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You gotta see this guy William Ash. He was like a warp speed Wes Montgomery. Then he switched to double bass for some reason and his guitar playing...

From Sadowsky's website. Custom wound vintage PAF style pickup with gold cover Pickup duplicated from original Guild/DeArmond pickup from...

Isn't that model Borys the same approximate width as a 175, 16"?

Yes, youre right, my bad.

Agreed!

Congrats, it's nice to see a very unique new product having success.

You do mean DiMarzio 36th, right?

What a wonderful tone (and playing too).

We must also consider the degree of frowning. I suggest we design a scale of frowns, showing various intensities of frowning, and ask reading members...

Yeah. I mean, lots of piano pickers can read fly shit off a page, but there's grips for them too: back in the old days they called them Griffe...

Again... swing is created with triplets and sextuplets Faster feel....same tempo. Like what the example above became after the awkward start of...

Peter Farrell playing a Gibson Barney Kessel (with a spruce top). Beautiful, deep tone.

Hi Archie... I purchased a Heritage Golden Eagle... Rob love your Gretsch!

What I meant by stripped is removing tuners, pickup, tailpiece etc. As I understand it Acrylic lacquer can be sanded and rubbed to high gloss. More...

OK. Will change my definition of beat. Your definition is more practical. My definition had it being like the goal line in football. A thin line...

Sorry, not sure what you mean ... ?

The HB-1 is a Guild pickup, right?

For learning bebop it makes a lot of sense to prioritise learning lots of heads by ear over solos, because unlike solos you will play them on gigs....

I think Jim used Hb1’s so the Dimarzio’s might be replicas of those.

Huh?:shocked:

This is trash man...and stop messaging trying to know more about me... I am just a fan of good music. There are no lyrics and you are boring. You...

Doesn't answer the question, but I like the refection of the rug in the tailpieces. Ties the room together. Actually, all my archtops are...

They have been dubbed. The Gibson ES 150 has no cables. The jack attachment is on the tailpiece in the Gibson es 150. She's great.

It won’t be stripped. Just lightly sanded then over sprayed till smooth. Addam said probably 4-5 coats. My 2nd hope is a thicker coat of lacquer will...

That makes me super uncomfortable.

Look like a Triggs joint. I want it.

Pix of the face of the guitar, please.

$400 is a great price. Lots of work to strip the guitar sand spray buff put it back together. That guy is working cheap. Hope it comes out great....

That is very unusual , never ever seen that before .... (Anyone seen that ?) Does it keep tuning ok ? (whilst don't think it's likely it will...

Yea I forgot to mention... always start without instrument. Especially with the 1st few stages of making the chart. You then check as you go along,...

Burt, good to hear from you. The Superblock shortage was an agonizing period. Many other clients opted for surrogate amps. I still have unused...

Seriously though Gitter , well done ! your speakers are excellent To everyone , try your Toob upfiring on a gig sometime it works a treat

I never had that guitar but the pickup is a custom DiMarzio "The DiMarzio humbucker was designed to replicate the smooth response of Jim Hall's...

Not planning on making a range of Toob amps At the moment then ?

Fender Hot Rod is fine

Beautiful archtop designs!! Only detail that I do not care for is the tiny pickguards. But every other detail is breathtaking.

It sure is - thanks Vinny. I recall a wonderful D’Aquisto thread from a few years back - since deleted perhaps - with all sorts of pictures,...

I got the 6.5 from you a year or 2 back and I've never even tried it, it's still in the box. I had a SB US paid for to use with the TOOB but got a...

I don't think the amp crazyness on the Dumbles has gone away. It will only probably get worse after his death. 1983 Dumble ODS Overdrive Special |...

I think there’s a lot of truth to that. This is something that I think is key to the theory/no theory debate. Essentially there is no gap between the...

No, I don't set annual goals, but I do set goals. Guitar, as an instrument, is my new baby. It's turning my head around, as a (jazz/whatever)...

The second paragraph of my post attempts to further clarify why I find the term "ambiguous" a mischaracterization of the staff notation. In my...

