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At home, I play em all. Out, I tend to play those that feedback less, are comfortable to walk several blocks with, and can handle a range of styles and volume situations. Right now, this one is the king. See more in my NGD post (writing now).
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09-23-2018 09:33 PM
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Mad Dog -- I dig those original P13 pickups on the Silvertone 1427!
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Lately I been amazed at the PRS tones on two I resently purchased a PRS STUDIO and a PRS SE24 CUSTOM, Still love my Kiesel the and Carvin and Gibson Les Paul
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At home I usually grab my Super 400 .. or my L5CES when I feel like it needs some attention
Lately, though, it seems like I spend all my time playing bass
Rotating between a Peavey Cirrus 5 string and a Fender Precision 5 string in 4 bands …
one even has paying gigs
And the wife and I have been trying to learn the bagpipe …. so I dabble in that as well
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I could never decide whether to play my Citation or my Borys, so I got rid of them both and use my Squier tele, which is perfect for everything.
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i thought those vox guitars were pretty neat. i'm a vox guy anyway, the pickup system seemed intriguing if you were trying to paper over a bunch of gaps in your collection and the mij quality seemed high. i still wonder about them, but didn't like that different finishes had different wood combos. think i liked the single cut best. they turn up on reverb from time to time but i've abstained.
Originally Posted by Gilpy
guess my answer is a little telling since i just moved and all my guitars are in storage. the only ones i brought with me are my trusty epiphone elitist sheraton and my most portable, babiest guitar- the guild m20 (the "nick drake"). and then i went and fished out my elitist byrdland because i had a weird hankering for it.
the sheraton has always been my number one so that makes sense. the other two are fairly specialized but i do love them so. and given my weird circumstances, the m20 just works, and i don't really have to plug either in at night, which is nice.
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I play all of my guitars around the house in a rotation, just to make sure everything is ok in terms of setup, humidity, etc. I have several acoustic archtops with floating pickups, but I seldom take those out of the house. On gigs I back and forth between an L5CES and an ES-175. I find that once I start using one of those two on my gigs, I usually stay with that one for many months. Then I’ll take out the other one and I end up sticking with that one for a while. I have been playing the L5 on all of my gigs for over a year, but last night I took out my old 1959 paf 175 and I thoroughly enjoyed playing it again. So much so, that I think I’ll put the L5 in the case for a while.
Those two are my favorites for live performance, but I can’t choose just one of them. The L5CES has a really warm tone, perfect string balance and lots of sustain. The 175 has a punchier, more percussive attack that I really like and the pafs sound fantastic. Both guitars are extremely comfortable to play, but I think I actually play better on the shorter scale of the 175. That’s probably because I played an ES-175 exclusively for over 30 years.
Keith
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I have about 9 guitars. I end up playing the Sadowsky Jim Hall 90% of the time. I just cant fault it. Sometimes I play my gibson es-175 for that unique sound. I use an eastman ar371 for outdoors jams or porch fun. I use a partscaster for classical oriented music since i need high fret access to read Bach chorales etc.
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It's a Telecaster! There are 7 guitars/ 2 basses total, and several will stay in the case for over a month at a time.
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I came to the realization many years ago (after owning many so called 'holy grail' guitars) that, although there may be some slight correlation between price and tone quality, the tone quality to price ratio is not high enough to make me give up my Teles. Yes, the fancy ones look neat, other musicians 'ooh and aah' at them, audiences sometimes rate talent based on brand, and they're ego builders for sure. But it still boils down to some wood with a couple pickups, the tone of which is, in many cases, altered by amp controls and pedals. Is there four thousand dollars tonal difference (especially in a loud bar) between an L5 and a MIM 50's Tele repop? To me, no, but, as always, YMMV. Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
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Very early "E4" Strat Plus; John Cruz (Custom Shop Master Builder) put his name inside when made over three decades ago.
The nut is the second version (fully enclosed) of the Wilkinson Roller nut with six pairs of needle bearings, all aligned straight so that the strings come off the finger board side of the nut with zero string radius - like a classical guitar.
The jumbo frets have worn down so they are more like thin strips of Christmas tinsel, changing the contact point of the strings to line contacts across the width of the frets. This acts to produce a slight diffusion of pitch precision around the pitch center which results in more complex harmonic interaction, like the effect induced on the tone by the resonance of hollow body guitars.
The pickups are the first version of the Lace sensors, now called "Gold". Their 32 fields per pickup rather than the usual six basically make a wider aperture, detecting more string length, and so generating a more complex tone.
Compared to the usual slinky and buzzy action and twangy-snappy tone of typical Strat setups, this one is high and tight for jazz.
