The Guitar Pron Thread

[AnotherUTFan 9984]

I noticed that w the pickup @foggy notion . Looking at Reverb last night and I couldn't find one like it to figure out a value. Most have a floyd rose. The ones that didn't were listed for very little, but they all looked more stripped down than this one.

[Foggy Notion 1202]

17 minutes ago, AnotherUTFan said:

I noticed that w the pickup @foggy notion . Looking at Reverb last night and I couldn't find one like it to figure out a value. Most have a floyd rose. The ones that didn't were listed for very little, but they all looked more stripped down than this one.

Search on Reverb for “Dean ML 79”. I believe that’s the model number. You’ll see both the Floyd Rose and the hardtail versions. Here’s a new one with the stock zebra pickups for $649: https://reverb.com/item/45426277-dean-ml-79-electric-guitar-in-trans-brazilia-ml79-new-flame-maple

And here’s a used one with a Dimebucker in the bridge for $500: https://reverb.com/item/46627662-dean-ml-79-string-thru

While I was digging around I did see another similar model called an MLX that is in the $300-400 range, but it has a bolt on neck. 

[83Horn 1665]

16 hours ago, AnotherUTFan said:

I always thought Triumph was a British Band for some reason. Likely cause of the motorcycles of the same name.

So I was a little embarrassed when somebody pointed out that they are Canadian when I was DJing a "New Wave of British Heavy Metal" set and included one of their records.
 

Don't feel embarrassed.  If they put a picture of Queen Elizabeth II on their money, they're British.

[tbone_ 14443]

Looks like the good Deans are their USA line in the $3k range

[AnotherUTFan 9984]

Search on Reverb for “Dean ML 79”. I believe that’s the model number. You’ll see both the Floyd Rose and the hardtail versions. Here’s a new one with the stock zebra pickups for $649: https://reverb.com/item/45426277-dean-ml-79-electric-guitar-in-trans-brazilia-ml79-new-flame-maple
And here’s a used one with a Dimebucker in the bridge for $500: https://reverb.com/item/46627662-dean-ml-79-string-thru
While I was digging around I did see another similar model called an MLX that is in the $300-400 range, but it has a bolt on neck. 

Looks like the good Deans are their USA line in the $3k range

Thank you both for the research.

That 2nd one Foggy linked looks just like this one, even the pickups, proving once again that he is the master finding used gear.

I likely stop by and look today, but doubts on actually buying it. Ill get info / pics on that bass and the Charvel too.

[AnotherUTFan 9984]

Managed to leave without bringing anything home.

The Dean is OK, but made in Korea. Im gonna pass.

Good eye those who spotted that bass. It's "BassMods". Never had heard if them, but looking online they have quite a following. Neck was flat and wide as hell. Im happy w my PBass, but if anyone's Interested, ill be in Waco in March and Austin in Sept. They were asking $1,250 for this one. Guy said the owner would likely take $1,000 or $900 cash.

The Charvel is tempting. Would have been more so if the thing was somewhere near in tune - im not putting the effort into tuning a Floyd Rose with out the allen keys in a pawn shop. EMGs in neck and bridge,, stock PUP in the middle. Tag said $800

A few shots of the others inside. The Boss Chorus interested me.

[Scooter Monzingo 821]

5 hours ago, tbone_ said:

Looks like the good Deans are their USA line in the $3k range

This fucker is on Reverb, a touch over $3k. I’m normally not a fan, but the tiger stripes are bad ass.

[Deej 77816]

28 minutes ago, AnotherUTFan said:

They were asking $1,250 for this one. Guy said the owner would likely take $1,000 or $900 cash

[BERT 4498]

Finally 

 

[Gil Bang 26239]

cross post, because

 

 

 

[Celery Man 21098]

On 1/26/2022 at 12:02 AM, Paul Wesley said:

My go-to guitar.  It had fret buzz on two strings (?A and D) up around 10-12th frets.  It was otherwise very nicely set-up and stable.  

I took it to Danny Shoemaker at Straight Frets.  He put it on his bench and we looked at it together for 10 or 15 minutes.  He thought the neck had either twisted or swollen a little unevenly over time (I can't remember his exact theory).  Long story short:  I decided to just get it PLEK'd, and left it with him to PLEK and put on a new nut (the machine can also cut the nut with perfect precision as it levels the frets).  

Before I left it with him, he let me look at the machine and showed me how it works.  Once you lock a guitar in place, the machine will measure out everything very precisely and print out an incredibly detailed before-and-after schematic of how "off" the frets are, how much metal is going to be shaved to get to the ideal configuration... like down to the tiniest amount of metal along every single fret.  Then you can pull the guitar down and tweak the truss rod (and maybe also tweak the bridge).  Then lock it back into the machine and let it measure everything again.  I think the idea is to get it set up by hand as perfectly as possible so as to shave off the least amount of metal.  

