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  • #22047
    bulsara
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    Below is a link to my website that shows my guitars. Hope you enjoy looking at them. Some are Diamonds some are Swine. Love them all.

    http://www.users.bigpond.com/faroukh/

    Just click on the “My Guitars” button.

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    • #70836
      USGold
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      USGold
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      USGold
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      USGold
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      USGold
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    • #70847
      USGold
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      Ok here’s some of my stuff updated, btw I still play and am happy with the Stagg LP, consider it the best $199 I could have spent.

      PRS SE double cut

    • #70803
      GTRTECH104
      Participant

      THE GUITAR IS AN AUDITION 7003 SOLD BY WOOLWORTHS IN THE LATE 1960’S EARLY 70’S
      MY FATHER PASSED IT ON TO ME
      IT DOES NOT HAVE ANY OTHER SCRATCHPLATES
      THE ORIGINAL WAS TORTOISESHELL COLOURED PLASTIC
      I PLAY MINE AND IT HAS A BEAUTIFUL SWEET SOUND

    • #70815
      lee_UK
      Participant

      You need a bigger camera, one of those camera’s that Estate Agents use, you see a picture of a house on the internet, with a nice big garden, you get round there and see the garden is only 30ft long, and you wonder what happened to the other 70ft!
      I’ll have a chat with our local agent, he uses one of those all the time, i’ll
      find out the make and model number for you. 😆

    • #70834
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Nice to see you and your guitars again 🙂 . Must’ve been a major job changing between the two photos – like a “guitar” version of Changing Rooms? 🙂

    • #70798
      wietse
      Participant

      some new group pics couldn’t get them all together on the sofa this time (need bigger sofa 🙂 )

      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/wietse/groupeurope.jpg

      the european stuff.

      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/wietse/groupazie.jpg

      the asians.

    • #70812
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Greenblob, nice to see all those lefties. I just wish the average guitar shop had that level of choice.

    • #70822
      Michael
      Participant

      Good to see some home grown Matons there Green.

      601: Looks like a nice build. Good stuff.

    • #70800
      glw
      Participant

      I’ve just gotten myself a guitar stand like that for seven guitars. It saves loads of room!

      Nice collection, btw!

    • #70864
      greenblob
      Participant

      A semi useless pic of my current guitars.. Cant really see much, but is the only group pic i have at the moment. Sorry.

      Front to back:

      PRS CU22
      Maton Mastersound Custom (MS2000)
      Ibanez RG470L
      Maton EBG808CL with custom Maton AP5mic P\U
      Maton Tommy Emmanual 1996 – Custom (TE)
      Old Crappy Fender BBQ acoustic guitar..

      Taken awhile to aquire some of these solely due to my unfortunate mental condition (read – lefthandedness). Also makes it harder to part with any of them. A small collection compared to some i’ve seen on this thread, but i love em all the same.

      (hope the pic posts!.. never done this before)

      #http://myspace-329.vo.llnwd.net/00682/92/32/682492329_l.jpg

    • #70801
      601blues
      Participant

      I was just blown away with the tone and rich sound, has great action even for fretin, Iam in love with this reso,Ive tried it thu my Mg30 Marshall and my classic 50 4/10 and my JCM 900 marshall and it just amased me with its punch and sustain, like I said Iam in love, worth the wait!! Bass, as far as book match, I went and checked it out, and what you see inda pic is where They split the cap right and left is giving off different light looking straight ahead it is perfact lines as you move you vision offcenter the lines seem to move kinda like a 3 d effect wierd!! but I assure lookin at it under reg light the lines match!! the flash must have caused the lines to seem off

    • #70806
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Thanks for sending up the pics, 601. I’d pretty much forgotten that your National Reso was due to land in May. It’s a gorgeous finish, although I’m a little surprised that the fiddleback maple wasn’t bookmatched. It oozes style. How does it sound to you?

    • #70797
      601blues
      Participant

      😯 The detail is beautiful the blck pin stripe is engraved into the head,and the National sign is inlayed,#http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/601blues/RESOLECTRIC006.jpg

    • #70809
      601blues
      Participant

      With the flame maple top and honey burst finish it looks like a lunar eclipse!!

    • #70799
      601blues
      Participant

      Recieved muh National Reso Lectric yesterday afternoon after six weeks wait!! But it was worth every min this is the most fantastic guitar Ive ever played, wonderful action and rich tone,#http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/601blues/RESOLECTRIC005.jpg

    • #70794
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The thin one..

      you must have lots of ‘e’ strings, can i have them, im always breaking mine.

    • #70860
      glw
      Participant

      Top string, you mean.

      Call me a pedant if you like.

    • #70814
      4 Notes
      Participant

      After several years, I realized that I never played the bottom string, so I took it off and filled it in with wood putty. It’s a gibson gothic explorer. 😮

      #http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c231/dropdee/5string1.jpg

    • #70827
      lee_UK
      Participant

      I currently have 2 360’s, i only took the mapleglow in as a swap for a VoxAC30 a couple of months ago. I also have a fireglow 360V64, which is the hisotric reissue, The Vox only cost me £400 so as long as the Ric is worth that im OK.
      Mike the 360 isnt short and stubby, i think you are getting mixed up with the 325, the little John Lennon one, the 360 is the Paul Weller / Jam – George Harrison 1964/65 era semi accoustic.

    • #70849
      Michael
      Participant

      All I’ve got to say is you know what they say about people who play short n stubby Rickys. Lee opted for the better choice in my opinion.

    • #70819
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😯 . Runs, ducks, looks for Andersen shelter. Tells Mike to stay outside and look for metal things falling from sky making “wheeeeee” noises… 😆

      So, do Ric 360s and Rolex Oyster watches go hand in hand, then?

    • #70837
      Michael
      Participant

      The 360 is a little, fat, bald man’s guitar.

    • #70845
      1bassleft
      Participant

      The 360 is the better “investment” for conservative, boring types, but I like the look of that 650 myself. Never even heard of one before now. 8)

    • #70807
      Michael
      Participant

      In the darker shots it looks like a midnight blue which I really like. Lighter with the flash, but still love it. The maple neck goes perfect with the blue.

      Shall be awesome.

    • #70816
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Im picking this Rickenbacker 650C up on Sunday, doing a straight swap for a Ric 360 with the black hardware, Mapleglow, 80’s model.
      I love the colour of this one, suppose you either love it or hate it.
      Sparkly blue, with chrome hardware and maple neck…phwoarrrr.
      #http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/8493/65014uk.png
      #http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/4751/65028vx.png
      #http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5012/65038qf.png
      #http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7127/65048vg.png

      #http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8016/65057fo.png

    • #70841
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]If you’re getting Jap Squier Strats for £100, I don’t blame you 😯

      Save one for me.[/quote]

      Sold one last month for £110, on ebay, tried to make up the money with a £20 postage but the winner lived in Colchester, i think he spent £20 on petrol driving to pick it up.
      Had the cheek to ask for a trem arm too! at that price.
      Jap squiers don’t fetch that much Bass, which is why they are such a good deal.
      I recently got a 1984/87 Jap Squier Strat in white, upgraded graph saddles, a beautiful rosewood neck, and a set of 3 Kinman pickups, with a hard case too, £180.
      And its one of the best Strats ive played.

