Lets look at our guitars thread
Discussion
Gaz. said:
Nice. Why the change from the 355 to the APX? 
Peer pressure! Kind of anyway. I was always the only non electro acoustic there with my 355. Which didn't bother me really, but it was a nice excuse to treat myself. I also wanted something I could just pick up and play rather than getting the whole electric shenanigans set up. The latest addition to my fold. I have been after a Tele for some time and so on NYEs i paid a visit to Denmark Street and tried a few out - a Baja, Japanase FSR and a USA Standard. I soon discounted the Baja, and after a good hour I opted for the FSR. It was by some margin a much better guitar than the standard. The finish and build quality was better, it played nice and the flawless binding was the icing on the cake. The only slight letdown were the pickups whuich are a bit weak, but I have always upheld the mantra that one can change pups but not the rest of the guitar. I now have some Bare Knuckle Piledrivers waiting to be fitted
conkerman said:
Rocksmith 2014.
I have the PC version, and it supports multiple acounts, can't comment on the purchasing side of things as I am a tightwad/too crap to justify it
I have a HTPC in the lounge so can noise pollute in (limited) style.
Bit late to the party to comment, but I tried Rocksmith when it first came out on a reasonably powerful PC with loads of RAM and found the note tracking was too slow. I guess the new version may be better, but it ruined the whole thing and I swiftly gave up.I have the PC version, and it supports multiple acounts, can't comment on the purchasing side of things as I am a tightwad/too crap to justify it
I have a HTPC in the lounge so can noise pollute in (limited) style.
So after a long wait, the Warmoth body and neck arrived and I have got it assembled. Picked it up today, here's a quick pic...
Had a quick play in the workshop I'm liking the feel so far. Will wait till I get home and spend some time with it. Must say it looks fantastic and specs wise, my dream tele. The SRV asymmetric neck is an interesting beast to play, feels great for both chording and noodling. Can't wait to gig with it.
Had a quick play in the workshop I'm liking the feel so far. Will wait till I get home and spend some time with it. Must say it looks fantastic and specs wise, my dream tele. The SRV asymmetric neck is an interesting beast to play, feels great for both chording and noodling. Can't wait to gig with it.
Just to provide some balance to those lovely Teles - here is my beloved piece of ply..
It looks fairly rough - despite appearances it has never actually been used as a lump hammer.....
However that glossy Korean neck is amazing to play, the tuning is rock solid and it sounds amazing -
I replaced the bridge pickup years ago with a "proper" Fender one (no idea which one now tbh) - the neck pickup however is the original one that is presumably stuffed with cotton wool given the sound that it makes (it does sound decent through some fuzz though).
This one has outlasted several other better guitars and it appears to be indestructible!
It looks fairly rough - despite appearances it has never actually been used as a lump hammer.....
However that glossy Korean neck is amazing to play, the tuning is rock solid and it sounds amazing -
I replaced the bridge pickup years ago with a "proper" Fender one (no idea which one now tbh) - the neck pickup however is the original one that is presumably stuffed with cotton wool given the sound that it makes (it does sound decent through some fuzz though).
This one has outlasted several other better guitars and it appears to be indestructible!
Some lovely stuff on here guys. thanks for sharing.
I'm not much put much effort in to learning to play until recently (I will come to that later), but I'm a bit of a twitcher when it comes to guitars. A lot of that is the influence from the friends I keep.
I used to be help out my two of my work mate's band, Al on bass, Paul on lead, and inevitably some of there interests wears off and they tried to get me involved.
Al offered me a lovely Tokai Telecaster, which I knocked him back on saying one of the reasons I didn't buy it was it had a black neck. A month or so later I bought this.
The irony wasn't lost on him, black neck and all that. I didn't know much about Epiphone at the time but the boy's liked it. Anyway that was back in 1999, I tried to learn a bit on my own, didn't get very far, put it back in its case and knocked it on the head for nearly 15 years.
Last October, Al fell seriouslly ill. It all looked treatable, so no need to panic. Then it I got a message that things had changed and his prognosis was days rather than weeks. Oh s
t.
He got me and Paul in to see him in hospital and asked us to go and choose two guitars each from his not so insignificant collection at his home. He wanted us to do it as soon as we could.
These are the two I was gifted.
A Kimbara acoustic
and a Vintage VRS100
Al had predicited which ones I would take, credit to him. Paul had a couple of Epi Les Pauls.
Al passed away on the 8th of December aged 59. Music really was his life passion. I will miss greatly.
This year I have decided to get my finger out my arse and get on and try and learn, as a mark of repsect to my past friend. I'm using Rocksmith on xbox and I'm loving it at the minute.
I will never part with these two and hopefully I can do them justice at some point.
I'm not much put much effort in to learning to play until recently (I will come to that later), but I'm a bit of a twitcher when it comes to guitars. A lot of that is the influence from the friends I keep.
I used to be help out my two of my work mate's band, Al on bass, Paul on lead, and inevitably some of there interests wears off and they tried to get me involved.
Al offered me a lovely Tokai Telecaster, which I knocked him back on saying one of the reasons I didn't buy it was it had a black neck. A month or so later I bought this.
The irony wasn't lost on him, black neck and all that. I didn't know much about Epiphone at the time but the boy's liked it. Anyway that was back in 1999, I tried to learn a bit on my own, didn't get very far, put it back in its case and knocked it on the head for nearly 15 years.
Last October, Al fell seriouslly ill. It all looked treatable, so no need to panic. Then it I got a message that things had changed and his prognosis was days rather than weeks. Oh s
t.He got me and Paul in to see him in hospital and asked us to go and choose two guitars each from his not so insignificant collection at his home. He wanted us to do it as soon as we could.