This guitar is well over 9 lbs. but feels light and easy to play to me.Last edited by pauln; 09-24-2018 at 02:25 PM.
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5 1/2 lbs with P90s and a slim D neck. Fully hollow body the size of a Les Paul :
The little Epiphone Casino Coupe
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floatingpickup,
NICE! I, too, played a vintage 175 for over 30 years. Now, however, I've logged enough time in on the longer-scale guitars that I feel a bit cramped on the 175/335/etc. Not much, but just enough to notice. By the tenth fret I am finding things to be a bit "mandolin-ish."
The 175 sure sounds great though.
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I have been working on the 25.5” scale for years and it does feel quite comfortable. Funny thing though, when I pull out one of my 175’s, it feels like I’ve come home. I enjoy many things about playing an L5 too, so it’s a tough choice. If I could only have one guitar, I’m not sure what I would do. That would be very difficult. Thank God, we can have more than one guitar.
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So... so far after around seventy-some replies, it looks like Teles, ES-175s and in a more distant third, Gypsy jazz guitars are the go-to guitars. Both the Tele and ES-175 are workhorse guitars, and while not budget guitars, in their day they were the guitar designed for the working musician. And GJ guitars -- what can I say? They're just plain fun to play! I use to jokingly refer to the oval hole Selmer guitar as the acoustic guitar equivalent of a Stratocaster -- especially when you hear the Gypsies playing 'em. In fact, several years ago at one Samois Django Reinhardt festival, Bireli Lagrene brought a Strat. When asked why, he said it was the guitar closest to the door when he left home.
It will be interesting to see how the answers grow or change when we hit the 100 response mark. Remember, the question is about the guitars you're REALLY playing...
(Thanks everyone for sharing and participating!)
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A 1977 maple Gibson L6-S Custom.
Last edited by Litterick; 09-25-2018 at 04:20 AM.
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Ibanez AM50 from 1980.
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My main playing guitars are a Nitefly SA that looks just like this except for the addition of black knurled metal knobs and a heavily customized '92 American Standard Telecaster. The Tele is my oldest guitar. They get about equal use.
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I've answered, but for me it really varies over time. These days I can't put down my L5ces and my two L5ces clones, the Aria PE180 and the Epiphone Elitist Broadway. The term I use for their tone is "pearly" and I can't explain why, that's just the word that comes to mind when i find the sweet spot playing those guitars on the DV Mark Micro50 or DV Mark Little Jazz.
"Pearly"-the modern baseline on that for me is Royce Campbell's L5 tone on his recordings. Or Joshua Breakstone when he doesn't roll off the tone (I like that sound from him too!).
For the ES175, my equivalent term for that special sound is "snurly." Again, no idea why I picked that word, it just feels right.
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When my wrist isn't giving me issues, I play a Gretsch 6118T until I start to feel discomfort. Then I switch back to ukulele.
My most-played ukulele is a Kala with all solid woods and a spruce top. It's a very nice ukulele. But then I found a soprano ukulele made of rosewood with a cedar top and fell in love with it. Since then I've been looking for a tenor model to go with it and finally found the last one that Pono made before CITES had them shut down the model. Once I get some new strings on it, I can easily see it becoming my #1.
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I try to play every guitar I own at least once a week. I'm trying to downsize my collection right now so I'm doing a thing where if I can't bring myself to play one for at least an hour in one sitting evey week I start the selling process
Last edited by Dr_turkey; 09-25-2018 at 01:41 PM.
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I don't gig, but play every day, sometimes with friends. For the last three or four years, I've bounced back and forth between an Epi Dot with Fralin P-92s and a Carvin SH550. About 3 weeks ago, I got a 2008 LP Standard, and I'm playing it almost exclusively, now. I expect that I'll gravitate back to the Epi and Carvin once the newness of the LP wears off.
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I like the black pu covers and black pick guard. I have one in the natural finish and put a black pick guard and black knobs on it. Kind of a sleeper guitar for the budget conscious IMHO. I feel like I should sell it because I also have a real deal ES-390, but I think that I will keep it. Originally Posted by rintincop
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Real talk, I know enough people know about Ibanez but Epiphone is a fantastic brand for electric jazz. Cheap, easy playing guitars in general are great with the right pickup and amp Originally Posted by lammie200
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i think the baby casino is brilliant. i have an elitist model and i really thought about picking one up as a travel/busking/funsies guitar. came this close to importing one of those green ones that weren't available in the us. man, those looked cool. a little wrenching and some swapping and you've got yourself something really cool. i know the pups are the first thing to go, but i kinda like the chrome cover look, even if most people don't like the sound. its just one of those casino things, like the inexplicable white pickguard with cream binding.
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