Hello there, recently played a '66 ES-175. I loved the slim, pencil neck on it. Are there other hollowbodies that you know of with the same neck size, shape?
I haven’t played your 175, but my Heritage 575 has a narrow, fast neck that reminds me of a Japanese GB10 I owned some time ago. AFAIK the Heritage guitars had all kinds of variations in the past, there are probably more narrow necked 575s around.
I had a Samick HF 650 that had a very thin neck. IIRC, the nut was 1 5/8" rather than the 1-9/16" of the skinniest '60s Gibsons, but the overall neck profile was about the same.
Nice 175 !
Have been lucky enough to own a 66 Tal Farlow with this kind of neck in 25.5 scale.
Fantastic sound whatever amp used !
This is a digitized slide with poor color rendering : the Viceroy Brown was lighter, more chocolate brown.
Many Guilds from the late '50s and early '60s had 1-5/8" necks.
Oddly enough, my '55 ES-175D has a 1-5/8" nut and a fairly slim depth, which was atypical for the era. Moral of the story is, in that era there were no absolutes, only general trends. Judge each individual instrument on its own merit.
Wow just the opposite for me. I really like the late1950’s Gibson larger necks with the 1&11/16” width. I find these later 1965 necks way too cramped for my hands.
I need to make a video on basic chord melody.
What the others said. You don't need a book. All you do is take the melody on top and insert the interval (or chord inversion) below that fits...
I wouldn't assume am unlevel board is reason the refret job turned out badly, and I definitely wouldn't assume a Plek machine is necessary to check a fingerboard for levelness and fix it. And even...
I've had a couple of guitars pleked, an LP and a vintage strat. Both came out great, though the LP later had to have the fingerboard loosened and reglued, a problem that apparently was there when it...
What is the serial number I can tell if it was the last one made. Based on the bone overlay for the saddle I can tell you this was one of the last 5 or so Barker guitars. I don't remember playing it...
Oh, drivel go away! I don't know of any of the top 100 or so best violin makers using CNC; it's frowned upon. Some of them would easily have the money, so they have another good reason for using slow...
Sounds and looks real good! I'm surprised at how good Eastman has gotten with the binding and purfling work. I own one of their small-body, flat top guitars, and that one has been a wonderful...
Hello. I started playing in the year 1985. After 39 yrs of playing, I have owned 23 guitars, 4 amps, and 1 stand alone reverb. I always traded up in guitars. I did the same with amps. The reverb tank...
Most were already mentioned. I can add ES390 a hollowbody small size guitar, ES135 and ES225 all not specificly made for jazz. As far as I am concerned, L5CT is king. Never liked the ES135, still...
Yeah, my preferred local GC is pretty good. Actually, there's two within 5 miles of my house which I realize makes me pretty lucky. Neither is bad, but the one is better...but also much less busy,...
It looks like you're looking for something a bit prescriptive ... so here you go ...
The guy in the video (at 7:40 anyway) is playing a scale in 6ths. Start there.
Thirds and sixths are by far...
Both sound different, therefore I use both, adjusting as I go. There's no point in restricting yourself to one sound. It's nice to play, for example, an echoing phrase with a different pick attack.
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