    • #70832
      Sabb
      Participant

      lol Wietse, all you need to complete that is a left handed Toni Iommi Gibson SG and a Dimebag Razorback. That and possibley an Angus Young \m/.

    • #70818
      1bassleft
      Participant

      If you’re getting Jap Squier Strats for £100, I don’t blame you 😯

      Save one for me.

    • #70817
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]That’s a great image I have now, 601 😆 , it either puts me off that Stagg or snuggling upto Mrs ex-601 🙂

      FWIW, Lee, I don’t buy into this obsession with resale value of lower-price guitars. If it’s good and playable and inspires further study/playing, then it’s money well spent. Seeing as a Stagg is often sub-£100, then even when depreciation can be 70+%, the money lost is still so-what.

      Truly terrible 70s guitars (such as the Satellite) can sell on Fleeb for more than a new Stagg and that, we’d all agree, is barking mad.[/quote]

      In the dark old days of the 70’s and early 80’s a Gibson or Fender would actualy improve your playing, if you was on a budget in those days you had to contend with a Hohner or Colombus, they were serious tecnique hinderers, action like a pedal steel and hardware made by the same company that churned out Hornby railway sets.
      But nowadays the youth has it easy, China is our saviour, for your £100 you get it all.
      Budget instruments have come a long way, but, i’d still rather invest £100 on a 90’s jap squier Strat, rather than a Chinese PRS copy.
      Just my own POV. 😆

    • #70843
      USGold
      Participant

      That my girlfriends breast are more like the tail end of the guitar than the cutaway–otherwise I might have had to trade off the guitar after that “lovely” imaging. 😀

    • #70839
      1bassleft
      Participant

      That’s a great image I have now, 601 😆 , it either puts me off that Stagg or snuggling upto Mrs ex-601 🙂

      FWIW, Lee, I don’t buy into this obsession with resale value of lower-price guitars. If it’s good and playable and inspires further study/playing, then it’s money well spent. Seeing as a Stagg is often sub-£100, then even when depreciation can be 70+%, the money lost is still so-what.

      Truly terrible 70s guitars (such as the Satellite) can sell on Fleeb for more than a new Stagg and that, we’d all agree, is barking mad.

    • #70808
      601blues
      Participant

      Actually I had a girl friend that had breasts that looked like that cutaway!!

    • #70851
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Like i said, theres nothing wrong with the setup you have, the important thing is that you are happy with the sound and playabilty of the guitar,
      i was merely talking about resale values.

    • #70829
      USGold
      Participant

      best deal I could find on a new or used Gibson LP any model was about $700 US–thats almost 1 and 1/2 times what I put into MY whole rig–besides I alsready have so much $ in to accoustic—the old ball and chain was a tough sell for the all electric deal anyway. Would have loved a Gib-has been my dream guitar ever since the first time I saw Zepplin in concert.

    • #70858
      lee_UK
      Participant

      I was thinking more of a Gibson rather than an Epiphone, but even these ‘under license’ brands hold their value more than the ‘Stags’ and ‘Crafters’ etc.
      Dont get me wrong there is absolutly nothing wrong with the VFM (Value for Money) on these cheaper brands, i have a Crafter parlour guitar in my little collection and it plays very well, also i have a Sattelite 1970’s bass, dont tell 1bassleft i told you that, i was merely saying that if you pay £900 for a Used Gibson Les Paul Standard today, you will probably increase it’s value in 5 yrs time. But then Gibson do have a habbit of knocking their prices up every year.
      Eg: i bought a 1998 SG standard in cherry, brand new in 98′ with a hard case, i got it for £485, would i have a problem selling that today for the same money? have a check on ebay, i think they go for £600 plus.
      Even the cheaper out of USA sub branded guitars like Epiphone and Squier hold money and some go off the scale, especialy the 70’s and 80’s jap models, but i dont think the same will happen with Stag and Crafter and Cruiser, but like you say their are some excellent VFM models out there.

    • #70820
      USGold
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      and yes I would have loved a “badged” guitar-in fact i was all set to buy an EPI LP except that the only one I could afford was either the single set control model (Studio) or the L210? and what i read of the L210 wasn’t very good and it would have cost me even more than what I did buy–also on the day I bought the Stagg, I went back to the guitar mega store and replayed the EPI Studio model and the Stagg actually felt better in the neck and the frets-it also had more tone in the Humbuckers, and the finish was miles ahead of the one on the cheap EPI. I really wanted a LP style-considered the SG EPI but I had my heart set on a LP, I played the other brands I could afford, Ibenez, Rich,Yamaha.and Squire both the Tele and the Strat . I liked the play of mine better, and the fact that it had a tuneomatic bridge was a also a factor, in short I still think I got the best I could for My bucks in the price range I had. I know it most likely won’t appreciate in value, but I also think that 20 years ago people might have said the same for the cheaper Fenders and EPI’s, ya never know what time will spin out. Thanks for the replies and btw I love this forum,I am very glad I happened to find it.

    • #70796
      lee_UK
      Participant

      The cutaway on that guitar looks like a droopy tongue. 😀

      One thing to be said about ‘badged’ guitars like Gibson and Fender is, if you buy a used one and sell it 10 years later, you will get more back than you paid for it.
      A Stagg will depreciate faster than a fully loaded yellow Rover 75. 😆

    • #70810
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I think Staggs are excellent VFM and light years better starter instruments than what was offered for similar money ten or twenty years ago. A fine choice of instrument for its purpose.

    • #70862
      Tim
      Participant

      That does look sweet (I’d change the knobs myself but thats a preference) and as I’ve preached endlessly elsewhere I really don’t see the point in paying over the odds for a badge or for ‘vintage’ status, My main bass cost £200 and kicks ass. If you choose a guitar on sound you’ll play it more, and get better and be more confident. If you choose it on price, you’ll polish it and worry about it at gigs. IMO (and bit of experience)

    • #70813
      USGold
      Participant

      Couldn’t drop the serious coin to buy any of the big name axes you guys have gone for-but i wanted dual humbuckers with dual controls-this one played nice-looked great and had realy nice finish–sounds super too.

      #http://xs74.xs.to/pics/06133/11350.jpg

    • #70676
      601blues
      Participant

      Man ,I cain’t get into a battle of wits with you,Iam unarmed!! but yeah the Young Chang baby grand sounds great!! and has wonderful action!! and I do enjoy it very much!!

    • #70675
      1bassleft
      Participant

      FWIW, I know a little about Young Chang. A Korean firm entrusted with Squier production once Fender moved it out of Japan. Young Chang also made “Fenix” guitars with immense similarities to the Squiers so Fender probably weren’t happy. Young Chang focused on the keyboards after that.

    • #70692
      601blues
      Participant

      Man you do have some good eyes,you ben eatin carrotts,anyway yes I do play some sax,On my new cd I included a song with the sax,!! and I have been workin da piano, I bought a young chang,baby grand,I ve been workin it for about 4 weeks ,I can play a mean redention of Home on da Range with both hands!!

    • #70688
      glw
      Participant

      …and what about the saxamaphone?

    • #70648
      601blues
      Participant

      #http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/601blues/49chevy002.jpg Yup! dis is muh 3rd love,1st da blues, 2nd muh dogs one in da pic above, border collies, and 3rd muh old trucks this is the 4th one Ive done.