I picked it up a week or so later, and he confessed that his theory for why I had a little buzz in one spot wasn't exactly correct.  It made me respect him more that he would readily say that.

I've got to say, if it was world's best luthier vs a really good luthier and a PLEK... I'd take the PLEK all day long.  They're incredible machines.  

Y'all have seen it more than once on this thread...  it's a 91 Custom Shop.  It looks a little red in this photo... it's actually orange.  It also got relic'ed the old fashioned way - by playing the shit out of it for 30 years.

 

 

Catching up on this thread - Straight Fret is also where I took my ruined duo jet. Julio did the work rather than Danny, and it wasn’t plek’d, but great results. I think Julio still works there (I also have his contact if anyone is looking for a guy to take on a project like that), and Danny is also great.

 

 

 

 

[Deej 77816]

17 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

cross post, because

 

 

 

She's perfect.

[Napoleon 8831]

18 minutes ago, Deej said:

She's perfect.

The first response below the original image seems to imply that the image has been significantly altered. 🤷‍♂️

I like the original image even though I know that it isn’t reality. It’s not like we have a date tomorrow night and I’m going to be disappointed when I go down on her. 

I like her AND her guitar.

[Deej 77816]

She's perfect in every pic I've seen.

[AnotherUTFan 9984]

She's perfect.

She's perfect in every pic I've seen.

Somebody somewhere is tired of her shit.

[jimmyjazz 47187]

49 minutes ago, AnotherUTFan said:

Somebody somewhere is tired of her shit.

Not me.

[jimmyjazz 47187]

Exhibit A:

 

[Butch Had Not 3060]

 

[Deej 77816]

2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Exhibit A:

 

[Chad Fuck 18135]

Somebody somewhere is tired of her shit.

She seems pretty happily married for a long time. Which says a lot considering it’s a rarity in human nature and a super rarity in the “it’s all about me” world of stardom. Which only makes her hotter in my book.

Man, I really need a Rickenbacker. I’ll be in my bunk.

[BrickHorn 18447]

 

[Scooter Monzingo 821]

12 hours ago, Celery Man said:

Catching up on this thread - Straight Fret is also where I took my ruined duo jet. Julio did the work rather than Danny, and it wasn’t plek’d, but great results. I think Julio still works there (I also have his contact if anyone is looking for a guy to take on a project like that), and Danny is also great.

 

 

 

 

That is a great restoration…

 

[Celery Man 21098]

I'm sure I posted those pictures before but yeah, it really was amazing. I thought I was going to have to replace everything, and actually the only new metal on the guitar is the bridge.

Here it is getting ruined (a month of this plus a couple of years sitting in a case while I generally didn't take care of things)

😬😬😬

Spoiler

 

[Goredho 17655]

This does sound pretty fucking awesome...

 

[Superhero 9022]

15 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

cross post, because

 

 

 

Paging @Brisketexan to the Guitar Pron thread. Mr. Brisketexan please pick up the white courtesy phone. 

[AnotherUTFan 9984]

She seems pretty happily married for a long time. Which says a lot considering it’s a rarity in human nature and a super rarity in the “it’s all about me” world of stardom. Which only makes her hotter in my book.

Man, I really need a Rickenbacker. I’ll be in my bunk.

Ya, I googled her after typing that to see.. Almost 30 years married to the same dude. Hell ofa lot longer than I ever made it.

Good for them.

[Bogeywon 2548]

5 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

She seems pretty happily married for a long time. Which says a lot considering it’s a rarity in human nature and a super rarity in the “it’s all about me” world of stardom. Which only makes her hotter in my book.

Man, I really need a Rickenbacker. I’ll be in my bunk.

I have a jetglo. I love it. Do it 

[tbone_ 14443]

Ya, I googled her after typing that to see.. Almost 30 years married to the same dude. Hell ofa lot longer than I ever made it.

Good for them.

He doesn’t get the “Feel like making love” treatment. He gets bitched at for loading the dishwasher wrong. He’s probably lasted that long because he gets long periods of privacy and solitude while she’s out playing rock star.

[Deej 77816]

This is 2020.. She's 63, now. Amazing. 

Edited January 30, 2022 by Deej

[Rip76 5022]

Freaking tone 

 

 

[Deej 77816]

Freddie may be my favorite of all time. 

[Deej 77816]

 

[AnotherUTFan 9984]

I'm not sure which thread to post this in. I know a lot of us have a huge admiration of the efficiency of Mike Campbell, and the brilliance of "American Girl" is widely accepted.

