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Originally Posted by DawgBone
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06-23-2023 10:05 AM
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I just acquired a new 2023 Byrdland from Sweetwater. They gave me a smoking deal as there is a bit of a knot on the top. Otherwise it plays like butter and sounds very close to a L5CES. 12’s feel like 10’s.
$7K + tax. Very fun and comfy to play. The only Gibson archtop with 22 frets. That’s why the pu’s are so close together. A Byrdland Wes model would be the ultimate guitar IMO as I am a single pu guy.
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Originally Posted by vinnyv1k
Wow! Congrats on a beautiful axe.
If you run out of space for Byrdland's or Campellone's I have a nice climate controlled area on my ground level that I can store one or two for you. Caveat, I put electric's through their paces and I know you are a guy who is very gentle on his stuff. It would likely get returned to your needing a fret job and a new case and would be divoted into the wood where my fingerpick excavated it over the course of a thousand gigs, lol.
I bought an X-170 because it was about as close to a Byrdland as I can afford, about 2k. I can't even swing the Epiphone version on a bluesman's budget. Maybe if I sell my house and downsize....
I wish someone made a full hollow 355 style guitar about 2.5 inches thick with a short scale. '57 classics. That would be dawgbone's signature model. I wouldn't even complain if it didn't have a bigsby.
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Originally Posted by vinnyv1k
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Originally Posted by DawgBone
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Originally Posted by Chris236
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Bro, that is a beautiful guitar. I am sure it is extremely comfortable to play. I am glad you got one.
Roughly do you know how much it weighs?
No matter what, my favorite guitars, always seem to be Vintage Sunburst. Other colors can be more attractive. But nothing quite compares to an Archtop with a VSB finish.
I hope the guitar fills that void for you bro.
JD
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No room left for fingers (mine, at least), as soon as you (I) pass tenth fret. I guess this is the main reason for not being a very popular scale length.
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Originally Posted by Pierrot
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I think it actually boils down to narrow fret wire….those ultra fat, low profile frets Gibson used for a while exasperate the issue…..of which there isn’t really one unless you can’t play above about the 11th fret on a 25.5 scale guitar. It’s mostly the last 2 frets that can be negatively impacted by wide frets…
Last edited by Chris236; 06-23-2023 at 02:34 PM.
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I tried to figure out what some ol' Martian would think if they read this thread...
Then I realised I was one myself...
But after playing mandolin and double bass with the very same pair of hands most of my time on this planet...
I came to the realisation that, all in all, this thread is the biggest dumb-ass thread of all time.
Just sayin'...
BTW, I tried really hard to measure the distance from the start of my palm to the tip of my seventh finger. The damn ruler wasn't long enough... So I'm off to Wally's to buy me a yardstick!
Stay where you're to an' I'll get back to y'all...Last edited by StringNavigator; 06-23-2023 at 02:53 PM.
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Originally Posted by StringNavigator
Am I losin' my mind, or what?!
If you were the only person in the world, would you still play? but practice? - Page 2 (jazzguitar.be)
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Originally Posted by Max405
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Originally Posted by DawgBone
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That’s gorgeous but where are the hidden controls ?
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In the treble side f hole, where I put mine. If you blow up the top photo you can see part of the thumbwheels on the top edge of the f hole.
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Originally Posted by Hammertone
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Originally Posted by Chris236
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Originally Posted by Pierrot
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Originally Posted by DawgBone
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Originally Posted by bluejaybill
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Originally Posted by Chris236
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Originally Posted by DawgBone
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If scale length didn’t matter there would be no Byrdland.
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I'm in love with Emily.
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