    • #70663
      1bassleft
      Participant

      #http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/601blues/xmas05018.jpg

      I like all of them, but I’m wondering about the fur-covered BB King style. Isn’t the neck a bit twisted?

    • #70668
      Tim
      Participant

      [quote=”601blues”] Iam da other way I don’t collect em I just play da heck outta em,The Sheraton was owned by John Lee,at one time, But I have everything I need for every sound I have wanted to produce,thease are about half, of my Harum, the only thing being added right now is a National Reso-electric,in May after that I have got to finish my 49 chevy Truck,I cain’t spend money on Both!![/quote]

      Totally agree Blues, I have 3 Guitars/basses in total, they all do what I want and sound great (and were cheap!) The Aria and Framus are played daily my Epi SG at least once a week.

      Good call on the truck too. Could start a whole new thread but I’ll resist it being a Guitar site n’all

    • #70662
      glw
      Participant

      Lee, I really love my Danelectros. (I did have three, but I sold the Convertible). They have a particular vibe to them that you can’t get from other guitars. I think the weird construction method coupled with the unusual choice of materials actually gives them a special kind of resonance, and this together with the lipstick pickups gives you some great sounds. Also, they are not the flimsy guitars that you might expect.

      I use my 56’U2 model for playing about with different tunings. It’s currently in DADGAD but more often spends its time in EADGAD.
      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/danelectro56u2.jpg
      By the way, the eagle-eyed of you out there may have noticed that the 56’U2 has mis-matched coloured neck and body. This is because they came from separate guitars. I’m not sure what happened to the one the neck came from, but the body I bought from some guy whose mate had dropped the guitar on a tiled floor and smashed the head off. I bought it as a smashed guitar for cannibalisation, but I already had the neck waiting in my box of spares! Having assembled it my original intention was to sell the guitar, but I ended up liking it so much I didn’t want to part with it.

    • #70686
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Nice collection GLW, i can see now why you defend the hardboard guitars, you have 2 of them, and a double neck too!

    • #70666
      Mr. Gibson
      Member

      [quote=”1bassleft”]Which is yours, Mr G – and do you have your own pic of your guitar?[/quote]

      SOrry man, i dont have my own pic because some idiot dropped it off the 8th floor while trying to take a picture the people practising multiplication next door 😛 (guilty as charged) but mine is on the right hand side.

      EDIT: my guitar on the pic

    • #70653
      glw
      Participant
    • #70660
      601blues
      Participant
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      601blues
      Participant
    • #70656
      601blues
      Participant

      #http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/601blues/feb06005.jpg Iam da other way I don’t collect em I just play da heck outta em,The Sheraton was owned by John Lee,at one time, But I have everything I need for every sound I have wanted to produce,thease are about half, of my Harum, the only thing being added right now is a National Reso-electric,in May after that I have got to finish my 49 chevy Truck,I cain’t spend money on Both!!

    • #70665
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Which is yours, Mr G – and do you have your own pic of your guitar?

    • #70679
      Mr. Gibson
      Member

      [quote=”wietse”][quote=”bulsara”][quote=”lee_UK”]Do you know what my wife would say? i wont tell you…
      Bit of a Stratman? very nice ones too.
      Did you say you are more of a collector than a player Brian?[/quote]

      Yes Lee at the moment I am more a collector than player. But I taking lessons to rectify that. My wife actually bought me the ’62 reissue![/quote]

      same problem over here more a collector than a player and that’s led to this 😀

      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/wietse/familynew.jpg

      and that are not all after this grouppicture 4 other guitars came and joined the family.[/quote]

      OOOH I HATE YOU!!!!!! i had to beg for my les paul…….im goin to ROB your HOUSE and take your guitars and give them tothe poor children around the world!

      but anyway……heres my guitar http://www.tokyo-blues.com/images/blogs/GG-Gibson-Les-Paul-58-Large.JPG

      i like it…sounds good too

    • #70680
      1bassleft
      Participant

      601, the closer the camera gets, the more I like that National. Quality. Keep updating us, especially when the postie arrives in May.

    • #70691
      1bassleft
      Participant

      It’s a show, now, Lee. Try pulling your moderating finger out 😆

      Welcome, A+E Chix. That’s a very blue acoustic, but I’m a big fan of Stagg on the VFM scoring system.

    • #70689
      lee_UK
      Participant

      What was the reason for opting for the Cruiser, and which model is it?
      And your pic did a no-show 😯

    • #70673
      AcousticandElectric
      Participant

      Im getting a Cruiser electric soon

      below is my stagg acoustic guitar

      #http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f254/123insesible_html/myguitar.jpg

    • #70685
      601blues
      Participant

      #http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/601blues/NGRL3_body-front.jpg Yeah now this one has the diamond fret markers, like mine. the above pic will give you the depth of da body!!

    • #70645
      601blues
      Participant

      #http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/601blues/NGRL3_pickup.jpg This one is shown with dot fret markers, mine is the same but with Diamond fret markers

    • #70652
      601blues
      Participant
    • #70684
      601blues
      Participant

      Da wait ain’t too long, what 6 weeks from now ifin dey ani’t BSin me!! its 2 1/4″ thick has 1 pickup at the biscuit bridge and a p90 duncan at the neck, Ive,never put muh hands on one however I have heard sound clips,and it has a tru resonator sound, I will let you guys know when I finially put muh hands on it, Yea I like dem chickin heads muh self !!

    • #70674
      glw
      Participant

      Indeed. How deep is the body on that? Is it like a full acoustic or else a thinner electric-style body?

    • #70683
      1bassleft
      Participant

      That’s a long wait, 601, but it looks a heckuva interesting. Love to know how it sounds.

    • #70670
      glw
      Participant

      Lee, here’s the very same guitar with its full spec on the Feline Guitars website: http://felineguitars.com/specs/sacred_panther.html

      It is a one-off, by the way, although I dare say Feline could build another one if a customer requested it. The story of the guitar is that someone took their 1970s Fender Strat to Jonathan at Feline guitars and asked him to build a replacement body as the guitar was much too heavy. Jonathan then inherited the old American Ash body and decided to customise it in a fashion styled after the guitar that Russ Ballard used to play, i.e. with holes through the body. This would also help cut down on body mass and therefore weight, although without losing sustain. (Holes in a lighter body could be disasterous tone-wise).

      Feline converted the neck joint from a Fender 1970s 3-bolt to a 4-bolt. The Feline neck has a rosewood fingerboard with a Gibson radius to it. The frets are fatter than you’d usually find on a Strat, and the whole neck feels great to play.

      It is still a heavy guitar. The Seymour Duncan pickups give a wider range of sounds than you’d normally find on a Strat. (I suppose, technically, this is a Fat Strat). I asked Jonathan to set up the guitar for non-tremolo playing as I really dislike Fender style tremolos, so he installed all 5 springs and screwed the bridge right down so that it functions effectively as a hardtail. (I had been considering getting a similar guitar built in hardtail format, but the cost would have been too much for me, so I made Jonathan an offer for this one instead. No, it didn’t cost me anywhere near as much as the price quoted on the link above!)

