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[Victory Pete]

Originally Posted by noah330

I agree it's about the player. Not sure why you want to start insulting someone like myself who chooses to play older guitars that I like.

To each their own.

There was no insult intended.

VP

[progfreak]

It is interesting why some people still have the idea that the great guitar players will get the same sound doesn't matter the guitar they play. Well they will have at most the same expression and feeling playing any guitar. The sound it will be different. It is physics there is nothing of supernatural on this. If someone plays a Fender it will sound different from the same someone playing a Les Paul. Now some people developed very particular expression in their playing and this is what one will hear doesn't matter which guitar they play.

[Hot Vibrato]

Originally Posted by progfreak

It is interesting why some people still have the idea that the great guitar players will get the same sound doesn't matter the guitar they play. Well they will have at most the same expression and feeling playing any guitar. The sound it will be different. It is physics there is nothing of supernatural on this. If someone plays a Fender it will sound different from the same someone playing a Les Paul. Now some people developed very particular expression in their playing and this is what one will hear doesn't matter which guitar they play.

What you say is true, but here's the deal - some folks think that if they buy all the same gear as (insert guitar hero here), they will sound just the same as that guy - it just ain't gonna happen. Clapton would sound more like Clapton playing a beginner guitar through a practice amp than anyone else would even if they had all of Clapton's gear.

The point is this: The choice of instrument that a player chooses will affect their sound, but the tone comes from the player.

[poopynuggeteer]

Here's my baby

[octatonic]

Impossible choice between this:


- Suhr Modern

and this:


- Forshage Orion.

[Jim Williams]

Originally Posted by progfreak

It is interesting why some people still have the idea that the great guitar players will get the same sound doesn't matter the guitar they play.

That myth was busted in 1967. Some still have to learn it the hard way.

[BLueROom]

I should have this in a couple days... should be fun!!

Blakhart Custom Shop 8 string Burn

[darkhorse]

Originally Posted by Hot Vibrato

What you say is true, but here's the deal - some folks think that if they buy all the same gear as (insert guitar hero here), they will sound just the same as that guy - it just ain't gonna happen. Clapton would sound more like Clapton playing a beginner guitar through a practice amp than anyone else would even if they had all of Clapton's gear.

The point is this: The choice of instrument that a player chooses will affect their sound, but the tone comes from the player.

So true, and yet a whole market of pedals and processors based upon "sounds like" yada. Most of the gear I see these days is obviously directed at the younger less advanced player who still has a lot of myth and lore about tones and sound. We can only hope they do not stop putting out the better boutique gear for those of us who know better.

[darkhorse]

Originally Posted by noah330

Well, if you ever get the chance plug an original Les Paul into your amplifier of choice and plug a Historic or whatever in next to it and judge for yourself.

Maybe you'll agree, maybe you won't.

It's funny you mention cars, as I have an old 50's Corvette and Shelby Cobra and have little desire to own a new Corvette (awesome cars though) or repro Cobra.

I'll take that new Corvette SR1 or whatever it is called any day. Also fond of new Dodge Vipers. Old cars are cool, I love those rebuilt and improved old cars but if I were buying or driving, I still dig new. Also dig new houses with modern energy insulation tech. Just what works for me. If I had an old '59 LP or whatever I would probably glass case it for looks as art.
I just retubed and bias set my amp with a new set of Mullards, man does that puppy sound good. I am not sure tubes make all that much difference but I am loving the new Mullard line of tubes.

[tplaysguitar]

1973 all original Guild Blusbird. Some people call it a les paul copy, i disagree. Its got a master volume and a phase switch. Chambered body. Its awesome.

[Victory Pete]

Originally Posted by tplaysguitar

1973 all original Guild Blusbird. Some people call it a les paul copy, i disagree. Its got a master volume and a phase switch. Chambered body. Its awesome.

Beautiful! I worked at Guild in Westerly RI in the late 80's. I remember those guitars well.

