Correcting neck rise on a semi-hollow body guitar

[Hammertone]

...FWIW, although my Polytone Improv II semi-acoustic is a bit heavier than my last ES-335, I notice that it plays quite level when I am seated. If I _want_ to adopt a classical position, I have to horse the guitar up. The Improv is very neutral. This is surprising, given that the Improv has a full, mahogany center bloc. My last 335 had, IIRC, a spruce bloc that only went as far as the bridge/tailpiece area.

You could easily drop a pound off that guitar by swapping in a conventional tune-o-matic and tailpiece, heh.

[GNAPPI]

Gnappi, get yourself a colonoscopy.

My treat!

And you a cat scan, but you foot the bill... it's your hole you dug yourself into.

For someone who has so much knowledge to give, you always add heat instead of light to a subject with your inflammatory retorts, I don't get you.

[Greentone]

Hammertone is correct. The Polytone Improv II has a gold-plated brass stop tailpiece and gold-plated brass bridge assembly that are considerably more massive than those on a Gibson. Not going to change, though. They are too cool looking...and the guitar sounds VERY good.

[LtKojak]

In the late 70s, early 80s era, using massive brass hardware was fashionable, pretty much the rage.

Ibanez put out some high-end models following that trend, and several Jazz-Rock and Alt-Rock players adopted'em, although for a relatively short period of time.

After that ephimerous glimpse of musical creativity and forward thinking, the "vintage", "period correct" and "reliced" concepts took over the mainstream market, and it still trends to this very day, where the dominating demographic catered for is the "Blues Lawyer" and the retired, white male with unresolved youth dreams of rock stardom, aka "Baby Boomers".

Add that the record labels were taken over by lawyers and accountants, optimizing their costs and maximizing their profits by funding the already established artists instead of nurture new artists and music, and here we are, back into the "Dark Ages" of the willfully ignorant being in charge, undermining the development of the creative process.

Thank God for the Internet, that allows many persons in the world to have a voice and be heard! Although with little to no monetary compensation, unless being assimilated by some label which will commercialize their work with the condition of waive their rights to the music. Bloodsucker parasites at their worst! That's why musician themselves are becoming publishing companies just not to lose their rights for the music they compose, produce and distribute.

Talking about a "new paradigm"... sign of times, unfortunately. I just can't wait for the next generation to kill the old one and start a new renassaince. I'd like to be alive to witness the new Da Vincis, Miles Davis' and the likes.

That, my friend, will be a world worth to be living in!

Well, I realise now that I went a bit OT, so just take it FWIW.