      I don’t really know how to describe how it plays, but it plays great and feels so much better in my hands than any of my other guitars or most other guitars that I have tried. Let’s face it, the Stratocaster design is popular because it is a bloody good design. It’s ergonomic and comfortable to play.

    • #70657
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Chicken head knobs are a very nice touch.

      GLW, your cat has shrunk again!! and i was wondering about that guitar, tell us a bit more about it, what is it like to play? how does it compare to a standard US/Jap strat? and what did you pay for it?
      I wouldnt put it on the ‘worse’ thread, i like the colour and its very unusal.

    • #70659
      601blues
      Participant

      Just got this National, on da down side Iam next in line for MAY, but they got my money anyway, oh well gives me somphin to look foreward too!!#http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/601blues/NGRL3_front.jpg

    • #70650
      601blues
      Participant

      Yes it looks like it will take care of biz!!

    • #70661
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Dang, glw, you just made me delete my “worst” post (joking 😆 ). I see your point; my German mate Arni at http://www.leftybass.com has me looking out for vintage and interesting lefties. If you think the mid-late 70s Strats are bad, try a Precision in natural 😥 . I think it’s because they used northern ash for the bodies. Nice grain, but incredibly dense, unlike the swamp ash used in the 50s.

      +1 for the acoustics, Lee. Now, Tim, perhaps you might be the only one even vaguely interested (maybe 601, too). My ‘best’ bass, although I didn’t spend a fortune is this Jim Reed BE5:
      #http://www.leftybass.com/oz_osborne_reed.jpg

      It’s quite good, actually. It has a thru-neck of mahogany and maple laminates and the body is a mahogany core with top and back coverings of bird’s-eye koa. I’m not really an exotic wood type, but it does look interesting. The pups and preamp are so-so, but it’s a very warm sounding rumbler.

    • #70655
      glw
      Participant

      In case you were wondering about the new avatar… Here’s my latest guitar. It’s a one-off custom jobbie built by Feline Guitars in Croydon (see http://www.felineguitars.com). It features an American ash body from a 1970s Fender Stratocaster – the holes are there partly to decrease the weight (its still very heavy though) and partly because they look cool. Other features are Seymour Duncan pickups (2xSSL1, 1xCustom5), Gotoh bridge and machine heads. It sounds fantastic, and has a versatile and very useable range of sounds all available via the 5-way selector switch.

      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/feline_06.jpg

      Yes, it was inspired by Russ Ballard’s guitar, if any of you have seen that. And NO, it’s not a guitar for the Worst… thread, OK?

    • #70658
      glw
      Participant

      The Crafter looks nice… not seen one of those before.

      (Obviously, the Gibsons look great too – that goes without saying).

    • #70690
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Thought i’d post up my accoustics, first one is my nearest and dearest, the Greatest accoustic ive ever played, and it’s heartstoppingly beautifull.
      My Gibson Hummingbird, bought new in i think 99′.

      #http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1756/dsc011262fz.jpg

      This one is a Crafer Parlour guitar i bought a couple of years back, great tone, but had a headstock repair after my missus accidently knocked it on to the tiled floor, ouch!
      Still sounds good though, used to use it for gigging but cant anymore cos i keep thinking the necke will snap off at any moment! can you imagine the laughter if i was in the middle of ‘Pinball Wizard’ and the headstock flew off?

      #http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/1405/dsc011102nz.jpg

      And the last one is my Gibson ‘Sheryl Crow’ signature, a copy of her country and western, I actualy got the guitar that was reveiwed in ‘Guitarist’ Magazine, after they reveiwed it i got it from PMT in Romford, of course i got an extra copy of the Magazine to keep with the guitar.
      It was reveiwed by the editor too! and you can see the pictures of the serial number through the soundhole, along with Sheryls signature.
      But of course it is essentialy the same guitar as the Hummingbird, different colour and tuners, but still the same guitar.

      #http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/5660/dsc011058uw.jpg

    • #70644
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Got another box so I thought I’d take up 601’s suggestion and create the “show us your amp” thread. I’ll move or copy the overly wiringy posts from here to there. It’d be nice if anybody else pops up an amp pic – doesn’t have to be valves ‘n’ wires 🙂

    • #70677
      Tim
      Participant

      [quote=”601blues”]:D A clean geetar is a happy geetar!! 😆 Or if your refering to the post of my 345 and 2 amps , Clean on one amp means , I don’t use any overdrive or any effects just what I can achieve in[ A ]channel, presence etc, 2nd amp I overdrive it just enough to get a good attitude, combine the 2 sounds and it has punch like 2 seperate guitars, Thats what clean means to me, :roll:[/quote]

      Clean sounding I understand, its all this washing away away of character (beer) and tonal warmth (dead skin) that I don’t understand 😆

      I solved the cleaning-my-bass problem once and for all by spraying it satin black. Although it is kinda grey and furry around the pups and bridge now…

    • #70671
      601blues
      Participant

      8) Ain’t no big deal, I just like to talk Guitars, Bases ,and sound,

    • #70654
      1bassleft
      Participant

      The subject of valve amps came up, but I did say I would shift it over to a different topic if it got in the way. Or I can just shut up about the boxes 😆 and just stick to what’s making the sound 😉

    • #70646
      601blues
      Participant

      😀 A clean geetar is a happy geetar!! 😆 Or if your refering to the post of my 345 and 2 amps , Clean on one amp means , I don’t use any overdrive or any effects just what I can achieve in[ A ]channel, presence etc, 2nd amp I overdrive it just enough to get a good attitude, combine the 2 sounds and it has punch like 2 seperate guitars, Thats what clean means to me, 🙄

    • #70651
      Tim
      Participant

      Sounds very cool, not so much action round my neck of the woods but a pretty good underground if you know where to look.

      What’s this ‘clean’ thing you keep mentioning?!

    • #70672
      601blues
      Participant

      Man ain’t nuttin wrong with 4 strings!! aslong as you use em all!! and nuttin bad about 3 either! dats 2 more than you need!! I have a few but Iam not a collector, Ive just ran across deals that I could not refuse! and act, its a pain in the ass havin more than one you have to clean em and keep em up and feel guilty you have not played each more often,and decide which one to take to a gig! THank god I only have 1 wife!!!! But I was in williamsburg Va, last year and droped into a little blues hangout,there was a jam goin on, offin da corner was a huge guy sitten grovin on the sound,musta weighed 400 lbs looked homeless, but after a while thay invited him up and he got on a 4 string bass and man he rocked da house!!! The best Ive ever heard by far!! his name was Mike Miller!!

    • #70669
      Tim
      Participant

      I like looking at all the guitars but I only lurk as I have nothing intelligent to say about them being a simple 4-stringer.

      They’re very nice though…

      I think all my guitars (3, woo!) are dotted around on various threads, but they’re nothing exciting.

    • #70667
      glw
      Participant

      I’m certainly interested! In the guitars, that is. Amps just look like a bunch of boxes to me. I like what they do, but they are not the same kind of objects of desire that guitars are.

      (Can I show a picture of my ukulele or is that not allowed?)