VP

[noah330]

Originally Posted by darkhorse

I'll take that new Corvette SR1 or whatever it is called any day. Also fond of new Dodge Vipers. Old cars are cool, I love those rebuilt and improved old cars but if I were buying or driving, I still dig new. Also dig new houses with modern energy insulation tech. Just what works for me. If I had an old '59 LP or whatever I would probably glass case it for looks as art.
I just retubed and bias set my amp with a new set of Mullards, man does that puppy sound good. I am not sure tubes make all that much difference but I am loving the new Mullard line of tubes.

Had a new Vette a few years ago and it was cool but my Porsche is a much cooler car and is a lot more fun to drive. With Vettes I like the old ones!

To each their own.

[Gadget13769]

Here's mine - a Royal Electra MkII Custom - made for me in 1987 by UK luthier Kevin Chilcott...

[darkhorse]

Originally Posted by Gadget13769

Here's mine - a Royal Electra MkII Custom - made for me in 1987 by UK luthier Kevin Chilcott...

Is that to lighten it up or just for looks? Like the tilted HB in the bridge.

[Branko]

These are my two: 1976 Fender Stratocaster and 1969 SG Special.
The Strat has a stop tailpiece, Graph Tech saddles and a Seymor Duncan Classic Stack on bridge.
The SG has a Badass bridge and original P90s.
Both sound as expected.

[dabigfrog]

how can you have just one fav?

[Travst]

'76 Les Paul Custom.

[git45]

Slightly modified 1961 LP Jr. Got it at George Gruhn in Nasheville. This is RIGHT when the SG body took over the LP jr line. The tuning machines and bridge were notoriously difficult so the previous owner (Beeb Birtles of the Little River Band) routed a standard tune-o-matic. Because of this and the fact that it has aged considerably, I have no qualms of trekking around with it live. While the mod devalues it, it is the ONLY known burst 60's Lpj in existence (factory fluke). It'm lefty so the neck is righty (logo is upside down) because it was considered a "learners" guitar and who gave a shit. The real winning component is the one P90 in the bridge. It's unreal and is a far cry from modern recreations. It's very hotly wound: it outguns my humbucker guitars but maybe that's just that big open p90 sound. It's much quieter than Strat pickups.

[tstrahle]

Originally Posted by git45

Slightly modified 1961 LP Jr. Got it at George Gruhn in Nasheville. This is RIGHT when the SG body took over the LP jr line. The tuning machines and bridge were notoriously difficult so the previous owner (Beeb Birtles of the Little River Band) routed a standard tune-o-matic. Because of this and the fact that it has aged considerably, I have no qualms of trekking around with it live. While the mod devalues it, it is the ONLY known burst 60's Lpj in existence (factory fluke). It'm lefty so the neck is righty (logo is upside down) because it was considered a "learners" guitar and who gave a shit. The real winning component is the one P90 in the bridge. It's unreal and is a far cry from modern recreations. It's very hotly wound: it outguns my humbucker guitars but maybe that's just that big open p90 sound. It's much quieter than Strat pickups.

Very nice. I love how light LP Jr's are. Great for the back.

[Gadget13769]

Originally Posted by darkhorse

Is that to lighten it up or just for looks? Like the tilted HB in the bridge.

Just for looks, though the body is mahogany, so the weight-relief is quite welcome.

The pickups are an EMG 60 in the bridge and an 85 in the neck. Again, I think the tilt is mainly cosmetic, but there used to be quite a lot of 80s super strats with this kind of placement (?)

[Kronos147]

How do you choose just one?

[Fu Schnickens]

My current favorite. Gretsch 3161 Historic Series Thinline Synchromatic. A mouthful, and not the best player - the neck is a 2x4, only 20 small frets with limited access, and it squeals like a hollowbody pig sometimes. But it's beautiful and it makes me feel cooler than usual when I play it.

[git45]

Originally Posted by tstrahle

Very nice. I love how light LP Jr's are. Great for the back.