Real nice playing but my subjective opinion is that these guitars are overpriced but then again what isn't these days.

I may have had an early pre-production Wes model. In 1967 I ordered a new L-5C with a single Johnny Smith pickup. I used it like that until 1971 when...

Great picture!

How about purple sparkle?

There are now four of the "Mad at..." series threads, five if you include the renamed "This thread should be totally deleted now" as an honorary "Mad...

Ok, but it still doesn't make sense. 'My point is calling tab notation unambiguous implies a stance that there is one particular unambiguous way to...

Drink Scotch whisky, all night long. But more seriously, play just what I feel. No, on any instrument I don't always play exactly what's in my...

I meant to say tab notation. It was a typo, just corrected it.

Toan!

No, you appear to have missed my point by some margin. It was tablature I called unambiguous. My point is that often in particularly technical...

I play both archtops and planks (if anyone thinks "plank" is a pejoritive term, go seek help, you are "triggered" far too easily). And I use both on...

Oooo that's a whole thread/workshop/class/discussion/life's work unto itself. I've been working with some songwriters. Believe me. It's a cool world....

Well, from the perspective of a piano picker who is trying to learn guitar "the right way" (not that my shameless aping of Jimmy Page, Clapton,...

Certain notes or certain strings? Try playing with the pickup height adjustments (those screws on either side of the pickup in the mounting ring) to...

The back on this is absolutely insane

My point is calling tab notation unambiguous implies a stance that there is one particular unambiguous way to play everything on guitar. In fact,...

- Technique helps. Being a better guitar player helps. But I think there's a threshold. Being good enough to enjoy good tone doesn't require ...

To establish with any degree of accuracy the extent to which guitar tablature is frowned upon, we needs must establish who the frowners are, who the...

This is shaping up to have the makings of a full blown thesis. Who ever would have thunk it:pride:?

^^ That's precisely the way in which it is ambiguous. Staff notation leaves generally - not always - the decision to the guitarist. Not a criticism...

Really can't go wrong with the right size TLK case. I just bought a tweed Guardian case that's pretty well made and reasonably priced. Plenty of...

I didn't. It's not ambiguous if the specifics isn't the point of the music that is written. You gotta know how to play your instrument. When you read...

https://youtu.be/uFBNjWrXF1I

You contradict yourself. If there are multiple ways of instantiating musical ideas then it isn't unambiguous is it?

I think you are right. I would probably be better off with a better modern case, than a vintage case if the originals dont support the guitar itself...

Staff notation is unambiguous. Most written music isn't guitar specific. Most written guitar music doesn't work with only one fingering. It is very...

Eh? Tab, as pointed out upthread, is unambiguous to an extent staff notation generally isn't.

who knows? I personally don’t tend to make notes of things any more in that way. I may write things down in musical terms in notation, intervals and...

I guess chord symbols deal with specifics and are not quite analagous to tab in that sense. So many great musicians who do not read notation must...

Lately I prefer Peggy Lee for learning tunes. She really sticks to the melody where Ella is more expressive and Frank has too much instrumentation...

Felt the need for another one of these - I built a couple before and ended up selling them. This one is made out of Pauwlonia and real light; neck is...

No more exercises-methods-method books-time wasting. Just learning tunes. Getting 150 tunes from GAS (mostly show tunes) down pat. Going slow,...

Addam Stark is going to lightly sand out the corduroy then overspray with several coats of nitro till it looks like glass. Borys uses Sherwin...

Meh I don't think they are very collectable ;))

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Here is the pdf you can download for lesson 2B. Box

The finish looks like 1970’s corduroy pants or Ruffle potato chips. I will never sell a piece of crap. When I get it perfect I will sell it. Losing...

Maybe I belong in the harmony subset? Being interested in songwriting I'm most interested in understanding and writing chord progressions (and...

Epiphone Zephyr Regent 1954 Gibson L5 1962

What two have you got?

Thanks for the answer! Yet I've at least two collectable so to speak ;-) And I'm actually looking for an everyday gig workhorse and those Aria sound...