    • #70664
      601blues
      Participant

      😯 Iam sorry !! I could’ve sworn the topic said , Show your guitar!! not amps! Nice old stuff fo sure! However I posted on this thread to talk guitars and no one is interested, May be start a thread show your amps?? 💡

    • #70682
      Tim
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]If you get one or another hybrid, let me know. As mentioned in the thread, I could do you a favour and bung you a nice 12AX7/ECC83 to replace the appalling piece of rubbish that’s likely to be in there. Makes a heckuva difference having a good 12AX7.[/quote]

      Thank you, truely, as I say I’m in a ‘pay the rent then see what I can get’ position but your advice has been priceless.

      Thanks again.

    • #70687
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Jcon, as a fellow lefty, I’ve been a bit frustrated at what’s out there. As a 5-string bass player it was even worse. I was fairly advanced into a self-build, cocked it up, then found Jim Reed in Italy making lefties and got a nice 5-string from them. The pups are nothing special Kramer soaps but otherwise incredible for the money. I’d like to get back to building or Frankensteining out of all the bits I’ve picked up. That is a nice electric you have, all the better for not being a “me-too” guitar.

      Hoosier, I’d be very interested in your pics and stories (if not too painful; I’ve turned down or just left in other people’s houses some things myself). I don’t know whether to run the amp thing inside this thread or peel it off to a new one; see how it goes. I’d dearly like a YBA1A, even though it’s quite a similar EL34 Bassman-influenced like my CMI. Have you seen the Velvet Black website? Great info, but I wish I were one of those early contributors who picked their Traynors up for $50 😥

      Tim, I have to admit that (for bass) hybrids do 90% of what I like about valve bass anyway. Keep an eye out for any 90s Marshall DBS going cheap. I did go through one (the 400W) back then and it was the first time I didn’t wrinkle the nose and thank the Lordy for the CMI (Cleartone Musical Instruments – all you Marshall trivia types). The DBS (like the newer + expensive Ashdowns) has separate SS and 12AX7 preamps, so you can blend the two into the power amp section. This is a very, very neat thing on bass guitar. If you get one or another hybrid, let me know. As mentioned in the thread, I could do you a favour and bung you a nice 12AX7/ECC83 to replace the appalling piece of rubbish that’s likely to be in there. Makes a heckuva difference having a good 12AX7.

    • #70649
      601blues
      Participant

      #http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/601blues/es345006.jpg 😯 This is my ES345 note the seymore duncan at center position! the 345 is a stero guitar I play tru 2 amps ,the 2 pups at bridge and neck are wired stereo but the center 59 can be brought into the stereo mix at either side it operates seperate via extra volume pot ,Have one amp on left clean and right amp with some attitude, I can go to either amp or both!

    • #70647
      601blues
      Participant

      #http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/601blues/Ms.jpg 😯 Thi si my 74 LP custom, I love this guitar it has an awsome sound!! Ive heard others say things like the 3rd pu on the lp gets in there way or its all show no go all I gotta say is BS, the center position is what I use 99% of the time and Ive never heard any guitar ever give that tone!!

    • #70678
      glw
      Participant

      Nice one, jconplan!

    • #70681
      jconplan
      Participant

      After years trying to find a decent lefthanded guitar I came to know a local luthier who sat down with me and built me this….:
      [URL=http://img99.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img12660yw.jpg]#http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3791/img12660yw.th.jpg[/URL][URL=http://img99.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img12678oj.jpg]#http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4372/img12678oj.th.jpg%5B/URL%5D
      One year and two months in the making (that’s his average waiting list but I think it was worth the wait.
      Strait wood grain, maple top, mahogny body, ebony fingerboard, mother of pearl inlays on the neck, body, knobs and switch, gold plated electronics and schaler bridge. the pickups… well i can tell you they are very special….
      He also did a guitar for Mark Knopfler (which i got to play a little bit before is was shipped). I kind think it resembles those pensa guitars. http://www.pensaguitars.com/images/photos/MK%201_1.jpg.
      But it sounds….. It sounds amazing. …

    • #70505
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I’ve generally only got rid of SS stuff, and even some of that I see around on Fleeb with barking prices and “vintage” justification. My get-rids include a SS Marshall Bass 30 of the 70s/80s in a tan vinyl. Bad sound to begin with, it would suddenly hum loudly and smell like a drowned dog. The valvers I got rid of include an old Carlsbro 60PA head, that I actually bought for vocal PA. It was rubbish at the job, but people are now buying them to mod for guitar (a friend of mine in LA can write a “how to” manual). The other was a “Linear Conchord” which was an old amp with (IIRC) phono + mic input. Really rubbish as an instrument amp but they’re also selling on the Fleeb for sillyish money.

      Most of my held-on stuff is oddball that needs some explaining. Things like student money, mortgages, wife and now a sprog have always got in the way of really splashing out, so I’ve had to be inventive or an eBore specialist. Put the coffee on, or make extensive use of the scroll-down button. My first and still fave amp (not for sentimental reasons) is my CMI 100W Lead/Bass.
      #http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid147/p783df0433b39c3f3b85b5046bd7ecdf4/f635a808.jpg
      I bought it in a smelly “Pulp Fiction” 2nd hand shop in 1981 for £65. I distinctly remember a HiWatt being there, a heap of Sound Cities and, I think, an Orange, that he couldn’t sell with a naked Deborah Harry prostrate over them. I got the CMI because it sounded the nicest. Two years later, I had an extensive loan of an Orange head + cab and I still liked the CMI more. It turned out that CMI was one of those rebadge jobs that Jim Marshall did and this is pretty much a hybrid of the early 70s Superlead/Superbass:
      #http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid147/pf5877fe4c4dd6a4ea65a3d00ab41d4a1/f635a809.jpg
      Yes, that filter capacitor needs replacing. So do the Svetlanas; not because they’re worn but they just don’t sound as good as the Mullards did. A quad of German RFTs are earmarked for it.

      Coupla years ago, I wanted a combo for light work and fancied either the Fender Musicmaster Bass or Traynor YBA2 but the occasional ones here in Blighty went for too much so I switched to a WEM Dominator MkIII:
      #http://britamps.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/watkins/dominator/dom2b.jpeg
      (library pic, not my actual amp or lousy photo)

      I was so excited to get one for under £100 I suddenly realized I’d arranged to collect on my wife’s birthday 😯 Flower shop on the way home 😳 . Mullard ECC83s and EL84s, much better than my guitarist’s amp with Sovteks. Cathode biased, so I’ve briefly plonked Amperex and RCA in there – very decent but I prefer the Mulls. This amp was plagiarized by Marshall to make their 18W combos which now collect fantasy money even in RI form. Gorgeous with the right glass.

      Around my birthday 2004, couldn’t resist this ’69 Laney PA Super 100:
      #http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid130/p6164c7a6ee772c56b7849d94bcdecbb2/f7bdf2a5.jpg

      It slightly predates the Iommi Supergroup and the power section is identical, pretty much. What I like about the preamp is that each of the six channels has its own valve to handle the gain stage and eq before going on to the mixer and PI tubes:
      #http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid130/p8a0839421dbd6a81a4e136cd0f34d0f6/f7bdf29d.jpg

      Channels 5+6 are slightly modded to overdrive, and 1-4 alternate between British and US pre-tubes and increasing gain types to pick a tone I like. The EQ is a little bit out, but not so bad I urgently need to change pots/caps. I reckon the bias is too cold though. It’s too quiet for a 100W and the (early) distortion is not particularly pleasant. Oh, being a PA, it has an echo (FX) loop, which is nice on an amp this old.

      My weirdest, and most outrageously lucky, pickup was a coupla months ago. Goes by the name of “Fradan Echomatic 50” it was made locally in 1964 and bought then by the guy who sold it to me:
      #http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid195/p7350807ec502f82e10b68af7836b0d0c/f13021dd.jpg

      The guy who ran an electronics/musical instruments shop started making his own version of the WEM Copicat. It’s a valve driven tape echo, but with a 2xEL34, 50W power amp built into it. It was meant as a “whole band” PA, and that’s how the seller’s band used it. There are three FX levels and rate and depth knobs. Blimmin’ loud as well. It came with a pair of 2×12″ cabs containing ’60s Goodmans Audioms that actually sound nice (I’m not big on vintage speakers usually). Why no-one bid more than £35 for it I don’t know. Still, the seller seemed happy enough that it was going to someone that’ll stroke it and pat it and love it…

      I’ve yet to receive this American “Voice of Music” that I bought on impulse for about $30:
      #http://i20.ebayimg.com/01/i/05/aa/0f/5b_1.JPG

      my LA chum has ditched the box, cloth, naff speakers etc. The 7-pin valves are going, to be replaced by 12AX7 and 6V6. The idea is for a 5W single-ended Champ-style head. Looking forward to that, as old Fenders are a bit thin on the ground over here:
      #http://i1.ebayimg.com/02/i/05/ab/1e/ca_1.JPG

      😯 Blimey, apols for chunking up the bandwidth and hijacking a ‘guitar’ thread but get me talking amps and the verbals just flow. If anyone’s interested, I could move this post and start up a “Show us your…amp” sister thread instead.

      1BL

    • #70506
      Hoosier
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]:lol: , I’m going in the opposite direction. Buying all manner of valve/tube amps. Mrs Bass is getting annoyed with musty old smellies cluttering up the place. A friend in LA is “Champifying” an obscure US 5W for me; fortunately, she doesn’t accompany me to the Royal Mail collection depot.[/quote]
      Other than my Peavey Delta Blues 2×10 and Fender Blues Jr,all my amps are old tube types as well,but I have sold a bunch of great ones I wish I had back now.
      What have you got now?

    • #70542
      rewindspline
      Participant

      [quote=”glw”]What is it?[/quote]

      maton mastersound ms2000 deluxe, 2004 model
      http://www.maton.com.au/electrics/ms2000dlxsd.asp

      bill lawrence xl500l and xl500r pickups

      ernie ball 11-56 strings

      play it through a custom pedalboard and 2002 dual rectifier w/ 2×12 mesa cab

      http://www.geocities.com/regulator1too/pedalboard.html

      also through mesa v-twin and behringer ultra-g di w/ cab simulation into desk

      also double the live sound using the mesa slave out through di w/ cab simulator

      highly recommend the behringer di w/ cab simulator

    • #70519
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😆 , I’m going in the opposite direction. Buying all manner of valve/tube amps. Mrs Bass is getting annoyed with musty old smellies cluttering up the place. A friend in LA is “Champifying” an obscure US 5W for me; fortunately, she doesn’t accompany me to the Royal Mail collection depot.

    • #70527
      Hoosier
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”]Hoosier, I just edited your post to make the Photobucket link “live” – hope you don’t mind. Nice collection.[/quote]
      I most certainly don’t mind,I can use all the help I can get!
      Thanks,I’m new here(can you tell?)and so far the folks seem very nice and eager to help.
      As far as the guitar collection,I’ve kept most(but not all) of the guitars I’ve had,but I’ve gone thru a pretty fair collection of amps.I’m down to about 6 of them.I’ve probably owned 30 or more.

    • #70530
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Hoosier, I just edited your post to make the Photobucket link “live” – hope you don’t mind. Nice collection.

    • #70504
      Hoosier
      Participant

      [quote=”lee_UK”][quote=”Hoosier”]http://photobucket.com/albums/d32/JosephRhodes/
      [/quote]

      Did you change the pickups on that Gibson LP Delux ? i thought they had mini humbukers? very nice collection though, whats the green sunburst guitar?[/quote]
      Yeah,it had mini humbuckers when I got it way back in ’76.I was younger and dumber and I routed it and put in Gibson PAFs,but now it has Dimarzio
      Super Distortions in it that sound great when you roll them back a ways.
      The green guitar is a Sears Silvertone/Teisco that was my second guitar owned that I got in the mid 60s.I had a freind refret it and it came back unplayable,so I recently picked up a very nice brand new Squier neck for $50 and made it fit.One pickup is a PAF that came out of the Les Paul,the other is from my Dot.I put an Allparts top loading tele bridge on it(matches the neck spacing and profile perfectly)that I cut to fit.I just wanted it to play again,but it actually plays pretty nice and sounds nice as well.

    • #70533
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”Hoosier”]http://photobucket.com/albums/d32/JosephRhodes/
      [/quote]

      Did you change the pickups on that Gibson LP Delux ? i thought they had mini humbukers? very nice collection though, whats the green sunburst guitar?

    • #70499
      Hoosier
      Participant
    • #70489
      glw
      Participant

      What is it?

    • #70531
      rewindspline
      Participant
    • #70543
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I wasn’t particularly dissing any bass amp; more like explaining my personal obsession that makes me a not very objective commentator. That clean pop, it doesn’t suit what/how I play and it’s not a sound I particularly like to listen to but that’s me rather than the amp.

      I do have ali-coned, neo-thingy speakers like the Hartke and they’re great. All the vintage-types were urging me to keep the Fane drivers in my cab but yanking them out was an excellent move (throwing them in the skip wasn’t though 😳 ). All that flobby, inarticulate boff was instantly replaced by crisp, punchy notes (still with all the valve amp’s good points, though). It really showed up some sloppy playing I’d been getting away with and I had to adjust my technique. It all got smudged out with the old drivers.

      For me, I quite like the fact that bass players can have strong opinions about what amps they like best; just as guitarists do. Soundmen who say “you the bass player? We’ll put you straight into the PA” are definitely not my type 😆

      There are a few TBLers who don’t rate Behringer product. It might be snobbery and “if it’s that cheap it must be rubbish” attitude. I’ve recently replaced an expensive, English made PA with a much-better specced and louder Chinese one for a fraction of what I paid for the previous and it’s absolutely great for the money. HST, the old Laney 100W amp I got off Fleeb was sold to me by a bassist who’d replaced it with two 300W Behringers. Inside the box was a note saying that he regretted the sale and would take it back and refund my shipping costs. And it’s nowhere near as loud as the Superbass gets.

    • #70495
      601blues
      Participant

      😯 Well Ive heard the ampeg, a good friend ,Bull,plays with the house rockers has one ,sounds good ! and I ve heard the Kuger full stack either 6or800 watts it kicked butt big time I loved the clean pop it had!! a good friend Harry Cowart,played with the B Gees,and Berry Gibb, also with Strisand, a bassman as you know sez the Krugers are his choice! The Kuger Backline is 350 watts and goes for about 800 USD thats not bad but is 350 enough to push Iam gonna check it out!! Ive Heard about the Hartke its supposed to be a badass but Ive never heard one. Behringer makes a sweet Bass combo Ive heard a 120 watt 1 speaker, has a super bass setting which sounds like a bass chouris, really sounds good 199. USD great deal but to small for me, But They have Larger Heads and Cabs, very Cheap,

    • #70502
      1bassleft
      Participant

      My problem, and I ought to get professional help for it, is that I have to play through valves/tubes. I’m so anal I have preferences for EL34s over 6550s and, given the money or the luck, Mullard valves over those tightlipped, sterile, Russian brands.

      I’d say that a tube amp sounds best with blues bass, too. My favourite is the Marshall Superbass and the HiWatt, but they cost a bomb now. I’ve never had the “lack of headroom” problem that some bassists yak on about, because I actually hate that hifi, biddidy-dink SS tone. Remembering a thread on The Bottom Line, the most popular makes (US-orientated) were Eden (tremendously expensive valve heads) and SWR. Still quite a few that won’t part with their SVT Ampeg.

      One thing I have found out (sadly, others are cottoning on and prices are going up) is that bass is perfectly OK through an old valve PA head. They sell for relatively small money because their obvious job – amplifying vocals – is one that they suck majorly at. If more watts or less weight were an issue, I mustard mitt that the hybrids do work. The Ashdowns with a 12AX7 are very impressive – Paul McCartney and Roger Waters both used them at Live 8. I can’t speak for the Krueger because I spend most of my time playing through or hunting for smelly old glass-driven amps but, as you say, well-regarded amps and certainly worth a tryout.

    • #70535
      Tim
      Participant

      Blues bass is the best sound in the world. Any ops on the bass rigs mentioned? (1BL?) because I’ve never seen a bad review of a Krueger and I’m quite tempted, but I haven’t played one yet…

      Don’t buy a Peavey would be my only advice.

    • #70509
      601blues
      Participant

      😯 Man tell you what !! doin da bass lines on my new Cd this last year and gettin into dat Hamer 5 string I have to admit Iam in love not just with da hamer but with da bass period,I love that thunder around me and I love to lay down those grooves. Iam Thinkin about gettin a live rig and maybe doin some bass work at some shows, Ilike my 5 string, what about amp?? ampeg? Kruger? Hartke? if I get sometin its gotta be badass!! whatcha Think??? 😯

    • #70497
      glw
      Participant

      601 – yeah, one root and two strings an octave higher than the root.

    • #70507
      601blues
      Participant

      🙄 All 3 strings tuned alike ?? as a 12 string guitar??

    • #70514
      1bassleft
      Participant

      You’re right, glw. I had a look at Arni’s Hamer on leftybass.com and it is as you say. I was too tired to come back here and correct it. Most 8-strings are, as you say, high-funda, high-funda etc looking down from above. The idea being that finger stylers will pluck the fundamental first and the octave string will be more subtle. Ric does do it the other way and, because I play plec or thumg-down a lot, I prefer it that way myself. I bought a righty 8-neck for some never-light-of-day project. If I get it built, the reversed righty nec will give that funda-oct, funda-oct layout.

      I can’t help thinking that I did see somewhere, once, an oct-funda-oct 12-string. Can’t remember anything else like brand name. I used to (maybe they’re still there) see new 10-string basses sold on eBay, but righties only. I’d be seriously tempted by a reasonably cheap lefty ten-string.

    • #70511
      glw
      Participant

      The octave strings on a 12-string bass, are both to one side of the root, not either side. They are usually “above” but there is a school of thought that they are better positioned “below” (Rickenbacker style) as it opens up the instrument for more chordal playing.

    • #70529
      601blues
      Participant

      😯 A friend bought a Behringer bass amp and it has a feature on it call super bass or sometin like dat and it sounds like it has and octive assist like chouris

    • #70541
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Yes, it’s an EADG with the octave strings either side of the root bass. Not that I’ve ever played one, but it’s gotta be overkill. I’d be happy with an 8-string (although I’d want the fundamental on the topside, for my style).

      Better still, you can get righty 10-strings (OK, eBay, made in Korea stuff – bet it’s fun, though).

    • #70512
      601blues
      Participant

      😯 WOW!!!! I just went to dat site, man dats the first one Ive seen!! But what am i lookin at, is it a 4 string with 2 harmony strings??? you can’t play em seperatly HUH!! Please Educate me Bass man !!!! 😯 😕

    • #70491
      601blues
      Participant

      😯 Yup just dat 1 string really framed that patern, and it sounds so much meatier, than droppin down to catch dat B !!

    • #70537
      1bassleft
      Participant

      A look at http://www.12-stringbass.com will lead you to the Chaparell 12-string.

      I agree with you that, once I got a bass with a low B, I couldn’t live without it. Half of my old songs were easier on the 5, and almost all of the new songs were impossible without a 5.

    • #70516
      601blues
      Participant

      🙄 Well dats why I do my Bass lines,Blues bass is so there out front,not behind the scenes,Ive had a hard time findin a bass play that would be able to handle blues bass,and I live so far out in the sticks to get together was a problem so I just do them, My Ideal of a perfact band for me is a three piece, Bass, Guitar, drums, 2 female backline singers,thats all, A 12 string bass ?? wow!! Ido like the low B on the 5th

    • #70501
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Yes, it’s a nice bass. Hamer made among the best of the 8-string and 12-string basses, even available as lefties. A friend of mine in Germany has a lefty Chaparral 12-string, the lucky git. Must cost him for a re-string, though 🙂

      In my exp, blues guitarists can make annoyingly good bass players. The guitarist in my band has a blues background and he often suggests lines to me. They’re usually too good to dismiss, which can be quite irritating 😆

    • #70521
      601blues
      Participant

      🙄 Excusse me Iam not a Bassist,by anymeans!!But I do all my own bass work on my CDs, I have a great interest in the bass I think a good bass player is awsome,In Blues he is the groove!! SO to ansewer you That is a Hamer 5 String, with active pickups, Like I said I don’t know much about the bass but this one sounds great to me, 😕

    • #70540
      1bassleft
      Participant

      What’s the bass guitar, 601? Nice to see it’s got the correct # of strings. Four is just one too few for me.

    • #70510
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Thats it, just a Weller vibe going on, kinda like your cat, its obvious that you are doing a ‘Goodies’ tribute to the famous white kitten ‘Post office tower’ sketch but in Black cat ‘Deacy Amp’ way, we can feel it more than we can see it. 😉

      Goodie Goodie Yum Yums..

    • #70538
      glw
      Participant

      That’s what I meant by a “nod”. You don’t want to have exactly tyhe same guitar, it’s more about the vibe.

    • #70520
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”glw”]Nice one, Lee.

      A nod to Paul Weller, perhaps?[/quote]

      I dont think he owned one with black hardware, but yes i am a big fan, saw The Jam twice, and ive seen Weller 3 times, awsome songwriter and performer.
      I also have a 360 V64 Ric in fireglow, thats a real beauty, i’ll have to do some pictures and post them on here, always thought it was a bit ‘look how much gear ive got, nah nah nah’ to post your gear, but you all know im not like that, Like 601 i do play most of them, although i only gig with a couple, but thats down to the style of music we play rather than not taking them out.

    • #70517
      601blues
      Participant

      #http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/601blues/601BluesBlueratstudio033.jpg 8) I don’t collect guitars just play em, Each one I have has a very diffrent sound I have gotten rid of a bunch of guitars because I didn’t like the tone of them so I wouldn’t play em!!

    • #70525
      601blues
      Participant
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      601blues
      Participant
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      601blues
      Participant
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      601blues
      Participant
    • #70539
      glw
      Participant

      Nice one, Lee.

      A nod to Paul Weller, perhaps?

    • #70493
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Heres my latest baby, i got her today, and she was swapped for a Vox AC30 TBX. and the sofa is not mine, these are pic’s the other guy sent me before the changeover.

      #http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/9739/p10100046ix.jpg

      Im going to have to do a ‘Team Photo’ of my collection one day.

    • #70522
      HigherPerspective
      Participant

      Wow, huge collection. How could you get so much money to pay for all of that? That’s insane. Awesome collection, keep it up.

    • #70518
      glw
      Participant

      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/sanoxstrat02.jpg #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/sanoxstrat01.jpg
      This is my latest baby. It’s a Sanox Sound Creator japanese-made Strat copy from the 1970s. Oh yeah, and its body is made from clear perspex, in case you hadn’t noticed. It’s a bit like the guitar that Nile Rodgers used to play in Chic (his had a clear scratchplate though). It does have a trem but I’ve opted not to use it (I don’t like them). It’s got a fair amount of battle scars, but plug it in and it sounds wicked! It’s got that certain vibe, that ‘mojo’ that’s missing from so many modern guitars.

      Does anyone know anything about Sanox Sound Creator guitars? I can find very little about them other than they built a few high-quality copies of Gibsons and Fenders, and even made a copy of Fender’s short-lived “Lead” model, which wasn’t exactly a popular guitar to start with.

    • #70503
      wietse
      Participant

      it’s a Audition, model 7003 that’s all i know, couldn’t find any pictures of it on the net.
      possible this model was available under a wide range of names what was normal for Kawai made guitars.

    • #70532
      glw
      Participant

      What is that guitar? It looks kinda familiar. I fancy perhaps I knew someone who had one when I was a kid. The ol’ brain is going these days, though…

    • #70526
      wietse
      Participant

      [quote=”Michael”]The insurance bill on the room eh wietse 😀

      Awesome collection and awesome site.[/quote]

      thanks, i ‘m busy updating my site but that takes more time than i wanted due to a harddisk crash.
      all my backups are gone so i have to copy the site manually into the program i used for building the site.
      since the crash a few months ago my collection grew with 5 guitars, this one is the latest addition.
      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/wietse/auditionhollow.jpg
      needs some work all the plates are gone, there has to be schratchplates on both sides and on both sides of the tremelo, this is visible due to small plugged screwholes on those locations.
      and the only schratch plate on it is not original and orange 🙁 .
      if anyone could help me getting a picture of a guitar like this with all it’s original plates that would be greatly apreciated.

    • #70528
      Michael
      Participant

      The insurance bill on the room eh wietse 😀

      Awesome collection and awesome site.

    • #70523
      rayc
      Participant

      I am green with envy. I’d never really want that many because I’d never have time to play them all; but I love to have my pick of 2 or 3.

    • #70515
      Sanjeev
      Participant

      wietse – Iam so jealous, you almost have your own guitar store!

    • #70524
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Toco had a link to it on page 1 of your “Worst finish” thread, Lee. We both sided as fans of the pink paisley. The link’s now been removed, although the text is there. BTW, what have I said that you didn’t understand, Toco? I’m polishing up my Spanish as I’m out there tomorrow. Oh, and guess which of your instruments I liked best? I’m going to copy it into some image editor and mirror it. Then wish.

    • #70534
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Where have i seen the pink paisley before? i recognise the green vol knob? have you displayed it before? maybe Ebay? 😕

    • #70513
      vitaminE
      Participant

      GEEEEZ! I guess this is the opposite. Although I once owned 9 guitars at once (fenders and charvels), I got sick of all the cases laying around and a normal person can really only play one guitar at a time. I play (hack) on these 6ers all the time and my 2 sad little electrics have accounted for thousands of $$$ from serving up crap to dancing drunks. The paisley is actually starting to show some nice wear on the fingerboard and is coming up on a fret job. The Hag was a gift from a friend and its fate is yet to be determined – Yo no comprendo el basso. I’m starting to think (once again) that I need more guitars!

      #http://usera.imagecave.com/vitaminE/Guitars.jpg

    • #70389
      lee_UK
      Participant

      looks like a family reunion picture, nice looking SG with the vibrola lyre unit..

    • #70402
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Wietse, it must be very annoying when a friend just wants to stay the night on your sofa 😉 . Great collection.

    • #70405
      wietse
      Participant

      [quote=”bulsara”][quote=”lee_UK”]Do you know what my wife would say? i wont tell you…
      Bit of a Stratman? very nice ones too.
      Did you say you are more of a collector than a player Brian?[/quote]

      Yes Lee at the moment I am more a collector than player. But I taking lessons to rectify that. My wife actually bought me the ’62 reissue![/quote]

      same problem over here more a collector than a player and that’s led to this 😀

      #http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/wietse/familynew.jpg

      and that are not all after this grouppicture 4 other guitars came and joined the family.

    • #70383
      guitarhand2
      Participant

      Nice set of Strats but they wouldn’t last long in my house, the wife likes to pretend she’s Pete Townsend at the end of the show. Ironically I practice on a strat at home, but the les paul stays at the studio locked in its own room far away from her destructive tendencies. I figure as good as the strat is I can replace it, but not the Les.

    • #70329
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”1bassleft”] I know what Lee’ll say, but he’s 100% Gibson 😛 . Anyone else?

      PS – Douglas Adams – gotta be an OK type of person, Buls.[/quote]

      Actualy Bass im 90% Gibson and 10% everything else, it’s all in the fingers mate! 😆

    • #70385
      bulsara
      Participant

      [quote=”lee_UK”]Do you know what my wife would say? i wont tell you…
      Bit of a Stratman? very nice ones too.
      Did you say you are more of a collector than a player Brian?[/quote]

      Yes Lee at the moment I am more a collector than player. But I taking lessons to rectify that. My wife actually bought me the ’62 reissue!

    • #70387
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Nice link. I just wondered; I like a maple f/board – really would prefer not to put up with rosewood, but it’s everywhere. Also, I lurve a glossy neck lacquer. Am I weird? Is it just me? I know what Lee’ll say, but he’s 100% Gibson 😛 . Anyone else?

      PS – Douglas Adams – gotta be an OK type of person, Buls.

    • #70377
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Do you know what my wife would say? i wont tell you…
      Bit of a Stratman? very nice ones too.
      Did you say you are more of a collector than a player Brian?

    • #70395
      SB
      Participant

      Nice little guitar family you’ve got there Brian. I think your “I don’t know what this is” guitar could very well be a mid 60’s Ibanez. It has the headstock and body shape of mine but the hardware is a bit different. I also think the pickups match mine but it is a bit difficult to tell for sure from the photograph. I’ve piled stuff on top of my copy of Bizarre Guitars of the 60’s, when I uncover it I’ll look to see of your guitar is pictured. I can send you a picture of my guitar for comparison if you are interested in such things. take care, SB

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