This is incredible.

[jimmyjazz 47187]

Mike Campbell's voice cracks me up.  He sounds almost exactly like Tom Petty.  I guess that's what Gainesville sounds like.

[Deej 77816]

We still need one thread to rule them all.

[dcbc 14644]

I'm not sure which thread to post this in. I know a lot of us have a huge admiration of the efficiency of Mike Campbell, and the brilliance of "American Girl" is widely accepted.

This is incredible.

I love American Girl. It's one of those songs that never lets up when you're playing it, which can make it a tough one to pull off live for people who aren't TP&TH.

[Deej 77816]

[tbone_ 14443]

I love American Girl. It's one of those songs that never lets up when you're playing it, which can make it a tough one to pull off live for people who aren't TP&TH.

We do it in our duo but we kind of make it our own thing a bit. I think you have to because it’s hard (for me anyway) to match the dynamics of that band. Seems to work though.

Great video. Tone is insane.

[BrickHorn 18447]

3 hours ago, AnotherUTFan said:

I'm not sure which thread to post this in. I know a lot of us have a huge admiration of the efficiency of Mike Campbell, and the brilliance of "American Girl" is widely accepted.

This is incredible.
 

 

Love that video. Campbell walking through all the little fills and riffs he played on that track just shows how those simple little flourishes can make a good song great. Some other examples where fills are key to a song are “Go With the Flow” by QOTSA and “Wrathchild” by Iron Maiden. 

[Celery Man 21098]

Definitely I’ve been doing the meedly parts at the end wrong. Also I want his guitar.

 

 Is he still playing with Fleetwood?

[DougO 5265]

Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs released a single from their upcoming second album just last week.

[tbone_ 14443]

Yea it’s on another thread around here somewhere.

Cool tune. But man they need a singer.

[Buzzrock 15136]

This does sound pretty fucking awesome...
 

I’m pretty sure an original ‘54 Strat is everyone’s dream guitar, or one of them anyway.

[Chad Fuck 18135]

Yesterday at band practice I got to try this out.  It's a Les Paul Collector’s Choice #44 “Happy Jack” 44A Vic DaPra Burst 2017.  My trader buddy traded a vintage SG Special for it.  I think he got a deal.  I've always wondered about these Collector's Choice models and their exorbitant (to me) pricing.  But damn, if this wasn't just like holding a real six figure LP.  Run through my Mesa, it delievered all the Zep/ZZ tones and more.  Plus the difference between the neck on my r8 and this 59 profile was significant.  To my hands, this one was better, but I realize that's a "some like chocolate and some like strawberry" kind of review.  Anyhow, I can now say, I get why these command top dollar.  It's as close as any mortal man may get to playing one of the 1200 or so original bursts.  

[Chad Fuck 18135]

 

I also got to try this out.  It's a 1954 Sparkle Jet.  The first ones appeared, labeled as Duo Jets, in 1953.  You can recognize the '54 because it doesn't have the script logo at the top anymore, bu tit still has the wedge shaped (as opposed to later tear drop shaped) pick guard.  It sounded great, and it light as it's pretty much a semi-hollow without f-holes.  But the set up was terrible.  The action was down low at the cowboy chord part of the neck, which is fine for what our singer needed, but up near the widdle-dee area of the fretboard I could drive a truck under the strings.  I'm not sure how that gets fixed.  

[Goredho 17655]

1 minute ago, Chad Fuck said:

The action was down low at the cowboy chord part of the neck, which is fine for what our singer needed, but up near the widdle-dee area of the fretboard I could drive a truck under the strings.  I'm not sure how that gets fixed.  

Pretty guitars, @Chad Fuck.  As for that Gretsch, just get a hex bit for your power drill, crank the torque and hit the truss rod for a few minutes.

[Chad Fuck 18135]

5 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Pretty guitars, @Chad Fuck.  As for that Gretsch, just get a hex bit for your power drill, crank the torque and hit the truss rod for a few minutes.

Not my guitar and I don't really work on them but for minor things.  My buddy has a luthier we've both used who I'm sure will get the call shortly to tag in on this one.

[Goredho 17655]

Just now, Chad Fuck said:

Not my guitar and I don't really work on them but for minor things.  My buddy has a luthier we've both used who I'm sure will get the call shortly to tag in on this one.

Please don't take any luthier advice I give you

[Chad Fuck 18135]

Just now, Goredho said:

Please don't take any luthier advice I give you

Yeah, all I heard after "power drill" near a '54 was in Charlie Brown's teacher's voice. 

[Goredho 17655]

So I missed being in Orlando for this by a day.  Would have been cool, but I might have wound up with a second mortgage.

Edited January 31, 2022 by Goredho