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The wavy grain of that bridge base ... with time you'd expect that to sag. Hopefully your person can find a nice quartersawn piece. After that, it will be better than new.
Round wounds instead of flats. Improperly fitted bridge. High action out of the box. Why is ebony in quotes? Do you believe it's not ebony or you don't like that it's dyed? What do you mean by...
I think folks forget this when recommending 1950's archtops to less experienced players. Vintage guitars sound great. But vintage issues don't map well to the current reality of online commerce...
I appreciate your perspective as a purist. However, I think the choice of pickups, while important, doesn’t fundamentally change the character of a Telecaster. Swapping out the neck pickup mainly...
I was surprised too that the 120 holds its own with the 175. They have a lot of similarities tonally but the playability on the ibanez is head and shoulders better and that's not denigrating the 175...
Mike Stern played the old Yamaha G100 amps a ton as well.
Since there seems to be so much uncertainty about it, it probably doesn't matter much as long as the band knows what's going on. There are lots of vids and whatnot where the lead says 'Ten, six,...
I've written a lot about the pitfalls of vintage instruments. I bought this '63 Gibson Barney Kessel last year and the pickups (billed as originals) had been swapped out and the bracing had to be...
Next, we can debate the sound differences between an oiled maple fingerboard and a lacquered one. Anyways, I can't see how a glued-on strip of rosewood can have a notable effect when laminated...
Gorgeous PRS! Wow. Let's see the rear shot of the rosewood neck.
Okay… I admit I’m an old man and a purist, but, in my opinion, a telecaster isn’t a telecaster without single coil pickups. It may LOOK like a tele, but, to me, it’s just another solid body with...
Jack, you sound great on any archtop you play. I'm not surprised that you love the tone and feel of your PM120. What I am surprised at is that you dig a medium depth archtop over other deeper...
Yeah more medium (or less enormous) artists it would probably be the label working out the contract.
you guys with multiple archtops? Which is your favorite? I have a number of archtops including an L4CES, Gibson 175, vintage Barney Kessel but you know which one is my favorite of all? my '00 Ibanez...
That's right. I've never heard someone count off that way either. If they counted as 1 2 3 4 then my interpretation would be that they are counting in 4/4 time since there is a 3 and a 4. You...
pitfalls of a vintage archtop
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