These are the two I was gifted.
A Kimbara acoustic
and a Vintage VRS100
Al had predicited which ones I would take, credit to him. Paul had a couple of Epi Les Pauls.
Al passed away on the 8th of December aged 59. Music really was his life passion. I will miss greatly.
This year I have decided to get my finger out my arse and get on and try and learn, as a mark of repsect to my past friend. I'm using Rocksmith on xbox and I'm loving it at the minute.
I will never part with these two and hopefully I can do them justice at some point.
I love both the Teles recently posted on here; the two tone one with binding would be a nice match stood next to my two tone Strat. The black one with it's years of use and full of 'mojo'.
Spudgun GB, that's a very sad and touching story, I hope you get to grips with learning to play and that you get many years of pleasure from them.
Spudgun GB, that's a very sad and touching story, I hope you get to grips with learning to play and that you get many years of pleasure from them.
Tom_C76 said:
Bit late to the party to comment, but I tried Rocksmith when it first came out on a reasonably powerful PC with loads of RAM and found the note tracking was too slow. I guess the new version may be better, but it ruined the whole thing and I swiftly gave up.
I have it on xbox and don't have any issues with it. I tend to use it just for mucking about, it's no replacement for a decent teacher but it is good fun.Nice collection, I had an Epi LP exactly like yours but the two pickup version. They aren't exactly light guitars... You need to get yourself a proper padded strap to used with it - really doesn't feel any different to my Fenders when standing up and playing. Totally transformed the playing experience for me
Some more pics of my 'new' guitar...
Spent some time with it plugged in to my amps, it sounds amazing. Plugged in, the pickups sound more 'alive'. The guitar also sounds much louder acoustically than the previous, particularly because of the brass saddles and stainless steel frets. Loving it.
That switch is such a helpful mod, it's like having a short shifter gear stick, compared to the old long throw switch of the classic tele. Much easier to switch on the fly and and the non-linear volume/tone knobs helps too, but that was already there in the old tele.
I had the reverse headstock spec'd purely because I thought it was cool looking than the conventional, but have discovered a couple of benefits associated with it that improves playing for me. First, it's easier to tune, as the hand naturally falls below the headstock similar to how the hand is in the playing position. Second and much more impact on the playing feel is that the higher strings seem to have a bit more tension in the feel due to I think the nut-to-tuner length reversed in this headstock. The high e is much shorter than the low E, and at first I struggled a bit with it, but this has enabled me to hit the string bend notes much more accurately, especially the semitone bends on the high e string, whereas before I kinda bend it sharper than it should be due to the feel not quite there. Now it is more consistent and the semitone, tone bends are easier to hit. Now, a three semitone bend seems impossible at the moment, but will work on it!
Spent some time with it plugged in to my amps, it sounds amazing. Plugged in, the pickups sound more 'alive'. The guitar also sounds much louder acoustically than the previous, particularly because of the brass saddles and stainless steel frets. Loving it.
That switch is such a helpful mod, it's like having a short shifter gear stick, compared to the old long throw switch of the classic tele. Much easier to switch on the fly and and the non-linear volume/tone knobs helps too, but that was already there in the old tele.
I had the reverse headstock spec'd purely because I thought it was cool looking than the conventional, but have discovered a couple of benefits associated with it that improves playing for me. First, it's easier to tune, as the hand naturally falls below the headstock similar to how the hand is in the playing position. Second and much more impact on the playing feel is that the higher strings seem to have a bit more tension in the feel due to I think the nut-to-tuner length reversed in this headstock. The high e is much shorter than the low E, and at first I struggled a bit with it, but this has enabled me to hit the string bend notes much more accurately, especially the semitone bends on the high e string, whereas before I kinda bend it sharper than it should be due to the feel not quite there. Now it is more consistent and the semitone, tone bends are easier to hit. Now, a three semitone bend seems impossible at the moment, but will work on it!
Don1 said:
Well I had a little cash left over this month, and I fancied an acoustic, and oooops.....
I used to have one of the Ibanez Exotic Zebrawood acoustics a few years back
For the money, it was absolutely spot on. I'd have another.
I've just "pulled the trigger" (/cringe) on a Fender Classic Series 50s Telecaster. I went to play some Teles, but nothing in the shop was that close to the 50s model, so I just played a Mexican Standard Tele, which I liked a lot. I know the 50s will be different, but as my guitars are usually 7 string superstrats, I just wanted to make sure I could get on with a Tele, and frankly any Tele would do.
After a battle with Halifax fraud department (they blocked the transaction so they could phone me and ask if the transaction was genuine, then guitarguitar blocked the transaction as their sagepay software didn't believe the bank verification), I finally managed to get the order placed. It should be with me on Sunday. Twang twang.
It's one of these
Which is a bit of a far cry from my other guitar
I can't wait. Bring me the guitar!
Gaz. said:
That's interesting. My Jackson has a reverse headstock but also a locking nut so I never considered different string tensions. My preference for reverse headstocks on Jackson superstrats is that in my head they have a better balance compared to my Washburn Mercury & Squire Stratocaster. Could be a load of guff mind.
True, but I think guitars with locking nuts are an exception, as the string length from nut to tuner doesn't matter as much, as there's no movement of the string at the nut due to being locked in. However the tension experienced by the player across all strings should be uniform (string gauge allowing), so there's got to be a benefit...Gaz. said:
singlecoil said:
Locking nut implies tremolo system, so different rules re the amount of bend necessary to raise the pitch by a given amount to guitars with fixed bridges.
Which is why I had never considered Dr Z's observations before, as per my previous post.Gassing Station | Music | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff