Clancy;474317 wrote: Hya G As guitars go my wants are many but my needs are few. I'd love a 335 , I could get one but it would mean saying goodbye to my Strat, (no chance)
The acoustic dept, I'm ok ....but as is usual, the eyes still look out for things like :
Rickenbacker 12....a, 335......a, National Steel,....a, Telecastor .....the list goes on into infinity.
I've a few new year resolutions. First and foremost to give up the cigs for good this time. 2nd , is to start recording again. I've got the gear to do it with, but for months now, it's been mothballed. I spend far too much time browsing on-line, so I intend to cut back on that. The material we played "was blues based....but what I do in-house is a total departure. I love starting with a blank canvas as they say....plus I only have to please myself , and not others.
You mentioned the Epiphone Casino ....my china has one , and the first thing he did was to fit a set of grovers to replace the original machines , what a difference ! it's a fantastic guitar. :guitarist
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Good to hear you are getting back into the recording, I have the same resolutions, though I am already working on the album, just getting round to the final touches, but it will be pretty much done soon, specially as my nose has been fixed so I will be able to sing the vocals the way I want them, but I also have me patches from the doctor and I am coming off them damn cigaretees again.
As for the guitars, thats interetsing, I put new grovers on it, twice, but it still slipped on the G, though it was at least playable with the govers, couldn't work it out, but yes it was a brilliant guitar, unique, I think. Like you I have a lot of wish lists, I have a very very good takamine acoustic, another one, and of course the Telecaster, (actually my old squire means I have two I forgot) but its a custom Light Ash Fender made in the Far East asia Japan or Korea, its actually great, very good quality, lovely action and tone, its got a seymor duncan back pickup that is just brilliant, and its quite light so its nice for regular use and long gigs. I have a pretty nice Aria GT Series bass as well, the AD100VT Vox amp, and my Yamaha keyboard so I am fairly tooled up. In terms of other guitars I refuse to play Les Pauls, becuase I don't want chronic back problems later in life, though they are lovely looking guitars, and they have that fat sound. I do really like strats, there is a really nice USA deluxe one on sale in my local store, its got a slighly darened maple finish, maple neck, white pearl inlays, and a red toroiseshell pickguard, beatiful, I've played it, its one of the nicest strats I've ever played, but it costs €1,899, so maybe next christmas. Most of the modern designs of newer guitars put me off them, I'm not into Charvels or Paul Reed Smiths, or those very highly engineered ones, they just leave me a bit cold for some reason.
I think my wish list would be the American Series Tele, that particular strat I was talking about, another Casino, a dark stained Gibson SG special, which are my all-time favorite Gibsons, a 335 in a deep crimson, and the Semi-Solid Rickenbacker, but the 6-string one. Actually my friend bought a Hohner semisolid, its a not a derivative of another guitar but an original Hohner design, the thing its closes to would be a smaller bodied version of the semi-solid rick, its finsihed in Maple, its actually a real gem, I would buy it off him he if ever comes round to selling it.