Precisely. My Les Paul is a sit down studio guitar and little else, not because I don't like the sound, but if you play for a long time it really comes back to haunt you the next day, and I'm only 25. I'm really happy to see the chambered thing is starting to come to the non-insanely expensive lines.

[Crimso]

Originally Posted by Papanate

Not a Les Paul per se this guitar was one of my early favorites. The picture is me at 17 playing the guitar in a church in La Mesa Calif. The Guitar is called 'No.2' and is part of a series of two guitars each tagged as 'The Bone' followed with No.1 and No.2. There were two 'Bones' and they were built for a local San Diego guitarist named Jack Sherman by Bob Huff at a shop called American Dream Music. American Dream Music in those days was located in Lemon Grove, Calif - right off Hiway 94. It was the cool musician's hang in the 70's. Many famous luthiers got their start in that shop. Bob Taylor (Yes That Taylor....Taylor Guitars) painted both guitars after Bob Huff built them from scratch. Bob Huff was quite a luthier at his young age...I think he was only 22 when he built the guitars.

Jack had the first one built - all white with gold trim. He had dog bones put as fret markers. Deciding he didn't like that one he had #2 built, again with dog bones. He also had little diode lights placed on the side of the neck - these lit up and helped Sherman see where he was on the neck on a dark stage before the lights came up ( that's the myth he told me at the time). The diodes stopped working years ago.

He decided he liked the first one best and ended up giving me #2 for a mere pittance. This is that guitar after 37 years. It shows it's age and the pleasure with which I played it. There is a tiny hole down beneath the two tone controls - that was done by another long time guitar shop without my permission. I was getting a secret boosting amp fixed. Originally Sherman had this small preamp installed in the circuit - and there was a button on the back plastic control cavity you would push to get about 15 - 20 db of boost. Back in the voodoo days of guitars that was quite a cool little trick to have. Anyway the button broke and I sent it in for repair and this idiot drilled a hole to put in a DPDT switch. I was mad for years - and never brought anything to those guys again.

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I remember Jack Sherman (guitarist with the band "Redemption") front of stage with "The Bone" in the late 70's playing the El Cortez ballroom on Saturday nights. He mostly played a laminated sandwich "SG" shape (a la Alembic) in those days with the same dog bone inlays in the finger board. As a guitarist and budding luthier I also lived within American Dream's sphere at the time, and bought a sister body/neck to your "Paul" under construction from BH at the shop when AD was liquidating. Birdseye maple throughout (heavy, baby), and with the same quasi-Taylor head shape. Sorry, no photos survive of that beauty after completion, sold when I moved to Australia in the 90's.

Interestingly (or not), AD co-founder Sam R. worked with me fabricating cold-molded veneer wind turbine blades in San Diego in the early 80's, after he had finished building his wooden sailboat. He had many skills to share. Thanks for the memories,

Crimso, long-time SD guy (New member).

[sys700]

My favorite guitar is my 1964 330S (S is for special), a domestic version of the Rose Morris 1997:

[Victory Pete]

I just put this Bigsby B7 on my 2006 Les Paul Standard. I used the Vibramate adapter plates, no drilling required and I can change it back to stock at any time with no permanent alterations.

VP

[Victory Pete]

Originally Posted by sys700

My favorite guitar is my 1964 330S (S is for special), a domestic version of the Rose Morris 1997:

That is flawless. It is a reissue made in 1997?

VP

[sys700]

No, it is all original. Full view:

[Victory Pete]

Originally Posted by sys700

No, it is all original.

What was the Rose Morris 1997?

VP

[sys700]

Rose Morris imported Rickenbacker guitars into the UK from 1964 through 1967 or so. They asked for an f-hole instead of the typical Rickenbacker slash, because they were into the Gretsch look at the time. When Pete Townshend and others started playing them, demand grew in the US for similar models, so a (very) few were made for the domestic market and labeled "special". The 1997 was essentially a 335 (330 with Accent vibrato). The domestic equivalent was the 330S with trapeze tailpiece. Here's a list of the models that were available: