Looking for an upgrade

JoshGuitar · #1 01-28-2012, 10:21 AM

Hey guys! I'm looking for some opinions on a new wife, I'm thinking of trading in my Epiphone Emperor Regent and getting something a little more shiny

I've currently been eyeing up a Peerless Cremona so any recommendations in that ballpark would be most appreciated!

Many thanks!

RoyaleT · #2 01-28-2012, 10:26 AM

I say keep the wife and take on the mistress. But keep them in separate rooms.

Jazzman301 · #3 01-28-2012, 10:35 AM

Agreed! BUT the Cremona is a really nice guitar. A little bit pricier is the Peerless Imperial with the routed/set humbucker. Right around that price is also the Eastman Jazz 16 and 17. Lou HIGHLY recomends the Imperial with the humucker if you are into the a warm dark tone.

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Lou is a great cat and extremely helpful. He never tries to SELL anything. He will make suggestions and let you take things from there. Really awesome guy and he is a player.

'Mike

PTChristopher · #4 01-28-2012, 10:49 AM

I'd seriously consider keeping the Epi even with a new guitar in the house. It is really not worth all that much in trade, so worth more as a second guitar, depending on your situation.

Hard to go wrong with the suggestions here already. But man, I wish Peerless would not use those D'Aquisto style block-o-wood tailpieces. They work just fine, but look so ham-fisted to me.

Just one person's aesthetic (so arguably unimportant, really) opinion.

Anyway, good luck. Just note that a stock Emperor Regent (or "Emporer" Regent as many ebayers seem to write it) has a notably thinner, more acoustic sound vs. most guitars with a set-in HB pickup such as the the Cremona, despite the slightly (and maybe oddly) downwind position of the Cremona pickup.

Chris

JoshGuitar · #5 01-28-2012, 10:56 AM

Thanks for the suggestions! I have heard nothing but great things about Eastman guitars, so I may have a butchers.
@ PTChristopher Well my situation is I have a Gibson Les Paul, that I only use in the case of a string breakage elsewhere, that I want to sell, along with the Epiphone, so I can afford a new Jazz box, and hopefully once I pick up a few more shifts at work, a classical guitar.

PTChristopher · #6 01-28-2012, 11:02 AM

>>> "have a butchers"

Hey, you don't hear that much in the US (ofwel in België waar deze website blijkbaar gebaseerd is).

JoshGuitar · #7 01-28-2012, 11:14 AM

'>>> "have a butchers"' I know right, I'm afraid I'm a 'Limey' my housemate is from Belgium, he doesn't understand my gibberish much.

Although I'm a vegetarian, making 'having a butchers' even more silly an idea

PTChristopher · #8 01-28-2012, 11:23 AM

Well, I suppose you could tell him a la mode to head down the apples and pears and up the frog and the toad.

Or something like that.

Chris (spent much time in both the UK and Belgium)

kris · #9 01-28-2012, 11:44 AM

New models from Peerless looks interesting.
Martin Taylor artist series:The Virtuoso and the Maestro .

nado64 · #10 01-29-2012, 04:07 AM

I tried some peerless 3 years ago, I remember that they have a good sound but I didn't like the fretboard radius.

M-ster · #11 01-29-2012, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PTChristopher

... But man, I wish Peerless would not use those D'Aquisto style block-o-wood tailpieces. They work just fine, but look so ham-fisted to me.

Just one person's aesthetic (so arguably unimportant, really) opinion.

Ha! I think the same thing whenever I see them in photos. Really ugly tailpieces.

Herbie · #12 02-02-2012, 07:59 AM

I was in the same situation a year and a half ago. I had a good reason too: I had found out that Epi Emperor Regent has a longer scale than f.ex. Gibson LPs with which I have played primarly last decades.

So I searched shorter scale and an upgrade in re-sale wise too. I asked myself will I spend eternally ~500 e's for endless string of guitars which – in the end –are copies.

The ES175 is obvious choice after these thoughts. But I don't need the bridge pu so I ended buying a Gibson ES165 with floating mini-hb. I am not a virtuoso but better guitar lifted my limited playing to higher level. And I don't anymore have an obsession to buy new pickups like I had with Epi Regent: with it I tried at least 5 different pickups without reaching the peace of mind!

Good luck searching the final solution! There might be several of them!

mambosun · #13 02-02-2012, 03:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Herbie

I was in the same situation a year and a half ago. I had a good reason too: I had found out that Epi Emperor Regent has a longer scale than f.ex. Gibson LPs with which I have played primarly last decades.

So I searched shorter scale and an upgrade in re-sale wise too. I asked myself will I spend eternally ~500 e's for endless string of guitars which – in the end –are copies.

The ES175 is obvious choice after these thoughts. But I don't need the bridge pu so I ended buying a Gibson ES165 with floating mini-hb. I am not a virtuoso but better guitar lifted my limited playing to higher level. And I don't anymore have an obsession to buy new pickups like I had with Epi Regent: with it I tried at least 5 different pickups without reaching the peace of mind!

Good luck searching the final solution! There might be several of them!

As some use to say, the ideal woman is several women....

JoshGuitar · #14 03-01-2012, 02:02 PM

Thanks for all your input!
I'm not a big fan of monogamy, so having several ladies in my life is an attractive thought

Anyway I've recently been out eBayed on an old Ibanez 2355 the old 175 copies, and has anyone played such a creature? She sure seemed purty. If another one pops up should I pursue it?