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Originally Posted by GoergeBenson
have you tried a gretsch g6122-1959? i was a butt hair away from owning one, but it was sold out from under me. maybe that's just different enough to warrant a purchase; they are all from the same factory, anyway.
Originally Posted by Woody Sound
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07-06-2014 10:41 PM
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My '65 Starfire has some limitations but it's so comfortable to play it's usually first grab and it sounds good to me. If it were my only electric it could cover most of my electric needs pretty well.
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ES 175, for lots of reasons!
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My 72 Les Paul. With thje right amp can get any sound you like. Other than a single coil tone. Easy to play, well built, and after 40+ years it just feels right, which it did pretty much from the git-go.
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I used to play a red Guild Starfire like the black one shown above--in high school stage band. It was a sweet guitar. Freshman year in college, I played a friend's '72 Les Paul (copy of a '54 with cream P90s) regularly. It, too, was a really sweet guitar, for jazz or anything else. He offered it to me for $275, but I was happy with my Stratocaster, at the time.
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I do only have one guitar
Washburn J6. If people want me to play with them, they can deal with my sound. I had a rock guy complain that my sound was too sophisticated for his band, once, but I laughed and took it as a compliment.
If I could only have one guitar, it'd be an L5.
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My Ibanez AF75. Beautiful to look at, beautiful to hear with or without an amp.
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That's easy, my ASAT. I'm through wrestling with big archtops. I'm also fine, after years of Gibson HBs, to go single coil.
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Originally Posted by ES125er
For me it'd need to be a versatile semi hollow, like a 335 or a 330. So my Eastman t386.
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Originally Posted by hallpass
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I'd have Paul McCartney's Hofner violin bass, the one with the Beatles set list sellotaped to the side, so I could skip off down to Sotheby's Auctioneers, and retire on the proceeds.
Either that or Slash's Les Paul so I could hit him over the head with it.
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Originally Posted by pubylakeg
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Great thread.
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Very fortunate to have this...it sounds and plays like a dream.
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This will never happen to me...so it is difficult to say. It would have to be a large archtop that sounds great acoustically as well as when plugged in.
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Originally Posted by Eric Rowland
DAMN!!! That's really pretty. Is that one of the new reissues? Or, is it an original vintage? Also, that's not a stock 175 bridge assy either . . is it? Is that even a Gibson? It looks like it is . . and then, it looks like it isn't.
Damn!!! That's really pretty. (it was worth repeating)
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My Gibson ES-355. I play it every day for hours. It's in desperate need to a fret job and other work, but I can't leave it alone that long.
And it's not because it's necessarily just a great instrument. It's just that it's my axe.
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Originally Posted by Patrick2
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Congrats Eric, that's a beautiful guitar. Pretty crazy story about the split . You're lucky to have the USA warranty conditions which we in Europe aren't fortunate enough to benefit from. Doesn't stop us from buying 'em though.
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Originally Posted by henryrobinett
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I've always been nervous about those "new without a warranty because I'm not a dealer" guitars on eBay. This story feeds my fear. I had a twisted neck a few years back on a blues king electro. Gibson sent me a new guitar without so much as a question because I had the original warranty. Sometimes the extra $$$ pay off when shopping for new gear.
And I've been eyeing those 175 VOS models myself. Glad to hear you are digging it.
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Originally Posted by yebdox
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most versatile guitar, playable, and durable I have owned was a mid sixties Gibson SG cherry red.
would be nice to have that one back.
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Eric, great avatar!
This thread got me to thinking (uh-oh) and while the Starfire I posted earlier can cover any and all things electric, it's worthless for playing acoustically which I often do. If I really REALLY could only have one I'd have to go with the Triumph.
Last edited by AlohaJoe; 07-13-2014 at 05:29 PM.
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Originally Posted by AlohaJoe
Where did you get the pickup, where do plug the cable into, and how much acoustic character does the tone retain?
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