Personally, I would lean Guild. I had a couple Godins in the past, but they rarely stick around very long. They are well built instruments - and...

I don’t think I haver ever met a L-5 I didn’t like regardless of color. Well I take that back - Those army green and copper L-5 Studios…YUK !

Interesting, I don't know that much about finishes, so maybe matte is too strong or not specific enough. Basically it is not buffed to a gloss, but...

It's not super rare to find an unbadged Japanese guitar, although that is a Korean one. Looks like it's not been played for a very long time. It...

Sounds like the collective wisdom forum has voted for "both".

Agreed, it can be difficult for everyone. True, but it was very toe-tapping... like the 'Introducing Wayne Shorter' album... almost like one...

I understand your point of view and share it, for the most part. I have a LOT of instruments from around the world, including many guitars of...

I've never tried the Guild X-175 and can't comment, except to say that I did try the A-150, which has the same neck specs. It feels skinnier to me...

This is useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVDEkAhP9h4

Guy, Thanks! Tom

Yeah, I'm thinking it might be neater and more streamlined to start a new thread, and not introduce too many new whirlpools into this already rich...

I've got Harmony with Lego Bricks, somewhere, I bought it about 20 years ago, but never really utilised it, but I've just ordered the Insights in...

Thomastik 12-50 flats on my archtops, a Gibson L4C 1949 and a Guild Benedetto. I bought a few packs of ten sets about 12 years ago, still some...

I am not in that subset. Still stumbling through the written changes realizing I need to split my time 50/50 rhythm and lead for a few months. Too...

The sides and back of the Blonde are amazing. That's the one for me. I have no idea which is the one for you!

The static downforce on the top of a floating bridge instrument can be easily calculated - its high school trigonometry. RM Mottola has provided...

I have a John Pearse 0.13” wound G nickel wound string set on my 1952 L-5C. The single pickup is a Pete Biltoft Charlie Christian replica, with only...

Really? Will be interested to know when this is happening. I got to play a blonde JB back in the day and *loved* it (just couldn't afford it at the...

When I was at GIT in the early 1980s, Steve Morse came to the school one day to do a demo/lecture. He told a story about going to South America with...

Just why not yes?

Wouldn't the required thickness of the top plate, especially at the apex (where the bridge will set,) depend on the guage of the strings you will be...

im not sad, hope you’re ok!

Why not? Just why not?

Was that ever offered in a single p/u model ?

"Look, there's this dough, see. There's all this dough. . . . .it's in this box buried under this big dubya. You'll see it! You'll see it under this...

Again... swing is created with triplets and sextuplets Swing a slower tempo... play quarter note triplets on the half notes, ...

Hi Printer. That LHT "Fugue" is a real masterpiece of archtoppery. It was explained to me that placing the soundhole there really adds to the...

I'm really enjoying these projects this time around. Seems after the pandemic lockdown I see the guitar differently and this is a great way for me,...

That's a nice idea though somewhat unrealistic. I lived on the beach in central Florida for a dozen years, worked on the beach for a friend's family...

I think its James W, he got injuried

It's because amps are rectangular and squared boxes and don't lend themselves to retarded levels of fetish the way a guitar does so materialistic...

Check out all the rock sessions Barney Kessel did.

Tele-Telecaster.:smile-new:

And yet....! (Haha)

Seems like there are more troll and spam posts lately.

These are language nuances. I listen to early Shorter a lot - it wasn't danceable either.:smile-new:

I think we just have to accept that modern jazz is very intellectual, cerebral music and it's not everyone's cup of tea. In the days when you could...

From what I've seen you have very good guitars-: es-175, es-335. The dream of not one guitarist is true.:smile-new:

Here's a vid that Rich Severson did on one: https://youtu.be/brxDqr2EdPw

Better off with a proper lithium ion camping battery and then you can use whatever amp you like (provide it's not a marshal stack or something )

I think I know who is this guy. Maybe its James W double account. I dont understamnd why these guys ask for feedback and then get angry if they dont...