock said:

 

Cool story time: my family is good friends with uncle Kracker and I got invited to his 50th bday in Nashville and Billy was there and I could have met him but I didn’t go. Thanks for listening CSB

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So for the record, I grew up with a 68 Tele in the house, so it’s top hat switch cap and flat top knobs for me. They just seem right.

But I’m still Sean Connery over Roger Moore even though I saw Roger Moore first.

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I realize the barrel is weird on the picture I posted.

 

the Isbell tele came with a top hat on it. I needed to order a new one for the 72 thinline because the original has been lost to time, I decided to go top hat. It came with two, so, now I’m just rocking all top hat.

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8 hours ago, Celery Man said:

Alright guys, important shit - 

 

who ya got?

 

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Depends on the year.  Latter on my 52 AV, former on my 64 AV and early '90 N_9.

Rubber band under the knobs on some of them because Fender.

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4 minutes ago, noharleyyet said:

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Funny enough I’m going on an Eastman buying spree before the tariffs really get up to speed.  ETA tomorrow.

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"Upside down and backwards!!!"

 I just heard that description on a podcast, applied to another lefty guitarist who restrung a right-handed guitar... with the net result that he's playing the guitar pretty much the same way as everyone else.  

Stop it already.  

 

 

(trivial things that make you surly)

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Just now, Goredho said:

Wouldn't tension be affected with the lower pitch strings being relatively longer from tuning peg to bridge?

That was my question.  It seems like it would be a tuning nightmare.

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9 minutes ago, Goredho said:

This sucks.

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Yeah I saw this yesterday on TGP. Real bummer, Brian was a huge influence on me, and is by all accounts a really great dude.

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16 hours ago, G650 said:

It's from the nut to bridge saddles that determines tension for a given pitch

I wonder if it has any effect on resistance during bends, etc?

 

I swear I can feel the… jangliness or slinkiness or whatever of the strings not being attached to the body on my duo jet. But I’m also skeptical of all my feelings about this guitar voodoo shit. Danish Pete swears there is a difference between tele bridge pickups mounted to the body vs the pickguard. Gibson folks go on about long neck tenons while their headstock is held on with Elmer’s.

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7 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

fuck, i was going to point out that he’s 80 years old but I guess he’s only 65

 

Which is wild to me too, as it seems like he has always been around. I remember the Stray Cats as a pretty little kid. He was just young as hell.

 

3 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

I wonder if it has any effect on resistance during bends, etc?

Typically breakover angle has the biggest impact on this. One reason I top wrap my LPs. But on a Strat or Tele reverse stringing would have an effect as it flattens the angle on one side and steepens it on another. String trees make a difference too.

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The two songs I remember from my 7th grade cotillion dance were Jump Jive and Wail, and Men in Black. Ah, 1998. What great luck for Setzer that he got a swing revival.

 

Also in 2008 I was on tour with my old band and we were waiting for some kind of radio interview in Chicago. The guest before us was the Cherry Poppin Daddies guy and he got all pissed because the interviewer insinuated that they had just 1 hit.

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1 hour ago, G650 said:

Yeah I saw this yesterday on TGP. Real bummer, Brian was a huge influence on me, and is by all accounts a really great dude.

I met him one time.  It was at the Arc Angels' debut show at Antone's on Guadalupe.  I was standing in line, waiting to get in, turned around and he was standing in line behind me.  I am not a tall guy, but I remember how short he was.  We chatted for a minute, and he could not have been nicer.  He was in town to get some more tattoo work done, as his favorite artist worked out of Austin.  After a few minutes the doorman spotted him and yanked him to the front of the line.  I did not get to tag along with my new celebrity friend, LOL.  Thanks for the insanely great playing, Brian.

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That's as tragic as Linda Ronstadt no longer being able to sing. I can't imagine having gift like that taken away. Brian began playing when he was like 7 and was an extremely talented player feom the beginning. Im sorry I never saw him play, I had a few chances with his orchestra.

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13 hours ago, Goredho said:

This sucks.

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Having fucked a girl with ALS for a while…

I can tell you that he’s NOT going to “beat it”. (The disease, not his meat.)

He will likely be able to take some medication that weakens his immune system so that it isn’t crippling him all of the time, but he’s not likely to ever tour again. He may get to the point where he can occasionally play at an event, but 65+ year-old people with weakened immune systems do not risk touring. He’s really lucky that the nerve pain hasn’t hit yet  

The girl I was dating was a doctor that had become a professor, but then had to retire from that because the standing and presenting was no longer possible.

She was an English major in college (Ivy League) so she started working on research projects. The other people did the research and she typed away from home making the information understandable, because most doctors suck at writing. 

Even typing away from home became too much and now she just does what she can, takes tons of pills at different times of day, and hopes that something is discovered.

All this and she currently is only 54 years old and only leaves her building for doctors appointments.

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